25/02/13

Adapting Public Service to the Multiplatform Scenario

Adapting Public Service to the Multiplatform Scenario: Challenges, Opportunities and Risks. The Final Report of the Project Redefining and Repositioning Public Service Broadcasting in the Digital and Multiplatform Scenario: Agents and Strategies (2012), written by Roberto Suárez Candel, has been published in the series "Working Papers of the Hans Bredow Institute" (Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Instituts) and can be downloaded as pdf-file (2.2 MB).

05/02/13

Coming and Going on Facebook

Coming and Going on Facebook by Lee Rainie, Aaron Smith, Maeve Duggan (Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project): Two-thirds of online American adults (67%) are Facebook users, making Facebook the dominant social networking site in this country. And new findings from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project indicate there is considerable fluidity in the Facebook user population.

Santander e Nova premeiam excelência no jornalismo económico

O Santander Totta e a Universidade Nova de Lisboa apresentam a 7ª edição do PJE (Prémio de Jornalismo Económico). O objetivo é premiar a excelência de trabalhos jornalísticos publicados em Portugal nas áreas de Gestão de Empresa e Negócios, Mercados Financeiros e Sustentabilidade Empresarial. O grande prémio, no valor de 15 mil euros, será entregue ao melhor trabalho concorrente às três áreas. Os autores dos melhores artigos de cada área receberão ainda 7.500 euros. O prémio é aberto a todos os jornalistas com trabalhos publicados em 2012, que se podem candidatar até 20 de março. Mais info: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/media/noticias/destaques/premio-de-jornalismo-economico-1

02/02/13

How Epagogix shape our world

Advanced Artificial Intelligence in combination with proprietary expert process enables Epagogix to provide studios, independent producers and investors with early analysis and forecasts of the Box Office potential of a script. Clients then make evidenced decisions about whether or not to spend their scarce capital, adjust budgets, or to increase the Box Office value of the property. After script analysis, Epagogix can help the client to significantly enhance Box Office potential.

Digital Memory and the Archive

The volume of Wolfgang Ernst writings Digital Memory and the Archive is out! (...) Ernst is one of the significant names in the German media studies landscape, and represents one of the directions where theory is going in the post-Friedrich Kittler world (see Geoffrey Winthrop-Young: Kittler and the Media, Polity Press, 2011)

30/01/13

Mobile Media

Welcome to Mobile Media & Communication - January 2013 1 (1)

Multimodal Communication: Language, Performance and Digital Media

The Conference is organized in the framework of TKB research project conclusion (http://tkb.fcsh.unl.pt) and aims to: present the results and software tools developed during the TKB project; provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines and artists interested in the documentation of Performing Arts (with a focus on contemporary theatrical dance and Performance), as well as in issues of multimodality in human communication and in human-computer interaction, particularly regarding video annotation tools and collaborative platforms for cultural heritage. It is organized by the FCSH and the FCT of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Deadline for abstract submission (400 to 700 words limit): 15 February 2013. More info: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/eventos/multimodal-communication-language-performance-and-digital-media

16/01/13

Aereo

Aereo, la start-up qui défie les géants du câble et de la télévision. L'entreprise new yorkaise diffuse la télévision sur Internet à un prix très inférieur aux acteurs du câble.

Digital Media Doctoral Scholarships

- Aberto o Concurso 2013 para atribuição de Bolsas de Doutoramento no âmbito do Programa UT Austin|Portugal, nas áreas de: Digital Media e Computação Avançada. Data limite para candidaturas: 28 de Fevereiro de 2013. http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/concursos/utaustin_doutoramento2013.phtml.pt 2013

- Call for Doctoral Scholarships for the UT Austin|Portugal Program in the following research fields: Digital Media, Advanced Computing. Application's deadline: 28th February 2013. http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/concursos/utaustin_doutoramento2013.phtml.en

- Edital: http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/concursos/docs/UTAustin_EditalBolsas2013PT.pdf Link para proceder à candidatura: https://concursos.fct.mctes.pt/bolsas/

05/12/12

Locative/Interactive documentary

Bilandzic, Mark & Foth, Marcus (2012) A review of locative media, mobile and embodied spatial interaction. International Journal of HumanComputer Studies, 70(1), pp. 66-71.
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/45965/2/ReviewPaper_IJHCS_v10mb_final.pdf

Gaudenzi, S. (2012) The Living Documentary: from representing reality to co-creating reality in digital interactive documentary. http://www.interactivedocumentary.net/wp-content/2012/07/SG_PhD-Introduction.pdf

Gaudenzi, S. (2009) Chapter 5 [online]. The Hypertext interactive documentary through the lenses of the Live documentary. http://www.interactivedocumentary.net/wp-content/2009/02/Ch-5_hypertext_web-draft.pdf

Gifreu, Arnau (2011). "The interactive multimedia documentary as a discourse on interactive non-fiction: for a proposal of the definition and categorisation of the emerging genre". [on line]. Hipertext.net, 9, 2011. http://www.upf.edu/hipertextnet/en/numero-9/interactive-multimedia.html

Gordon, Eric and Souza e Silva, Adriana (2011) Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.

Sanchez-Laws, Ana Luisa (2010) Digital storytelling as an emerging documentary form. Seminar.net - International journal of media, technology and lifelong learning. Vol. 6 – Issue 3 – 2010. pp. 359-366. http://seminar.net/images/stories/vol6-issue3/Sanchez-Laws_Digitalstorytellingasanemergingdocumentaryform.pdf