Henry Mainsah

• PhD
• Research Professor at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

Gir det egentlig mening å skille mellom «danning» og «digital danning»? Er «barndom» og «digital barndom» to sider av samme sak? Når skillet mellom livet i og utenfor det digitale er i ferd med å viskes ut, gir kanskje svaret seg selv. Men konsekvensene for barn og unges danning er ikke like åpenbare. Denne vitenskapelige antologien fokuserer på di...

Gir det egentlig mening å skille mellom «danning» og «digital danning»? Er «barndom» og «digital barndom» to sider av samme sak? Når skillet mellom livet i og utenfor det digitale er i ferd med å viskes ut, gir kanskje svaret seg selv. Men konsekvensene for barn og unges danning er ikke like åpenbare. Denne vitenskapelige antologien fokuserer på di...

The ubiquity of remote research practices and the increased adoption of videoconferencing tools are forcing researchers to pay attention to the features of these technologies and how they shape the research encounter. This article draws on experience from a Norwegian research project about digital vulnerabilities and living with smart home technolo...

Digital automated and connected technologies are playing a central role shaping how home life is experienced and understood. This emerging digital ecology is also reconstituting the home as a site of research and the methods required to study it. This article introduces a collection of contributions that highlight methodological issues and avenues...

This article describes a series of experimental method workshops that invite participants to enact speculative, craftful, multisensory and performative research techniques. The workshops have taken place across different European university venues with graduate students in a variety of disciplines such as digital humanities, sociology, design, medi...

Sammendrag I denne litteraturgjennomgangen om incels og nettsamfunn ønsker vi å øke kunnskapen om et fenomen som det er begrenset forskning på. Incels (akronym fra det engelske involuntary celibate) utgjør en ny distinkt nettbevegelse som definerer seg som ekstreme kvinnehatere, og som lever i ufrivillig sølibat. Gjennomgangen viser at nettfellessk...

This article explores the use of design fiction as a vehicle for critically reflecting on the complex issue of sustainable food consumption and production. The paper presents the design fiction Bird, a food delivery service that provides food rations to its customers based on their exact nutritional needs and self-improvement goals. The service mak...

In this article, we remember experiences of our participation in an artistic event for youth of African descent in a Norwegian city to reflect on the potential of arts-based methods for exploring migrant and diasporic youth identities. Reflecting on the process of curating an event titled Afrikanske Dager in Drammen (African days in Drammen) involv...

The facial recognition software SmartLINK® is being increasingly deployed as an »alternative to detention« by ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), along with other surveillance technologies such as voice recognition and electronic ankle shackles. Rather than being a proper »alternative« to immigrant detention, these technologies have becom...

SammendragDenne artikkelen diskuterer barns rett til deltagelse og beskyttelse på internett i relasjon til kommersielletredjepartsaktørers bruk av digitale persondata. Det tas utgangspunkt i FNs barnekonvensjon,norsk lovgivning, samt kvalitative og kvantitative funn fra en nylig gjennomført studieblant norske 15–18 åringer om personvern og markedsf...

The architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton ‘never recovered’ from the force of Hannah Arendt’s teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her the most perceptive political theorist and observer of ‘dark times’ (a concept which, drawing from Brecht, she made her own). Building on the revival o...

This chapter discusses a photographic walking research experiment that we conducted in the aftermath of a forced evacuation of asylum seekers by police from makeshift camps in Paris. By walking, photography and the analysis of material traces we develop relational embodied and reflexive methods for alternative ways of seeing, experiencing and telli...

This article explores the consequences of ethnographic practice when social and mobile media are used both as tools for research and sites of study. We draw on incidents from our fieldwork practice to reflect on the research intimacies that are produced when digital media technologies bring different spheres of researchers’ worlds in close proximit...

This paper examines the role of a research network that involves design schools and researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. The C-SAN Futures network addressed the role that global exchanges within design education and research networks can play in addressing challenges related to climate change. The network organized researcher and student...

This article serves as an introduction to a special issue of the journal Digital Creativity, which addresses the challenges, potentials and meaning of different creative forms of citizenship enacted through social media. The articles in this special issue paint a complex picture of the expressions and meaning and citizenship. This introduction aims...

Practice-based Design Research provides a companion to masters and PhD programs in design research through practice. The contributors address a range of models and approaches to practice-based research, consider relationships between industry and academia, researchers and designers, discuss initiatives to support students and faculty during the res...

Youth civic identities and social media practices are changing rapidly, and civic organisations are struggling to exploit the potential of social media to reach youth. One major challenge concerns the genera-tional culture gap between the networked culture of today's youth and the top–down culture characteristic of many civic organisations. This st...

In this paper, we investigate ways to engage computer science students, majoring in design, use, and interaction (with technology), in design practices through an advanced graduate course in interaction design. We take a closer look at how prior embodied and explicit knowledge of HCI that all of the students had before their enrollment in the cours...

This paper examines challenges faced in participatory design's confrontation with cultural complexity in contexts of intercultural encounter and transnational exchange. We argue that there is need for more elaborate approaches to culture, technology, and participation in relation to participatory design. By examining issues at the crossroads betwee...

This paper examines challenges faced in participatory design's confrontation with cultural complexity in contexts of intercultural encounter and transnational exchange. We argue that there is need for more elaborate approaches to culture, technology, and participation in relation to participatory design. By examining issues at the crossroads betwee...

This paper, not only, reflects on the crucial feature of global connectedness when it comes to addressing Climate Change in an effective way. It also reflects on the just as important feature of connectedness to future generations. Arguably these two features could be at odds with, or at least be a challenge for, the most typical and espoused featu...

As the need for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) designers increases so does the need for courses that best prepare students for their future work life. Multidisciplinary teamwork is what very frequently meets the graduates in their new work situations. Preparing students for such multidisciplinary work through education is not easy to achieve. In...

This article explores the ways in which Norwegians of African descent explore their relationship with the African diaspora through the multimodal practices of digital online media. Through the stories of two young Norwegian women the article examines how community, ties and ways of belonging are envisioned at both the local and the transnational le...

Designers and researchers in the Ulstein Bridge Concept (UBC) project have begun conceiving of new ways of getting the inside story on ship's bridge environments and the people working there. Through the workblogs, mariners express in publishable form insights on their domain and the operations in which they are involved. One such blog is Rigmover,...

The terrorist attacks in Oslo on 22 July 2011 led to a com- prehensive public debate about the systems for online debate in Norwegian news- papers. Through interviews with editors and moderators, this article examines changes made in the facilitation and administration of online de- bate in four central newspa- pers after the terrorist attack. In d...

This paper argues that design research may benefit from investigations, explorations and innovations in the means of conducting and of conveying design research from qualitative methods in the social sciences. The paper examines how inter-disciplinary and inter-methodological experimentation as a mode of knowledge building. At the end of the paper...

This argumentative essay at the intersection of media studies, Cultural Studies, and literacy research, frames of PD in the emerging territory of social media and civic engagement. We refer to core principles of PD and to recent reflections on social technologies and participation in design. These are linked to research on designing for participati...

In this paper, we identify different forms and meanings of civic participation found among young people in social media. This is key knowledge for the design and evaluation of social media applications that support youth engagement in society. Such knowledge is particularly useful for stakeholders who aim to create online arenas where youth can exp...

Expressive mobile narratives are in the early stages of design and participative formation. We ask what relations and articulations can be brought to play in the design and enactment of a mobile fictional space in which identity is a core motivation and design feature. Through a design case, we share experiences in the building and trial process of...

This article addresses questions of identities on the web by examining how Norwegian immigrant youth use social network sites as spaces of personal expression and identity work. The data for the empirical analysis are drawn from a series of selected individual profiles authored by 16 to 20-year-old youth. Elements of text and images were analysed t...

In this study a series of in-depth interviews were conducted with Cameroonians living in Oslo in order to analyze the role of media in the way they constructed their identities. The article showed how through the use of email and Cameroonian websites transnational social networks were strengthened, and ethnic identities were maintained. It examined...