Future of Media 2012 line-up

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I thought it would be a good idea to make a list of all the great guests and lectures in my course DM2571 "Future of Media". We change the theme every year and this year's theme is "The Future of Magazines / Magazines of the Future".

I don't know why I haven't thought about doing this before. I actually think this is such a good idea that I just created and "retroactively" published (backdated) two new blog posts listing the 2011 and the 2010 line-up of guest lecturers:
- Future of Media 2011 line-up - The Future of Radio / Radio of the Future
- Future of Media 2010 line-up - The Future of Music / Music of the Future

Below is the 2012 line-up of our (no less than 19!) great guests lectures. A dozen different project groups will present their visions of the future in the form of a larger (200+ persons) public presentation (welcome!) between 13-16 on Friday December 7, 2012 (place to be announced later, documentation will later (Dec-Jan) be made available here).

- Peter Jakobsson, Ph.D., Media and Communication, Södertörn University, "The end of the industrial information economy?"

- Anders Malmsten, (on Twitter) CEO, Bonnier International Magazines, "Digital and global magazines will change the future for magazine publishers"

- Sara Gabrielsson, KTH M.Sc. Media Technology student and ex-editor in chief of the KTH student magazine Osqledaren, "Working with a non-market, non-profit magazine"

- Pontus Jeppsson, (on Twitter) Head of Mobile (business and product development of mobile services) at IDG Sweden, "New mindset, new business model"

- Scott Ritcher, (on Twitter) fanzine publisher and editor of K Composite Magazine, "Storytelling"

- Olle Lidbom, (on Twitter) Independent media analyst, editor of the weekly newsletter "Vassa eggen" [Sharp edge] covering international media trends, "The hunt for old and new revenues"

- Ulrika Facht, (on Twitter) Media research specialist at Nordicom, Gothenburg University, "Reading magazines and periodicals and media use in general"

- Kerstin Neld, (on Twitter) CEO of Sveriges Tidskrifter (The Swedish Magazine Publishers Association - on Twitter), "The market and challenges for Swedish magazines today"

- Anna Troberg, (on Twitter) leader of the Swedish Pirate Party, author and former publisher manager, "What is free?"

- Kristina Sabelström Möller, Ph.D., M.Sc., Senior Project Manager Business Development at the evening newspaper Expressen AB, "Stunning technology is not enough - there's more to the Future of Magazines"

- Daniel Pargman, Ph.D., KTH/CSC/MID, "Beyond scarcity and abundance"

- Anna Swartling, Ph.D., Usability architect at Scania CV AB, "Project TEAM work"

- Åsa Moberg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Environmental Strategies Research focusing on Sustainable Communication in Media & Mohammad Ahmadi Achachlouei, Ph.D. student in Environmental Strategies Research, "Future magazines - environmental impacts?"

- Hans Althin, Business Development Director and member of the management team at Aller Media AB, "Learn from the past when building for the future"

- Johanna Ögren, (on Twitter) ex-marketing and business development management consultant, blogger and magazine entrepreneur, "Who is a publisher in the digital future?"

- Tobias Lindberg, (on Twitter) Ph.D., Business Intelligence Analyst at Sveriges Tidskrifter (The Swedish Magazine Publishers' Association - on Twitter), "Why We Read Magazines - A Mystery?"

- Milad Hossainzadeh, Ba(h), Dip.M.Arch., White Architects, "Thinking inside the box from outside!"

- Pia Skagermark, Foreign Editor at Dagens Nyheter, editor of DN Världen, "Swimming against the tide? Glossy magazines in a digital world"

- Magnus Gylje, (on Twitter) Editor of K magazine Svenska Dagbladet, ex-editor of SvD Insikt, "Visual journalism in digital age"


We unfortunately had two guests cancel their lectures, and there was also one more person I really would have wanted to come, but alas, in the end it turned out to be too difficult to get her to visit us. I can't even hope we'll have better luck next year since the course will have another theme next year...


During the previous month, I have written a number of texts on this blog that relates to the this year's Future of Media course:
- New term, new courses
- How should student project groups be put together?
- Children's (magazine) reading habits
- Student project groups - ambitions and grades
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