Human Behavior

Eleanor Saitta - How To End Online Harassment

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:27:40 GMT

"Designers can reduce online harassment."

Eleanor Saitta is a hacker, designer, artist, writer, and barbarian. She makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex, transdisciplinary systems and stories fail and redesigning them to fail better.

In this talk Eleanor speaks about online harassment from a practical systems design perspective -- harassment isn't the same everywhere online and that means we can build systems that let people help themselves.

Katherine Cross - Causes of online harassment

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:23:10 GMT

"Anonymity is not the driving force to online harassment."

Sociologist and writer Katherine Cross talks about what actually causes and enflames online harassment and what is being done to combat this problem at its source. We cannot end online harassment unless we understand what causes it. We have to think on smarter solutions - our virtual future depends upon it.

Anita Sarkeesian - Hate and heroism

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:22:19 GMT

“The cultural norms of male-dominated spaces can be changed.”

2013 Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency, spoke at The Conference about online harassment and more specifically the threats she is receiving for her work. It hasn’t gotten better. Therefore Anita came back for a keynote presentation about the bigger picture and why baby steps isn’t enough to achieve goals we believe are fundamental for society. This is it.

HATE AND HEROISM

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:17:03 GMT

"Everything begins with a story."

Suleiman Bakhit is a terrorism prevention & heroism expert. His work focuses on terrorism prevention for high risk youth in Jordan, countering violent extremism narratives & mythology, and developing heroism as an antidote to extremism.

In this keynote session Suleiman talk about the relationship between terrorism and heroism. He speaks about the importance of role models in children’s lives and the unfortunate absence of good ones. By changing the stories and the heroes within them you can change the quest to righteousness.

Hanna Larsson - Online harassment in public broadcasting

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:55:08 GMT

“A third of Swedish journalists are exposed to threats.”

Hanna Larsson is Communications Manager for social media at SVT. In this session on ending online harassment she talks about how Sweden's public broadcasting company is approaching and countering harassment on their platforms.

To solve the raising challenge with online harassment SVT practice moderation and active editorship. SVT assess the risk and help their participants in their programs to understand what they are getting into by teaching practical tips on how to use social media in a more secure way. At the same time the editors needs to balance relevant important stories and considerate when individuals are at risk.

Joe Leech - The psychology of decision making in UX

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:43:02 GMT

"We build mental models of how the world works and then we apply them to new situations."

In the Decision and Choice making session, User Experience Designer and author Joe Leech talks from a user experience perspective on how to understand the psychology of decision making.

All our past experiences helps us make decisions in present time. Therefore, when designing products and websites, designers should always strive for matching the users mental models with the products. Combine this with a conspicuous design, with images that provokes emotions and your products should be easy for people to understand.

Renata Salecl - How endless choices makes us unhappy

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:53:21 GMT

"The happiness ideology has created vast amount of misery among humans."

Renata Salecl is a well-established philosopher and sociologist with great academic history. In this talk Renata approach the psychology behind decision and choice making which are linked to anxiety. Choice and anxiety are linked to loss, when we choose one direction we loose the possibility of another. Capitalism thrives in the unsatisfied human nature which makes us consume more in order to achieve the happy life.

Petter Johansson - Decision and Choice Making

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:26:01 GMT

"Know that you don't know yourself - at least not as well as you think you do."

Petter Johansson is an associate in Cognitive Science at Lund University, Sweden. The main theme of his research is self-knowledge: How much do we know about ourselves, and how do we come to acquire this knowledge?

Here he talks about choice blindness and self-knowledge, the things we think we know about ourselves, but don’t.

Daniel Margulies - The mind is anything but silent

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:34:40 GMT

"The mind is anything but silent!"

To be able to understand human behaviour, the activity level of the brain is vital. Did you know that the brain is always active, no matter what we are doing?

Daniel Margulies, brain scientist at the Max Planck Institute, presents insights on how spontaneous fluctuations in brain activity are connected to how we experience the world around us. As you get more into it, you will understand how these fluctuations balance internally oriented and externally oriented attention.

Caroline Jönsson - How human motivation works

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:34:23 GMT

"The ultimate power is decision."

Sport psychologist and former football player Caroline Jönsson looks into human driving forces from the heart's perspective and explains the nature of human motivation.

What is it really that drives us? This is a frequently asked question, especially in sports, that cannot be generally answered. The main driver depends on the individual's own values. But following our hearts is something that we all should have in common, because that is what gives us ultimate fulfillment.

Elaine Hsiao - Microbiota and gut feelings

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:34:03 GMT

"We have evolved with trillions of microorganisms that inhabit the human body."

Everybody has, at one point, wondered what we as humans are and are made of. Elaine Hsiao, Senior Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, responds to the latter with a simple answer: microorganisms.

They are also referred to as "the forgotten organ", since not a lot of people are actually aware that more than 10 000 unique species of microbiota inhabit every exposed surface of the body. Not only do these play important roles in biological processes - they also impact behaviour, health and disease.

Ge - Jin - Offline context and online stories

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:32:43 GMT

"There is always an inspiration waiting to be found."

Functioning as Human Factor Researcher at IDEO in Shanghai, Ge Jin works with translating research into innovative design. In this, he has discovered the importance of learning from subcultures and understanding the offline context when interpreting online stories.

Sille Krukow - Behavioral design

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:28:07 GMT

"Why is it so hard to change our behaviour on an every day basis?"

Nudge and behavioural design expert Sille Krukow explains that changing human behaviour is not just about having the right knowledge. Often, we are not even able to explain why we do the things that we do. But by observing both the behaviour and the context, it is possible to use design to change our habits to the better.

Eva Hoffman - The limits of human temporality

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:52:12 GMT

"If we don't allow ourselves to waste some of it, time can turn on us."

Author Eva Hoffman points to the fact that lived time today is a highly valuable entity. She speaks of how digital technology has changed our perception of time, whilst our body and mind still follow its own biological pace, playing a vital role to our well-being.

Therefore, to really experience our experiences, we occasionally need to unwind - and unplug.

An Xiao Mina - How Visual Media Affect Culture and Identity Globally

Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:02:04 GMT

An Xiao Mina is an American artist, designer, writer and technologist. She explores the disruptive power of networked, creative communities in civic life. Dubbing memes the "street art of the internet", she looks at the growing role of meme culture and humor in addressing social and political issues in countries like China, Uganda and the United States.

The shift to imagery and animation as a primary mode of communication on the web is a fun, creative shift from the primacy of text online. It is also having numerous effects on identity, civic engagement and creative expression. In this session we want to look at the broader implications of this shift, and what it can mean for brands, governments, organizations and anyone else working in this space.

An Xiao would like to thank Arda Ibikolgu (Bogazici University) and David Banks (Cyborgology) for sharing their research on memes during the Gezi Park protests and Rosebell Kagumire (rosebellkagumire.com) for her writing on #UgandaIsNotSpain. Source images can be found at www.thecivicbeat.com.

Birgitta Rosén - Tactility in a Digital World

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:56:42 GMT

Birgitta Rosén is an occupational therapist and researcher with with more than 30 years of experience from hand therapy at the department of Hand Surgery Malmö, Lund University.

We all know how paper feels and that we interpret things by touching them But how does digital features feel, and how can we better understand "digital materials" to design augmented digital experiences.

Sara Bengtsson - How We Learn

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:34:00 GMT

Sara Bengtsson, PhD, Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institute, Sweden, is doing research which involves developing a neuroscientific model of self-esteem. She uses brain imaging techniques (fMRI), behavioural measures, and mathematical modeling for this purpose. Sara and her group have found that when performing cognitive tasks, it is particularly when we make errors that there is an interaction between the currently active self-image and task performance.

Learning new things is essential for humans. It's both fun and necessary to be part of a fast changing society. Even the Swedish prime minister is talking about the importance of being able to change carrier late in life. Hear from a brain scientist and a Psychologist about how our body and brain learn new things.

Gary Marcus - How We Learn

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:26:10 GMT

Gary Marcus is a Cognitive Scientist at NYU and author of the New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero. Co-editor of the forthcoming book, The Future of the Brain: Essays By The World's Leading Neuroscientists., he frequently blogs on science and artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.

Matt Novak - Thinking 100 Years Ahead

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:07:30 GMT

"In the struggles of the past, we find the better future"

Gizmodo journalist Matt Novak delivers an intriguing speech about the history of tomorrow. Analyzing past visions of the future can tell us a lot about different generations hopes and fears. There is this romantic notion that the future used to be better and that the future ahead is not as bright as in the 1950's Space Age. But fact is, the technical evolution the last century did not just happen out of nowhere. This speech will leave you feeling a bit puzzled but yet optimistic.

Matt Novak writes about past visions of the future for Gizmodo's Paleofuture blog. He started the Paleofuture blog independently in 2007 as a way to explore how the people of yesterday imagined the future.

Åsa Bjerndell - Thinking 100 Years Ahead

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:53:50 GMT

Åsa Bjerndell is an architect, urban planner and partner at White Arkitekter, the office that, together with Norwegian architects Ghilardi + Hellsten, won the international architecture completion to relocate Kiruna.

Kiruna, Sweden's most northerly city, has to be moved! Iron ore has created jobs and prosperity in the city since 1900. But it is also mining that makes it necessary to move most parts of the city to safer ground over the next 100 years. How do you set and envision big change and get people to follow your lead?

Tricia Wang - How Visual Media Affect Culture and Identity Globally

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:28:09 GMT

Tricia Wang is a global tech ethnographer who researches how technology makes us human. She advises organizations, corporations, and students on utilizing Digital Age ethnographic research methods to improve strategy, policy, services, and products.

Kenyatta Cheese - How Visual Media Affect Culture and Identity Globally

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:23:06 GMT

Prepare to fall in love with .gif!

The shift to imagery and animation as a primary mode of communication on the web is a fun, creative shift from the primacy of text online. It is also having numerous effects on identity, civic engagement and creative expression. In this session we want to look at the broader implications of this shift, and what it can mean for brands, governments, organizations and anyone else working in this space.

Kenyatta Cheese is a professional internet enthusiast. He studies the ways that ideas spread through culture. Kenyatta is also the co-founder of Everybody at Once which develops audiences for television, media, and sports. In a past life Kenyatta co-created the internet meme database Know Your Meme.

Teresa Belton - Being Bored, But Never Being Boring

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:05:49 GMT

Teresa is an Educational researcher, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK. Her interest in imagination began in the 1990’s when she was involved in Play for Life, a small UK voluntary organisation set up to stimulate fresh thinking about what kinds of play nurture children’s emotional, social, cultural and spiritual development. This led to her researching the influence of television and videos on children’s story-making.

When were you last bored? Overstimulated as we are, it rarely happens. But what if boredom is important to stimulate creativity? What if we can create "in-between" space to be more creative and better leverage the brain's natural creative capacities?

Denise R. Jacobs - Being Bored, But Never Being Boring

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:04:50 GMT

Denise R. Jacobs is a speaker and author who consults with companies teaching techniques to make the creative process more fluid. Working in Web Design since 1997, she is an industry veteran and regarded expert on many things web. She is the author of The CSS Detective Guide, and co-authored the Smashing Book #3 and Interact with Web Standards.

When were you last bored? Overstimulated as we are, it rarely happens. But what if boredom is important to stimulate creativity? What if we can create "in-between" space to be more creative and better leverage the brain's natural creative capacities?

Martin Källström - Wearable Technology

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:01:27 GMT

Martin is the founder and CEO of Memoto. He is an experienced entrepreneur and technologist, thinker and tinkerer. The past decade was a period of transformation for him. Since both his parents passed away in cancer and his two daughters came into his life, he realized how much value there is in the small everyday moments that ties our lives together.

Technology is by now an essential part of our lives. The trend is clear, it's getting closer to our bodies. The quantified self-trend has been thriving for some years, but what happens if the technology we carry goes from measuring to documenting and enhancing our sense in real time? How will this new technology be adopted, and will we eventually become cyborgs?

Anita Sarkeesian - Online Harassment, What Drives it and How it Lowers Visions

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:58:34 GMT

The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a topic that thankfully has gained much attention in the media recently. Media critic Anita Sarkeesian illustrates the gamification of online harassment through her own experience of being the target of a rigid and violent hate campaign. Important subject and a must see!

Anita Sarkeesian is a media critic and the creator of video blog Feminist Frequency. Her 2012 serie Tropes vs. Women in Video Games triggered a massive online harassment campaign and she became center of attention in the media discussion about the subject.

Laurie Penny - Online Harassment, What Drives it and How it Lowers Visions

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:57:41 GMT

Laurie Penny is a journalist, author and Contributing Editor at New Statesman magazine. She has written for The Guardian, Vice, Salon, The Nation and many others, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2010 and is a commentator on radical politics, feminism, pop culture and protest.

The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a topic that thankfully has gained much attention in the media recently. In this session we want to examine what the drivers of hate online are and why it's so important to work against it.

Kate Miltner - Online Harassment, What Drives it and How it Lowers Visions

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:56:46 GMT

Kate Miltner is an internet researcher whose interests focus on online behavior and networked cultures. She received her MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics in 2011, and most recently has worked as a Research Consultant for Microsoft Research New England.

The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a topic that thankfully has gained much attention in the media recently. In this session we want to examine what the drivers of hate online are and why it's so important to work against it.

Online Harassment, What Drives it and How it Lowers Visions - Q&A

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:55:44 GMT

Kate Miltner, Anita Sarkeesian and Laurie Penny discuss online harassment.

The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a topic that thankfully has gained much attention in the media recently. In this session we want to examine what the drivers of hate online are and why it's so important to work against it.

Henrik Berggren - Media Consumption Online

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:54:07 GMT

Henrik Berggren is a Swedish entrepreneur that relocated to Berlin to build Readmill – a digital reading platform for e-books. Readmill lets readers store all of their ebooks in one place, enjoy books in one of the best readers on iOS and share their favorite parts with friends.

We all listen, read, play and watch media on a daily basis. But how do we actually behave while doing it. In this session the speakers will try to paint a picture from the data they have as platforms or content creators. How much time do we spend with each content and how long does it live on for.

Alex Dale - Media Consumption Online

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:50:41 GMT

Alex Dale is the Chief Marketing Officer at King. Prior to King, Alex was in charge of the Microsoft consumer and online business in Eastern Europe. And before that, he was the founder and MD of UK broadband ISP, virgin.net. He started work in TV production at the BBC.

We all listen, read, play and watch media on a daily basis. But how do we actually behave while doing it. In this session the speakers will try to paint a picture from the data they have as platforms or content creators. How much time do we spend with each content and how long does it live on.

Lina Thomsgård - Change Making

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:26:41 GMT

Lina Thomsgård, Founder of Rättviseförmedlingen, will talk about how more than 50 000 people on social media have worked together to make a real change for gender equality in Swedish media.

Let’s acknowledge that what we all do can actually make a better world. You can set the agenda for events bigger than your everyday life. All people, from all fields, have the power to make an impact – a techie just as much as a truck driver.

Marcin De Kaminski - Change Making

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:26:35 GMT

Marcin De Kaminski, Internet researcher at Lund University, will present the outlines of hacktivism, policy hacking and how to change society by the use of progressive technologies. In a world of technology, we need to hack it all.

Change Making - Q&A

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:26:32 GMT

Marcin De Kaminski and Lina Thomsgård discuss change making.

Let’s acknowledge that what we all do can actually make a better world. You can set the agenda for events bigger than your everyday life. All people, from all fields, have the power to make an impact – a techie just as much as a truck driver.

Ariel Waldman - Do it Together

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:25:06 GMT

Ariel Waldman, Founder of Spacehack.org and global instigator of Science Hack Day, will speak about what we can accomplish when we open tools that are available to everyone.

The "Do it Yourself" movement is one of the strongest cultural powers we have. It is becoming stronger as all sort of tools are becoming cheaper and more evenly distributed. But over the last decade these tools have been complemented by ways of accomplish great tasks together.

Peter Sunde - Dark Side of Innovation

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:47:33 GMT

Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, will share is thoughts on how he and file sharing site innovated our contemporary media landscape and what we all can learn from that.

What do pirates, computer hackers and inner city gangs have in common with Silicon Valley? Innovation.

Cindy Gallop

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:55:33 GMT

Cindy Gallop, the founder & CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn, offers some provocative, challenging and highly subjective views on how to redesign the future of business; the power shift from the old world order model to the new; the lies we tell ourselves around the most fundamental aspect of human behavior, our sexuality; and why disruption is so critically important in the only gigantic billion-dollar sector nobody in the tech world ever encourages you to disrupt.

You can change the world in more profound ways than you ever thought possible, by changing what you do in the office, and what you do in bed. Cindy Gallop will talk about changing the world through business and sex.

Suzannah Lipscomb - Opening keynote

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:41:45 GMT

Suzannah Lipscomb is Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at New College of the Humanities. She also holds a post as Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia.

Suzannah will open The Conference by looking back. She will talk about what we can and can not learn from the past.

As a Scholar, Suzannah took a double first in her BA and a distinction in her Masters, both in History at Lincoln College, Oxford. In 2007-2010, Suzannah was Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace. She is now a consultant to Historic Royal Palaces and an External Advisory Member on their Research Strategy Board.

Tricia Wang - China and Africa

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:21:13 GMT

Tricia Wang is Cultural Sociologist based in China. She is using immersive ethnography to create commercially relevant insights about how people use digital tools in their everyday lives.

We know pretty well what is going on in our own part of the world. But there is a lot we can learn about future consumer behavior by looking at other parts of the world. In this session we’ll examine the different cultures of innovation and human behavior in parts of China and Africa.

http://mediaevolution.se/theconference

Simon Kyaga - Origins of Creativity

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:16:09 GMT

Simon Kyaga is an attending physician in psychiatry and researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm that has studied the relation between genius and madness.

Many things have been said about where ideas come from. Pablo Picasso said that ”the chief enemy of creativity is good sense” and Tomas Edison insisted that ”genius is 1% talent and 99% perspiration”. Seems that being a bit crazy and working hard is the way forward. This session will explore factors for being creative.

Sahar El-Nadi

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:41:30 GMT

Sahar El-Nadi is a writer, photographer and an eyewitness to the Egyptian revolution. She will talk about the incredible lies of the state controlled media outlets in Egypt and what activists are doing to combat this by sharing what’s actually going on with the rest of the world.

Alexander Kjerulf - Origins of Creativity

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:37:08 GMT

Alexander Kjerulf is The Chief Happiness Officer at Woohoo Inc. and one of the world’s leading experts on happiness at work.

http://mediaevolution.se/theconference/

Vinay Gupta - Access over ownership

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:38 GMT

Vinay Gupta is co-founder of WhipCar.com. It’s the world’s first service that enables car owners to rent out their vehicles whenever they are not in use.

Increasingly, we prioritize access over ownership in our lives. We subscribe to a car service instead of owning a car and we prefer to have access to 15 million songs on Spotify over buying CDs or mp3s. This trend is dubbed collaborative consumption. It was named by TIME as one of the “10 Ideas That Will Change The World” and is the new human behavior we will explore in this session.

http://mediaevolution.se/theconference/

Danya Cheskis-Gold - Access over ownership

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:09 GMT

Danya Cheskis-Gold is the community director at Skillshare.com, a community marketplace for learning anything from anyone.

Lauren Anderson - Access over ownership

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:59:40 GMT

Lauren Anderson is the Community Director for Collaborative Consumption, working with organizations to deliver socially game-changing and profitable solutions in the Collaborative Consumption space.

http://mediaevolution.se/theconference/

Geraldine de Bastion - China and Africa

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:57:41 GMT

Geraldine de Bastion is an international consultant with a multicultural background based in Berlin, Germany.

Mark Kaigwa - China and Africa

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:55:20 GMT

Mark Kaigwa is a storyteller passionate about using media, mobiles and technology to write Africa’s next chapter in world history. He’s based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Maria Åkerlund - The Brain and the Cell

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:57:44 GMT

Maria Åkerlund, Senior Advisor Consumer Insights at Ericsson ConsumerLab, with 10 years of experience in researching consumer behavior.

We are all experiencing it from time to time, the paralysing feeling of the being overloaded with information. Feelings are one thing, but how is our brain coping with the vast amount of information that we’re bombarded with and how intimate is our relationship with the cellphone in reality?

Ben Hammersley - Keynote

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:46:02 GMT

Ben Hammersley is a British writer and technologist, specializing in the effects of the internet and the ubiquitous digital network on the worldʼs political, cultural and social spheres.

Jens D. Mikkelsen - The Brain and the Cell

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:16:09 GMT

Jens D. Mikkelsen, Brain Scientist at Neurobiology Research Unit at Rigshospitalet Copenhagen and director at NeuroSearch.

Michal Migurski - The City Says Hi

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:15:53 GMT

Michal Migurski is the Technical Director at Stamen Design, specializing in building service on open data.

Cities are becoming increasingly human when the streams of data they generate are being opened up for entrepreneurs and startups to develop cool and useful services on. But how is this changing our understanding of the space in which we spend our life and why is it important for data owners to make their data accessible thru APIs?

Jake Barton - The City Says Hi

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:15:53 GMT

Jake Barton is principal and Founder of Local Projects, who is creating the media design for the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

Maria Popova - The City Says Hi

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:15:45 GMT

Maria Popova is the founder and editor of Brain Pickings. She writes for Wired UK, The Atlantic, Nieman Journalism Lab, and Design Observer.

Cities are becoming increasingly human when the streams of data they generate are being opened up for entrepreneurs and startups to develop cool and useful services on. But how is this changing our understanding of the space in which we spend our life and why is it important for data owners to make their data accessible thru APIs?

Kirby Ferguson - Creating with fans and build on other peoples work

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:48:37 GMT

Kirby Ferguson is a New York-based writer, producer, director and editor. He is currently at work on the fourth and final part of the popular web video series, Everything is a Remix. Kirby is taking us on a journey spanning back through centuries of western culture. He’ll illustrate how inventions are the products of copying, transforming and combining previous ones.

Amber Case - Cyborg Anthropology and the Future of the Interface

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:22:21 GMT

Amber Case is a cyborg anthropologist and user experience designer from Portland, Oregon, USA. Her main focus is mobile software, augmented reality and data visualization, and reducing the amount of time and space it takes for people to connect. Case founded Geoloqi.com, a private location sharing application, out of a frustration with existing social protocols around text messaging and wayfinding.

Susan Maushart & Megan Miller - How to live a hyperconnected life… or do the...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:21:56 GMT

Megan Miller is the U.S. director of R&D at Bonnier. Dr. Susan Maushart is an author and social commentator. In January she released her book “The Winter of Our Disconnect”. The book tells the story of how she decided to pull the plug on her family’s entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months-from the itsy-bitsiest iPod Shuffle to her son’s seriously souped-up gaming PC-her three kids didn’t blink an eye.

Dave Asprey - How to live a hyperconnected life

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:00:32 GMT

Dave Asprey is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and computer security expert who spent 15 years and $250,000 to hack his own biology.

In this session Dave presents lessons learned from his process of self quantifying, the dangers of over quantifying, and emerging security and privacy issues as we share our most personal information in the cloud.

Megan Miller - How to live a hyperconnected life

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:00:19 GMT

Megan Miller is the U.S. director of R&D at Bonnier. Megan introduces the current quantified-self trend, and a look at potential future scenarios. What happens when even our physical bodies are connected online, and we ourselves become a part of the “Internet of Things”?

Thomas Johansson - What you need to know about the youth

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:20:24 GMT

Thomas Johansson is professor of education at the Department of Education, communication and learning, University of Gothenburg. In this session Thomas is discussing the practical meaning of iDentity, the definition of entertainment and knowledge, as well as the differentiation between.

Martin Berg - What you need to know about the youth

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:20:18 GMT

Martin Berg is a senior lecturer in sociology at Halmstad University but is currently appointed as senior researcher at the strategic web agency Good Old.

Critically assessing the concepts of “user”, “consumer” and “producer”, Dr Berg highlights the importance of taking into account a sociological understanding of identity construction in order to gain insights on current as well as future uses of media and social network sites.

Katarina Graffman - What you need to know about the youth

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:20:13 GMT

Katarina Graffman holds a PhD in Anthropology and is an experienced Mass Media Anthropologist. In this presentation Katarina is giving answers to what impact the behavior of young media consumers will have for those who produce media.

Björn Jeffery [part 2] - Kids, entertainment and what history can teach us...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:34:01 GMT

Björn Jeffery is the founder of Toca Boca, a game studio that makes digital toys for touchscreen devices. In this presentation Björn give insights on producing playful media experience for kids at very early age.

Malin Ströman - Kids, entertainment and what history can teach us about the...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:33:55 GMT

Malin Ströman is a Concept Developer at SVT Children Interactive. In this presentation Malin gives an analysis of the success of the Nintendo blockbuster GameBoy, as always with the aspect of girls and games included.

Björn Jeffery [part1] - Kids, entertainment and what history can teach us...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:33:40 GMT

Anders Mildner - Kids, entertainment and what history can teach us about the...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:31:04 GMT

Anders Mildner is a journalist and writer, blogger and media analyst, who has held a variety of influential posts for several daily Swedish newspapers.

Juan Melano - Seeing the future through the users’ eyes

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:21:16 GMT

Juan Melano is co-founder of Comenta.TV, a company from Argentina that adds a social layer to television broadcasts in real time. Juan give a look into the future of Social TV and how second screens and connected devices are modifying the way we experience television.

Barry Coetzee - What We Can Learn From the Current Media Development in Africa

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:07:20 GMT

Barry Coetzee is the Chief Executive Officer of iVeri Payment Technologies, the company he founded in 1998.

Based in South Africa, Barry has dedicated the last decade to developing IT solutions to improve transactional banking in Africa. iVeri has created technology which is being used to address the transactional requirements in South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Ethiopia.

Geraldine de Bastion - What We Can Learn From the Current Media Development...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:15:30 GMT

Geraldine de Bastion is an international consultant with a multi-cultural background. Currently, she is working for newthinking communications in Berlin, where she manages the consulting department and coordinates international cooperation projects.

Benjamin Joffe - How China Creates and Consumes Media

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:13:36 GMT

Benjamin Joffe is a renowned expert on Asia’s digital scene. During the past 11 years, he has been part of Japan’s mobile revolution, Korea’s Internet boom and the rise of China as a digital superpower.

Benjamin introduce the alternative digital media concepts and revenue models that thrive in China’s ultra-competitive environment, how they evolved from their ancestors, and how they can now benefit the rest of the world.

Kevin Lee - How China Creates and Consumes Media

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:07:54 GMT

Kevin Lee is COO for China Youthology, a research and consulting firm specializing in China youth culture trends and marketing insights.

At The Conference Kevin gave a holistic understanding of China’s youth, the world as they see it through their eyes, the major drivers that are impacting their experience and development, and the new identities, values and meanings they are developing that will inevitably define what they desire, consume and interpret from the world.

Jesse Schell - Gamification - Moving Images 2010

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:28:27 GMT

Jesse Schell, CEO of Schell Games, talks about a reality when all everything in our life is becoming a game.

Suw Charman-Anderson - Email Obsession - Moving Images 2010

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:36:21 GMT

Suw Charman-Anderson about how email is a cornerstone of business communications yet the majority of people feel that not only do they get too much email, but that they also spend too much time in their inbox. Why are we so obsessed with email? And how can social tools help decrease the email load and improve collaboration and communication?