May 2012
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Dissertation: Going Live - Collaborative Video...
This thesis explores social and creative practices that emerge with new mobile video technology. We have designed and developed two functional prototype systems and produced a number of theoretical contributions to the understanding of the collaborative mobile video space.
Author: Arvid Engström, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University
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Aca-article: Can Big Media do "Big Society"? On...
This paper examines a UK-based commercial local news network and evaluates the level of audience engagement by looking at the numbers of active users, their contributions and their connections with other users. Although the study reveals a demand for community content, particularly of a practical nature, the results question the extent to which this type of ‘big media’ local news website can...
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Aca-articles: The open and participative city -...
The papers from the Cumulus conference in Helsinki has now been posted online. The theme this year was “Open, participative city: how design knowledge can support public services in the development of open, participative city environment”.
You find papers on these themes:
open interactive city
innovative services
designing sustainability
what is the function of art in contemporary...
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Aca-article: Developing collaborative services in...
This paper reflects on two years of research of joint work with the local players in Milan, Italy, with whom designers working on Feeding Milan have started to build a significant network of multifunctional and collaborative services.
Authors: Daria Cantù, Marta Corubolo, Giulia Simeone, Politecnico di Milano
Open access here.
ABSTRACT - This paper presents an ongoing applied research case of...
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New book: Challenging the Innovation Paradigm (and...
This book attempts to bridge the separation of discourses on desirable and undesirable consequences of innovation, and it contributes to our understanding of how the dominant discourse of innovation is constructed and reconstructed at different levels of society.
Authors: Karl-Erik Sveiby, Pernilla Gripenberg and Beata Segercrantz
Large parts of this book are available on Google Books. Published...
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Aca-article: Making things happen - Social...
This paper introduces the notion of social innovation and discusses how design can stimulate and support it. An introduction to a new field of design: design for social innovation.
Author: Ezio Manzini
Open access: http://sigeneration.ca/documents/Makingthingshappen.pdf
ABSTRACT - The paper introduces the notion of social innovation and discusses how design can stimulate and support it. In...
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Report: The Art of Exit - In search of creative...
This report argues that truly transformational public innovation requires creative decommissioning: actively challenging incumbent service models and mindsets to invest properly in new approaches. As public resources are increasingly precious, creative decommissioning will become a critical capability for public services.
Authors: Laura Bunt, Charles Leadbeater
Published by Nesta, The National...
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Articles co-written by academics and industry...
The report “Publication cooperation between businesses and the higher education sector in Sweden” from The Swedish Research Council shows that in medicine, publications produced by businesses and universities in cooperation were more frequently cited than publications produced by businesses alone. Other fields of science showed similar patterns.
An English summary is available here,...
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CFP: Medium, Immediacy, Intermediality - “medium”...
This issue of Postmodern Culture aims to gather ways of seeing the term “medium” beyond current disciplinary frames. Rather than take the routes of literary or film studies, art history or communication theory - and rather than see media as discrete, pre-constituted categories of aesthetics or mechanics - we seek to put the category of medium into question, and in doing so, to facilitate...
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CFP: Cities to be Tamed? Questioning the role...
International conference aimed at simultaneously exploring and questioning the role played by urban planning, design, and policies in the continuous urbanisation processes affecting the so-called ‘global South’.
Abstracts due June 15, 2012. The conference will be held at Politecnico di Milano, November 15-17, 2012.
Read full call-for-papers: http://www.contestedspaces.info/
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Free first issue of the Journal of Applied...
This is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to bridge the gap between media and communication research and actors with a say in media production, devoted to research with an applied angle. It has a particular focus on contemporary issues and practices of media firms as they are experienced by their actors journalists, executives, publishers and proprietors.
First issue available for free...
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Call for Chapters: Research and Design Innovations...
Mobile user experience has gained momentum as a significant area of research in recent years. This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area.
Chapter proposals due May 30, 2012. To be published by IGI Global
Full call: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/720
INTRODUCTION - Mobile user experience...
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New Book: Virilio and the Media - an introduction...
Paul Virilio has fundamentally changed how we think about contemporary media culture. Virilio’s examinations of the connections between perception, logistics, the city, and new media technologies comprise some of the most powerful texts within his hypermodern philosophy. This new book, Virilio and the Media, presents an introduction to Virilio’s important media related ideas.
Author: John...
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Call for Submissions: The Car as an Arena for...
The car is unique place to be. Gaming in cars, for safety reasons, cannot be like gaming at home, but also not should be. But gaming in cars has the potential, of making use of all the cool properties of the car itself, the practices of driving, and of driving as a socially shared experience.
Due May 25, 2012. The Car as an Arena for Gaming Workshop at MobileHCI 2012, San Francisco, CA, September...
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Call for Submissions: Using Technology to...
This workshop aims to bring together a multidisciplinary set of researchers interested in the behaviour change through technology across three highly topical domains; non-communicable diseases, greenhouse gas emissions and ageing.
Workshop papers due June 17, 2012. HCI 2012, Sep 12-14, 2012, Birmingham, UK.
View full call here: https://sites.google.com/site/techbehavchangehci2012/
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Prism: a tool for collective interpretation, not...
Prism is an experiment in crowd-sourcing, which until now has only made fact-checkers and copy editors of the “crowd.” One of the fundamental questions behind Prism is: what happens when the “crowd” is asked to imagine and interpret, rather than merely transcribe?
Try Prism here: http://prism.scholarslab.org/
MORE - Users interact subjectively with a text and contribute to a collective...
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New Book: Media, Place and Mobility - a new...
With its powerful advocacy of a “non-media-centric” approach, this book offers a new understanding of media uses as place-making practices in everyday living. Drawing primarily on phenomenological perspectives, Shaun Moores focuses on the ways in which people inhabit physical and media environments, and he explores the bodily and technologically mediated mobilities that are involved...
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New Book: Cloud Time - The Inception of the Future...
This book maps capitalism’s mobilization of cloud computing in its bid to archive and enclose the future. The Cloud, hailed as a new digital commons, a utopia of collaborative expression and constant connection, actually constitutes a strategy of vitalist post-hegemonic power, which moves to dominate immanently and intensively, organizing our affective political involvements, instituting...
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CFP: Journalism and Mobile Devices (Nov 15-16,...
How do mobile devices affect the traditional forms of delivering news? Can the app economy be an alternative to selling content? Is there a new journalistic language and new journalistic genres for these devices? These are the three themes of this conference.
Abstracts due June 30, 2012. International Congress on Journalism and Mobile Devices, Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal), 15-16...
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CFP: Platform Politics - Platforms replacing the...
This issue of Culture Machine will explore how digital platforms can be understood, leveraged and contested in an age when the ‘platform’ is coming to supplant the open Web as the default digital environment.
Full articles due Nov 1, 2012. Special issue of Culture Machine, vol. 14.
ABOUT - Platforms can be characterized as resting on already existing networked communication systems, but also...
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Call for Papers: People and Computers - HCI 2012...
Technology is now common in all walks of life and HCI practitioners and researchers have more areas of impact than ever before. The theme of the conference is People and Computers, this to encapsulate and highlight the growing diversity of our field of HCI in one event.
The dates for submission for Short Papers, Work in Progress, Alt HCI and the Doctoral Consortium is June, 15, 2012. HCI 2012,...
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CFP: New Media and the Public Sphere, (Nov 8-9,...
In the context of media transformation, this event brings together scholars and researchers in the fields of media, ICT, and political science, to reflect and discuss how we can conceptualize and develop empirically the public sphere of the new media-driven society.
Abstracts due July 1, 2012. Conference Nov 8-9, 2012, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Read full CFP here:...
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Call for Projects: Interactivos? Hack the City -...
Hacking has always been associated with innovative appropriations of existing resources, re-engineering, working below the radar, and modifying structures to reap new benefits. What happens if you take the philosophy of hacking and apply it to the urban environment? When you consider innovative ways to harness the flows of energy, data and people that pass through the city every day? That is...
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Report: Financing Social Impact, by Social...
The field of social innovation is now beginning to gather momentum, with significant investment from governments, foundations and business. The field combines commitment, experience and energy. But it lacks the systematic and sophisticated infrastructures of support available to other fields. This report sets out a vision of where we want to be ten years from now.
Full report is available for...
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Call for Submissions: Making Futures – Challenging...
In this PDC 2012 workshop, we will challenge the logic of innovation by exploring the potential of participatory design cases that demonstrate a repertoire of differently situated practices of ‘future-making’; futures made locally, in heterogeneous communities, and with marginalised publics. The workshop will focus on map-making and storytelling to form landscapes of multiple futures.
Submissions...
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New Book: Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces -...
On the development of location-aware technology within the context of other mobile and portable technologies such as the book, the Walkman, the iPod, the mobile phone, and how these technologies work as interfaces to public spaces.
Authors: Adriana de Souza e Silva & Jordan Frith, North Carolina State University
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ABOUT - Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not...
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Aca-article: Designing early community engagement...
This paper describes the co-design of a neighbourhood event in Helsinki and they claim that “co-design processes can be crucial in designing for the ‘softer side’ of urban systems and communities”.
Authors: Bäckman, Liao, Marttila and Oguz, School of Art and Design, Aalto University, Finland.
Open access, download pdf.
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White Paper: Smart Cities as Innovation Ecosystems...
This paper focuses on how European cities are currently developing strategies towards becoming “smarter cities” and the lessons we can draw for the future.
Authors: Hans Schaffers, ESoCE Net; Nicos Komninos, URENIO; Marc Pallot, INRIA
Open access, download here.
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Aca-articles: Designing for Personal Memories -...
This special issue of journal Human-Computer Interaction publishes three for-free articles on “designing for personal memories”. See links below.
1. Introduction to this special issue
2. Socio-Technical Lifelogging: Deriving Design Principles for a Future Proof Digital Past
3. Food for Talk: Phototalk in the Context of Sharing a Meal
