Ambivalence towards Convergence

A new book on convergence just out on Nordicom: Ambivalence towards Convergence, edited by Tanja Storsul and Dagny Stuedahl. Various contributions discussing the impact of media digitalization and the degree to which the prospects of convergence have been realized. My chapter is titled "Negotiating Convergence in News Production".

US conference on convergence

Attending the Convergence and Society Conference at the IFRA Newsplex, University of South Carolina. Interesting perspectives on convergence journalism, from a theoretical and educational perspective.

Mark Deuzes blog

Just a quick note on the Dutch researcher Mark Deuze, and his Deuzeblog on media and journalism research etc.

Antology on crossmedia

It's been a while. Got my chapter for an antology of crossmedia accepted yesterday. Editors are Anja Bechmann Petersen and Steen Rasmussen at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

I have just finished the first of two ethnographic observation studies at the Norwegian Public Service Broadcaster NRK, and now it's time to think about the topic of my contribution: the role of different media platforms in a crossmedia organisation.

IAMCR Cairo 2006

Received a call for papers for the IAMCR Cairo 2006 conference at The American University in Cairo. Not sure if I will be able to go, but the Media Production Analyses Working Group looks very interesting. Will send an abstract, titled "Crossmedia news production in practice. Some ethnographic field notes."

CRESC - Events: Conference, 6-8 September 2006

CRESC Conference: Media change and social theoryLots of interesting conferences next year. For instance the Media change and social theory conference, 6-8 September 2006 in Oxford, UK. Philip Schlesinger is one of the keynote speakers, whose work on the BBC is one of the canons in my area of research.

Profiling

Innocent
Originally uploaded by ivarjohn.

Those were the days.

Danish crossmedia project

A colleague from Aarhus University, Denmark, has put up a site for her phd project on crossmediality, or in Danish: Flermedialitet.