17 May 2018

DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Centre, from Department of Comunication and Art (DeCA), hosts the event “Internet Day 2018” to celebrate the Internet day with the theme “leisure and pleasure”.

The day schedule includes, during the morning, two talks: the first by Associate Professor Matthew Kushin from Sheperd University named “The Cost of Clicks and Shares: Questions on the Civic and Political Potential of the The Internet in the Attention Economy” and the second one, presented by Professor Armando Malheiro at University of Porto, named “Diferentes formas de estudar a internet”.

In the afternoon there will be project presentations made by students of Novas Tecnologias da Comunicação and a debate with guest companies. Following that, is an activity of “speed dating” that promotes connections between Sciences and Comunications Tecnologies students and companies.

To finish the day takes place a session of Biodanza, taught by Raquel Bontempo, this activity estimulates the human development through dance and music.

Admission is free, although registration is required for certain activities (speed dating and Biodanza).

More information regarding the event in: http://digimedia.web.ua.pt/internet-day/

University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Art –  CCCI Auditorium and Room 40.1.8

2-4 November 2017

The Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro will host from 2^th to 4^th of November the XIII Congress of APImprensa/ International Conference of Portuguese language press in the world.

The Research Centre DigiMedia accepted the challenge proposed by the conference organizers – Associação Portuguesa de Imprensa and will present a performance entitle “The Future of the Television Ecosystem” based on four project prototypes driven by ULTRA TV, GUIDER, NOW UP and +TV4E projects.

The conference aims to gather researchers from universities and the industry, to share their experiences about emergency measures for the Media, Distribution / Monetization, Entrepreneurship in Media and Vocational Training and Press Council.

Detailed program, registration process and other relevant information can be access at: https://congressodaimprensaportuguesa.wordpress.com/

University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Art

The colloquium of the research group in cyberculture presented different studies on the problematic relations between networking information circulation, contents reading and sharing practices, modalities of propagating and automated news.

We analyzed the state of the research in the framework of the datification culture and and examples of data analysis. Last, but not least, we presented case studies on phenomena of radical polarization in social media and the spreading of misinformation online.

The Department of Communication and Arts through the Digimedia Reserach Center hosted the 13th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning, from October 9 to October 13. The summer school was organised by the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning – EATEL (http://ea-tel.eu/) and the University of Aveiro (http://www.ua.pt).
The summer school was directed mainly to PhD students and instructors from all countries. The programme covered topics from a broad range of domains in the field of TEL and included practical and methodological sessions as well as opportunities for discussion of doctoral works and netowrk sessions for future collaborations between PhD students, experts in the field and peers across Europe.

The 6th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive TV (jAUTI’2017) took place at the University of Aveiro from the 12th to 13th of October 2017.

This edition was organized by members of the Social iTV group of the Research Centre Digimedia with the special participation of the Network on Applications and Usability of Interactive Digital Television (RedAUTI).

The conference gather researchers from different iberoamerican countries (Spain, Portugal, Brasil, Equador and Argentina) and had also the participation from several industry players. It was an excellent opportunity to discuss different thematic areas in the field of Interactive Television: accessibility in Digital TV, Services and Design of User Interfaces for Digital and Interactive TV, as well as their Audiences, Contents and Technologies.

Angel García Crespo (from University Carlos III of Madrid) and Tiago Silva Lopes (from Altice-MEO) addressed two remarkable keynotes. More info and photos at the conference FB page.

9-13 October 2017

The Research Centre Digimedia is pleased to announce the 13th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning. This event is organized by the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning – EATEL (http://ea-tel.eu/) and hosted by the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro.

The JTEL summer school provides a stimulating learning environment where participants get opportunities to develop research skills, increase their knowledge base, collaborate with others in their own and complementary research areas, engage in debate, have access to experts in the field, and discuss their own work.

The programme will also include practical and methodological workshops as well as opportunities for PhD students to develop their personal research, discuss their doctoral work and build bridges for future collaborations experts in the field and peers across Europe.

The summer school is open for PhD students and instructors from all countries.

More information about the event is available at: http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/summer-school-2017/

University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Art

12-13  October 2017

The Research Centre Digimedia with the special participation of the Network on Applications and Usability of Interactive Digital Television (RedAUTI) organizes the 6th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive TV (jAUTI’2017).

The conference aims to gather researchers from universities and the industry all around the world, to share their works in the digital television, interactive television and online video fields.

This edition will be hosted by the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro from the 12th to 13th of October 2017 in Aveiro, Portugal.

Detailed program, registration process and other relevant information can be access at: jauti2017.web.ua.pt/

University of Aveiro – Department of Communication and Art

DigiMedia Research Center presents the conference Targeting, Fake News and Ciberpopulism: between algorithmic and cyberculture.

The recent debate about post-truth confirms the emergence of a society of misinformation based on “confirmation bias” and “echo chambers”. Disintermediation showed its reverse, fallacious credulity.
It is a multidimensional topic that covers journalistic, epistemic, aesthetic, political, educational, sociotechnical and cybercultural issues, to which this conference seeks to contribute.

The conference will be held on  18^th October 2017, in the Communication and Art Department of University of Aveiro. We are accepting papers’ proposals until 30^th July . Selected papers’ will be published in a special issue of OBS*: Observatório peer-reviewed and Scopus index journal.

More info: vbaldi@ua.pt and dedalus.jmmr@gmail.com

Professor Guido Lemos, from Brasil, LAVID (Digital Video Applications Laboratory – http://lavid.ufpb.br) will be visiting us on June 7th, 8th and 9th.
Among other activities, on june 7th there will be a meeting on Accessibility (14H30), in which Prof. Guido will present LAVID’s accessibility projects and talk to us about our work in this area and a speech on Distributed Musical Performances (16H00).