A general overview of UT-Portugal CoLab Advanced Digital Media programs, also listing future areas of focus and goals. Presented by Sharon Strover in Lisbon in January 2010.

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

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

3. 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

4. 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?

5. Digital Media Content 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

8. Digital Media Content Creating doctoral & MA programs (e.g. Computing and Sound MA degree) Summer Institute courses, e.g. Writing for New Media, Interactive Documentary, Animation and Effects Intensive workshops (Future Places festival)

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

10. Digital Media Content Creating doctoral & MA programs (e.g. Computing and Sound MA degree) Summer Institute courses, e.g. Writing for New Media, Interactive Documentary, Animation and Effects Intensive workshops (Future Places festival) UT-Portugal/ZON Intensive Script Development Laboratory

11. 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

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

13. Digital Media Content Creating doctoral & MA programs (e.g. Computing and Sound MA degree) – 33 doctoral students Summer Institute courses, e.g. Writing for New Media, Interactive Documentary, Animation and Effects Intensive workshops (Future Places festival) UT-Portugal/ZON Intensive Script Development Laboratory Long semester courses in new media theory, interactivity, others

14. 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

15. 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

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

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

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

21. 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

22. Future Places 2009 1st Place Prize Winner

23. 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

24. 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.

25. 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

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