Designing for Networked Communications

Designing for Networked Communications: Strategies and Development explains how to plan, use, and understand the products and the dynamic social processes and tasks some of the most vital innovations in the knowledge society depend upon– social as well as technological. Focusing on various forms of design, implementation and integration of computer mediated communication, this book bridges the academic fields of computer science and communication studies. Designing for Networked Communications: Strategies and Development uses an interdisciplinary approach, and presents results from recent and important research in a variety of forms for networked communications. A constructive and critical view of the interplay between the new electronic and the more conventional modes of communication are utilized, while studies of organizational work practices demonstrate that the use of new technologies and media is best understood and integrated into work practices. In this process of merging, both are remodelled and rearranged while being adapted to the practices and activities for which they were designed.

Simon Heilesen is an associate professor in Net Media at the Department of Communication Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark. His principle research interests are HCI-design and communication planning for the World Wide Web, and learning and collaboration in net environments. Since the early 1990s, he has been studying and practicing the design and evaluation of net media products as well as net based/supported education and publishing, first at Copenhagen University, later at Roskilde University. He is a member of various university and national committees for the development and dissemination of information and communication technology in Higher Education.