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Van ARG tot Widget-TV. Afstudeeronderzoeken bij het CrossmediaLab. LabRats #1

Met bijdragen van Matthijs Rotte, Niniane Veldhoen, Kevin Oudshoorn, Tom Jansen, Wiel van Horck, Bram Koopman, Joshua Hazelaar. Bevat samenvattingen van de eerste afstudeeropdrachten (2009) van het lectoraat Crossmedia.

The digitisation of tourism enterprises

I, (for one), welcome our new (Google) overlords

When Google sold 3D geo-modeling software Sketch-up, a dedicated community of Google Earth developers were left behind. Is this a case of digital labor and exploitation or just an agreement based on mutual consent that ended, like relationships so often do?

Defining management competencies anno 2025: A Business-University collaboration

This paper presents the results of a business – university collaborative research project on defining lower management competencies in the year 2025. The purpose of the research was to help a large local airport to define and understand what competencies lower management will need in order to function effectively in the renewed organization portrayed in an internal strategic document called “Chief Plan 2025”. At the same time the research was needed as input for developing new business curricula. Field research was done by a team of five researchers using focus groups and interviews with 43 employees from 15 different business units. Three general types of critical competencies emerged from the data; professional, interpersonal and personal. Management implications are that the airport will need to adapt its HRM policies. New business curricula will need to help graduates to work in roles, rather than functions. Limitations are linked to the generalizability of the results and the fact that the research was organization-centric, meaning broad societal changes that might affect individuals’ attitudes and in turn their attitude towards work were not considered.

Blogging on newspaper web sites

What is the impact of blogging, either by journalists or readers, on journalism? Do entries on readers' blogs lead to stories for professional journalists and how is the work of a blogging journalist influenced by the fact that he or she nowadays has a second publication platform and is more in contact with readers through the blog? We conducted content analyses of blogs and interviewed professional and amateur bloggers with blogs on Dutch national and local newspaper websites as well as editors who are responsible for the blogs on the websites. Newspapers employ different strategies when it comes to allowing either journalists or readers to blog on their newspaper websites. Local papers seem to profit most when it comes to getting story leads, or even scoops, from readers' blogs. Blogs on national newspapers' websites function more as personal diaries for the bloggers. The blogs by journalists and invited experts seem to flourish more on national papers' websites. There is also a difference in the 'directions' that bloggers get. With a stricter policy, mostly meaning that off-topic entries are discouraged, readers' blogs are more focused and are more valuable for journalists looking for news.

Het Vechtdal

Belevingen maken een landschap interessant om vrije tijd in te besteden. Een vrijetijdslandschap is een gebied waar ontspanning, vermaak en belevenissen een centrale rol in nemen. Maar is elk gebied een potentieel vrijetijdslandschap? En hoe ontstaat zo’n gebied? Gebeurd dit autonoom of zitten er partijen achter de knoppen? Dit essay gaat in op deze aspecten en richt zich specifiek op het Vechtdal en de rol van het programmabureau Ruimte voor de Vecht. Leidend voor de structuur van dit essay zijn de volgende onderzoeksvragen: • Wat zijn vrijetijdslandschappen en hoe komen deze tot ontwikkeling? • Met welke maatregelen zijn de ontwikkeling van vrijetijdslandschappen te ondersteunen? • Hoe zijn de ideeën van een vrijetijdslandschap toe te passen op het Vechtdal? • Welke rollen en acties zijn weggelegd voor het programmabureau Ruimte voor de Vecht om de transitie naar een vrijetijdslandschap te ondersteunen? volgende onderzoeksvragen.