Professor Craig Watkins’ new book on social media explores the digital world that children and youth inhabit. Using a mix of research methods, Dr. Watkins offers a nuanced picture of “digital natives.” The Chronicle of Higher Education recently interviewed Watkins on his research.
We have had a very busy summer so far. The Summer Institute once again conducted classes in Lisbon and Porto for enrolled graduate students, individuals associated with our industrial affiliates, or interested individuals meeting the course qualifications. We offered two-week, intensive courses in the areas of Online Journalism (Rosental Alves), Screenwriting (Richard Lewis), Convergent [...]
Our deadline for people to apply to the ISDT is April 30. If you are interested in this unique experience and want an intense week of thinking about nothing other than new digital tools to improve governance, democracy, and communication, please apply now. This program is available to students as well as nonstudents. [...]
The next international Online Journalism Symposium is coming in April. Organized by Professor Rosental Alves at UT-Austin, this symposium is renown for its cutting edge analysis and research regarding the status of online journalism. For more information see http://online.journalism.utexas.edu.
Two Digital Media research projects have been funded by FCT for the coming two years, one dealing with the Portuguese population’s experiences with computers and the Internet and another directly developing new DM applications. Dr. Cristina Ponte (UNL) and Dr. Carlos Guedes (INESC-Porto) are Principal Investigators for the respective projects.
Kinetic controller driven [...]
Congratulations to Nuno Rocha, winner of the national ZON-sponsored multimedia competition in Portugal. The prize includes the opportunity to spend time at the University of Texas as part of the UT-Portugal program and also carries a 100,000 Euros award and the opportunity to air his work on television and movie theatres.
uno Rocha is interested in [...]
A lot of people are talking about President-Elect Obama’s plan to employ people to rebuild some of the U.S. infrastructure, and many have wondered whether this might include rebuilding the telecommunications infrastructure as well as roads and bridges. This raises a fundamental point about the U.S. telecommunications structure: its private ownership has sharply limited the ability of [...]
Our four weeks of workshops are now over: UT faculty are back in Austin, faculty colleagues in Portugal are breathing a well-earned sigh of relief, and all agree that the Summer Institute was a success. Four public lectures, one week-long cinema series at the Cinemateca, and six intensive workshops (most of them two weeks [...]
The research call for the Digital Media program (as well as other programs) was released last week, and we now have an English version. This is a great opportunity for UT researchers to team with our Portuguese colleagues on some of the research ideas in which they might share interests. I know some [...]
Ubiquity or broadband?
I’ve started to analyze our latest data from a few rural regions in the U.S., where small communities recently obtained broadband services. This is a five-year, USDA-funded study that should provide us with some insights about what difference broadband makes in rural areas, a topic that I’ve been writing on over the last five years [...]