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cfp: Transmedia storytelling: London, Monday, 17 June

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http://ica2013transmedia.wordpress.com/about/

The objective of this preconference is to create an interdisciplinary environment for exchanging research experiences on transmedia storytelling. 21st century media convergence processes – that could be interpreted not only as a concentration of media ownership but as a complex series of operations that involve technological, professional, and cultural aspects – have completely changed the traditional communication landscape. In this context, many contemporary media productions are characterized by: 1) the expansion of their narrative through different media (film, TV, comics, etc.) and platforms (blogs, YouTube, etc.), and 2) the creation of user-generated contents that contribute to expanding the original story. In 2003 Henry Jenkins defined such productions as transmedia storytelling. In this preconference we place transmedia storytelling at the centre of a scientific exchange environment.

Transmedia storytelling is one of the main strategies of media companies, and a significant practice for the consumers that cooperate in the expansion of a narrative. On the other side, transmedia storytelling is an interdisciplinary research object that can be studied under different approaches: Media Studies, Political Economy, Media Economics, Narratology, Ludology, Film Studies, Semiotics, Ethnography, etc. International research on TS is expanding but it is still a fragmented field. In this context the objectives of the preconference are:

  • To discuss the state of transmedia research in the world
  • To present, diffuse and discuss the cutting edge studies on transmedia around the world.
  • To offer an interdisciplinary environment for exchanging methodologies, approaches to and experiences in transmedia research
  • To consolidate an international network of transmedia researchers.

The creation of exchange environments like this preconference will facilitate interactions between scholars and consolidate the research of one of the most important experiences of contemporary media.

This preconference will provide a venue for innovative scholars from around the world who are doing research in exploring transmedia storytelling. It will give them a chance to gather and discuss the challenges that transmedia experiences pose not only for the audiences but for those doing research on media economy, media narratives or media anthropology. The one-day preconference will be comprised of formal panel presentations, one keynote panel, opportunities for informal discussions, and time for networking. The preconference is open to anyone who is interested in transmedia storytelling.

Submission by 4 Feb: http://ica2013transmedia.wordpress.com/submission_process/

Humanities Hack 21st-22nd November 2012 London

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Title: Humanities Hack
When: 21st-22nd November 2012
Where: Guys Campus, Hodgkin Building, London, SE1 1UL
 
Humanities Hack is the first Digital Humanities hack organised jointly by the Department of Digital Humanities, DARIAH, the Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E) project and the Open Humanities Working Group at the Open Knowledge Foundation.
 
The London event is the first of a series of hack days organised for Digital Humanists and intended to target research-driven experimentation with existing Humanities data sets. One of the most exciting recent developments in Digital Humanities include the investigation and analysis of complex data sets that require the close collaboration between Humanities and computing researchers. The aim of the hack day is not to produce complete applications but to experiment with methods and technologies to investigate these data sets so that at the end we can have an understanding of the types of novel techniques that are emerging.
We are providing a few open humanities data sets but we welcome any addition. We are currently collecting data sets here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al6mO9_3Hr2PdFJ2aEFzNTZZMVVDbkJZWXB1YTRkOWc#gid=0
 
Possible themes include but are not limited to
 
–          Research in textual annotation has been a particular strength of Digital Humanities. Where are the next frontiers? How can we bring together insights from other fields and Digital Humanities?
–          How do we provide linking and sharing Humanities data that makes sense of its complex structure, with many internal relationships both structural and semantic. In particular, distributed Humanities research data often includes digital material combining objects in multiple media, and in addition there is diversity of standards for describing the data.
–          Visualisation. How do we develop reasonable visualisations that are practical and help build on overall intuition for the underlying Humanities data set
–          How can we advance the novel Humanities technique of Network Analysis to describe complex relationships of ‘things’ in social-historical systems: people, places, etc.
 
With this hack day we seek to from groups of computing and humanities researchers that will work together to come up with small-scale prototypes that showcase new and novel ways of working with Humanities data.
 
As numbers are limited for this hack, please register at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFp1eExmUVMtWG1YUkNZSnFFd05EWlE6MQ

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Sam Leon (sam.leon@okfn.org) or Tobias Blanke (tobias.blanke@kcl.ac.uk)

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As part of the work on its Digital Transformations theme (http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Research-funding/Themes/Digital-Transformations/Pages/Digital-Transformations.aspx), the Arts and Humanities Research Council is organising a Digital Transfomations Moot at the Mermaid Conference Centre in London on Monday 19 November 2012.  Registration for this event is free and those joining the Humanities Hackfest might also enjoy attending the Moot. Further details can be found at: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Digital-Transformations-Moot.aspx‘

Call for Work, FABRICATE LONDON 15-16 APRIL 2011

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FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011.

http://www.fabricate2011.org/submissions/
Central to the aim of FABRICATE is to interrogate and disseminate difference, similarity and innovation across design and making practices in industry and academia. Submissions will be independently blind reviewed by two members of an international panel of experts. Selected submissions will be featured in ‘FABRICATE: Making Digital Architecture’ published by Riverside Architectural Press.