23/02/10

NET vs TV

Internet adelanta a la televisión como medio preferido por los usuarios españoles (El Pais, 23/02/2010): Dedicamos 5,5 horas semanales a navegar desde teléfonos móviles y ordenadores portátiles, según un estudio de la EIAA. Internet empieza a ganar la batalla a la televisión. Los españoles pasan una media de 13,3 horas a la semana buceando en la red frente a las 13 que dedican como media a ver la tele. Así lo revela el estudio realizado por la Asociación Europea de Publicidad Interactiva.

Facebook games

The Facebook games that millions love (and hate). Doug Gross, CNN, February 23.

17/02/10

16/02/10

António Câmara na FCSH

1ª Conferência das Lectures on Digital Media:

António Câmara, «Rosa Púrpura do Cairo ao Contrário» (sobre Realidade Aumentada)

24 de Fevereiro, 18h, Auditório II da FCSH



As Lectures são um ciclo de conferências a desenvolver ao longo do curso de doutoramento em Digital Media (do programa UTAustin/Portugal), que se pretende que tenha periodicidade mensal, ciclo estruturado a partir de um conjunto de problemáticas avançadas, específicas, portantro, do curso de doutoramento de Digital Media.

É nosso objectivo, através deste ciclo, aprofundar com os especialistas convidados um ou outro tema do curso, contribuindo assim para contextualizar e/ou actualizar o estado da arte ou um ponto de vista específico de uma determinada temática desta área, por forma a consolidar saberes ou abrir novas perspectivas aos estudantes do curso. Em todo o caso as conferências são abertas, em particular aos estudantes de doutoramento e mestrado do Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação.

Estão (e serão) convidados especialistas nacionais e estrangeiros nas diferentes áreas de Digital Media, sendo que a conferência inaugural do ciclo será proferida pelo Prof. António Câmara, dia 24 de Fevereiro às 18h no Auditório II da FCSH, e versará o tema da Realidade Aumentada - «Rosa Púrpura do Cairo ao Contrário».

Os próximos conferencistas estão já agendados para Abril e Maio. A 22 de Abril a FCSH receberá Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, Univ. of London) que desenvolverá o tema «New media, journalism and democracy», conferência que conta com o apoio do CIMJ - Centro de Investigação de Media e Jornalismo (FCSH). A 14 de Maio o conferencista será Daniel Rodowick (Harvard University), que tratará o tema «Digital Cinema», neste caso com o apoio do IFL - Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem (FCSH).

21/01/10

Sellaband

SellaBand is based in Amsterdam, the creative capital of Europe. Since its launch in August 2006, SellaBand has coordinated recording sessions for 37 artists or acts who had their albums funded by their fans. Over $3,000,000 has been invested in independent bands via www.sellaband.com.

Slicethepie

Slicethepie is a financing platform for the music industry that enables new and established Artists to raise money directly from Music Fans and Investors.

Participatory Journalism

Brian McNair, Journalism in the 21st century — evolution, not extinction, Journalism, Jun 2009; vol. 10: pp. 347 - 349.

Chris Atton, Why alternative journalism matters, Journalism 2009; 10; 283

Deborah Soun Chung, Profits and Perils: Online News Producers’ Perceptions of Interactivity and Uses of Interactive Features, Convergence, Feb 2007; vol. 13: pp. 43 - 61.

Einar Thorsen, Journalistic objectivity redefined? Wikinews and the neutral point of view, New Media Society 2008; 10; 935

Helena Sousa, Information Technologies, Social Change and the Future: The Case of Online Journalism in Portugal, European Journal of Communication, Sep 2006; vol. 21: pp. 373 - 387.

Luke Goode, Social news, citizen journalism and democracy, New Media & Society, Dec 2009; vol. 11: pp. 1287 - 1305.

Mark Deuze, Ethnic media, community media and participatory culture, Journalism, Aug 2006; vol. 7: pp. 262 - 280.

Mark Deuze, What is journalism?: Professional identity and ideology of journalists reconsidered, Journalism, Nov 2005; vol. 6: pp. 442 - 464.

Mark Deuze and Timothy Marjoribanks, Newswork, Journalism 2009; 10; 555

Neil Thurman, Forums for citizen journalists? Adoption of user generated content initiatives by online news media, New Media & Society, Feb 2008; vol. 10: pp. 139 - 157.

S. Elizabeth Bird, The future of journalism in the digital environment, Journalism, Jun 2009; vol. 10: pp. 293 - 295.

Wilson Lowrey, Mapping the journalism–blogging relationship, Journalism 2006; 7; 477

19/01/10

Digital Media and Learning Competition

Participatory Learning
HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation are excited to launch the third year of the Digital Media and Learning Competition. Today, young people are learning, socializing, and participating in civic life in dramatic new ways and assessing information in ways never before imagined. They are reimagining learning on a daily basis and are engaged in what is called "participatory learning." The 2010 Digital Media and Learning Competition challenges designers, entrepreneurs, practitioners, researchers, and young people to put participatory learning to work on behalf of science, technology, engineering, math and their social contexts in the 21st century.


The online application system will open January 15, so now's the time to develop your ideas and pull your information together. Click here to see what you will need to include in your application. 2008 Competition Winners

Digital Exclusion in the Information Society

Exclusão Digital na Sociedade de Informação / Digital Exclusion in the Information Society (Lisboa, FMH, 29 e 30 de Janeiro de 2010)

17/12/09

Gov 2.0

Open Government (Gary Chapman)

History of Participatory Media. Politics and Publics, 1750-2000

Edited by Anders Ekström, Solveig Jülich, Frans Lundgren, Per Wisselgren
Routledge, 2010

This book argues for a historical perspective on issues relating to the notion of participatory media. Working from a broad concept of media – including essays on the 19th century press, early sound media, photography, exhibitions, television and the internet – the book offers a broad empirical approach to different modes of audience participation from the mid 19th century to the present. Using the insights from the historical case studies, the book also explores some of the key concepts in discussions on the politics of participation, arguing for a theoretical perspective sensitive to the asymmetries that characterize the distribution of agency in the relationship between media and users.

Scholarly discussions on participatory media now occur in several fields. This book argues that all of these discussions are all too often obscured by a rhetoric of newness, assuming that participatory media is something unique in history, radical and revolutionary. By challenging the historiography implicit in this rhetoric, the book also engages in a discussion of issues of more general relevance to the multidisciplinary field of media history.

Table of Contents
Introduction:
Participatory Media in Historical Perspective Eckström, Jülich, Lundgren, and Wisselgren
1. From Enlightened Participation to Liberal Professionalism: On the Historiography of the Press as a Resourse for Legitimacy Lundell
2. The Politics of Participation: Francis Galton’s Anthropometric Laboratory and the Formation of Civic Selves Lundgren
3. Creating Audiences, Making Participants: The Cylinder Phonograph in Ethnographic Fieldwork Boström
4. Knowing Media, Knowing Audiences: Performing Publics at the Early 20th Century Fun-Fair Ekström
5. The Interactivity of the Model Home Sandberg
6. Touring the Congo: The Roles of Mobility and Materiality in Missionary Media Gustafsson Reinius
7. Say Milk, Say Cheese! Inscribing Participation in the Milk Propaganda’s Photography Habel
8. Daniel Ellsberg and the Lost Idea of the Photocopy Gitelman
9. Remixing the Public Fetus: Lennart Nilsson’s Medical Imagery and Participatory Culture Jülich
10. Expedition Robinson, Participatory Media, and the History of the Social Experiment Wisselgren
11. Two Museum Websites: Socio-Technical Arrangements for Engagement with the Past Axelsson