15.5.13

[cfp: cities and technologies in cape town]


RELCI'13: 2nd International workshop on (Re)Creating Lively Cities through Ambient Technologies: Arts, Culture, and Gastronomic Experiences

2nd International workshop on (Re)Creating Lively Cities
through Ambient Technologies: Arts, Culture, and Gastronomic Experiences
DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL 21st May 2013
in conjunction with
INTERACT 2013, Cape Town, South Africa

2nd-6th September 2013
Artur Lugmayr (Tampere Univ. of Technology), Tampere, Finland, lartur@acm.org
Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Urban Informatics Research Lab, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, h.choi@qut.edu.au
Kirralie Houghton, Urban Informatics Research Lab, QUT, Brisbane Australia,kirralie.houghton@qut.edu.au 



 

News

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  • Workshop position papers due: 21st May 2013 (! EXTENDED !)
  • Submit your contribution by using the INTERACT Springer template (a description can be found[--> here]) with the submission system that can be found [--> here]NOTE: PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO TICK RELCI 2013 AS SUBMISSION TYPE!!!

List of Accepted Papers

  • to be published later

Description

Digital and interactive technologies are becoming increasingly embedded in everyday lives of people around the world. Application of technologies such as real-time, context-aware, and interactive technologies; augmented and immersive realities;, social media; and location-based services has been particularly evident in urban environments where technological and sociocultural infrastructures enable easier deployment and adoption as compared to non-urban areas. There has been growing consumer demand for new forms of experiences and services enabled through these emerging technologies. We call this ambient media, as the media is embedded in the natural human living environment. This workshop focuses on ambient media services, applications, and technologies that promote people’s engagement in creating and re-creating liveliness in urban environments, particularly through arts, culture, and gastronomic experiences.
The workshop takes a multidisciplinary and future oriented approach, and welcomes participants from diverse disciplinary domains for open discussions about technological, sociocultural, and content-related aspects of ambient media services that support people’s engagement in (re)creating their urban environments into a livelier place through art, cultural, and gastronomic experiences.

More specific details after the jump:

13.5.13

[cfp: digital culture conference]



Druck

The Digital Culture and Communication section of ECREA

Digital Culture – Promises and Discomforts

Workshop

October 2nd – 5th, 2013
Department of Media Studies, University of Bonn


Call for Papers – Digital Culture: Promises and Discomforts

more info after the jump.

11.4.13

[project narrative: serial storytelling]


Daniel Stein 
“The Politics of Serial Storytelling: American City Mysteries and Popular Culture in the Antebellum Era”

Thursday, April 18, 2013 – 4:30 p.m.
Smith Lab 1048

The success of European feuilleton novels such as Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43) and George Reynolds's The Mysteries of London (1844-46) led to the emergence of an American popular genre of serial novels with political ambitions: the city mysteries by authors such as George Lippard, Ned Buntline, and George Thompson. The city mysteries combined revelatory sensationalist prose with melodramatic narrative techniques in order to propose socially-conscious moral reform agendas through the medium of popular literature. The talk will focus on the connections among serial storytelling, genre development, and political agitation, suggesting that the city mysteries performed vital cultural work in the antebellum era by politicizing the American public, negotiating conflicting conceptions of national identity, and popularizing serial forms of narrative that would shape modern American culture in the decades to come.

Daniel Stein is a research associate in the American Studies program (English Department) at the University of Göttingen, where his interests include comics and graphic narratives, African American literature and culture, jazz literature and jazz historiography, autobiography studies, teaching methodology, and theories of American media and popular culture since the 19th century. He is the author of Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz (2012). He is a co-editor, with Shane Denson and Christina Meyer, of Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads (2013) and, with Jan-Noël Thon, of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative (forthcoming June 2013).

10.4.13

[educational media & technology conference]

This looks like a great conference...and like I need an excuse to visit Vancouver Island!!!


EdMedia 2013 - World Conference on Educational Media and Technology

Victoria, BC, Canada : June 24-28, 2013

The EdMedia World Conference on Educational Media and Technology is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education.

Important Documents & Information

FINAL Call for Presentations: Due April 16, 2013

Call PDF to Print & Distribute

Early RegistrationRegister by May 24 & Save!

Color Poster to Print & Distribute

Hotel ReservationsReserve early & Save!

Proceedings Guidelines


Special: Emerging Scholar Stream

How To Work a Conference to Make it Work for You!

YouTubeThis 5-part video series was produced by Catherine Fulford for AACE.

Presenter Lounge & Presentation Guidelines for:

  • Papers, etc.
  • Workshops
  • Poster/Demos & Corporate Demos
  • AV/Equipment
  • Professional Speaking Articles & Tips

8.4.13

[IROCS Journals :: call for reviewers]


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