The Vodafone Symphonia- A Symphony of Phones, Via Henry Jenkins, author of "The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture"

I learned about the Vodafone Symphonia video through Henry Jenkins. If you haven't heard of him by now, and you've found your way to this post, you should!


Henry Jenkins co-founded the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, and now is the Provost's Professor of Communications, Journalism, and Cinematic Art at the University of Southern California.


Be sure to read Henry's recent blog post, Strange Overtures: Vodafone, Tchaikovsky, Ernie Kovacs and the "Wowness" of New Media, focuses on how joyful it is to receive a delightful gifts, such as the VodaFone video,  and how this sent to him by a former student. In this post, he relates this experience to some of his thoughts from his recent book, The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture.


I came across the link to the video through Facebook, since Henry decided to circulate the video. (I'm really Henry Jenkin's FAN.)


FYI: Today, 11/6/09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Henry is participating in a free webinar, "Moving from "Sticky" to Spreadable": The Antidote to "Viral Marketing" and the Broadcast Mentality". 


VodaFone Symphonia



The Making of the Vodafone Symphonia


The Making of the Vodafone Symphonia Part II


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Vodafone's Symphonia Website
(You can download the full track of the Symphonia and the 53 ringtones)

Interesting link to an NYU course's journal: Representation & Interaction Design

If you are searching for great information about multimedia interaction design, the Representation and Interaction Design Journal is a great resource. It was developed for students taking a course of the same name at NYU.

Posted topics include multimedia theories about information design, definitions, defining interactivity, information design and emotions, informaton design: language and semiotics, cognition/theoretical framework, media specific interaction design, and more.

Some of the "names" include Schneiderman & Plaisant, Betrancourt, Dan Saffer, and Shedroff.

If you are interested in these topics, I've listed a few books and on-line resources that might be helpful:

The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (2005), Richard E. Mayer, Ed.
Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices (2006), Dan Saffer
Digital Multimedia Perception and Design (2006), Sherry Y. Chen & Gheorghita Ghinea
Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age (online)
Edutopia (online)
Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (online)
Book Randall Parker & Ken Jordan