Books

Book projects that I have been involved in

Recently (autumn 2010), I was the co-editor of the Efter The Pirate Bay anthology, released in Sweden and featuring a range of interesting authors on the subject of file-sharing, digitization, copyright reform and the “pirate” movement in Sweden.

It was edited by me and Pelle Snickars (Head of Research at Sweden’s Royal Library). See this link for more info. Unfortunately, it is only available in Swedish, and no English translation is planned. However, the national public interest in Sweden has been considerable, and I believe that many of the insights that I draw on in my currently finalized PhD thesis and in the book are of interest to the English-language reading public as well.

In addition to writing the Efter The Pirate Bay introduction together with Pelle, I contributed with an article, called “Det dumma nätet” (“The stupid net”) where I outline the structural foundation for the web as we know it, and sketch out some likely future developments too. Read more about it here.

A few other book projects are in the works, email me for more info.

Before moving back to Sweden, I was involved in numerous British book projects – in which I was the graphic designer (all of them) as well as one of the contributors and editors (most of them, see below).

Initially with Deptford.TV, and later with Inclusion Through Media, we have collaboratively created a number of books, all having in common that they deal with new media. The two Deptford.TV diaries both act as a documentation of this Deptford-based community TV project, as an exploration of the urban change taking place in this area, and as a contemporary critique of the rigidity of media existing systems. The Converge manual is a hands-on guide to publishing your own film material on the net, and Inclusion Through Media is an ambitious reader adjoining the UK-wide project with the same name, where youths across Britain were engaged to make their own audiovisual media in different ways, facing different obstacles depending on their varying social backgrounds.

This book is a compilation of theoretical underpinnings, interviews and written documentation of the project.

Explore Deptford.TV diaries at Google books!

Design, typography, and textual contribution: Jonas Andersson
Cover and illustrations: Li Jönsson

Published with OpenMute print on demand

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Inclusion Through Media [autumn 2007] ITM is a programme of projects across the UK which use audio-visual media to engage young people and excluded individuals and communities. It focuses on projects that bring the target groups together with media professionals to produce high-quality products for maximum impact. ITM projects stress innovative methods and participatory approaches. One of ITM’s objectives is using ICT for the production and distribution of learning materials and products developed by partners and target groups.

The book (edited by Tony Dowmunt, Mark Dunford and Nicole van Hemert) brought together critical insights and themes explored in the ITM programme. It offers first hand accounts of the work, together with critical analysis of the processes it involves and the policy issues it raises. It explores how working creatively with media can contribute to social cohesion, and points the way to new media, youth and social policy.

Design and typography: Jonas Andersson
Cover: Li Jönsson

Published with OpenMute print on demand

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Film Trainee Schemes: Building Access and Diversity [November 2007] An evaluation document for Inclusion Through Media. Evaluating collaborative film and video production and exploring the differences between community-based participatory filmmaking and mainstream feature film production. Focusing on interviews with the young people involved, Hi8us and the film production companies could here learn the actual outcomes from the schemes.

Design and typography: Jonas Andersson

In-house production, Hi8us Projects Ltd

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Converge [autumn 2007] A project within the ITM programme that enables young people to showcase and distribute their audiovisual works on the web. In collaboration with Hi8us, Goldsmiths College produced this handbook and workshop programme to enable young people to make use of existing sites like the Internet Archive, Participatory Culture, YouTube and Video Syndication Network and to publish videos on own sites using free an open source software.

Design, typography, and cover: Jonas Andersson

Published with OpenMute print on demand

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Deptford.TV diaries II: Pirate Strategies [spring 2008] Deptford.TV is an audio-visual documentation of the urban change of Deptford (south-east London) in collaboration with SPC.org media lab, Bitnik.org, Boundless.coop, Liquid Culture and Goldsmiths College.
The unedited as well as edited media content is being made available on the Deptford.TV database and distributed over the Boundless.coop wireless network. The media is licensed through open content licenses such as Creative Commons and the GNU general public license.

This book is a compilation of theoretical underpinnings, local narratives and written documentation not only of the local Deptford.TV project but of phenomena relating to an in many ways new situation of ‘strategic’ rather than ‘tactical’ alternative media.

Explore Deptford.TV diaries II: Pirate Strategies at Google books!

Design, typography, editorial and textual contribution: Jonas Andersson
Cover illustration: Li Jönsson

Published with OpenMute print on demand

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NODE.London Reader II [March 2009] The NODE.London Reader II projects a critical context around the Season of Media Arts in London, March 2008. NODE.London (Networked, Open, Distributed, Events. London) is a voluntary network of people, organisations and projects sharing and developing the infrastructure for media arts and related ctivities in London and beyond. This reader revisits debates on media arts and activism, collaborative practices and organization and the political economy of media economics. It includes contributions from Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Anna Colin, Julie Freeman, Matthew Fuller, Usman Haque, Jamie King, Armin Medosch, Jonas Andersson, Toni Prug, Adnan Hadzi, Cinzia Cremona and Petra Bauer. Edited by Mia Jankowicz, Anna Colin, Adnan Hadzi and Jonas Andersson.

Design, typography, and cover: Jonas Andersson

Published with OpenMute print on demand

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