Emerging Media Practices and Environments

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Session 1: Changes in the Media Environment

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Host Kari-Hans Kommonen, with Jari Ahola (VTT), Fredrik Husberg (TVkaista) and Ken Rimey (HIIT)

Update: Session 1 notes on Qaiku

Session 2: Video Republic - Intertwining Audiences and Makers

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:31:18 +0000

Host Tommi Laitio, with Johnny Durham (johnnydurham19), Nikki Timmermans (Kennisland), Rosa Kettumäki and Jalmari Sarla (Nuorten Ääni)

Update: Session 2 notes on Qaiku

Open Space: Present your own project in 5 minutes!

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Hosted by Sanna Marttila and Jenna Sutela
Open stage, we welcome all to speak about their projects (big or small)!

Speakers:

Anttu Harlin: The Guys
Petri Kola: Open Research Swarm – Openness - Practice what you preach!
Juha Kronqvist: Porkkanamafia
Andrew Gryf Paterson: Clip Kino
Kaisa Simola & Diana de Sousa: Digitytöt
Abhigyan Singh: We use GNU-Linux, a documentary movie project
Diana de Sousa: Esa ja Esineet
Jukka Ylitalo: DialogHead
You: Your project

Session 3: When the Audience Talks Back

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Host Paula Le Dieu, with Seija Aunila (YLE), Zsófia Deme (NAVA), Johan Oomen (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid) and Arto Tamminen (Kopiosto)

Update: Session 3 notes on Qaiku

Session 4: Designing for Emerging Practices

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Host Sanna Marttila, with Eszter Babarczy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Herkko Hietanen (HIIT), Hannu Nieminen (Nokia) and Lauri Kainulainen (TAIK)

Update: Session 4 notes on Qaiku

Kari-Hans Kommonen

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Kari-Hans Kommonen is the director of the Arki research group in the Media Lab TAIK. He will host the first session that discusses various aspects of the evolution of the media environment. He believes that media is where society thinks, and therefore the changes in the design of the media, that are in effect also changes in the nervous system of the society, can have a very large effect in changing the way society thinks in the future.

Jari Ahola

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Jari Ahola is the technology manager of Mobile and Embedded Solutions knowledge center at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. In addition to his R&D management activities, he is currently coordinating P2P-Next, a FP7 Integrated Project creating the next generation content delivery platform based on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology.

Fredrik Husberg

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:49:56 +0000

Fredrik Husberg is the CEO of TVkaista Oy. TVkaista is an online personal recorder service for digital television channels that lets its users to view or download any of the programs of the major Finnish digital tv channels for a period of 2 weeks after their broadcast.

Ken Rimey

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:48:15 +0000

Ken Rimey is a Senior Research Scientist at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, where he enjoys building engineering prototypes of innovative networked systems. His main focus recently has been on developing the Peerscape peer-to-peer social network, one of the results of the P2P-Fusion project.