The Computer is a Medium, Not a Tool: Collaborative Media Challenging Interaction Design

Jonas Löwgren and Bo Reimer
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Jonas Löwgren: School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, 205 06 Malmö, Sweden
Bo Reimer: School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, 205 06 Malmö, Sweden

Challenges, 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: Collaborative media entail an emerging set of digitally mediated practices, characterized by collaborative communicative action within organically developing, cross-medial infrastructures. We argue that computers are increasingly turning from tools into (collaborative) media in everyday use, and that this shift poses a significant challenge to the discipline of interaction design. Particularly prominent aspects of the challenge include the way design processes are conceptualized and structured, and the way in which communicative perspectives take precedence over instrumental ones.

Keywords: collaborative media; communicative practices; infrastructuring; media design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A00 C00 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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