Digital Media Summer Institute

Digital Media Summer Institute
Registrations are now open until 4th June 11th June, but early bird offer ends on 27th May!
Early Bird: Students: 25€ || Academia: 50€ || Other professionals: 75€
Normal: Students: 25€ || Academia: 100€ || Other professionals: 150€
Global Television in the Age of Netflix
This workshop will cover major current dynamics in national, regional and global television, focusing on Europe, US and Latin America. It will look briefly at technology and industry trends and how television genres are developing at different levels.
Dates: 4 – 6 June
Lecturer:
Joe Straubhaar, UT Austin
Animation Studies
This workshop will explore the distinctiveness of animation in the age of the moving image. It will look into the route from drawings and optical toys to pixels and codes with no straight story in place about the rise and persistence of animation.
Dates: 19 – 22 June
Lecturer:
Lalitha Gopalan, UT Austin
Design for Health and Wellness
A five-day workshop focused on developing a project as a fast simulation of the work of a professional design studio. This will include an immersive experience of lectures, hands-on workshops, fieldwork with emphasis on design solutions for Health and Wellness.
Dates: 25 – 29 June
Lecturer:
José Colucci Jr., UT Austin
Computational Social Media Research Methods
This workshop will explore tools for textual and visual social media data analysis using Netlytic and Gephi to produce graphs, tables and figures to be used in an academic context.
Dates: 4 – 5 July
Lecturer:
Dhiraj Murthy, UT Austin
Adopting Digital Media for Learning
This workshop will focus on how the pedagogical models underlie the successful use of digital media, giving educators guidelines to adapt their courses to integrate these new tools.
Dates: 9 – 10 July
Lecturer:
Hillary Hart, UT Austin
You can also check the Digital Media Summer Institute at iNOVA Media Lab.