Media development: Experiences, Practices, and Forms
About
This research group focuses on the development of media- and technology related issues. The group want to be an arena for exploration, discussions, solutions, and development of emerging technologies within media and communication studies, but also humanistic and social studies at large. Emerging technologies will have a societal impact on cultural and social practices in the future. Therefore, there is a need for a more technology-related understanding on history, culture, design, aesthetics, and ethical dimensions for understanding future needs and possibilities.
The rapid development within media and technology raises both challenges and possibilities. A challenge is the rapid development and ever-changing practices, content, and norms – making this a moving target for research. A possibility lays within cheaper technology and infrastructure allowing individuals to design actual alternative solutions, also outside the commercial and big-tech companies. The research group believes critical media and communication studies have an important part in developing future solutions and welcome such initiatives.
This research interest has existed for many years but have been organized as a research group since 2015. Our mandate and vision are to bring shared interests together, both experienced and less experienced researchers, PhD candidates, and master graduates. We want to develop a culture for research, build competence, and create collaborations. We are connected to the interdisciplinary Future Lab at Volda University College to strengthen collaborations and mutual interests across the other research groups. We have a close collaboration with UH-Nett Vest, TekLab (https://teklab.uib.no) network for research, education and innovation in media and communication) and the research group MAD (Media, Art and Design) at IT-University Copenhagen.
Employees at Volda University College or other institutions interested in being part of the research group can contact Kjetil Vaage Øie [email protected].
Members:
- Kjetil Vaage Øie (leader)
Ivar John Erdal
Thomas Lewe
Tormod Utne
Isak Andersen Okkenhaug
Rebecca Nedregotten Strand (PhD candidate)
Ingeborg Hedda Paulsen (PhD candidate)
Amir Bashti Monfared (PhD candidate)
Kishore Gajendra (PhD candidate)
Jon Harman
Dag Roland
Kate Kartveit
Silje Birknes
Steinar Høydal
Viacheslav Glukov (Master student)
Oyaro Laban Lekishon (Master student)
Johann Roppen
Erling Sivertsen
Irene Hillestad
Jens Standal Groven
Eirik Solheim
Linda Halse Digernes
Ongoing projects:
Innovation Pedagogy for Media Education (2021-2023)
The project is founded with 5.000.000 NOK from the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills and led by Prof. Lars Nyre, University of Bergen. Innovation pedagogy is an approach to student active learning and depart from the assumption that innovation competence will be of high importance for future media workers. The project is aiming to create meeting points and collaborations between students, the industry, and pedagogical staff. In addition, the project explores didactical methods to implement this learning outcome within media educations.
TekLab Bedrift (2022-2024)
The project is founded with 5.000.000 NOK from the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills and led by Prof. Lars Nyre, University of Bergen. The project is described as a value-oriented exploration of emerging technologies in collaboration with industry partners to increase the relevance of media and communication education in the labour market. Rather than solely imitating the industry, the project is set out to explore forms of learning where the premises for vocational relevance are continuous open for negotiations. Smith et.al. (2016) have labeled this as “responsive pedagogics” emphasizing the continuous dialogue between students and external partners. Through such learning facilitating we want to exploit the student potential for contributing with development competence and critical insights related to emerging technologies. https://teklab.uib.no/artikler/fem-millioner-til-teklab-bedrift/.
Collaborators
Institution/Contact
UH-nett Vest/Lars Nyre
TekLab
Research Group MAD (Media, Art and Design) IT-University of Copenhagen/Anders Sundnes Løvlie
Universitetet i Oslo/Gunnar Liestøl
Universitetet i Bergen/Lars Nyre, Astrid Gynnild
OsloMet /Aina Landsverk Hagen
Høgskolen i Kristiania/Jens Barland
Sunnmørsposten/Hanna Relling Berg
Selected publications from the research group
Utne, T. (Forthcoming March 2023). Teaching immersive journalism production, in Insights on Immersive Journalism. Edited by Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws. Routledge. ISBN 9781032107721
A Silva-Rodríquez & Øie, K.V. (2022). The role of mobile media in journalism education, in Emerging Practices in the Age of Automated Digital Journalism. Edited by Berta García-Orosa, Sara Pérez-Seijo & Angel Vizoso. Routledge. ISBN 9781032128511
Larrondo, U; Diaz N; Erdal, IJ. (2022). Convergence and Innovation: The Conceptual and Methodological Basis of Technological Evolution and Cultural Complexity in Journalism. I: Total Journalism. Models, Techniques, Challenges. Springer 2022 ISBN 9783030880279. s. 13-28
Halvorsen, L. J., Stokken, R., Rogne, W. M., & Erdal, I. J. (2020). Digital samhandling: Universitetsforlaget. https://www.idunn.no/digital_samhandling
Sánchez Laws AL, Utne T. Ethics Guidelines for Immersive Journalism. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 2019; 6:28. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2019.00028
Øie, K. V. (2019). Nyheter, til deg, der du er-Utvikling av lokativ journalistikk for mobile enheter–et pragmatisk perspektiv. Phd thesis NTNU.
Erdal, I. J., Vaage Øie, K., Oppegaard, B., & Westlund, O. (2019). Invisible Locative Media: Key Considerations at the Nexus of Place and Digital Journalism. Media and Communication, 7(1), 166-178.
Erdal, I. J. (2019). Convergence in/of Journalism. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication.
Erdal, I. J. (2019). Education as innovation. Media Management and Digital Transformation. In Bygdås, A. L., Clegg, S., & Hagen, A. L. (Eds.). (2019). Media management and Digital transformation. Routledge.
Lewe, T (2018) Perspectives in Design Expressions of jewish Polish emigrants during the Cold War. Cost Action NEP4 dissent - Berlin.
Øie, K.V & Lewe, T. (2018) Creative communication design: Communicating Holocaust to younger generations. Cumulus Conference Proceedings Series. ISBN: 9782956544005.