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Vol. 5 - Issue 2 2009 - ISSN 1504-4831

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Contributor

Contributors should write in ways that reflect that they are addressing an international audience, with diverse political and social perspectives.

We will ask the contributors to make the process easy by conforming to the requirements listed below.

Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format to the editor at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . All written correspondence can be sent to Seminar.net, Lillehammer University College. Articles should ideally contain no more than 6000 words and should adhere strictly to the style guide of the American Psychological Association (APA). Please make sure that the article contains a title of the contribution, name(s) and email address(es) of the author(s), a short note of biographical details. The article should begin with an abstract of 150-200 words. The full postal and email address of the author who will receive correspondence will be helpful.

"Digital storytelling" is a strong and emerging genre in the contemporary media landscape, and we invite scholars to publish the results of their academic studies in this area. Joe Lambert of the Center for Digital Storytelling, professor Theo Hug of University of Innsbruck, and professor Knut Lundby, University of Oslo have agreed to act as an advisory board to the editors for this special issue.

Important dates: November 1, 2009: Final date for sending proposals to editor, January 1, 2010: Final date for sending contributions to the editor and March 31, 2010: Publication.

cfp_digital_storytelling.pdf

Edited by Heidi Philipsen and Lars Qvortrup

Publisher: Samfundslitteratur Press: Frederiksberg Press, 2007.

Reviewed by
Stephen Dobson
Professor
Lillehammer University College
Email: stephen.dobson@hil.no

Introduction
Two questions can be asked: firstly, not do we need another book on remediation, but why? And secondly, if this is the case, what kind of book should it be? This review spirals around these questions.

Global perspectives on E-learning.

Rhetoric and reality by A. A. Carr-Chellman (Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2005

Reviewed by

Dr. J. Ola Lindberg

Department of Education, Mid Sweden University
Email: Ola.Lindberg@miun.se

Dr. Anders D. Olofsson
Department of Education, Umeå University
Email: Anders.D.Olofsson@educ.umu.se

It seems suitable to begin this review by giving a brief description of the context in which the texts of this book are produced. If it fails to be regarded as a description, then we hope at least it can be regarded as one possible understanding of the context. When contextualizing a book, a good idea seems to be to start with a few words about the editor, Alison A. Carr-Chellman.

by George Lakoff, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

Reviewed by
Geir Haugsbakk
Ph.D.-candidate in Education
Lillehammer University College

Email: Geir.Haugsbakk@hil.no

“To lose freedom is awful; to lose the idea of freedom is even worse.” This statement by George Lakoff is at the core of his attention in his last book. And his opinion is that the loss of the concept of freedom is a tragic incident that has struck a large part of the American people, not least since September 11, 2001.