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Dear Everyone,
May I please invite your attention that, Jin Shang is going to present a talk on the title of 'Creative Cuppa: An Induction Tour' in the upcoming event, 'Social Media: Use or Abuse'. At the time, Jin would give a brief introduction about the project 'Creative Cuppa', he would also like to generate a follow-up discussion with other participants, in terms of the question how the latest web 2.0 technologies (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Xphone, etc.) can be well used and organically incorporated with the real world social activities (i.e. group meetings and social networking of membership, etc.), in order to achieve specific goals for framing and organizing an effective and inclusive 'digital community'.
For more details about the project 'Creative Cuppa', please visit our websites at http://creativecuppa.com, or
you could always join us in the Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=60675201456
Many thanks for your attention!
Best wishes,
Jin Shang
Creative Cuppa Working Group (CCWG)
Department of Media and Communication
University of Leicester
25 June 2009
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http://usesandabuses.wordpress.com/programme/
(One Day Seminar - Social Media: Use or Abuse)
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Creative Cuppa Official Website Launced (New!)
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Dear Everyone,
I'm pleased to announce that Creative Cuppa has recently launched its 'official website' at ( http://www.creativecuppa.com ). It means that from now on we would be able to access to our own independent 'official space' online. I would also like to take the opportunity to thank you all for your great effort and support to us. We look forward to seeing you soon next week!
Best wishes,
Jin Shang
Project Manager
& Operating Director
Creative Cuppa Seminar Series (CCSS)
Department of Media and Communication
University of Leicester
Dear Everyone,
I'm pleased to announce that Creative Cuppa has recently launched its 'official website' at ( http://www.creativecuppa.com ). It means that from now on we would be able to access to our own independent 'official space' online. I would also like to take the opportunity to thank you all for your great effort and support to us. We look forward to seeing you soon next week!
Best wishes,
Jin Shang
Project Manager
& Operating Director
Creative Cuppa Seminar Series (CCSS)
Department of Media and Communication
University of Leicester
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Creative Cuppa 8th Coffee Meetup
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Creative Cuppa 8th Coffee Meetup
(Event completed & newsletter coming out soon...)
Theme: Creative Technologies & Contemporary Cinema
Time: 12:00pm - 13:00pm (Tuesday, 23rd June 2009)
Venue: KE 526 (Ken Edwards Building), City Campus, University of Leicester
Guest Speaker: by Dr. Anna Claydon
Event Coordinator: Jin Shang
Event description: Dr. Anna Claydon
Technology has shaped cinema: it is an invention of the 19th century created by science played out at the fairground and in the flea-pit and twenty-first century cinema is no different... only now the scientists are 'imagineers' and the forum is the IMAX cinema or the online download.
When Edison and WKL Dickson first developed the Kinematograph in the early 1890s, their aim, explicitly, was to create an audio-visual experience, conjoining the phonograph with moving images. This was not possible then but inventors worked on this until the 1920s, when Vitaphone finally won the competition. Similarly, colour and ever increasing realism and expression was sought from the very beginnings of cinema and so frames were handpainted, then tinted and by the 1930s, coloured with Technicolor's 3 colour system. When sound was introduced, some thought it would be the death-knell of creativity in cinema; when colour illuminated the screen, audiences were reputedly shocked by the invasion of their space with the too red and too green hues with which they were faced: and in the 1950 and 60s, as cinema audiences globally began to die, it was to technology and science that the industries turned once more. Cinerama, 3D, vibrating seats, electric shocks and 'smellovision' were the tools of a desperate industry trying to seduce audiences: the 'cinema of attractions' was all the more a cinema of effects.
In recent years, despite many excellent movies being made, the cinema industry has been facing another challenge and production has fallen. The audience is changing and how they consume has altered. What they expect of action has been transformed by computer games and what was once a believable effect is now automatically hyper-real: the impossible appears made possible. Thus, in the face of criticism about a paucity of original film narratives (as evidenced by the large numbers of remakes) and the love of the new, filmmakers push the boundaries of film with every movie they produce and try to re-acquaint the spectator with what made film special: the fact it could not be experienced anywhere else in quite the same way. In this session, we shall examine how creative technologies contribute to contemporary cinema narrative and style and debate the impact of these technologies themselves upon creativity and quality in the cinema.
Come along and share your creative ideas with others. Everyone is welcome. Beverage & snacks are served for free. You can pop in and drop out anytime. Most importantly we hope you feel fun, relax, and really enjoy being with everyone of us!
http://creativecuppa.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=60675201456
Creative Cuppa Seminar Series
June 14, 2009
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Creative Cuppa 8th Coffee Meetup
(Event completed & newsletter coming out soon...)
Theme: Creative Technologies & Contemporary Cinema
Time: 12:00pm - 13:00pm (Tuesday, 23rd June 2009)
Venue: KE 526 (Ken Edwards Building), City Campus, University of Leicester
Guest Speaker: by Dr. Anna Claydon
Event Coordinator: Jin Shang
Event description: Dr. Anna Claydon
Technology has shaped cinema: it is an invention of the 19th century created by science played out at the fairground and in the flea-pit and twenty-first century cinema is no different... only now the scientists are 'imagineers' and the forum is the IMAX cinema or the online download.
When Edison and WKL Dickson first developed the Kinematograph in the early 1890s, their aim, explicitly, was to create an audio-visual experience, conjoining the phonograph with moving images. This was not possible then but inventors worked on this until the 1920s, when Vitaphone finally won the competition. Similarly, colour and ever increasing realism and expression was sought from the very beginnings of cinema and so frames were handpainted, then tinted and by the 1930s, coloured with Technicolor's 3 colour system. When sound was introduced, some thought it would be the death-knell of creativity in cinema; when colour illuminated the screen, audiences were reputedly shocked by the invasion of their space with the too red and too green hues with which they were faced: and in the 1950 and 60s, as cinema audiences globally began to die, it was to technology and science that the industries turned once more. Cinerama, 3D, vibrating seats, electric shocks and 'smellovision' were the tools of a desperate industry trying to seduce audiences: the 'cinema of attractions' was all the more a cinema of effects.
In recent years, despite many excellent movies being made, the cinema industry has been facing another challenge and production has fallen. The audience is changing and how they consume has altered. What they expect of action has been transformed by computer games and what was once a believable effect is now automatically hyper-real: the impossible appears made possible. Thus, in the face of criticism about a paucity of original film narratives (as evidenced by the large numbers of remakes) and the love of the new, filmmakers push the boundaries of film with every movie they produce and try to re-acquaint the spectator with what made film special: the fact it could not be experienced anywhere else in quite the same way. In this session, we shall examine how creative technologies contribute to contemporary cinema narrative and style and debate the impact of these technologies themselves upon creativity and quality in the cinema.
Come along and share your creative ideas with others. Everyone is welcome. Beverage & snacks are served for free. You can pop in and drop out anytime. Most importantly we hope you feel fun, relax, and really enjoy being with everyone of us!
http://creativecuppa.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=60675201456
Creative Cuppa Seminar Series
June 14, 2009
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Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Newsletter for 7th Creative Cuppa Meet-up
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On the 28th May, Creative Cuppa had its 7th meet-up in ATT SB2.07 (Attenborough 2nd FLR), City Campus, University of Leicester. Many thanks to Amit Chandraker, Aoeline Tao, Chih-Jung Fan, Ebruhim Hasum, Hongsuda Sornhlin, Li Jun Zhang, Patama Satawedin, Naparat Prueksuralai, Sarah Cameron, Zidong Huang for their participation. We would also like to express our special gratitude to those who came from the School of Management and Department of Engineering. This time, our discussion was focused on the future possibilities of communication development and the technologies mediating its development, with Zhang Lijun, Chih-jung Fan and Tony O'Tierney respectively discussing their own experiences and views on the different new media as emerging technologies and future modes of communication; below are their contributions to the 'collaborative' work of the newsletter (including Sarah Cameron's comments on the event).
Tony discussed some issues surrounding the ID card debate, showing the views of politicians and journalists on the topic. The group discussed some arguments countering the proposed benefits from the scheme. There was lively debate over the validity of public concerns, with some suggesting that the ID card scheme is consistent with practices in other countries while others saw great disparities. Jin suggested that some of the fears people have regarding the controversial ID card database might be eased by the appointment of a third party overseer to monitor its implementation. (by Tony O'Tierney)
Zhang Lijun shared her original experience of using Pbworks to do a group work. It is a good tool for collaborative works, especially in the aspect of recording all the project process in one page. Some ideas were discussed in the meeting. Firstly, the security problem was considered. It is true that there may be encounter such issue because of the uncertainty of technology. Secondly, some people think it is more or less the same as public forum or Google Docs. However, it has its main focus on law, design & marketing, Consulting, Educational, General and personal aspect. So some people may say it is more like an intranet service outsourcing. Anyway, it has its advantage on improving productivity and efficiency. More exploring is needed to find more about it. (by Zhang Lijun)
Chih-Jung mentioned that television might become 'YouTube' alike in the future. It might have influences on the funding of broadcasters and viewing behaviour. It also raised the discussion on the regulation aspect. If everyone can upload the content, how could the regulatory body regulate the content? The censorship system might have to change. Regulation would become an important issue in the digital age. Regarding to the interactive functions, such as telephone and recording service, it would depend on the faster transmission infrastructure. The government and media (or telecommunication) companies need to invest more on the construction of the internet infrastructure. (by Chih-jung Fan)
The meet up was really interesting and productive. The presentation of pbwiki showed how it can be a very useful research platform. The discussion about digital television allowed us to think about the future possibilities for programming, audience behaviour and advertising. The discussion about ID cards was really engaging, I have strong beliefs about the issue which is also related to my own research. It was a good session and though people disagreed about issues (which is what makes a good debate!) we all acknowledged that technologies can be of great benefit or detriment to us, depending largely on the nature of usage, user intent, wider social and political backdrops and most fundamentally I believe, on power structures. (by Sarah Cameron)
This time, we successfully tried a collaborative work, with almost everyone making their own contribution to the event. From the feedback, we’ve also received our best comments since the project commenced. Next time, we will focus on the topic of Creative Technologies & Contemporary Cinema; and we’re very pleased we have invited Dr. Anna Claydon to give a talk about technology's impact on the transformation of contemporary cinema, and Anna would like to share her own thought on how technologies, both 'old' and 'new', are used to shape the footage in the process of filmmaking today. Again, we would like to thank everyone who has made enormous contributions to Creative Cuppa. We look forward to seeing you all next time!
Video links: http://pbworks.com/academic.wiki (PBworks)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LONA3Acc5js (Channel 4: No to ID cards)
Yours sincerely,
Jin Shang
Creative Cuppa Seminar Series
Department of Media and Communication
University of Leicester
June 2, 2009
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On the 28th May, Creative Cuppa had its 7th meet-up in ATT SB2.07 (Attenborough 2nd FLR), City Campus, University of Leicester. Many thanks to Amit Chandraker, Aoeline Tao, Chih-Jung Fan, Ebruhim Hasum, Hongsuda Sornhlin, Li Jun Zhang, Patama Satawedin, Naparat Prueksuralai, Sarah Cameron, Zidong Huang for their participation. We would also like to express our special gratitude to those who came from the School of Management and Department of Engineering. This time, our discussion was focused on the future possibilities of communication development and the technologies mediating its development, with Zhang Lijun, Chih-jung Fan and Tony O'Tierney respectively discussing their own experiences and views on the different new media as emerging technologies and future modes of communication; below are their contributions to the 'collaborative' work of the newsletter (including Sarah Cameron's comments on the event).
Tony discussed some issues surrounding the ID card debate, showing the views of politicians and journalists on the topic. The group discussed some arguments countering the proposed benefits from the scheme. There was lively debate over the validity of public concerns, with some suggesting that the ID card scheme is consistent with practices in other countries while others saw great disparities. Jin suggested that some of the fears people have regarding the controversial ID card database might be eased by the appointment of a third party overseer to monitor its implementation. (by Tony O'Tierney)
Zhang Lijun shared her original experience of using Pbworks to do a group work. It is a good tool for collaborative works, especially in the aspect of recording all the project process in one page. Some ideas were discussed in the meeting. Firstly, the security problem was considered. It is true that there may be encounter such issue because of the uncertainty of technology. Secondly, some people think it is more or less the same as public forum or Google Docs. However, it has its main focus on law, design & marketing, Consulting, Educational, General and personal aspect. So some people may say it is more like an intranet service outsourcing. Anyway, it has its advantage on improving productivity and efficiency. More exploring is needed to find more about it. (by Zhang Lijun)
Chih-Jung mentioned that television might become 'YouTube' alike in the future. It might have influences on the funding of broadcasters and viewing behaviour. It also raised the discussion on the regulation aspect. If everyone can upload the content, how could the regulatory body regulate the content? The censorship system might have to change. Regulation would become an important issue in the digital age. Regarding to the interactive functions, such as telephone and recording service, it would depend on the faster transmission infrastructure. The government and media (or telecommunication) companies need to invest more on the construction of the internet infrastructure. (by Chih-jung Fan)
The meet up was really interesting and productive. The presentation of pbwiki showed how it can be a very useful research platform. The discussion about digital television allowed us to think about the future possibilities for programming, audience behaviour and advertising. The discussion about ID cards was really engaging, I have strong beliefs about the issue which is also related to my own research. It was a good session and though people disagreed about issues (which is what makes a good debate!) we all acknowledged that technologies can be of great benefit or detriment to us, depending largely on the nature of usage, user intent, wider social and political backdrops and most fundamentally I believe, on power structures. (by Sarah Cameron)
This time, we successfully tried a collaborative work, with almost everyone making their own contribution to the event. From the feedback, we’ve also received our best comments since the project commenced. Next time, we will focus on the topic of Creative Technologies & Contemporary Cinema; and we’re very pleased we have invited Dr. Anna Claydon to give a talk about technology's impact on the transformation of contemporary cinema, and Anna would like to share her own thought on how technologies, both 'old' and 'new', are used to shape the footage in the process of filmmaking today. Again, we would like to thank everyone who has made enormous contributions to Creative Cuppa. We look forward to seeing you all next time!
Video links: http://pbworks.com/academic.wiki (PBworks)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LONA3Acc5js (Channel 4: No to ID cards)
Yours sincerely,
Jin Shang
Creative Cuppa Seminar Series
Department of Media and Communication
University of Leicester
June 2, 2009
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