[ecrea] New book: Collaborative Media. Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions

New book: Collaborative Media. Production, Consumption, and Design 
Interventions.





The MIT Press have now published the book “Collaborative Media. 
Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions”. It is written by 
Jonas Löwgren, Professor of Interaction Design, and Bo Reimer, Professor 
of Media and Communication Studies.



With many new forms of digital media–including such popular social media 
as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr—the people formerly known as the 
audience no longer only consume but also produce and even design media. 
Jonas Löwgren and Bo Reimer term this phenomenon collaborative media, 
and in this book they investigate the qualities and characteristics of 
these forms of media in terms of what they enable people to do. They do 
so through an interdisciplinary research approach that combines the 
social sciences and humanities traditions of empirical and theoretical 
work with practice-based, design-oriented interventions. They conclude 
by advocating an interventionist turn within social analysis and media 
design.





“Collaborative Media is fundamentally a book about how we design, 
satirize, reappropriate and invent over again. It demonstrates why we 
should not focus so much on the user in the singular, but in the plural. 
The book is necessary and warmly recommended scholarly intervention if 
you want to understand design and collaborative media—but also 
collaborative media research.”

Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art; author of What is Media 
Archaeology?



“The authors offers a list of imperatives that define their stance as 
researchers and their interventionistic and transdisciplinary approach. 
These five imperatives that are further explained in the book are:

- Be collaborative

- Be interventionist

- Be public

- Be agonistic

- Be accountable

This is an interesting list and it is inspiring to imagine what this 
means in practice and also what it would mean in other research 
disciplines. The book is rich when it comes to insights about 
collaborative media in our contemporary society, but maybe even more 
interesting is the overall research stance and approach that the authors 
outline and subscribe to. The way they do this is unusually detailed and 
on a level that raises it to become a research "program" or paradigm. I 
expect and hope that this aspect of the book will receive the 
substantial interest it deserves and also will lead to engaging 
critique. This field is in real need of larger ideas when it comes to 
what the purpose of research is all about and how it is possible for 
researchers to "keep up" with and participate in the evolution of media.”

Erik Stolterman, Indiana University Bloomington; author of The Design 
Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World.



The book is available from, among others, Amazon: 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collaborative-Media-Production-Consumption-Interventions/dp/0262019760/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389088592&sr=8-1&keywords=bo+reimer)

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