Editors and editorial board

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

Editors

Editors:
Yngve Troye Nordkvelle, Lillehammer University College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Yvonne Fritze, Lillehammer University College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Geir Haugsbakk, Lillehammer University College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Svein.O. Haaland, Lillehammer University College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lars Qvortrup, Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsskole, University of Århus, lq at dpu.dk
Brit Svoen, Lillehammer University College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Editorial board:
Nicholas C. Burbules, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Ali Carr-Chellman, Penn State University, USA, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Anna Chronaki, University of Thessaly, Volos, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Petter Dyndahl, Hedmark University College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Ola Erstad, ITU, University of Oslo, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Gunnar Grepperud, University of Tromsø This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Charlotte N. Gunawardena, University of New Mexico, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Bernt Gustavsson, University of Ørebro, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

David Hamilton, Universitetet I Umeå, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Boel Henckel, Karlstad University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Rune Hjelsvold Gjøvik University College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Bjørn Hofmann, Gjøvik University College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Brian Hudson, Sheffield Hallam University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Gunilla Jedeskog, University of Linkøping, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tone Kvernbekk, University of Oslo, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Per Lauvås, Oslo University College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Hannele Niemi, Universitetet i Helsinki, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Øyvind Nøhr, Lillehammer University College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

John Olson, Queen’s University, Ontario, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Morten Flate Paulsen, NKI, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lars Qvortrup, Royal Danish School of Library and information Sciences, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Jens Rasmussen, Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitet, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Neil Selwyn, Institute of Education, University of London, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Mart Laanpere , Tallinn University of Educational Sciences, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

AnnBritt Enochsson, Karlstad University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Santosh Panda, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Moving Media Studies - Remediation Revisited

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.

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.