Author Archives: mcchris

Event Today: Hacking the Ivory Tower

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 [...]

Future Places Recap

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 [...]

VS Games Conference

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 [...]

Online Journalism Symposium Call for Papers

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.
For more information, please visit the [...]

New Team Member: Derek Lackaff

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 [...]

International School on Digital Transformation a Great Success!

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 [...]

CFP: International Digital Media and Art Association Conference

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.

Global Fusion

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.
The full [...]

SXSW Now Accepting Panel Proposals

The South by Southwest festival and conference is now accepting panel proposals through its online panel picker system through July 10. Potential presenters can submit proposals for panels for each of the three conferences, Interactive, Film, and Music. The Digital Media program has hosted presenters at SXSW for the past two years, and we encourage [...]

ISIMD Invites Proposals

The seventh annual International Symposium on Interactive Media Design invites proposals for the event hosted by Yeditepe University in Istanbul from October 13 to 15 2009. Proposals for papers, workshops, and art must be submitted in English and are due by September 14, 2009.
The full text of the call is below the fold, and you [...]