CALL FOR PAPERS: THE NEW TELEVISION ECOSYSTEM

The whole media system, and the television in particular, is undergoing strong changes, especially related to the process of digitalisation and to the diffusion of the broadband society. Television has had, for nearly fifty years, a precise and relatively stable status: at least, we could define in a rather clear way what we meant by “television experience” or “watching TV” (Abruzzese, 1995; Scaglioni & Sfardini 2008). But especially in the last decade strong processes of innovation, diversification and hybridization have begun to reshape the current framework of producing and consuming television. The television is one of the devices which is subjected at the same time to a double process, both of divergence and convergence (Fortunati, 2008), while its screen has both expanded and shrunk dramatically from the flat screens to the tiny windows of mobile phones and iPods (Hilmes, 2009). The analogue television is planned to be overcome (the European Commission has set to the beginning of 2012 the date for the digital switch-off in all Member States) by the digital terrestrial television and by the new opportunities supplied by the Internet (Van den Broeck & Pierson, 2008). Furthermore, other opportunities are offered by mobile devices which have prompted a call for the switch of frequencies from TV to mobile telephony.

The actual television scenario is complex and fragmented, since many different kinds of TV cohabit: ‘traditional’ analogical TV, digital terrestrial TV, IPTV, time-shifting technologies such as Personal Video Recorder and Video on Demand that offer the possibility to record, sometimes without any advertisement, on supports like DVDs or Hard Drive, TV programs to be seen afterwards, thus mitigating the rigidity of the consumption time and of the spatial immobility in the consumption, Mobile TV and Net TV which is also known both as IPTV and Web TV, which is the TV on the Internet. These forms of TV are complemented by the satellite and cable TV.

Television experience is broadening and multiplying, both in quantitative terms (becoming more available) and in qualitative terms (through a process of personalization). Television series and programs are now being spread on physical digital supports such as DVDs and Blue-Ray discs, and on Internet portals like Apple’s iTunes, where it is possible to access and download a huge catalogue of television series and movies. Old distinctions among media contents do not work anymore, when facing the new media complex media environment: broadcast yourself is the slogan of the biggest video portal in the world, Youtube, where users can upload their own videos without any mediation (so-called UGC, User Generated Content). Television advertising is also reshaping by inspiring to the Internet banners and by becoming interactive and even more pervasive.

The present television context is undergoing a strong and multi-faceted evolution, a diversification and a transformation, where the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ coexist and entwine, rather than a revolution, as some authors prefigured in the past (Van Djik, 1999). Keeping in mind that the most important features of the television experience have been since long time outlined as the configuration of space, time, services, and audiences, produced by a negotiation between editorial networks and users (Thompson, 1995; Aroldi & Colombo, 2003), the development of the new television scenario is better framed in the light of processes such as the rise of e-actors and of their practices of use, strength of innovation and counter-power resistance (Fortunati et al., 2010). E-actors represent the convergence and the integration of different figures: user, consumer, buyer, customer, producer, everyday innovator, citizen, non-user, audience. A consequence of this convergence process is that audiences too have reconfigured themselves, their habits, expectations and aspirations, needs and desires, attitudes and behaviour, becoming networked, augmented and integrated audiences. So, the new forms of television should be seen as originated from the merging between technological innovation and new practices of agency and consumption performed by e-actors. Thus the new television scenario can be seen as a broad, fragmented and stratified analogue/digital ecosystem made up of traditional media and technological innovations and products as well as traditional and new practices and modalities of their use such as business TV, school and universities TV, street TV, city TV, neighbourhood TV, etc. In this new television ecosystem, media convergence (Jenkins, 2006) is only one of the processes, based on the technology of digitalization and located at the interstice among markets, institutions, cultural and social forms and ways of consumption/appropriation.

This call for papers focuses on the complexity of the television ecosystem, trying to build a comprehensive map and to offer a guide through this field providing research papers based on a wide array of television experiences. Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to) projects, experiences, practices, innovative uses and theories about:

analogue television

digital television

cable TV

satellite TV

Mobile TV

Digital Terrestrial Television

time-shifting technologies

user-generated contents (on both mainstream platforms like Youtube but with a particular focus on bottom up experiences)

Web TV and micro TV (street TV, school TV, university TV, videoblog, videocommunity, etc.)

IpTV

business TV

interactive advertising

Convergent media consumption

Mobisodes

Webisodes

Deadlines:

Abstract : end of July, to be sent to prof. Leopoldina Fortunati (fortunati.deluca@tin.it)

Abstract acceptance: 31 September

Full papers acceptance: 31 December 2010-02-18

A selection of papers will be published in an collection with Peter Lang (Berlin) edited by Alberto Abruzzese, Nello Barile, Julian Gebhardt, Leopoldina Fortunati.

References

Abruzzese, A. (1995) Lo splendore della TV. Origini e destino del linguaggio audiovisivo. Genova: Costa & Nolan.

Aroldi, P. & Colombo, F. (2003) (eds.), Le Età Della TV. Indagine su Quattro Generazioni di

Spettatori Italiani, Milano: Vita & Pensiero.

Fortunati, L. (2008) Mobile Convergence. In K.Nyiri (ed.) Integration and Ubiquity. Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence. Wien: Passagen Verlag, pp.221-228.

Fortunati, L., J. Vincent, J. Gebhardt, A. Petrovčič, and O. Vershinskaya (eds.) (2010) Interacting with Broadband Society. Berlin: Peter Lang.

Hilmes, M. (2009). Television sound: Why the silence?. Music, Sound, and the Moving Image

2(2), 153-161.

Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press.

Scaglioni, M., Sfardini, A. (2008) MultiTV. L'esperienza televisiva nell'età della convergenza

Thompson, J. B. (1995) The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Van den Broeck, W. & Pierson, J. (eds.) (2008). Digital television in Europe. Brussels: VUBpress.

Van Dijk, J. (1999) The Network Society: Social Aspects of New Media. London: Sage.

Helsinki, Finland, 19–20 August 2010

Call for Papers

How do users contribute to innovations, and how are they curbed from

doing so? The road from initial invention, be that by a user, by a

community, or by a manufacturer, to a more or less stabilised and

widespread innovation tends to take years, even decades. Technology and

the practices of the people who adopt it and of those who develop it

tend to change during this time. The role of users in this intertwined

change of technology, practices, and organisations is at the focus of a

two‑day workshop being held at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

The study of users in innovation has matured greatly over the last

decade or so. Research on innovations by users has established that

users innovate and modify a significant proportion of both industrial

and consumer goods. Studies at homes and workplaces have revealed the

importance of domestication and adjustment of new technology.

User-centred and participatory approaches to design have demonstrated

the various benefits to more close-knit engagement between users and

developers. Open source development, peer content creation, and various

management volumes for harnessing customers in value creation have

spurred great enthusiasm.

Regrettably, however, most studies within these approaches still resort

to somewhat truncated research designs: they study either design or use

and/or focus either on details or on more broad-level descriptions of

technology and practice change. This workshop aims to bring together

empirical, theoretical, and methodological developments in the study of

the interlacing of development and use activities. This includes but is

not limited to longitudinal ‘biographic’ studies of the pathways of new

technology and of changes in user practices, design approaches that

extend to both development and use, and ways to map the varying

constellations of design and use. The workshop welcomes research on a

variety of areas and topics within the user-developer nexus as well as a

variety of domains, to gain a more nuanced picture.

Topics we hope to see addressed include but are not limited to:

- Roles users play in innovation, ranging from innovation by users to

everyday adaptation of technology to more long-term processes such as

infrastructuring

- Different ‘constellations’ or ‘ecologies’ of actors in and between

design and use of new technology

- The roles played by user-centred design, usability studies, marketing

research, and other intermediary activities in longer-term innovation

processes and practice change

- User representations in technology design

- Social imaginations of new technologies and practices, particularly in

how they relate to development projects

- Path dependency, path creation, and trajectories of technology design

and use

- Learning and interaction between developers and users

- Power and dominance structures between design and use

- Exclusions, silences, and design at the margins

- Community and ‘lay’ participatory design, open source activities, and

other approaches wherein users are developing technology throughout its

life cycle

Keynote speakers and discussants: Prof. Geoffrey Bowker, Dr Mark

Hartswood, Dr Neil Pollock, Prof. Susan Leigh Star, Dr James Stewart,

Prof. Robin Williams

Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 15.3.2010 (notification of acceptance

by 15.4.2010)

Registration fee: €50

For further information and with any questions, please contact

sampsa.hyysalo@helsinki.fi

--

Dr. Risto Sarvas

research scientist / Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT

visiting fellow / University of Surrey

email: risto.sarvas@hiit.fi

phone: +358 (0) 50 384 1553

fax: +358 (9) 694 9768

web: http://www.hiit.fi/risto.sarvas/

ITALY 27-29 OCTOBER 2010

coordinated by: Centre for Community Networking Research Monash University, Information School, University of Washington Public Sphere Project Evergreen State College

cirn.wikispaces.com/prato2010 email: prato2010 AT fastmail.fm

Dear colleagues

We are seeking submissions from academics, practitioners and PhD students for a conference at the Monash University Centre, Prato Italy (near Florence). TheCentre for Community Networking Research, Monash, in conjunction with theCommunity Informatics Research Network, has held many highly successful events since 2003 in Prato, as well as associated workshops over the years, in the UK, France, and Portugal.

The conference has an increasing representation of delegates from Francophone and Spanish-speaking countries, and we welcome your attendance. While the official conference language is English, if there are sufficient papers for either language, specific sessions will be arranged. Please distribute this call widely.

cONFERENCE tHEME

Community Informatics, like many other areas of social intervention and development, deals with the real world, which in spite of all the effort put into planning and thinking about how things are meant to happen, things never quite work out as they planned. Dealing with the unexpected is well known, recognised, and even expected in business enterprises, but often, in community settings, the unexpected is seen as risky, and sometimes, even evidence of failure.

Community Informatics is the theory and practice of empowering communities with information and communication technologies. There is a widespread expectation that Community Informatics will cultivate civic intelligence, enhance democracy, develop social capital, build communities, spur economies and empower individuals and groups, and result in many different forms of positive social change. Community Informatics, in bringing together communities and technologies, works across at least three dimensions, though there may be others which are relevant:

- The Context and Values held by different stakeholders in Community Informatics

- The Processes and Methodologies which are brought to bear in Community Informatics enterprises

- The Systems (both technical and social) which influence Community Informatics and those which Community Informatics influences

The unexpected or unanticipated is sometimes the most valuable thing to come out of work with a community, and being able use that innovation is of great importance to communities, designers, researchers, and other concerned parties.What are remarkable examples of unexpected or unanticipated outcomes?

* Why is a high value placed upon the achievement of safe and technocratic, quantitative goals, often at the expense of unexpected positive outcomes?

* Is it a problem on the part of planners or the part of community, and why is this so?

* What are the consequences of this emphasis on predictability?

* What are the effects on creativity and the capacity to deal with the unexpected?

* Are we expecting too much (or too little) of ICTs in communities, and conversely, are we expecting too much (or too little) of communities in their interaction with ICTs?

* When the expected leads to major limitations or a project failure, how to we deal with this?

* How could or should communities engage within themselves and with others to realistically prepare for 21st century challenges?

* What technological and social processes are needed to cultivate civic intelligence in local communities?

* What are the connections and differences between unanticipated technical events and unanticipated community or social effects and events? Are they easy to separate?

* How can theorists, designers and communities become more response to dealing with unanticipated outcomes and developments in a project or program?

* What bodies of theory and practice can be bring to bear to enlighten our interactions?

We seek papers and presentations from practitioners, policy-makers, PhD students, academics, artists, and journalists that fit within these three broad streams. If you believe that you have a paper or presentation that is outside the main themes or streams, but it still be of interest to the community informatics community, please submit it for consideration.

THEME 1: PLANNING CI: MAKING ROOM FOR THE UNEXPECTED

* What bodies of theory and practice help us to plan better, or are there other ways to approach the issue?

* Where does planning begin and end? What limitations does planning sometimes have and how are they best addressed?

* What different types of planning techniques and methods are relevant to community informatics? Do we need to design our own?

* How do we make room for unanticipated positive and negative occurrences and outcomes in the planning process?

* Can one plan for the unexpected and unanticipated?

THEME 2: IMPLEMENTING CI: EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED

* How do we incorporate the positively unanticipated and unexpected into the implementation cycle?

* What are best ways to do it, and convince our funders that things are not going haywire?

* When the unanticipated results are negative, how do we cope?

THEME 3: EVALUATING CI: LEARNING FROM THE UNEXPECTED

* How can we evaluate the unexpected in ways that promote a positive and useful perception of the challenges of working in real community settings?

* What are the difficulties in learning about the unexpected?

* What particular evaluation theories and methodologies are of particular relevance to community informatics.

DATES AND PROCESSES

In order to enhance the quality of papers in all streams, Program Chairs will take an active role in guiding papers through the review process and deadlines

will be adhered to.

The following kinds of papers are sought:

1. Full papers for blind peer review (up to 10 pages, including references).

2. Works in progress and more speculative pieces (reviewed and selected, but not peer reviewed, also up to 10 pages)

3. Non refereed papers, including practitioner reports (up to 10 pages, including references).

4. PhD papers which provide an outline of current or proposed PhD research (between 2-3000 words, including references)

5. Proposals for workshops or panel discussions

6. Proposals for posters

There will be a conference proceedings with an ISBN and selected papers will also be published in a special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics.

Best prizes in refereed and PhD categories will be awarded.

KEY DATES

* By 1 April 2010: Expressions of interest up to 500 words via conference website

* By 1 June 2010: Full papers all streams ( Papers in the peer review section reviewed by 15 August).

* By 15 September 2010: Final version of papers, based on peer review and program committee decisions due

* Submitted proposals for workshops will also be contacted by members of the program committee

* Registrations from 1 July

To register your expression of interest for any of the conference streams, please go to cirn.wikispaces.com/prato2010 and follow the instructions.

Detailed information is also provided on the site about registration, travel, accommodation, tourism etc.

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington;Graeme Johanson, Monash University;Larry Stillman, Monash University

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington;Douglas Schuler, The Public Sphere Project, The Evergreen State College;Larry Stillman, Monash University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (PARTIAL)

Aldo de Moor, Community Sense, Netherlands;Peter Day, University of Brighton,

UK;Fiorella de Cindio, University of Milan, Italy;Serge Agostinelli, LSIS

Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Saint-Jérôme, France;Mike Arnold,

University of Melbourne, Australia;Ann Bishop, Univ. of Illinois, USA;Gunilla

Bradley, Royal Institute of Tech., Sweden;Wallace Chigona, Univ. of Cape Town,

South Africa;Barbara Craig, Victoria Univ. of Wellington, NZ;Tom Denison,

Monash University, Australia;Vesna Dolnicar, University of Lubljana;Alison

Elliot, Charles Darwin University, Australia;Manuela Farinosi, University of

Udine, Italy; Phil Fawcet Microsoft Research/University of Washington,

USA;Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine, Italy;Marlien Herselman, Meraka

Institute, CSIR, South Africa;Sarai Lastra, Turabo Univ., Puerto Rico; Mike

Martin, University of Newcastle, UK;William McIver, Jr, National Research

Council Canada;Marie Ouvrard, Laboratoire des Sciences d'Information et des

Systèmes, Marseilles, France;Justin Smith, Washington State University,

USA;Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla,Pontificia Universidad Católica del

Perú;Steve Thompson, University of Teesside, UK;Will Tibben, University of

Wollongong, Australia; Janet Toland, Victoria University of Wellington,

NZ;Emiliano Trere, Univ. of Udine, Italy;Gilson Schwartz, Univ. São Paulo,

Brazil;Jacques Steyn, Monash Univ., South Africa;Andy Williamson, Hansard

Society, UK Martin Wolske, University of Illinois, USA

Sponsors (partial): Centre for Community Networking Research Monash

University; Information School University of Washington; The Public Sphere

Project The Evergreen State College; Turabo University, Puerto Rico;

University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science

FOR THE CONFERENCE

Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington Douglas Schuler, The Public Sphere Project, The Evergreen State College Larry Stillman, Monash University

-- Prato CIRN Community Informatics Conference 2010

https://www.conftool.net/prato2010

You can find additional information at the following webpage:http://www.cost.esf.org/events/Future-In

The CROSSROAD project (http://www.crossroad-eu.net), a Support Action funded by the European Commission within the Research Framework Programme, lasting the whole of 2010 and aiming at delivering a Research Roadmap on ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling, which will be supported by the contribution of the results deriving from other FP7 projects in this domain and by the involvement of the research community, with the objective of creating a shared vision to support policy and research in this area, launched a call for contributions to attract high-quality innovative contributions that depict sound positions and views in the various research field related to the broad domain of ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling.

While the main focus of the contributions is ICT research, the submission of position papers dealing with other related disciplines, such as computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, economics, sociology, political sciences, law and services is also encouraged. Authors of up to 5 best papers of this call will be invited to join the CROSSROAD Expert Scientific Committee. Members of this committee have a key role in providing their expertise in specific research areas, in participating in the various workshops that will be conducted during the project, and in presenting their comments and feedback to the project’s draft deliverables.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission of position papers: 25th February 2010

Announcement of results and best papers: 25st March 2010

The full call for contributions can be downloaded at:

http://crossroad.epu.ntua.gr/files/2010/

More information about CROSSROAD can be found at www.crossroad-eu.net

We are pleased to announce that Observatorio (OBS*) journal's latest issue

is now available.

Vol 3, No 4 (2009), including contributions from scholars from Italy, The

Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Norway, and Finland, published in English,

Spanish and French, is now available to any interested reader, free of

charge – simply go to the website [ http://obs.obercom.pt ] and register.

OberCom, Observatory for the Media, is one of Portugal’s premier centres

on media research. Its peer-review journal, Observatorio(OBS*), is an

online, multimedia, open access, academic character publication. It is an

interdisciplinary e-journal which, although focused in communication, is

opened to the contributions of other subjects which claim themselves as

part of the Communication Studies’ areas, from academia to the

business-related world.

Observatorio (OBS*) e-journal is a publication with international

character, which accepts and publishes texts written in Portuguese,

Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Italian, French and English.

OberCom also publishes a monthly Newsletter in English. You are welcome to

submit news of interest to the international research community to

obercom@obercom.pt .More information about the centre and its publications

is available at http://www.obercom.pt/en .

We hope you will find this project of interest to your research activity

and that, in a near future, we will be able to count with your work among

the authors published at Observatorio (OBS*) journal.

Gustavo Cardoso and Rita Espanha

Editors

COMMUNICATION POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY (CP&T) Section

International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

28th Annual Conference, July 18-22, 2010, Braga (Portugal)

Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change

http://www.iamcr2010portugal.com

The Communication Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section of the IAMCR

invites the submission of abstracts bearing on the Conference theme as

well as on the Section sub-theme: ‘Citizen Participation through

Technology, Access and Policy’.

The media and technology landscape as well as relevant communication

policies are changing fundamentally, with a shift from mass media and

personal media to media for mass self-communication. The technological

facilities for mediated communication are proliferating and becoming

increasingly fragmented as a result of convergence and the emergence

and rapid spread of new media and internet technologies like

interactive digital broadcasting, mobile technologies, social

computing, internet-of-things and - more recently - cloud computing.

Within this transitional digital media ecosystem researchers

increasingly aim to understand how participation by people and

communities can (still) take a central position and to what end. How

can citizens and/or consumers be empowered in participation through

ICT design, usages and policy? Or what are the threats and constraints

for people to become disempowered in a convergence culture? Three main

areas of user (dis)empowerment are being identified as themes of

special interest for CP&T section: (1) market and state

‘feudalisation’, (2) privacy and surveillance, and (3) inclusion and

media literacies.

The first area of concern relates to the ever increasing

‘feudalisation’ of ICT applications and services by market forces and

interests. Besides this, some states are also very active in

controlling, monitoring and censoring the internet. This all has

serious consequences for the opportunities and potentialities of ICT

enabled participation and empowerment. In this regard the debate on

net neutrality and its consequences for freedom of speech, access to

information, etc. is highly relevant, but also issues of copyright in

relation to ownership of user generated content or the posting of

copyright protected material on blogs and web 2.0 sites, the share

culture, etc.

The second focus area of privacy and surveillance is of course to some

extent linked to the previous one. This refers to enhanced profiling

and data mining practices by private and public organisations (e.g.

behavioural advertising, digital footprint, deep-packet inspection

technology, etc.), combined with the blurring of boundaries between

public and private sphere in the co-creation and ‘produsage’ practices

by different types of users (e.g. lead users, citizen journalists,...).

A third area of focus deals with inclusion and multiple media

literacies. This perspective links in with notions of digital

participation that go beyond access. In the changing media

environment, new affordances of communication tools require a

reconfiguration of digital exclusion-inclusion. We need to look at

different levels of capabilities, but also how inclusion is (not)

built into specific media and technologies from a human-centred design

perspective. At the same time this also means increasing the reach,

breadth and depth of digital media and technologies across all domains

of society through multiliteracies. The question remains however to

what extent inclusion is always empowering, or can inclusion also lead

to disempowerment.

Empirical, theoretical and analytical work on these three and other

related issues will form the central thrust of presentations in the

CP&T section at the 2010 Braga conference.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

The CP&T section welcomes abstracts (300 - 500 words) from scholars of

any academic discipline bearing on aforementioned and related issues.

Abstracts should state the title as well as the methods or approaches

used and introduce the empirical and theoretical material on which the

paper is based. Besides the abstract title and text, each submission

includes author name(s), affiliation, institutional address and email

address of (all) author(s). The abstracts can only be submitted via

the official conference abstracts and registration site: http://www.lasics.uminho.pt/ocs/index.ph

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 31, 2010. The

papers will be assessed and provisionally accepted on the basis of the

abstracts. You will be informed whether or not your abstract is

accepted by March 15, 2010. The full papers (max. 7500 words) are due

April 30, 2010, in order to ensure that the authors’ names and papers’

titles are included in the final conference program.

Key submission guidelines:

- Deadline abstracts: January 31, 2010

- Announcement of acceptances: March 15, 2010

- Deadline full papers: April 30, 2010

- IAMCR accepts presentations in English, French and Spanish. However,

it is requested that abstracts, if at all possible, be submitted in

English

- Individual abstracts may only be submitted to a single section/

working group. Please do not submit the same abstract to two or more

different IAMCR sections/working groups.

Additional questions (e.g. on panels) may be addressed to Maria

Michalis (m.michalis[AT]westminster.ac.uk) or Jo Pierson

(jo.pierson[AT]vub.ac.be).

Chairs: Jo Pierson and Hopeton S. Dunn (on leave, serving as acting

Secretary General, IAMCR)

Vice-chairs: Maria Michalis and Bart Cammaerts

June 9th-11th, Tampere, Finland, http://www.euroitv2010.org/

Call for Papers, Targeted Workshops, Workshops, Tutorials, and Industrial Exhibitions

News -Workshop deadline extended till 6th December 2009 - Tutorial deadline extended till 15th January 2010

New in EuroITV:

-4 tracks: interactive content & arts, HCI, technology, and media studies

-video and TV in the age of Web 3.0.

-EuroITV competition grand challenge

-targeted and themed workshops

-email list: on https://listmail.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo

-proceedings published within the ACM Digital Library and special issues

-first deadlines approaching!

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EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and

professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the

content creation community. In addition to previous years' topics of the conference, EuroITV 2010 offers new opportunities this year:

* INTERACTIVE CONTENT & ARTS TRACK

EuroITV 2010 extends its tracks with a new track to explicitly attract the creative media production community dealing with

interactive video, 3D cinema, TV program formats, film production, and consumers as content creators and contributors.

* VIDEO IN THE AGE OF WEB3.0.

EuroITV 2010 faces the challenges of TV as changing environment and explicitly invites contributions dealing with

user-generated content, video in social networking, mashup networks, IPTV, cross-media, broadcasting everywhere,

3D cinema/3D IPTV/3D content, and video.

* EuroITV COMPETITION GRAND CHALLENGE

EuroITV 2010 also offers a competition opened for artistic content creators, application developers, and service designers

to get awarded by EuroITV.

* TARGETED WORKSHOPS

We are specifically calling for targeted workshops around the themes mentioned below. In difference to general workshops,

targeted workshops shall help us to explore current topics of interest in the community. Targeted workshop contributions

will be published within the main proceedings, and the ACM Online Digital Library.

. Everything in 3D

(e.g. production, interactive content, digital games, 3D-TV, 3D-IPTV, 3D cinema, standards, 3D distribution);

. TV and video in emerging countries

(e.g. policies, technologies, state-of-the-art, middleware, content models, interactivity in countries such as China, South America, India, Russia);

. Content & art for/in TV and video

(e.g. interactive art works, tools, production methods, artistic designs, collaborative content, art forms, interactive designs, art collections, interaction methods);

. Visual communication for video, film, and TV

(e.g. visual language, pervasive communication, semiotics, storyline);

. Media management and economics

(e.g. patterns of use and engagement, business models, advertising, strategies, sustainability, policy, model of audiences, public service broadcasting, new media and traditional media);

. Social media, ambient/ubiquitous media, and digital games in the age of Web 3.0

(e.g. context awareness, next generation user interfaces, personalization, ambient human-computer interaction, hardware/software, interactive game design for video environments, serious gaming, persuasive games, social media tools, social networks mashups, community design);

. Emerging topics around the theme "web.sharing.tv.content"

(e.g. visionary - pointing-to-the future topics and issues around the conference theme);

IMPORTANT DATES

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November 30th, 2009: Targeted Workshop Proposals

November 30th, 2009: Tutorials and Workshop Proposals

December 23rd, 2009: Full Paper Submissions

February 07th, 2010: Short Papers, Posters, Doctoral Consortium, Demos

March 21st, 2010: Industry Exhibitions

April 1st, 2010: EuroITV Competition Grand Challenge

More information about other sessions, e.g. for business oriented work, will follow soon.

More details can be found on: http://www.euroitv2010.org/

CONFERENCE TRACKS

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This year's conference consists of four tracks, each with their own program committee and a separate track chair, coordinated

by an overall Program Chair. Full papers, short papers and posters have to be submitted in one of these tracks, to optimize

the review process. If not sure, choose the track which is closest to the main topic of your submission, and of which you feel

that community is most appropriate to review your work.

Track 1: Interactive Content & Arts

Track 2: Human-Computer Interaction

Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies

Track 4: Systems and Enabling Technologies

Track 1: Interactive Content & Arts Track

.Studies of interactive, collaborative content & video

.Storytelling

.Digital gaming

.Role playing

.Virtual worlds, mixed reality, and bringing video into the world

.Distributed and networked experience design

.Immersion

.Social media in storytelling

.Ambient media, locative media, cross media formats, and social media

.Artistic and aesthetic uses of interactivity

.Viewer, player, user, and collaborative co-creator

.Towards a new form language for video & television

.Social media utilizing online video as an art form

.Video and TV genres on interactive platforms and in virtual worlds

.Video and TV as alternate reality games

Track 2: Human-Computer Interaction

.User-centered design

.Development and evaluation of iTV systems and services

.Interaction technologies for interactive TV and cross-media technologies

.Studies on iTV and media usage

.Design and evaluation methods for the area of interactive TV

.Case studies of successful and unsuccessful iTV systems and deployments in terms of usability and user experience

.Accessibility of iTV services

.Cross-over media concepts and implementations

.Investigations on iTV acceptance and related concepts (trust, privacy, security).

Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies

.Television practices and experiences related to privacy, trust and security

.Direct marketing and profiling techniques for interactive TV: personalization and user modeling

.Measurability, interactivity and addressability of ITV use and prosumption

.Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, t-learning

.Interactive Digital Television and internet-of-things applications

.Audience research, television studies, ethnography, user studies

.New advertising and revenue models for television

.User creativity on and via television: Web2.0, social media, community television, user-generated content

.Ethical, regulatory and policy issues

.Everyday life practices by family, elderly, youngsters and children

.Digital divide and e-inclusion issues

.Methods for digital television research and design

.From mass media to mass self-communication

.Transitions in broadcasting industry and policy related to digital convergence and experience economy

Track 4: Systems and Enabling Technologies

.Mobile TV

.Ambient intelligence

.Social TV

.Digital content production

.HDTV and digital cinema

.Entertainment computing

.Interactive services (games, betting, game shows)

.Broadband, IPTV, 3DTV and VR systems

.Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction

.Web 2.0

.Internet TV (P2P TV, Web-based Interactive TV)

.Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports)

.Multimedia communication services

.Video technology (video conferencing, broadcast, video search)

.Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL)

Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics:

.Storytelling, role playing, and language for video & TV

.Virtual worlds, mixed reality, and bringing video into the world

.Digital gaming, ambient media, social media, and locative media

.Artistic and aesthetic uses of video & TV technology

.Beyond the home context, extended home, Mobile TV

.Ambient intelligence, ambient media environnements

.Social TV, sociability, usability and user experience

.Digital content production, HDTV and digital cinema

.Asset management, metadata and content enrichment

.Entertainment computing, games, betting, game shows

.Broadband, IPTV, 3DTV and VR systems

.Audience research, television studies, ethnography, user studies

.New advertising and revenue models for television

.Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction

.Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, t-learning

.Web2.0, social media, community television, user-generated content

.Communication services, video conferencing, messaging

.Content management, digital rights management

.Interactive storytelling, interactive advertising

.Electronic program guide, video search, video navigation

.Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports)

.Changes in technical requirements and infrastructures (ubiquitous and mobile)

.Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL)

.Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology

.Personalization, user modeling, intelligent user interfaces

.Ethical, regulatory and policy issues

.Everyday life practices by family, elderly, youngsters and children

.Digital divide and e-inclusion issues

.Methods for digital television research and design

Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed. The main proceedings will be published by ACM, and be made available in

the ACM Digital Library (http://portal.acm.org/). Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for special

issues in a journals or books.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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Conference Chairs

. Artur Lugmayr, EMMi Lab., Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FINLAND

. Petri Vuorimaa, Helsinki Univ. of Technology (HUT), FINLAND

. Pertti Naranen, Tampere Univ. of Applied Sciences (TAMK), FINLAND

Program Chairs

. Celia Quico, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, PORTUGAL

. Gunnar Harboe, Motorola, U.S.A

Publicity Chairs

. Erika Reponen, Nokia Research Centre Tampere, FINLAN

EuroITV Competition Grand Challange

o Susanne Sperring, MediaCity, FINLAND

o Robert Strezbowski, Beuth Hochschlue fuer Technik Berlin, GERMANY

o Milena Szafir, BRAZIL

Sponsor Chair

. Pauliina Tuomi, TUT, FINLAND

Tutorials Chair

. Marianna Obrist, HCI & Usability Unit, ICT&S, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA

. David Geerts, CUO, IBBT / K.U. Leuven, BELGIUM

Doctoral Consortium Chair

. Hendrik Knoche, University College London, UK

. Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, UK

Industrial Exhibition and Demonstration Chairs

. Jussi Pekka Koskiranta, YLE, FINLAND

. Gene Chipman, StreamSage, U.S.A.

. Timo Argillander, Digital Media Finland Oy, FINLAND

Short Papers & Posters Chairs

. Jens Jensen, Aalborg University, DENMARK

. Lyn Pemberton, Brighton University, UK

Workshop Chairs

. Pablo Cesar, CWI, THE NETHERLANDS

. Jari Multisilta, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), Pori, FINLAND

Track chairs

HCI

. Regina Bernhaupt, HCI & Usability Unit, ICT&S, University of Salzburg (A)

. Oliver Friedrich, Fraunhofer Institute, FOKUS, GERMANY

Media Studies

. Jo Pierson, IBBT-SMIT, VUB (B)

. Jaakko Suominen, University of Turku, FINLAND

Technology

. Chengyan Peng, VTT, FINLAND

. Siegfried Fößel, Fraunhofer Institute IIS, GERMANY

Content & Art

. Tapio Takala, Helsinki Univ. of Technology (HUT), FINLAND

. Teijo Pellinen, Univ. of Lapland, FINLAND

. Veijo Hietala, FINLAND

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