Author: David Gauntlett
Art and design . . . and innovation (two videos)
Recently I was invited to speak at a conference for a national network of art and design educators in the Netherlands. This was the Skills 21 Symposium organised by Cultuurnetwerk and held, this year, in the northern city of Leeuwarden. […]
Our final report now published
From February to September 2012 we ran a programme of events and built a network, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the first phase of their Digital Transformations programme. The project initiated a […]
#digitaltrans: The collected tweets
Participants at our four events have produced literally hundreds of tweets, with the hashtag #digitaltrans, containing useful links to relevant resources, and creating a record of the most memorable things said and experienced in the workshops. The tweets from each […]
Onwards and upwards for Digital Transformations
Tomorrow, a number of researchers involved in the AHRC’s Digital Transformations programme are heading off to the Cotswolds – which, for international viewers, is a pretty bit of the English countryside somewhere near Oxford – to consider what this research programme should […]
A tale of two books
Since the earliest days of the Web, there has been an obvious ‘digital transformation’ which is about cutting out the middlepeople. Until the mid 1990s, for example, many people booked holidays via a travel agent, which seemed normal and fine. […]
Digital transformations means open access … and a whole new way of doing things
There is much talk about ‘open access’ at the moment. The open access movement calls for all academic research to be made available for free online. The Economist and then The Guardian, perhaps rather fancifully, characterised the growing momentum of this […]
Community-powered digital transformations in learning workshop, 21 June 2012
Community-powered digital transformations in learning workshop 21 June 2012 University College London How can we use digital tools to explore knowledge in new ways, and translate ideas and materials into digital arenas in order to gain new understandings? How can […]
Designing for community-powered digital transformations workshop, 15 May 2012
Designing for community-powered digital transformations workshop 15 May 2012 Tate Britain, London Digital transformations mean that cultural and media organisations now find themselves in a new environment in which communities of participants interact to create, curate, organise and support cultural experiences. This […]
Henry Jenkins – talk and discussion, 15 May 2012
We are delighted that Professor Henry Jenkins, of the University of Southern California, author of Convergence Culture, will be speaking about his new book Spreadable Media at a Digital Transformations event at the University of Westminster in London. Professor Jenkins will give a […]
Winchester School of Art, 28 November 2012
David Gauntlett – presentation and discussion: Creativity, innovation and disruption Winchester School of Art Graphics Building, Seminar room 7-8 28 November 2012, 4.00-5.30pm [note new time and room] All welcome, free admission, no tickets In this talk, David Gauntlett will consider […]