Experience Report about my internship for media-net-works in Umea , Sweden and Achill Island , Ireland

Karsten Kneese - Student of Logistics & E-Business at the RheinAhrCampus, Remagen did an five months internship for ‘media-net-works', a project in Umea, Sweden.

A clipping from the report:

I did a five months internship for ‘media-net-works', a project funded by the e Learning Initiative of the European Commission.
“The aim of the project is to promote active citizenship through digital and media competence in combination with intercultural awareness.
During the piloting of the training programme participants were involved actively in building and maintaining (moderating) their own transnational communities in order to share knowledge and insights into political, social and cultural collective decision-making.
In order to train responsibility for these new media of exchange, participants analysed existing virtual communities and the discursive behaviour observed in these fora. They also reflected on their own behaviour as moderators, contributors or “lurkers” by documenting and questioning their own use of media and intercultural behaviour
(e.g. dominance, power-distance in a digital environment, etc.).

The whole report is available for download as a .pdf file