University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum şi Kunsthaus Graz au organizat în perioada 27-29 Noiembrie 2008 Conferinţa Internaţională EADiM Academic Network Conference 2008 şi gala premiilor Europrix Multimedia.
Programul conferinţei:eadim-academic-network-conference
Rezumate ale lucrărilor prezentate:
Visual Culture in New Interface Design
conf. univ. dr. Elena Abrudan - şefa Departamentul de Jurnalism, FSPAC, UBB
As technology develops, one cannot help notice the general tendency that media machines follow: simpler, slick designs with fewer colors, fewer buttons, with just a few multi-purpose controls. This is one of the effects of the convergence of technology that allows all media to be displayed on the same screen. As Lev Manovich puts it, we are witness to the advent of the universal media machine. Be it a universal media machine we keep at home on a desk, one we carry around in a bag, or one we keep in our pockets, we notice how they have changed over the last decades from bulky, difficult to operate machines, full of buttons and blinking LEDs to these comfortable and esthetic, monochrome, slick surfaces that only carry one or two once omnipresent buttons, sometimes even none.
In these new designs for digital media machines, both for hard and soft interfaces we find that technology is becoming transparent, completing the shift from digital technology control for IT specialists to digital media consumption for the masses.
Arthur C. Clarke once said “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Can it be that this is exactly what we are starting to achieve through simple, smart designs for smart multi-purpose interfaces?
This paper means to explore visual culture in the universal digital media machines’ both hard and soft interfaces designs with respect to the latent, fundamental desire of humans across history to practice magic. Discussing the design trend started by Apple with their iPods, iPhones and Macs, moving to the simple yet astounding Google and then to slick, transparent, visually rich, yet simple to use operating systems look and feel: from Mac OSX to Windows Vista, this article will try to encompass modern visual culture in digital media migrating towards magic in order to better fulfill the consumer’s need to be empowered.
Extracting and Representing Knowledge from Popular New Media Systems
Analyzing Online Social Networking Systems in Web 2.0
Radu Meza
This paper explores the academic research relevance of online social networking systems such as Hi5 or Facebook using state-of-the-art data collection and analysis methods.
Although it is a widely-known fact that online social networking systems hold immense amounts of data (there are over 2 billion registered users in the popular online social networking systems), there is still little academic interest towards exploiting this resource for knowledge, but more importantly, we have yet to develop the tools for such research. This attempt is meant to open new paths for future research of complex new media systems by combining data mining methods with alternative representation models.
The main goal of this study is to extract a large sample of user data (name, age, sex, location, favorite musical genre etc.) from the Hi5 social networking system (which is very popular in Romania, having about 2.5 million registered users) and use formal concept analysis, a data analysis method theorized by Rudolf Wille that has not yet reached its full potential especially in social studies. The conceptual clustering and conceptual hierarchies that this data analysis method can provide are relevant for extracting meaning out of Web 2.0 data content tags. Statistical tools are also used to complement this new approach and offer a full, clear picture of the data in question. Another objective of this paper is to provide a map of the virtual social links in the system. This web of interconnected nodes, can provide information on the structure of virtual social networks (whether or not they follow the model of scale-free networks like Albert Barabasi proved real social networks or the Web do; whether their structure is “continental” or “insular” and to what extent we can consider these popular emerging systems to be “small worlds”).
