UT-Portugal Advanced Digital Media Program Overview

UT Portugal Collaboration 2010Advanced Digital Media
Where we’re going,
where we’ve been

The Mediated World
mobility
The new cultural literacy
CONVERGENCE
Technology Innovation
Declining revenues in newspapers, television
Media restructuring
Social media
Ubiquity
Semantic web

Strategic Areas of the Collaboration
Digital Media Content Creation
Evolving Media Industries
Interactivity: New Horizons for Technology, Software, Interface
New Research Approaches
Creating a Climate for Creativity in Digital Media in Portugal

Digital Media Content
Examining opportunities to restructure media content (video, radio, audio, web-based)
Stories are stories, but the way we tell them changes….
Are new genres available in a post web 2.0 world?
How do participatory media alter storytelling?

Creating new Doctoral & MA programs (e.g. Computing and Sound MA degree)
Summer Institute courses, e.g. Writing for New Media, Interactive Documentary, Animation and Effects

Creating doctoral & MA programs (e.g. Computing and Sound MA degree)
Intensive workshops (Future Places festival)

Future Places Workshops Examples
Arduino taught by Tinkerit! in 2008
Golan Levin Workshop
2009
Valentina Nisi, Locative media 2009

Creating doctoral & MA programs (e.g. Computing and Sound MA degree)
UT-Portugal/ZON Intensive Script Development Laboratory

UT-Portugal/ZON Laboratory
ZON, UT-Austin, Portuguese universities
Graduate, post-graduate and newly graduate students
Objectives: develop script writing, direction and producing skills; write script for 10-minute narrative
10-14 students at UT-Austin June-July 2010
Portugal productions August-September 2010

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS
Universidade de Aveiro
Universidadeda Beira Interior
UniversidadeCatólica Portuguesa (Porto)
UniversidadeLusófona (Lisboa)
Universidade do Minho
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Universidade do Porto

Creating doctoral & MA programs (e.g. Computing and Sound MA degree) – 33 doctoral students
UT-Portugal/ZON Intensive Script Development Laboratory
Long semester courses in new media theory, interactivity, others

Media Industry Organization, Challenges
Web content is both threat and opportunity
Advertising support for traditional industries falling
Viewers/readers turning away from conventional media
New ethos around making media & social media

Media Industry Organization, Challenges
FCT Research call, December 2009
Exploratory Projects
Strategic Projects (journalism, digital TV)
Blend computing and digital media
Industry-oriented courses, opportunities
Online Journalism course; New Hollywood course
International Online Journalism Symposium
Interactive Advertising (summer 2010)
Internships

Interactivity
Interactivity course, spring 2011
Kinetic Controllers research (Guedes, Pennycook, others)
Intensive exploratory forum: ISDT

International School for Digital Transformation
A residential school bringing participants together to explore digital tools for improving civil society

Research Approaches
Research methods and approaches course, 2010
Social media research class, 2009
ISDT: Project focus in summer 2010
Example: Free Culture Portugal project

Climate for Creativity
How do we cultivate creativity in digital media?
Hardware and software dimensions
Social dimensions: social capital
Beyond participation
Creative Cities Conference: how does place interact with creativity & creative industries? What government policy is effective?
Future Places Festival
Public events – Digital cinema @ Cinemateca Portuguesa

Future Places 2009 1st Place Prize Winner

Expanding and Recentering
Created a strong doctoral program across campuses, with 100+ applicants
Building social capital: networks of researchers, business, scholars
Collaborate with CMU program, with c.s. initiatives
Mediaground: physical spaces for doctoral students
Exploratory and Strategic research projects
Post docs, internships, exchanges
Additional universities

Radio-Television Film DepartmentChair: Sharon Strover
Large undergrad program (950 students)
160 grad students in Ph.D., M.A., and MFA programs; highly selective admissions in Ph.D. and MFA
About 28 faculty members plus 10-15 lecturers
Strong links to
Area Studies centers
Music, Theatre & Dance
Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
School of Information and
LBJ School of Public Affairs
Interdisciplinary programs e.g., Bridging Disciplines Programs, Michener Center for Writers, etc.

Radio-TV-Film Department:
http://rtf.utexas.edu/
Collaborating departments:School of Information
Journalism Department
Advertising Department
Computer Science
Mathematics
LBJ School of Public Affairs

Other Program Materials
Digital Media Blog:
http://colab.ic2.utexas.edu/dm/
Program Website:
http://utaustinportugal.org/

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