Towards a Ubiquitous Media Environment - Adding the e-newspaper Channel

As most of today's media houses publish in multiple channels, they also exist in a multitude of infrastructures. Given the ongoing diffusion of personal computers, handheld devices, and mobile telephones as well as the advent of new technologies such as the e-paper, a new type of ubiquitous information environment is emerging. In this paper we give an update on the development of e-paper technology and provide a literature review of infrastructure issues in ubiquitous information environments. From empirical results from 19 interviews and 9 workshops with newspaper managers and designers in Sweden, Belgium, France and the Netherlands, we address the following research question: What infrastructure considerations arise with the introduction of a new channel in a ubiquitous media environment?