Digital Culture and Communication

Applications are invited from UK and EU applicants for a PhD studentship focusing on how new digital media can be applied to the performing arts, working closely with Glyndebourne.
 
Online user communities are now a pervasive component in society and this project will examine innovation within Glyndebourne, using new means to connect with their current audience and to expand their services to a much wider community. The project is expected to look at social and economic factors and new business models.
 

WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group) is an academic department at the University of Warwick. It was established by Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya in 1980 in order to reinvigorate UK manufacturing. Our success over the past 30 years is the result of cutting edge research and effective knowledge transfer, working with global companies.  Today we work across many sectors including automotive; aerospace and defence; digital; energy and utilities; food and drink; government; healthcare and pharmaceutical. 
 

You are warmly invited to a one-day symposium on:
YOUNG PEOPLE'S MEDIA USE AND CREATIVE PARTICIPATION

Wednesday, September 15, 2010
University of Westminster, central London

A one-day symposium for the presentation and discussion of new research
into how young people are using media in their everyday lives, with a
particular emphasis on the ways in which the opportunity to make and
share media material online does, or does not, make a difference.

Speakers include:

Issue 2:1 (May 2010) of Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds has just appeared in print
and online.

Table of Contents:

Uncanny behaviour in survival horror games
Authors:  Angela Tinwell, Mark Grimshaw and  Andrew Williams
Page Start: 3

A man chooses, a slave obeys: agency, interactivity and freedom in video gaming
Authors:  Rowan Tulloch
Page Start: 27

Shall we kill the pixel soldier?: perceptions of trauma and morality in combat video
games

The Digital Public Sphere. Challenges for Media Policy

Editors: Jostein Gripsrud & Hallvard Moe

Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, 2010, 167 p. - ISBN
978-91-86523-02-2, Price EUR25

Until recently, media policy was thought of as national, media-specific,
and as part of the cultural domain. All is changing in a digital public
sphere: first, by the processes of globalization in a broad sense;
second, by a blurring of borders between media, which can be summed up