[Cc-hk] CityU's Future of TV seminar series

Shelley Lau l.shelley at cityu.edu.hk
Wed Mar 18 05:28:18 EDT 2009


Hi CC-HK,



As part of the CityU's Future of TV seminar series, the School of Creative
Media would like to invite you to join the talks on March 20 (Fri), and
March 23(Mon) by Prof. Abigail De Kosnik, University of California,
Berkeley.



The talks relate to what CC is advocating and serve as a knowledge-sharing
for the audience in the CC-HK community (students/professionals) to draw new
insights on.  They aim to cover the new model and paradigm shift in content
production such as UGC and grassroots productions.  It will also try to
cover the "open source TV and film production" which is an emerging trend in
the US.  The speaker will use the lecture content to provide rationale /
cases on how the open production paradigm could be sustained by different
and new economic, employment and revenue models.



For your reference / example:

myspace movie<http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/MySpace-Movie-Faintheart-Gets-Online-Premiere-Film-Features-Little-Dorrit-Star-Eddie-Marsan/Article/200901415210785?lpos=UK_News_Second_Home_Page_Feature_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15210785_MySpace_Movie_Faintheart>

myspace movie - link
2<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2134778/Faintheart,-world's-first-MySpace-movie,-to-debut-at-Edinburgh-Film-Festival.html>



Other open source films or community-driven production before but
work-in-progress or smaller scale:



http://moviepals.org/

http://aswarmofangels.com/

http://orange.blender.org/ - elephants dream



Hope to see you all.



Best Regards,

Shelley



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*Full Details:*

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*Talk 1:*

*Gvod (Global Video on Demand):  Audience-Driven Television and the
Industry's Next Phase*



*by Prof. Abigail De Kosnik, University of California, Berkeley*



Date: 20/03/2009 (Friday)

Time: 16:30 - 17:30

Venue: LT-3 (Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong)



The role of the audience in television production, distribution, and
consumption is undergoing a radical transformation.  The audience is
shifting from being receivers of content to being users of an interactive
entertainment system.  This talk will examine how digital technologies and
media convergence serve to open up new possibilities for audiences to drive
their engagement with television.



*Talk 2:*

*Frothy TV: Opportunities for Industry Innovation in Hard Times*

* *

*by Prof. Abigail De Kosnik, University of California, Berkeley*



Date: 23/03/2009 (Monday)

Time: 16:30 - 17:30

Venue: LT-3 (Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong)



As established avenues for income dwindle in a recession, opportunities for
innovating new paths multiply.  Entertainment is typically regarded as a
"recession-proof" industry, but this does not mean that existing firms are
impervious to economic losses.  This talk will focus, not on how to best
prepare for jobs in the media industry as it is currently configured, but
how old industry jobs might be reconfigured, or new ones invented.



*Speaker’s Bio:*

Dr. Abigail De Kosnik is an Assistant Professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Center for New Media and the
Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies.  Her primary research
interests are popular culture and digital technologies, Asian/American
studies, and minority discourse.  She is co-editing, with Sam Ford and C.
Lee Harrington, a book on the endangered genre of daytime television drama,
called The Survival of Soap Opera: Strategies for a New Media Era.



*Getting to CityU*

http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/wayfinder/GettingToU/index.htm
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