Sonia Livingstone and I have just finished our draft of:
Livingstone, S., & Brake, D. (in prep). On the rapid rise of social networking sites: New findings and policy implications. Children and Society.
If you’re a policy-maker or educator and would like to see it before publication, please email me (dbrake {at} gmail.com).
This department’s first Research Assessment Exercise results have arrived (indeed the first published formal ranking of the department since it was formed as far as I am aware) and we did pretty well - joint third place in the UK alongside Goldsmiths. Three quarters of our research was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.
(More about what the RAE is here).
As a consulting researcher at MIT Convergence Culture Consortium, I’m happy to announce this year’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Futures of Entertainment 3 conference! It will take place Friday, Nov. 21, and Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Wong Auditorium in the Tang Center on MIT’s campus.
Futures of Entertainment 3, an event sponsored by the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium is the third annual conference bringing together media industries professionals and media studies academics to discuss the current state and ongoing trends in media. This year’s conference will include panels on how value is counted in the media industries, understanding audiences, social media, the comic book industry, franchising and transmedia, media distribution in a global marketplace, and the intersection of academia and the media industries.
Speakers at the conference include Kim Moses, executive producer of The Ghost Whisperer; Alex McDowell, production designer for Watchmen; Gregg Hale, producer of The Blair Wtich Project and Seventh Moon; Lance Weiler, director of The Last Broadcast and Head Trauma; and Tom Casiello, Daytime Emmy award-winning former writer for soap operas including As the World Turns, One Life to Live, Days of Our Lives, and The Young and the Restless; Peter Kim, a founder of the Dachis Corporation; as well as representatives from HBO Online, World Wrestling Entertainment, and other innovative media companies and projects.
The conference will also feature academics such as Henry Jenkins (MIT, founder of the Convergence Culture Consortium and author of Convergence Culture and Textual Poachers), Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School, author of The Wealth of Networks), John Caldwell (UCLA, author of Production Culture), Anita Elberse (Harvard Business School, author of “Should You Invest in the Long Tail?”), and Grant McCracken (author of Transformations).
More information on the conference, including the program and registration, is available at http://www.convergenceculture.org/futuresofentertainment/
At last an edited collection of articles about different aspects of digital storytelling has arrived at Amazon US and on the publisher’s site, Peter Lang (it will doubtless be available at Amazon UK soon).
Table of contents follows:
Knut Lundby: Introduction: Digital storytelling, mediatized stories
Ola Erstad/James V. Wertsch: Tales of mediation: Narrative and digital media as cultural tools
Nick Couldry: Digital storytelling, media research and democracy: Conceptual choices and alternative futures
Kirsten Drotner: Boundaries and bridges: Digital storytelling in education studies and media studies
Nancy Thumim: ‘It’s good for them to know my story’: Cultural mediation as tension
Birgit Hertzberg Kaare/Knut Lundby: Mediatized lives: Autobiography and assumed authenticity in digital storytelling
Mark Evan Nelson/Glynda A. Hull: Self-presentation through multimedia: A Bakhtinian perspective on digital storytelling
Kelly McWilliam: Digital storytelling as a ‘discursively ordered domain’
Lotte Nyboe/Kirsten Drotner: Identity, aesthetics, and digital narration
Larry Friedlander: Narrative strategies in a digital age: Authorship and authority
John Hartley: Problems of expertise and scalability in self-made media
Ola Erstad/Kenneth Silseth: Agency in digital storytelling: Challenging the educational context
Elisabeth Staksrud: Fairytale parenting: Contextual factors influencing children’s online self-representation
David Gauntlett: Creative brainwork: Building metaphors of identity for social science research
Tone Bratteteig: Does it matter that it is digital?
David Brake: Shaping the ‘me’ in MySpace: The framing of profiles on a social network site.
Comments on the book would be welcome - particularly on the last chapter mentioned which is my own!
You can find an assortment of papers delivered at Media, Communication and Humanity linked here (ordered by subject).
LSE Research Online has been substantially re-vamped since the last time I looked. You can browse a mix of full text and abstracts of work from our department here, and if you register you can make saved searches that email you when new material arrives or which you can subscribe to as RSS feeds. This link should be to an RSS feed of full text items from our department as they arrive (please comment if the link does not work).
Note: The repository is not even close to representing the entirety of the department’s output (it currently contains 195 items, 81 of which are available in full text) but hopefully it will become increasingly useful as staff and students learn about and use it.
Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? Why do we repeatedly make the same mistakes when we make our selections? How do our expectations influence our actual opinions and decisions? The answers, as revealed by behavioural economist Professor Dan Ariely of MIT, will surprise you.
The audio and slides are available here. To subscribe to the LSE’s podcasts or download individual lectures by other speakers go here.
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Ofcom (2008) “Social Networking: A Quantitative and Qualitative Research Report into Attitudes, Behaviours and Use”
As well as the new UK survey and qualitative information it provides, it contains a review of the literature on the social networking focused on potential harms co-authored by Sonia Livingstone and Andrea Milwood Hargrave with myself contributing. We would be interested to hear any reactions.
Alvi, I., et al. (2007) “Meeting Their Potential: The Role of Education and Technology in Overcoming Disadvantage and Disaffection in Young People” - the 125 page report is free to download from BECTA, which sponsored it - co-authors from Media@LSE include Sonia Livingstone, Ellen Helsper and myself. Comments would be welcome.
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School’s 10th Anniversary Conference
THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
May 15-16, 2008
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
ABOUT
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The Berkman@10 conference celebrates the Berkman Center’s ten years of researching and pioneering development in cyberspace.
The promise of cyberspace is just as great as it was ten years ago, if not greater. Some of the challenges we face in studying it, and in building out into it, have changed; others persist. Through this conference, we hope to share and deepen knowledge about future challenges and opportunities on the internet and investigate how best to approach the next decade online.
The two-day conference will include talks from leaders in our fields as well as more intimate conversations covering the most compelling debates about the future of the internet, from security to politics, from identity to democracy, from education to innovation - and much more.
Academic researchers, policy experts, lawyers, entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and anyone concerned about the future of the internet are invited to join us.
REGISTER
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Register now by visiting the Berkman@10 website: http://www.berkmanat10.org.
ADMISSION FEES:
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–$500 corporate/for-profit
–$300 non-profit/government/academic
–$100 student (with valid student ID)
Scholarships are offered on a limited basis. Media passes are available.
The program fee encompasses breakfast and lunch on both days, a cocktail event on May 15, and all conference materials.
INQUIRIES AND MORE INFORMATION
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To register, or for more information, visit: http://www.berkmanat10.org. Seating is limited.
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