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Volume 6 - issue 1 - 2010 Article list vol 8. - issue 1
| Article list vol 8. - issue 1 |
| Article list vol 8. - issue 1 |
| Call for papers |
| Seminar.net welcomes papers and reviews for upcoming issues, and you find guidelines for authors here. Our scope is to publish refereed articles dealing with research into theoretical or practical aspects related to the learning of adolescents, adults and elderly. A vital field of interest for seminar.net is the use of media technology in lifelong learning. |
| Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-Representations in New Media |
Knut Lundby (red.)Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2008. Reviewed by We live in an age in which more and more of us are creating our own "digital stories". In 2008, 18% of Norwegian 16-24 year olds were recorded as being active bloggers over the previous three months (Statistics Norway, "ICT in households", 2nd quarter 2008) while more than 2/3 of American teenagers have uploaded self-produced material to the Internet, in the form of YouTube videos, photographs, blogs, stories, remixes etc. (Pew Internet). The numbers of these "user-made" cultural productions are growing year by year and spreading from the younger generation to us adults, who are now the group most increasingly represented on Facebook. In blogs and on Facebook the distinction between amateur and professional is largely meaningless. |
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| Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World. |
John Hartley and Kelly McWilliam (eds.)Publisher: Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 Reviewed by The anthology Story Circle is an international study of digital storytelling that discusses the phenomenon in a global context. The book contains 20 articles with contributions from a number of key specialists with wide-ranging experience in the field of DST. |
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| Moving Media Studies - Remediation Revisited |
Edited by Heidi Philipsen and Lars QvortrupPublisher: 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America´s Most Important Idea |
by George Lakoff, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006Reviewed 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.
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| Remediation - Understanding New Media - Revisiting a Classic |
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7 years have passed since the publication of Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin’s Remediation. Understanding New Media (1999). It has already in the space of this short time attained the status of a classic.
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| Adult Learning in the Digital Age |
Information Technology and the Learning Society by Selwyn, N., Gorard, S. and Furlong, J. London: Routledge, 2006.
Reviewed by Stephen Dobson, Senior lecturer in Education,
Lillehammer University College,
Norway. |
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| Literacy in the New Media Age by Gunther Kress |
Published by Routledge (London), 2003, p196. |
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