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Reconfigurations: digital media and transformations in public and scientific communication

CONFERENCE | June 7 | 9h30 am - 6h15 pm | BNP | Free entrance

Several contemporary studies on communication, culture and media describe digital environments – resulting from the convergence between computer science, audiovisual media and telecommunications) – as privileged spaces for cultural creation by Internet users. The conference “Reconfigurations: Digital media and transformations in public and scientific communication” will present original scientific knowledge on the different participatory forms of online informational and cultural content creation and exchange. Today, those new forms have multiplied, demanding strategic adaptations of several sectors of the culture and communication.

This is particularly evident in journalism, where all information is prepared in a single location and under renewed environments of information management. Journalists are pushed to create news material, daily, in and across all media: print, radio, television and the Internet, and be ready to distribute it through systems of podcasting, sms, rss and blogging. Scientific communication, too, has undergone profound transformations with widespread access to and use of the Internet. The volume and rate of exchange of scientific information has increased exponentially, reshaping what is to do science.

The conference “Reconfigurations” aims to discuss some of the results of the project “Mutation of media: transformations in public and scientific communication” (PTDC/CCI-COM/100765/2008), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). The project sought to understand how the profound evolution of the uses of the internet is part of a process of mutation of the media and assess how this process is transforming public and scientific communication. Based on case studies (online video and photographs, microblogging, and the sharing of scientific knowledge by professionals and amateurs), the theoretical frame of this research was developed at the intersection of the field of information and communication sciences and media studies, as well as science and technology studies (STS).

With this joint research work it was possible to establish a partnership between two important research units in Portugal and Canada – ICS-UL and CIRST – strengthening the ties of what has been until now informal and occasional collaboration. The conference “Reconfigurations” brings together the Portuguese team, coordinated by José Luís Garcia (ICS-UL), and the Canadian team, coordinated by Serge Proulx (UQAM / Télécom ParisTech), as well as other colleagues who will comment the presented results.