24/02/11

Postdoc position in Participatory Digital Media

The Faculty of Humanities at Ume University is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to be placed at the Department of Culture and Media Studies. The researcher will conduct studies relating to the continuities between participatory culture and civic engagement. As such, qualified candidates should be aware of current research trends in digital culture, new media, online activism, web and citizen journalism, and fan studies, and should be ready to apply that knowledge to case study research.

16/02/11

04/02/11

Trans [call for papers]

TRANS- Transcultural Music Review 16 (2012) will publish a special dossier on the new forms of music in audiovisual media. The dossier will be prepared in collaboration with the research group “Música y medios audiovisuales” from the Society for Ethnomusicology-SIBE/IASPM-Spain and will be edited by Teresa Fraile, Eduardo Viñuela, and María Edurne Zuazu. TRANS 16 (2012) Dossiê Novas formas da música na mídia audiovisual - CHAMADA DE ARTIGOS.

Voice to the voiceless

Peter Gabriel talks about Witness, his
organization that helps people document
human rights violations on video.

25/01/11

MEDIACTIVE (Dan Gillmor)









Dan Gillmor: I’m happy to say that Mediactive, the book, is now available in print (Amazon and Lulu) and in a Kindle edition. And because this project lives under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. I’ve also published it in full and in addition, you can download it here as a PDF. This is only the beginning. I’m working on an epub edition to use with other online services, and will be creating a variety of e-book editions that include other kinds of media. Beyond that, I intend Mediactive to be an ongoing, iterative process — with updates here on the website and, eventually new versions of the book itself. Lots of people have helped me get this far on the journey. I thank you all, and look forward to the next steps.

Web Aesthetics (Vito Campanelli)




















Digital Media Europe 2011

With Digital Media Europe, the WAN-IFRA conferences on digital topics will be taken to a new level. Beyond 2011 - the World Digital Publishing Conference and Mobile Media Day will merge into a new event format.

21/01/11

Lectures on Digital Media (FCSH-UNL)

Conferência do Prof. António Câmara (Ydreams/FCT-UNL):

«Computação Invisível»

A noção de computação invisível foi proposta por Donald Norman nos anos 90. Norman propunha ambientes em que não fosse evidente a presença de computadores e seus dispositivos de interacção como o teclado e o rato. Neste início de década vêm surgindo propostas de computação invisível que seguem princípios de interactividade similares mas que se distinguem pela computação química. Essas propostas e potenciais aplicações são apresentadas neste seminário.

Auditório 1 - FCSH-UNL (Av. de Berna 26-C)

Quarta-feira, 16 de Fevereiro, às 18h

Organização: Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação FCSH-UNL (Doutoramento Digital Media UT Austin/Portugal e Mestrado de Novos Media e Práticas Web)

17/01/11

Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk

OECD/IFP Project on “Future Global Shocks” - “Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk”
Peter Sommer, Information Systems and Innovation Group, London School of Economics, and
Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University.