The Science Museum’s new Information Age gallery looks at the last 200 years of information and communication technologies, inviting visitors to take a long view on our ability to generate, share and store information. We focused the gallery on six technological ‘networks’ and chose transforming events – or moments in history – that show how people have created and shaped each new wave of socia...

This study examines how individual differences in the consumption of computer games intersect with gender and how games and gender mutually constitute each other.The study focused on adult women with particular attention to differences in level of play, as well as genre preferences.Three levels of game consumption were identified. For power gamers, technology and gender are most highly integrat...

The present study is intended to provide a cause and effect analysis of the degree of penetration of new media in university fields of competence and activity at the institutes of sports science and sport in Germany. The analysis focuses on the area of "Studies and Extended Studies", but also considers the fields of "Research and Development" and "Administration and Management".

Many Western nations face a critical shortage of skilled professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). However, despite abundant opportunities, few women prepare themselves for careers in these fields. Several of those concerned with the problem have proposed that new media programming, such as television dramas with women engineers, computer professionals and/or eng...

This position paper portrays my approach towards learning tools based on embodied interaction for underprivileged children in Chennai, India. It outlines my ongoing Master Thesis in New Media Art and Design. Participatory design research revealed challenges of a community. This paper argues how these challenges can be turned into opportunities with the help of participatory design.

The advent of modern electronic publishing and delivery systems make it possible to extend previous modes of publishing to incorporate new media and new features. These extensions can then provide new opportunities for use of publications. In this paper, we discuss the design and construction of a particular type of electronic publication that has gained recent popularity: electronic conference...

The relationship between new media networking (NMN) and political participation continues to develop in complex ways. In light of evidence pointing to increased political participation through NMN, the structures of the networks people engage continue to exhibit both empowering and disempowering aspects. While some gaps associated with the Digital Divide are closing, others are opening. This es...

The research project MAVA (Multimedia Document Versatile Architecture) focuses on simplification of specification and dissemination of multimedia documents. The problems discussed and solved by the MAVA approach are observed by using existing authoring systems. Application specific multimedia systems provide fixed concepts for only one application area. Generic systems allow the specification o...

The topic of information and communications technology (ICT) convergence is now of primary interest to policy makers in industry and government at the national and international level, as well as the academic community. In 1997, the European Commission published a Green Paper on the matter, and subsequently launched a consultation process which resulted in a series of re-regulatory proposals as...