The Örecomm Festival opened on Friday September 9th with two days of lectures, presentations and discussion at Malmö University. Highlights of the Friday programme included Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s (University of Oslo) “The Globalization of the Insult: Freedom of expression in intercultural space”.
On the Saturday we heard a lecture from Nishant Shah (Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore) who presented “Digital AlterNatives with a Cause” an investigation of the different ways in which young people in emerging ICT contexts are strategically using everyday technologies in order to produce change in their immediate environments. The Saturday session also saw inspiring presentations from Karin Wilkins (University of Texas at Austin) with a lecture entitled “Mediating Agency” and Helen Hambly Odame (University of Guelph, Canada) with her lecture “Communicative Actions and Agency in Issues of Global Food, Agriculture and Environment”.
The third day of the Örecomm Festival also takes place in Malmö. The day starts with a presentation from Gordon Adam entitled “ComDev’s emerging role after a decade of technological change and conflict”. The afternoon session will feature an exhibition of student work and presentations held at Fabriken Malmö.
On Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th ComDev Malmö will be holding the final weekend seminar of the spring term. Principally for ComDev10/11 students this seminar is open to all and will be streamed live on the ComDev portal if you would like to follow the presentations and discussions that will be taking place of the two days.
If you are in Malmö you are very welcome to join us in room B105 Kranen, Malmö Högskola, Östra Varvsgatan 11A.
On Friday 3rd the keynote lecture is from Jakob Dittmar, lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, K3 Malmö University. Jakob will be presenting his work on En-Passant-Media, this is looks at objects whose primary function is not communication. Jakob will discuss grafiti, tattoos and other signs that are filling our public spaces.
On Saturday 4th the keynote lecture will be made by Hilde Arntsen from the University of Bergen, Norway. Hilde’s lecture is titled “Cyber Satire and the Quest for Alternative Communicative Spaces: New Meida in Zimbabwean Diasporas”.
Click here to see the full programme
Hilde Arntsen will also be making a presentation at the Performing, Writing and Doing Ethnography Ørecomm seminar on Monday June 6th at the University of Roskilde Denmark. Registration for the seminar is now closed but you are very welcome to attend. For a full programme please see orecomm.net
Students studying the Communication, Culture and Media Analysis course with ComDev this spring were asked to produce a report on a significant player within the Communication for Development field. In this report students discussed the chosen organization’s approach to ComDev and reflected critically on the organization’s Communication for Development plans and strategies.
As part of this assignment students were asked to produce an additional media text specifically designed to communicate their findings to a chosen target audience. There was some fantastic work produced, with students electing to work in a variety of mediums ranging from magazine articles to cartoons.
Asking students to produce specifically targeted texts like this was new to ComDev this year and I thought that it would be good to let the ComDev community have an opportunity to see some of the excellent work produced.
First up is a Cartoon booklet produced by ComDev students Jwani Tranquilino Jube, Linnea Bergman, Kalea Turner-Beckman and Anna Shulipa, with comic sketches by artist Joseph Makanza. They chose to analyze the Communication for Development strategies of the World Bank and used a Comic Book to present some of the “challenges and contradictions” that they perceived within the field of international development cooperation.
You can see the excellent comic book that they produced here
The Örecomm Festival opened on Friday September 9th with two days of lectures, presentations and discussion at Malmö University. Highlights of the Friday programme included Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s (University of Oslo) “The Globalization of the Insult: Freedom of expression in intercultural space”.
