Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Welcome to this blog - it is all yours!

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Hello.

The KTH Royal Institute of Technology course "DM2571 Future of Media has a new theme every year (last year's theme was "Future of News/News of the Future").

This year's theme is "The Future of the digital commons, the sharing economy and collaborative consumption". All students who take the course are invited to become contributors and post blog entries here.

We will primarily use the blog to:
- write about interesting "stuff" (news, services etc.) that we find on the internet and that relates to this year's theme).
- we will later, during the second half of the course, use the blog to disseminate information from the executive group to the project groups.
- we will later, during the second half of the course, also use the blog so that the different project groups can disseminate information to the teachers and other course participants (mainly in the form of "weekly status reports").

Throughout the course, we might come across many different interesting examples of developments in the area (digital commons, sharing economy, collaborative consumption) that point towards the future. In this blog, you can post information about what you come across so that we all can learn about and benefit from the information that we all together come across. 50+ pair of eyes are better than the teachers' 2 pair of eyes!

Feel free to post whatever you come across that you think is interesting and that has a relationship to things we have read, seen or heard in the course, or that in general is related to this year's theme!

Feel free to check out others' blog posts and also comment on them. Hopefully a few blog entries will generate some discussions!

Yours,

Daniel Pargman & Malin Picha
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3 comments:

  1. How Germany's ban on Uber hurts the poor.
    http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-15/how-germanys-ban-on-uber-hurts-the-poor

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  2. Congratulatios, you found the blog even before it was "public"!

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  3. This "shearing-idea" could work in Stockholm seeing as the left hand parties want to cut down on working hours and office space downtown is scarce:

    http://news.distractify.com/pinar/heldergroen-disappearing-office/?v=1

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