History of Participatory Media

Anders Ekstroem received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1994, and is currently working as an associate professor at the Divison of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He has published four monographs, three edited volumes, and a number of book chapters and articles. Among his most recent publications are articles in journals such as Early Popular Visual Culture and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Solveig Julich received her PhD from Linkoeping University in 2002, and is currently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Literature and History of Ideas, Stockholm University. She has published one monograph, two edited volumes, and several book chapters and articles. Her most recent publication is Cultural History of Media (in Swedish). Frans Lundgren received his PhD from Uppsala University in 2003, and is currently working as an assistant professor at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published one monograph, one edited volume, and a number of book chapters and articles. In addition, he has translated a book from English to Swedish. Paul Wisselgren is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Umea University, Sweden. His earlier publications include two books, an edited special issue and some twenty articles, most of them related to different aspects of the social and cultural history of the social sciences.

1. Participatory Media in Historical Perspective: An Introduction. Anders Ekstroem, Solveig Julich, Frans Lundgren, and Per Wisselgren 2. From Enlightened Participation to Liberal Professionalism: On the Historiography of the Press as a Resource for Legitimacy. Patrik Lundell 3. Knowing Audiences, Knowing Media: Performing Publics at the Early Twentieth-Century Fun Fair. Anders Ekstroem 4. Civic Media: City Exhibitions and the Visual Culture of Community, c. 1900. Frans Lundgren 5. Creating Audiences, Making Participants: The Cylinder Phonograph in Ethnographic Fieldwork. Mathias Bostroem 6. The Interactivity of the Model Home. Mark B. Sandberg 7. Touring the Congo: Mobility and Materiality in Missionary Media. Lotten Gustafsson Reinius 8. Milk, Say Cheese! Inscribing Public Participation in the Photographic Archives of the National Milk Propaganda. Ylva Habel 9. Daniel Ellsberg and the Lost Idea of the Photocopy. Lisa Gitelman 10. Fetal Photography in the Age of Cool Media. Solveig Julich 11. Expedition Robinson, Reality TV, and the History of the Social Experiment. Per Wisselgren 12. History on the Web: Museums, Digital Media, and Participation. Bodil Axelsson