Monthly Archives: March 2008

Future Places – the Digital Media Festival 2008 is underway!

Source: Edificio Douro’s blog
After the success of the Digital Media Festival in 2007, the UT-Portugal partnership is organizing a new edition. For 2008 the title will be “Future Places”.
With Future Places the partnership wants to reach a generation of creators who are breaking conventions. The call for entries is addresses to those who are blurring [...]

Gary Chapman visit to Lisbon

Above is a video from Gary Chapman’s visit to Lisbon, where he spoke about public policy and internet applications. In the interview, he notes that he doesn’t believe we’ll be voting via internet, but this doesn’t mean that there aren’t a number of possibilities for E-Government, which has been a major push in both the [...]

Fernando Zamith to present at the International Symposium on Online Journalism on April 4-5

Fernando Zamith (University of Porto, Lusa, and student of the very new PhD under the UT-Portugal partnership) will be presenting a paper in the International Symposium on Online Journalism. It’s coming up: April 4-5!!
Fernando’s presentation – A Methodological Proposal to Analyze the News Websites Use of the Potentialities of The Internet – will be part [...]

Rosental Alves on Online Journalism

Rosental Alves, professor at the School of Journalism at the College of Communication and lead faculty in the area of online journalism – not only at UT but arguably in the world – was in Portugal in February to speak for journalists and scholars in Lisbon and Porto in the context of the UT-Portugal partnership.
Rosental [...]

“Action in the Box” – Screenings of AdA video festival

Television spot on the exhibition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRFPYjzQJyk
March 26 – April 12, 2008 | Gallery Plano B, Rua Cândido dos Reis | Porto, Portugal
This post mostly in Portuguese…

Citação do site oficial: “A Exposição ACTION IN THE BOX, redescobre a relação entre acção e a sua documentação apresentando vídeos de participantes do AdA festival em acção.[...]
ACTION IN THE [...]

Digital media events in Portugal and Austin

On the heels of SXSW Interactive 2008, it’s time to look ahead to other events coming up in Portugal and Austin.
Ana already mentioned Offf 2008, the “International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture” which is moving from its usual Barcelona location to Lisbon May 8-10.
Other major digital media events scheduled in Portugal:
Indie Lisboa, the 5th [...]