We’re getting ready to inaugurate a new, month-long program of several workshops with the New University of Lisbon. Several UT faculty members are gearing up to teach a variety of film, journalism and TV-related classes including screenwriting; digital documentary; online journalism; music for film, video and games; digital Hollywood; and advanced graphics rendering and […]
Mark Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Howard Shelanski of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology will be featured speakers at an event next Monday at the LBJ Library at UT.
The next President’s policy team will have the opportunity to shape a significant debate on the future development of what is clearly […]
There is a petition to convince director Uwe Boll to stop making movies. Boll has apparently said if the petition gets a million signatures, he’ll quit [story]. Now, the director has proven a bit quirky — challenging film critics to boxing matches, which Boll won, and featured in Postal — but, there is something of […]
If you happen to be around Harvard in mid-May, you might want to swing by and check out the Berkman@10 Future of the Internet Conference. The event, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, runs May 15-16, and features many of the folks affiliated with the center as well an […]
BoingBoingTV presents the above short piece about the movie Second Skin, which premiered at SXSW. The film explores the impact of massively multiplayer online games on the people who play — including one self-identified gaming addict.
The documentary looks like it may be covering some of the same territory explored in Julian Dibbell’s My Tiny Life […]
Starting April 24 and running weekly through June 12th, the Austin chapter of the Rice Alliance is offering a workshop on how to start and grow a digital media company. It will be Thursday afternoons from 4:00 to 6:00 PM and there is a fee. The Austin Technology Incubator is a sponsor.
Details are […]
According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well — sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news to come to them. In essence, they […]
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Citizen Journalism on Trial
It might behoove the ACLU, or some organization devoted to civil liberties, to devote some resources to figuring out how to defend speech that is inconvenient to plaintiffs lawyers.
Sandy Szwarc of the excellent blog Junkfood Science has a lengthy and interesting post about a subpoena delivered to the author of Neurodiversity, a website (and blog) […]