New interactive environments

Assignment 1
September 30, 2010
As a first task we would like you all to … …first review and complete your personal information on our Wikiversity course page. Please make sure you have put a link to your Weblog that...
Assignment 2
October 10, 2010
Rückriem (2009) observes that digitalization has penetrated every societal process and every societal activity system by providing totally new and rather inexhaustible potentials to human practice....
Assignment 3
October 14, 2010
Hello folks, let’s try to keep the ball rolling. While Terje and I have closer look at what your individual descriptions (Task 2), we would like you to compare what you have done with what...
Assignment 4
October 26, 2010
Now it is about time to move on from the first phase of our journey to the next one. As the first phase focused on exploring and analysing human activities with instruments at hand, the next phase is...
Assignment 5
October 31, 2010
While the first article has provided us the basic idea of what is meant by interaction and interactivity and their possible definitions in different disciplines, the author of the next article takes...
Assignment 6
November 7, 2010
Some of you pointed out the year of the first article as being rather old and some even claimed to be sad because of that. No need to be . Sometimes a bit older papers have their value. Without...
Assignment 7
November 16, 2010
Have a look at the following article… Lüders, M. (2008). Concpeptualising personal media. New Media and Society, 10(5), 683-702. …and externalise your thoughts, ideas, questions. For...
Assignment 8
November 18, 2010
Although the deadline for the task 8 hasn’t passed yet, I am going to notify you of the next task in order to give you enough time to plan your other activities and studies. Due to that we have...
Assignment 9
November 28, 2010
Although there are scholars and researchers who are skeptical about the activity theory and its applicability into practice, I personally believe that it has its potential and has something to offer....
Assignment 10
December 5, 2010
As we didn’t define the clear perspective and the specific aspects we want to focus on in our previous task, it patently produced different interpretations and levels of analysis. Nevertheless,...
Assignment 11
December 9, 2010
Before we really bring this course to an end, let’s try to focus once more on some philosophical questions digital technology and digitalisation poses. A few weeks ago I mentioned that I would like...
Assignment 12
December 14, 2010
“Computer mediation of human interaction will transform by radically altering – in fact, dissolving – many familiar contexts in which we act. A wider range of technologies support human...
Assignment 13
December 16, 2010
Finally I would like you to reflect back on the entire course and think of what you have learned during these weeks. What is it you are going to take with you from this course, be it negative or...