The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies has issued a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to “Locative Media and Communities.” According the call, the editors are looking for papers that “explore the potential for locative media applications to support community cohesion and the integration of such media within existing community structures and practices.” [...]
If you’re interested in applying to the digital media PhD program offered by UT Austin in cooperation with a number of Portuguese institutions, we hope that you’re getting your application materials together. The deadline for the application to the UT Austin program is December 11, 2009 to start the classes in the fall of 2010. [...]
Digital Media co-director Sharon Strover will be speaking at an event today sponsored by FLOW, a digital journal produced by Radio-TV-Film graduate students. The event will be a interdisciplinary roundtable discussing how digital media may be transforming the academy. I takes place at 4pm in the Chicano Culture Room at the Texas Union. The full [...]
The FuturePlaces multimedia festival took place in Porto, Portugal last week. Supported by the UT Austin | Portugal Digital Media Program, the festival consisted of a series of workshops, concerts, and panels, as well as a juried art exhibition. The theme of the festival is how digital media intersects with local cultures, but of course [...]
The second International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS Games) will take place in Braga, Portugal in March of next year. The conference currently has a call for papers on serious games and virtual worlds, open until November 1, 2009. For more information, please see the full call at the conference [...]
The UT School of Journalism’s annual Online Journalism Symposium has opened its call for papers to be presented at the 2010 event in Austin. For consideration, researchers must submit a full paper or three-page abstract by December 14, 2009. Submissions will be blind reviewed by a panel of scholars.
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Dr. Derek Lackaff recently joined the project as a Postdoctoral Fellow in RTF at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his doctorate in Communication at SUNY-Buffalo, where his work focused on social media, social network analysis and methodologies, and the social psychology of communication technology use. He is interested in crossdisciplinary approaches to [...]
The International School on Digital Transformation wrapped up a few weeks ago in Porto, and by all accounts it was a great success. The program featured five days of discussion among 50 students and professionals and presentations by 30 academics and practitioners. Students came from places as far as East Timor and as near by [...]
The International Digital Media and Art Association has a call open for papers for its annual meeting this year. Abstracts are due September 1, 2009 for the conference that will be held in Muncie, Indiana November 5-7. You can view the full call at the IDMAA site.
UT Austin is hosting the Global Fusion conference this October. The theme of the conference is “New Directions in Global Media and International Communication.” The Digital Media Program encourages communication and media studies scholars to submit papers or proposals to globalfusion2009@gmail.com by the July 1 deadline. The conference will take place October 16-18, 2009.
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