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Medea – A Research Lab for Collaborative Media, Design, and Public Engagement
Design and Public Engagement
Medea is a transdisciplinary research lab where researchers address societal challenges through experiments and interventions. The research focus is on media, design, and public engagement.
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Transformations: Journal of Media, Culture and Technology

Medea researchers Bojana Romic and Bo Reimer are guest editors of a special issue on the theme Artificial Creativity. The issue aims to stir a discussion about the cultural, societal, and ethical aspects of robots or AI engaged in creative production.
Artificial Creativity conference

View keynotes and presentations from the Artificial Creativity conference that Medea hosted recently.
Researchers
Medea affiliated researchers have academic backgrounds that span widely across the humanities, the social sciences, and technology. Academic disciplines include participatory design, interaction design, media & communication studies, media technology, urban studies, and human rights.
The research is often carried out in close collaboration with external stakeholders such as NGOs, the municipality, artists, and commercial actors.
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Research project
Workers as Agents of a Green and Just Transition. A real-life experiment in Sweden and Spain
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Research project
The Digital Gothic. Rethinking ethics, media and monsters in a digital age
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Research project
Knowing From Somewhere: On Modes and Sites of Knowledge Production with Hacker Communities in the Field of Internet of Things
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2022 | Conference paper
Lively Media Technologies: Ethics, Monsters and New Imaginaries for the Future
Line Henriksen, Bo Reimer, Bojana Romic
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2022 | Conference paper
Developing democratic data practices for heritage organisations
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Line Henriksen
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2022 | Article in journal
Negotiating anthropomorphism in the Ai-Da robot
Bojana Romic
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2020 | Other
Artificial Creativity
Bojana Romic, Bo Reimer, Karolina Rosenqvist, Richard Topgaard
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2020 | Chapter in book
No Interaction on Instagram: Political Parties Use of Instagram in the 2014 Swedish Election Campaign
Uta Russmann, Jakob Svensson
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2018 | Conference paper
Visual Materiality: crafting a new viscosity
Maria Engberg, Susan Kozel, Henrik Svarrer Larsen
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2018 | Conference paper
Accessing sexual minorities in Uganda: an exploration of methodological challenges and ethical considerations
Jakob Svensson, Cecilia Strand
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2018 | Conference paper
Sharing and collaborating in service design
Anna Seravalli, Daniela Selloni, Marta Corubolo
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2018 | Other
Degrowth is not utopian, it is happening
Alicia Smedberg, Ruth Kinna, Miriam Lang
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2018 | Conference paper
The Bronze Key: Performing Data Encryption
Susan Kozel, Ruth Gibson, Bruno Martelli
- Jay Bolter, Professor of New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Pelle Ehn, Professor Emeritus in Interaction Design, Chair of the Advisory board
- Ann Light, Professor of Design and Creative Technology, Malmö University
- Kirsten Ostherr, Professor of English, Rice University
- Joanna Zylinska, Professor of New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London
Medea Vox and Medea Talks
Podcast Medea Vox

Medea Vox is an academic podcast that covers topics broadly related to media, design, and public engagement.
Medea Talks

Medea Talks is a public lecture series where you can meet highly-regarded thinkers and practitioners from the media and design fields.
Medea has been around since 2009. An archive of all output (videos, audio, blog posts etc) is available through Zenodo.