New Media and Cultures
Christopher Robbins

Christopher Robbins studied links between design and societal change in Japan (1994-1995), and created cross-cultural instructional materials as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa (1995-1997). In New York and London (1998-2002), he developed web-based software and sites for corporate clients including REUTERS and the Union Bank of Switzerland, and then moved to Fiji to focus on educational technology at the Media Centre of the University of the South Pacific (2002-2005).

He explored physical interfaces to digital media, and devised cross-cultural collaborations at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the USA (2005-2007), and then worked as a cross-cultural consultant in former Yugoslavia (2007-2009). He currently runs a cross-border strategy consultancy with his wife, Shelly Ross.

New Media and Cultures - Publications

Beyond Preservation: New Directions for Technological Innovation through Intangible Cultural Heritage. In IJEDICT, the International Journal of Education and Development using ICT, Volume 6, Issue 2.

Techniques for multi-ethnic community collaborations: Working Across Cultures. U.S. State Department Speaker's Program. US Embassy Belgrade, Serbia.

Cultural Identity in cross-cultural distance learning. INFOMEDIA. Sombor, Serbia.

Other peoples' flowers: some personal reflections on researching as an outsider. Indigenous Encounters: reflections on relations between people in the Pacific, Center for Pacific Islands Studies Occasional Paper Series, University of Hawaii, No. 43.

Crossing Conventions in Web-Based Art: Deconstruction as a Narrative Device. Leonardo, Vol. 40, Issue 2. Cambridge: MIT press.

Providing cultural context with educational multimedia in the South Pacific. Educational Technology & Society, 2006.

An idea-book for producing educational multimedia in the South Pacific. ICT Capacity Building at USP Project, The University of the South Pacific, 2004.

Harnessing power users' skills to create culturally-relevant educational technology in the South Pacific. EDC UN Conference, 2004.

Educational multimedia for the South Pacific. ICT Capacity Building at USP Project, The University of the South Pacific, 2004.

The role of division of labor in an in-situ multimedia-training project: a South Pacific case study. ED-MEDIA, 2003.