Tag Archives: research
NAMAC
NAMAC fosters and fortifies the culture and business of independent media arts. Through dialogue, collaboration, research and advocacy, we connect, organize and develop organizations.
NAMAC was founded in 1980 by an eclectic group of media arts organization leaders who realized they could strengthen their social and cultural impact by working as a united force. Their idea [...]
Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS)
The CMCS is a research center of Central European University in Budapest dedicated to advancing media and communication scholarship and policy and the democratic potential of the media.
The Center produces scholarly and practice-oriented research addressing academic, policy and civil society needs. CMCS research and activities address media and communication policy, social media and free expression, [...]
Text Messaging
In this chapter, the writers consider these matters by stepping back from the hyperbolic commentary on text messaging by journalists and the entertaining observations of popular writers. To this end, they start with a comprehensive but potted review of the scholarly, research-driven literature
on text messaging; this work highlights the range of applications to which texting [...]
Center for Intercultural New Media Research
The Center for Intercultural New Media Research (CINMR) is a global network of scholars — and a think tank and clearinghouse for scholarship — that focus on the impact of new media on human communication across cultures, nations, and world regions. The goals of CINMR are threefold:
(1) Gather, generate and disseminate intercultural new media research
(2) [...]
Hellenic Audiovisual Institute (I.O.M.)
The Hellenic Audiovisual Institute is the national applied research organization in the field of audiovisual communication in Greece, established in 1994. IOM is engaged in carrying out methodical research projects, mainly concerning the audiovisual media: radio, television, cinema, multimedia and new technologies. In addition to its research capacities, however, the institute constitutes the national representative [...]
The Digital Afterlife of Youth-Made Media: Implications for Media Literacy Education
The digital age has fundamentally re-configured the relationship between makers and users. Every networked action by a user has the potential to be reinterpreted by other users. The original intentions of media makers emerge from this process in recontextualized form that I call the «digital afterlife». The phenomenon of digital afterlife has striking implications for [...]
Half of adult cell phone owners have apps on their phones
The share of adult cell phone owners who have downloaded an app to their phone nearly doubled in the past two years – rising from 22% in September 2009 to 38% in August 2011 – according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The share of U.S. adults [...]
Youth, Privacy and Reputation
The Berkman Center’s mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.
We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into [...]
Futurelab
Futurelab is an independent not-for-profit organisation (registered charity number 1113051) committed to developing creative and innovative approaches to education, teaching and learning. We achieve this through a mixture of research, events, school development and resources across the UK and internationally.
Our work to date covers a range of both topical and forward-thinking areas including curriculum innovation; [...]
