Guest Lecture 18 - Oct 11 (13-15) - Valerie Geller

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Time and place: Tuesday October 11, 13-15 in lecture hall V3

Title: "Becoming a more powerful communicator"

Guest: Valerie Geller, President, Geller Media International Broadcast Consultants/Training - "Helping Communicators Become More Powerful in 30 Countries"

Talk: Join International Broadcast Consultant, author and trainer Valerie Geller to learn proven "Powerful Radio" techniques that will allow you to get, keep and grow audiences. These techniques are in use by top broadcasters and communicators throughout the world based on material from her 2011 book "Beyond Powerful Radio - A Communicator's Guide to the Internet Age".

Radio is changing and there now exists a broader landscape with more "canvases", including interactive media. Working with digital and online media opens a world of new ways to reach radio audiences. Today it is not longer about radio specifically, but what remains important is to inform and entertain, inspire and connect with audiences. Audiences leave when it is boring. Never Be Boring!

About: Valerie Geller travels around the world training radio professionals become more powerful communicators and she has worked with both Swedish Radio and SBS in Sweden from the early 1990's and on. See her 3-minute YouTube short talk after receiving the Rockwell Lifetime Achievement Award for broadcasting last year. Her most recent book, "Beyond Powerful Radio" (2011) is primarily written for radio professionals, but is also a great resource for anyone who considers "getting into" radio and it is for sale at Kårbokhandeln (on campus) for 295 SEK. Valerie has promised to sign copies of her book to students who buy it before her lecture!

Literature: Please read/look at Valeries 4 checklists as well as chapter 28 of her book, "Audio communication across multiple delivery platforms: Broadcasting, streaming, video, social media, podcasting & beyond..." (available in Bilda/Documents/Literature).

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Guest Lecture 17 - Oct 6 (10-12) - Fredrik Stiernstedt

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Time and place: Thursday October 6, 10-12 in seminar room Q31

Title: "The 'future of radio' as a discourse in radio production"

Guest: Fredrik Stiernstedt, Ph.D. candidate in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University"

Talk: Music radio, especially formatted background radio, has faced new competition during the last decade. Digital distribution of music (filesharing and audio-streaming) have made music in general more available. Actors such as Spotify and Last FM have challenged the role previously played by music format radio: delivering playlists for background consumption. At the same time, social media in general, such as Facebook and Twitter, has been perceived as challenges to music radio. The ways in which they facilitate sociality, presence and "being-togetherness" is seen as posing a threat to the one of the central social functions of music format radio. How have these new forms of competition been handled by actors in the Swedish music radio industry? In my talk, I will give some examples drawing on ongoing fieldwork, of how the producers of MTG-radio (Rix FM, Lugna Favioriter, Bandit Rock, NRJ) have made sense of this new competitive situation. More generally, how has the organization and labour processes been transformed and challenged by new digital and social media? I will also give a brief history of Swedish music radio and a short overview of the current situation of Swedish music radio in relation to industry structure, production practices and audiences.

About: Fredrik Stiernstedt has a long experience as a broadcaster and DJ. He is currently working on a dissertation about creative labor and new media technologies in the Swedish music radio industry.

Literature: Fredrik suggests you have a look at (the Swedish-language) Sveriges Radios Framtidsutredning [Swedish Radio's Future Inquiry]. It projects different scenarios for the future for public service radio 5-10 years into the future (2015-2020).

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Guest Lecture 16 - Oct 4 (13-15) - Lars Jonsson

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Time and place: Tuesday October 4, 13-15 in lecture hall L1

Title: "Digital radio - future trends"

Guest: Lars Jonsson, Technical strategist at Swedish Radio (SR)

Talk: This presentation covers the alternatives for Digital Radio now used in Europe and world wide. Streaming live services - web radio over the Internet to cell phones and PCs are now gaining momentum as compared to Digital Radio via transmitters. Different options and technical systems such as DAB, DAB+ etc. will be examined. Radio DNS is a new international standardization initiative which can link FM, DAB+ and web radio to for the benefit of listeners, irrespective of which technical system they use. The current situation in Sweden for the roll-out of Digital Radio is wait and see from politicians, Public Service and commercial radio. Other countries, such as the UK, Norway and Denmark have millions of DAB receivers and now consider the time scale for the close-down of their FM services.

About: Lars Jonsson was born in 1949 and received an M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in 1972. He has worked with developments in Swedish Public Service TV and Radio broadcasting since then. During the last decades, Lars has worked on digital radio, archiving, audio computer infrastructure and network projects within Swedish Radio. He has been active in many standards working groups with the Audio Engineering Society and European Broadcasting Union (EBU). He currently chairs the EBU Audio Contribution over IP working group, and is also the vice chair of the EBU strategic group of Future Networks and Storage.

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Guest Lecture 15 - Sept 29 (15-16) - Simon Redican & Mark Barber

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Time and place: Thursday September 29 at 15.00-16.00 in lecture hall D2.

DO NOTE: This is a 60-minuter lecture - please be in time!

EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, please note that we had to move the lecture one hour from 14 to 15 due to the fact that there was not a single KTH lecture hall or seminar room free at the earlier time.

Title: "Media and the mood of the nation"

Guest: Simon Redican, Managing Director and Radio Advertising Bureau and Mark Barber, Planning Director at Radio Advertising Bureau

Talk: The recent on "Media and the mood of the nation" chimes with the UK Government's attempts to measure the happiness of UK citizens with its index focusing on general wellbeing and not just GDP - and this research illustrates how powerful a boost media, and radio in particular, can have on the nation's welfare. It generated headlines around the world; "perfect research with perfect findings" according to BBC Radio 2's Vanessa Feltz.

Research carried out by Sparkler Research for the RAB (Radio Advertising Bureau), demonstrated that people who regularly use media are happier, with both higher levels of energy and happiness.

This presentation explores why, in the age of HD wide-screen TV and access to anything and everything online, radio continues to have such enduring appeal, and retrains that crucial ability to form a powerful emotional connections with its listeners.

About: Simon Redican began his career as a Media Planner and Buyer, working at Full service agencies LRC and DMB&B and then at media specialists Carat and Starcom MediaVest, where he was the UK Head of Planning. He made the move to the media owner side where he was Head of Sales at Classic FM and Planet Rock and then Head of Partnership for Times Media at News International. He has been Managing Director of the RAB since June 2007. Simon is married with 3 children and is a fan of Liverpool's original and best football club, Everton FC.

Mark Barber is, in his role as Planning Director at RAB UK, responsible for developing the company's research strategy. He is the architect of the UK's highly successful RadioGAUGE research project, which was developed in response to advertiser and agency demands for improved accountability and creativity in radio advertising, and is the co-author of the book "An advertiser's guide to better radio advertising" published by Wiley. Before joining RAB, Mark spent 18 years as a strategic media planner on blue-chip clients across a number of agencies, most recently as Communication Planning Director at Universal McCann where, amongst others, he ran the Bacardi Martini, Nestle, MasterCard and Microsoft accounts. Mark is married, and at the weekends operates a free mini-cab service exclusively for his two teenage children.

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Guest Lecture 14 - Sept 29 (8-10) - Anna Swartling

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Time and place: Thursday September 29, 8-10 in lecture hall D3.

Title: "Project TEAM work"

Guest: Anna Swartling, Usability architect at Scania CV AB

Talk: Successful project depend on a well functioning project team. But what does that mean in practice? In this seminar, we will examine and discuss this together. We will primarily focus on team work, leadership, communication and conflict management.

About: Anna Swartling is currently working at Scania, one of the premier truck and bus companies in the world. She has a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from KTH. She has long experience of team work and leadership from a variety of different positions and businesses, including KTH school projects, team manager, project manager for computer systems development projects as well as being an actor and a director in theater productions, chairman of several boards and research projects.

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Literature: Anna doesn't have any specific suggestions for literature, but I, Daniel, have. Please read the text on "Interdisciplinary cooperation" which is accessible in Bilda (Administrative/Literature/110929 Kim.pdf). Although the example in the text is about the difficulties of computer scientists cooperating with graphic designers, the lessons are applicable far beyond this specific case.

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Guest Lecture 13 - Sept 28 (17-19) - Nancy Updike

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Time and place: Wednesday September 28, 17-19 in lecture hall B3

Title: "Radio is better than other media and I can prove it"

Guest: Nancy Updike, Producer and reporter at the radio show "This American Life"

Talk: Radio in the US is doing shockingly well, while other media are struggling. Why? Nancy Updike, who has worked in television, print and radio, goes into detail about how to tell stories well on the radio, what makes a radio story good enough that people will remember it years later, and why radio beats TV and print.

About: Nancy Updike is one of the founding producers of This American Life. Besides radio, she has worked in television and in print, doing stories for The New York Times Magazine, The LA Weekly and others. Her television work won her an Emmy Award, and her hour-long radio documentary about U.S. private contractors working in Iraq won the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award and the Murrow Award. She has reported from Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, as well as the US.

Literature: Daniel suggests you listen to an episode of Nancy's radio show This American Life:

- You being media technology students, I would suggest the recent (July 22) show, "When patents attack!" about "patent trolls" who hinder technological innovations by suing companies that violate their tenuous broad-and-very-fuzzy intellectual property rights.

- Something else that might be of interest is the last episode (18 minutes) of the even more recent (Aug 26) show on "Gossip". It gives you an insider's perspective on how reality television shows create drama out of thin air and how the events we see on the television screen bears only a tenuous relationship to reality. ...Or maybe not, since this episode in itself is a work of fiction...

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Guest Lecture 12 - Sept 28 (15-17) - Claire Wardle

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Time and place: Wednesday September 28, 15-17 in lecture hall B3

Title: "Moving beyond broadcasting: Digital technologies and collaborative radio"

Guest: Dr. Claire Wardle, Digital consultant (BBC College of Journalism)"

Talk: The majority of broadcasters now understand the power of social media for driving audiences to their output, and most radio stations, programs and presenters have Twitter accounts and Facebook pages. The majority however are not using them effectively, simply transferring broadcasting skills to a social environment. "Up next, we're talking about the Olympics..." This talk will examine some of the most successful uses of social media by radio stations across the world, and will focus on the need to build collaborative approaches. Rather than seeing social media as either an information source or a broadcast channel, I will discuss how successful community building initiatives can create incredible content as well as effectively engage existing audiences and connect with new audiences.

About: Claire Wardle, Ph.D. is a former academic who now works as a digital strategist and trainer, specializing in the use of social media by public service broadcasters across the world. She has worked most extensively with the BBC, developing and delivering different digital training courses as well as tailored social media consultancy to over 2000 persons from across the organization. She has also worked with broadcast organizations, charities and businesses in Europe, Australia and Africa.

Literature: Claire Wardle and Andrew Williams, "ugc@thebbc: Understanding its impact upon contributors, non-contributors and BBC News". On user-generated content and the BBC.

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Guest Lecture 11 - Sept 28 (13-15) - Nino Cirone

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Time and place: Wednesday September 28, 13-15 in lecture hall B3

Title: "10 things you should know about audiences"

Guest: Nino Cirone, Director, Broadcast Research Ltd

Talk: This talk will comprise of a 10 point guide on the motivations of audiences, triggers and elements that prompt media consumption, as well as some emerging trends in the media world.

About: With over 20 years experience, Nino began his career by conducting qualitative research groups for broadcasters and program makers. In 2000 he and his partners sold the company and moved over to Fremantle Media where he became a Program Strategist. His primary responsibility was to look for existing and emerging audience and program trends, as well as to understand audience behavior in a multimedia, multiplatform environment. Nino started his consultancy 5 years ago, concentrating mainly on his previous work on audience trends and introducing training sessions and workshops for pitching and development.

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Guest Lecture 10 - Sept 23 (8-10) - Kerstin Morast

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Time and place: Friday September 23, 8-10 in lecture hall D3

Title: "Broadcasted radio - towards digitalization?"

Guest: Kerstin Morast, Head of licensing division, The Swedish Broadcasting Authority [Myndigheten för radio och TV]"

Talk: The Swedish Broadcasting Authority shall promote freedom of expression and support the possibilities for diversity and accessibility in radio and television. The authority shall also follow the development in the media field. This presentations gives a brief overview of the regulatory framework. It also summarizes the conclusions from a survey on the future of radio that the authority conducted in 2008. To follow the timeline the authority presented a strategy on digital commercial radio this spring and is now preparing a licensing process.

About: Kerstin is a bureaucrat at the Swedish Radio and TV Authority. She states that there really isn't that much more to say about her.

Literature: Read chapter 3, "Starting points", and chapter 4, "Radio in change" (pages 20-27) in the The Swedish Radio and TV Authority's report "The futue of radio" (2008).

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Guest Lecture 09 - Sept 22 (8-10) - Michael Forsman

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Time and place: Thursday September 22, at 8-10 in lecture hall D3.

Title: "With a local flavor?: On "localness" and competition in Swedish radio of today and of tomorrow"

Guest: Michael Forsman, Ph.D. Media- and communication studies, Södertörn University, Stockholm

Talk: Michael will use his dissertation on inter-medial and intra-medial competition within and around Swedish local radio as a point of departure for an argument around the construction of the 'the local' in contemporary and future radio. In the second half of the seminar, Michael opens up for a discussion about the concept of localness in a non-broadcast, digital web-based radio environment.

Michael's dissertation, "Lokalradion och kommersiell radio 1975-2010. En mediehistorisk studie av produktion och konkurrens" ["Local radio and commercial radio 1975-2010: A media historical study of production and competition"] (Stockholm University 2011) is available online)

About: Since the early 1990's, Michael has done extensive research on youth culture, popular culture, television, radio and media history. He is currently working on a project concerning young people's visual self representations on the net.

Literature: Michael refers to his dissertation (see above) and his book "Lokalradio i konkurrens: Utbud, publik, varumärken" (Ekerlids 2010). Among his other publications, the following can be mentioned:

Forsman, Michael (2000). Från klubbrum till medielabyrint. Ungdomsprogram i svensk radio och tv 1925-1993. Stockholm: Stiftelsen Etermedierna i Sverige

Forsman, Michael & Göran Bolin (2001). Bingolotto. Produktion, text, publik. Mediestudier vid Södertörns högskola, 2002:1

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Guest Lecture 08 - Sept 20 (10-12) - Gunnar Bolin

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This lecture is given in Swedish due to the fact that Gunnar will play many examples from Swedish Radio broadcasts!

Tid och plats: Tisdag 20 September, 10-12, lektionssal V32

Titel: "Att bevaka all världens kultur"

Gäst: Gunnar Bolin, kulturkorrespondent vid Sveriges Radio (SR).

Innehåll: Gunnar Bolin kommer i sitt föredrag att ge exempel på olika sätt att rapportera om kultur, samt utifrån sina erfarenheter som utrikeskorrespondent berätta om hur utrikesmaterialet förhåller sig till Sverige och till det svenska på ett företag som har Nordens största korrespondentnät.

Om: Gunnar Bolin är född 1957 och är utbildad på Dramatiska institutets radiolinje 1984-1986. Gunnar är anställd på Sveriges Radios kulturredaktion sedan 1989 och han har varit verksam där som programledare, kritiker och producent. Gunnar Bolin var SR:s korrespondent i Tyskland 2001-2003 och han har också varit krönikör vid fyra olympiska spel och ett fotbolls-VM. År 2010 fick Gunnar Bolin stora Journalistpriset för "lustfylld kulturjournalistik och imponerande bredd".

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Guest Lecture 07 - Sept 15 (8-10) - Daniel Johansson

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Time and place: Thursday September 15, at 8-10 in lecture hall V2.

Title: "When everyone becomes a radio channel"

Guest: Daniel Johansson, CEO of TrendMaze

Talk: Daniel will present how the shift from analogue to digital technologies for music distribution has influenced radio. In fact, Daniel argues that everything around radio has changed. Is listening to a Spotify playlist recieved from the Sveriges Radio P3 API on Radiofy.se radio or something else? Is a video recording from the studio during a live show at Mix Megapol that is published on YouTube radio or something else? And, how has decentralized distribution technologies changed filtering mechanisms within the radio business and what are the challenges for the future?

About: Daniel Johansson is the CEO of TrendMaze, a music industry firm working with artists like The Ark, Erik Hassle, Agnes, Orup, Eric Gadd, Vincent Pontare and many others. He is editor at www.musikindustrin.se and is also a Ph.D. researcher in computer science.

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Guest Lecture 06 - Sept 13 (10-12) - Roger Wallis

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Time and place: Tuesday September 13, 10-12 in lecture hall L52, BUT, I will try to change to a better lecture hall so please check back!

Title: "The development of radio - past, present and future"

Guest: Roger Wallis, professor emeritus at Media Technology, KTH

Talk: This talk is based on five decades of interacting with radio, both as a consumer and as a producer behind the microphone.

To understand media development one has to focus on three types of factors and their mutual interaction: cultural, technological and financial. The lecture will trace the development of radio focusing on these factors. With examples from personal experiences, the lecture will take us through the development of forms of distribution (AM, FM radio, satellites, cable, Internet), available choice, the changing concept of "public service" etc. This leads into a look into the future. Will Internet radio, where anyone in theory can be his or her own producer, provide the the big guarantee for diversity of output? Or will streamlining tendencies, often couples to concentration of ownership of media companies, lead to all of getting more and more of the same.

About: Roger Wallis has worked in both radio and TV for over 4 decades, both with music and documentary programs as well as with news gathering/presentation. He has written books on the music and news industries. Roger Wallis has been a professor in the Department of Media Technology and Graphic Arts since 1999.

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Guest Lecture 05 - Sept 09 (10-12) - Henrik Olinder (in Swedish)

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This lecture is given in Swedish!

Tid och plats: Fredag 9 September, 10-12, lektionssal M33

Titel: "Kriskommunikation och när radion blir informationsbärare"

Gäst: Henrik Olinder, Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB).

Innehåll: Henrik kommer att prata om kommunikationens betydelse vid kris, om det talade språkets kraft och om vårt behov av symbolhandlingar. Henrik tar även upp det kommunikativa perspektivet före, under och efter en kris och kommer att spela upp några exempel från radio för att visa på detta.

Om: Henrik Olinder jobbar på Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap och har tidigare jobbat vid Styrelsen för psykologiskt försvar samt vid Krisberedskapsmyndigheten. Henrik bedriver utbildningar inom området kriskommunikation sedan tio år tillbaka främst för informatörer. Han är även redaktör för studier och metodhandböcker inom området kriskommunikation samt styrelseledamot i Sveriges informationsförening. Under 2011 kommer han att ge ut boken "Bildens retorik i journalistiken" (Norstedts) tillsammans Brigitte Mral.

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Guest Lecture 03 - Sept 06 (8-10) - Kerstin Brunnberg

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Time and place: Tuesday September 6, 8-10 in lecture hall Q2

Title: "Shift happens still radio prevails!"

Guest: Kerstin Brunnberg, CEO for Swedish Radio (SR) from 2007-2009

Talk: Kerstin will cover a number of topics in her talk, including but not limited to:

- What is radio and how it all started

- A dangerous invention

- Where and how we listen to radio today

- What we know about audiences and content

- Who is king? Content or the distribution platform?

- Digitalization, Internet and digital radio

- Spectrum issues

About: Kerstin is a journalist and she won the Great Journalist Award (Stora Journalistpriset) in 2004. She was Chief Executive Officer for Swedish Radio (SR) from 2007 to 2009 and is currently chair of the board of the Swedish Arts Council (Statens Kulturråd).

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Guest Lecture 04 - Sept 08 (9.00-10) - Charlie Gullström & Ori Merom

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Comment: Beyond guest lectures about different aspects of radio, we also have two lectures that are more oriented towards supporting your projects and working in project groups. This is the first, and the aim is to support you in the design process and in helping you to think about ways of visualizing and making your project ideas "come to life" through concrete "design representations". In this course, project groups in have most typically done this through making a film, but other alternatives are also possible. /Daniel

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Time and place: Thursday September 8, 9.00-10.00 in lecture hall D2. Do note the time - this is a 60-minute lecture!

Title: "On design thinking and sketching as memory etching"

Guest: Charlie Gullström & Ori Merom, KTH School of Archtecture

Talk: Charlie and Ori are both experienced architects and they currently teach a course for 3rd year students and the KTH School of Architecture together. They will reflect on the role that sketching plays in architectural design, both as a language within a design team and as a way to structure one's personal design thinking. Charlie and Ori will use their combined experiences from teaching to discuss the similarities between a design processes that results in buildings and design processes where the results are immaterial artifacts:

"Teaching architecture involves, in our opinion, a pact of trust between teachers and students. The pact is about personal development and involves the challenge of transformation. Students are asked to entertain abstract ideas, turn them into cohesive concepts, and in creative ways translate these concepts into physical entities while at the same time having to consider a large number of variables that both limits and structures these processes."

About: Ori Merom, Architect SAR/MSA, is an award-winning practicing architect who has submitted many successful contributions to architectural competitions all over the world. His "Practice-Based Research Studio" is an established studio at the KTH School of Architecture that annually attracts 20 students and that leads to a Master in Architecture degree.

Charlie Gullström, Ph.D., Architect SAR/MSA, is a Visiting Associate Professor in Architecture, Media, Interaction and Communication at KTH. Her research and practice seeks to go beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries in media, interaction and communication through the fusion of architecture and media technology, enabling mediated presence and dialogic interaction across time and space, i.e. presence design.

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Guest Lecture 02 - Sept 01 (15-17) - Adam Davidson

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Time and place: Thursday September 1, 15-17, lecture hall B1

Title: "The past and the future of public radio in the US"

Guest: Adam Davidson, International business and economics correspondent, radio host and producer on the public radio network NPR.

Talk: Adam will join us from New York by Skype and he will talk about the hunger for smart, long form audio, and the current lack of a successful business model to capitalize on that hunger. The old business model will surely die soon, and radio producers will need to be more creative in pursuing new ways of connecting to, and raising money from their listeners in order to create great radio in the future. Adam will also talk about NPR Planet Money, a radio show/podcast that he co-hosts and that he is the co-founder of.

About: Adam Davidson has a degree from the University of Chicago, has worked in radio for two decades and has won every major award in broadcast journalism. His award-winning radio documentary about the housing crisis, "The giant pool of money", has been named one of the top ten works of journalism of the decade. Adam is the co-founder and co-host of bi-weekly Planet Money podcast. His personal website is www.adamdavidson.com.

Literature: To prepare for the lecture, you should listen to two podcasts and read the text below:

- Planet Money podcast #261 - Economists on federal funding for NPR

Should NPR (public radio) and this radio show receive federal funding in the US? We try to look at the question through the cold, hard lens of economics.

- Planet Money podcast #227 - Lighthouses, autopsies and the federal budget (optional)

What should the government pay for? The basic economist answer is that government should pay for public goods; things that ww all need and that will make our lives better, but that the market will not and cannot provide. The textbook example is a lighthouse, and other examples of public goods include national defense and autopsies. How about radio?

- Chana Joffe- Walt, "The tricks of Planet Money". Chana is a Planet Money reporter and she explains the Planet Money style and the Planet Money approach to making (boring) economy into (interesting) stories. The text is not so much about the business of radio, but more about storytelling and about the craft of making great radio.

Note: You can listen to the podcasts online (use the links above), or you can download them as mp3 files from Bilda.

Disclaimer: Planet Money is my favorite radio show/podcast and I have made a list with some suggestions of great Planet Money radio shows of lately. /Daniel

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Guest Lecture 01 - Sept 01 (8-10) - Nina Wormbs

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Time and place: Thursday September 1, 8-10 in lecture hall D2

Title: "Radio history - cultural importance and technological dependence"

Guest: Nina Wormbs, associate professor at the Division of History of Science and Technology, KTH

Talk: Nina will talk about the social construction of radio in the 1920's, about the allocation of radio frequencies in Europe for broadcasting in Europe, and about the cultural and political importance of radio from its inception and forward.

About: Nina has done extensive research on radio, television, satellites and broadcast technologies. She wrote the book "Radio och TV efter monopolet: En kamp om politik, pengar, publik och teknik" ["Radio and TV after the monopoly: A struggle about politics, money, audience and technology"] together with Lars-Åke Engblom 2007. Nina has a (Swedish-language) blog where she writes about technology, culture and society.

Literature: Nina refers to her latest publication in the area, "Technology-dependent commons: the example of frequency spectrum for broadcasting in Europe in the 1920's". It is published in the International Journal of the Commons, Volume 5, Number 1 (February 2011) and it is available online.

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