Aktuellt
In the TV news
Will the next generation disconnect? A short feature in the Swedish TV news Rapport about the effects of being connected most of the time.
Shopping
An article in Amos Magazine about shopping and the meaning of brands. Click here to read (though in Swedish).
The social iPad
Daytona has conducted a quantitative study on the use of the iPad. Several ”experts” were asked to comment the findings in the study. The question I got was how the relationship with the iPad is different from the one to cell phones and computers. Read my answer here.
Landet Brunsås
Learn a little bit from our anthropological studies in Swedish kitchens by looking at Landet Brunsås, programme number 7. The rest of the programme mainly deals with food and media.
Today’s quote
I love Daniel Miller’s definition of an anthropologist: My definition of the anthropologist is someone who seeks to demonstrate the consequences of the universal for the particular and of the particular for the universal by equal devotion to the empathetic understanding and encompassment of both. (Stuff, 2010)
People and cell phones
Read my blog text at The Brand-Man about have people use cell phones vs computers.
The reality of ethnography
Me and Kristina Börjesson have written a text that will be published in the Ethnologia Europaea Journal this autumn (41:1). The reality facing applied ethnography today is one of popularisation at the cost of content. There is a potent risk of ethnography being replaced by less professional methods marketed under similar headings. The article therefore…
The Conference 2
Martin Berg has made a nice summary of our session at The Conference, Media Evolution 24th of August. Click here and come to Martin’s blog where you also can see me, Martin Berg, Thomas Johansson and the concluding discussion.
The Conference
Tomorrow I will curate a session on youth and media behavior at The Conference in Malmö. In the session me, Dr Martin Berg and Professor Thomas Johansson will discuss the practical meaning of iDentity, the definition of entertainment and knowledge as well as the differentiation between: does there have to be one? If we want…
In August
The 24th of August I will curate a session at The Conference (Malmö). This is what we will talk about: Our social relationships are increasingly sustained and nourished by our digitally extended selves rather than by personal encounters. Social media platforms make the creation of a virtual self possible by manifesting a chosen identity through…
Inculture Media Insight
Mobile phones and laptops are today the everyday essentials we do not want to leave home without. Compressing time and space has become an un-reflected act. The resulting transparency and accessibility dissolves the boundaries between public and private domains and constantly integrates new realms of discourse. A workspace is no longer necessarily a designated place…
