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[Shelley Lau <l.shelley AT cityu.edu.hk>]

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

myspace movie - link 2

 

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. 

 

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