Book review: Collaborative media: production, consumption, and design interventions by Jonas Löwgren and Bo Reimer

"Collaborative Media: Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions." Jonas Löwgren and Bo Reimer. MIT Press. December 2013. --- PWith many new forms of digital media – including social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr – the people formerly known as the audience no longer only consume but also produce and even design media. Jonas Löwgren and Bo Reimer term this phenomenon collaborative media, and in this book they investigate the qualities and characteristics of these forms of media in terms of what they enable people to do. Their analysis of projects in collaborative media that range from small multidisciplinary research experiments to commercial projects used by millions of people enriches the existing academic and public debates, writes Vyacheslav W. Polonski.