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Dissertation: Going Live - Collaborative Video Production After Television
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
Access here: http://www.tii.se/mobility/?page_id=1695 or have a look at http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-75931 where it might also show up.
ABSTRACT - This thesis explores social and creative practices that emerge with new mobile video technology. The work frames a design space that spans across both the social and technical domains. It associates emerging collaborative practices online with new means for producing and broadcasting media in real time, over mobile networks and using low-cost consumer technology just as these technologies are becoming widely available in the world. As a premise, we sketch a scenario where groups of non-professional users, enabled by new technology available in their mobile phones, produce live media collaboratively. We use detailed ethnographic inquiries into the practices of expert media producers to inform design and spur innovation of new technology. Over the course of the design research process, 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.
Parts:
- Mobile broadcasting – The whats and hows of live video as a social medium
- Lean collaboration through video gestures: co-ordinating the production of live televised sport
- Temporal hybridity: Mixing live video footage with instant replay in real time
- Mobile collaborative live video mixing
- Amateur vision and recreational orientation: Creating live video together
Aca-article: Can Big Media do “Big Society”? On hyper-local journalism.
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 succeed as a local social network, reinvigorate political engagement, or encourage citizen reporting.
Thurman, N., Pascal, J. C. & Bradshaw, P. (2012). Can Big Media do “Big Society”?: A Critical Case Study of Commercial, Convergent Hyperlocal News. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics.
http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/1125/6/Thurman_Pascal_Bradshaw.pdf
ABSTRACT - The UK Government is committed to helping ‘nurture a new generation of local media companies’. Changes to local media ownership rules allowing companies to follow their customers from platform to platform are supposed to assist in this by encouraging economies of scale. This paper provides a timely case study examining a UK-based commercial local news network owned by Daily Mail & General Trust that leverages economies of scale: Northcliffe Media’s network of 154 Local People websites. The study evaluates the level of audience engagement with the Local People sites through a user survey, and by looking at the numbers of active users, their contributions and their connections with other users. Interviews with ten of the ‘community publishers’ who oversee each site on the ground were conducted, along with a content survey. 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 succeed as a local social network, reinvigorate political engagement, or encourage citizen reporting. The Government hopes that communities, especially rural ones, will increasingly use the Internet to access local news and information, thereby supporting new, profitable local media companies, who will nurture a sense of local identity and hold locally-elected politicians to account. This case study highlights the difficulties inherent in achieving such outcomes, even using the Government’s preferred convergent, commercial model.
Aca-articles: The open and participative city - from Cumulus 2012
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 society, and what is artistic research?
- dialogue of art and design in education
Access here: http://cumulushelsinki2012.org/academic_papers/
Aca-article: Developing collaborative services in local contexts
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
ABSTRACT - This paper presents an ongoing applied research case of Design for “place” development (Meroni, 2011): Feeding Milan, energies for change. The project aims at restoring the sustainable food chain and the relationship between the city of Milan and its productive countryside, by activating new de-mediated services for food provision and local tourism. It advances the hypotheses by centring the design process on the communities of shareholders and potential users it is possible to design a high-quality service and, by activating local synergies, it is feasible to get high performance and well-optimised distributed system to support service delivery. The argumentation shows how such these hypotheses have been verified by the design practice during the activation of the pilot projects on the local scale. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the project improvements and to reflect on two years of research of joint work with the local players with whom designers working on Feeding Milan have started to build a significant network of multifunctional and collaborative services.
RELATED - Lecture: A Human Centered Approach for Design for Services, by Anna Meroni.
Aca-article: Making things happen - Social innovation and design (by Ezio Manzini)
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 order to do that, it considers several examples of radical social innovation, proposing three main typologies of innovation processes: top-down, when strong actors take the lead to promote and enhance a social change; bottom-up, when social changes emerge from grassroots activities; and hybrid, when a variety of bottom-up and top-down innovations take place within the framework of a coherent program. The paper indicates how each one of these three typologies implies some design initiatives,(meaning sequences of actions characterized by a clear design approach). Considered as a whole, these design initiatives and capabilities define the area of competence of a new field of design: design for social innovation. This can be defined as a constellation of design initiatives geared to making social innovation more probable, effective, long-lasting and apt to spread.
Free first issue of the Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies
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 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ajms/2012/00000001/00000001
Aca-article: Designing early community engagement for the revitalization of suburbs - Experiences in Kannelmäki
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.
White Paper: Smart Cities as Innovation Ecosystems Sustained by the Future Internet
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.
Aca-articles: Designing for Personal Memories - Past, Present, and Future
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
Aca-article: The aesthetics of immateriality in design - Smartphones as digital design artifacts
This paper offers a theoretical discussion of how immateriality can be conceptualized as a matter of aesthetics in the face of the challenge that digital artifacts pose to the role and understanding of materiality in design objects.
Access article here, open access, go to page 139.
Author: Mads Folkmann, Associate Professor in Design History, Syddansk Universitet, Denmark.
Published in Design and Semantics of Form and Movement
ABSTRACT - The paper is a philosophical-theoretical contribution to the conceptualization of the span of material extension and immaterial impact in artifacts employing digital technology. Using the smartphone as an example of a widely distributed type of material artifact that operates with immaterial structures of information, the paper offers a theoretical discussion of how immateriality can be conceptualized as a matter of aesthetics in the face of the challenge that digital artifacts pose to the role and understanding of materiality in design objects.
The paper proposes a framework of aesthetics that describes sensual, conceptual, and cultural levels of meaning in and through the object. Further, the paper discusses how this connects to a notion of possibility in design. Thus, the paper contributes to a discussion of the sensuous character and impact of artifacts that are on the verge of immateriality. The relevance to design practice is motivated through the discussion of central concepts of design ontology and the proposal of a framework of aesthetics that in its discussion and structuring of levels of meaning in design can inform the process of developing design.
Keywords: Aesthetics, materiality, immateriality, design ontology, digital artifacts, smartphones.
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