Van Veen and Jacobs Foundation Surf have done literature research(6000pages) on the way how youngsters learn in the new media age. They are typing the web-generation and describe the ‘new literacies’. For the new web generation the internet is like oxygen, they cannot imagine living without it(Oblinger and Oblinger 2005).

Emile Aarts spoke at PicNic Crossmedia week and today at the Philips High Tech Campus. The Mission of Philips is to improve the quality of people’s life through meaningful technological applications.Philips focuses on Healthcare, Lifestyle and Technological innovation.

As a former trainee at the European Centre for the Experience Economy, I graduated last week in Barcelona for my Innovative Hospitality Management Masters.

In case you did not visit the Picnic’06 Cross Media Week in Amsterdam last week, the keynote speeches are now available online: http://www.crossmediaweek.org/.
The theme of the conference was cross media, which is all about the integration of offline and online content. According to Joseph Jaffe, author of The 30 Second Spot, as well as many [...]

Our editor Pearson publishers notified us that our book “A new perspective on the Experience Economy is on the short list of the Marketing Literature Award of PIM. The award is organised in cooperation with Free University of Amsterdam. The 28th of november is the price giving ceremony.

NRC next reports on research of Stef Aupers on the motives of gaming. “The most important motive in the gaming world is the more immediate satisfaction then in the real world.” Aupers finds four differentiating motives;1. the speed of satisfaction for reward and status, 2. magic elements, 3.the social structure(community feeling),4. the opportunity to make money. More about his research,read below and in dutch nrc next of today and http://www.eur.nl/fsw/staff/homepages/aupers