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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With Richard Garriott making headlines for his trip to the International Space Station, readers may be interested in learning more about his past. Last Fall, veteran video game executive Warren Spector invited several industry luminaries to come to UT to speak in his video game master class.
Video podcasts of several of the sessions are now [...]
If you can’t be in Porto for Future Places during the second week of October, consider attending the Flow Conference at UT Austin instead.
The Flow Conference is organized as a set of roundtable discussions rather than as a traditional series of paper presentations. It is hosted by the graduate students and faculty of the [...]
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 [...]