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Workshops and conferences are an important part of the Institute’s work. It is through these convenings that new ideas arise, new research agendas emerge, and new understandings about new media issues are revealed. Partnered programs are ones the Institute organizes and hosts along with another organization. We've had a number in the past and will always be looking for partnering opportunities in the future.

2006-2007

2005-2006

2004-2005

2003-2004

  • Emerging Digerati Showcase - Season 2
    Held on the first Monday of each month during the school year, these informal showcases by UM students and faculty, explore the boundaries of new media use in art, science, and humanities and reflects the intersection between the wide variety of disciplines with new media.
  • New Media Research Breakfast: with Linus Abraham
    October 14, 2004. University of Minnesota.
    The new season of New Media Research Breakfasts will start on October 14 with a presentation by School of Journalism and Mass Communication Assistant Professor Linus Abraham on the topic, “Discursive Enactment of Identity, Race and Cultural Citizenship in Cyberspace: The Case of Somalis in Minnesota.” Please join us for a discussion of his work and methods from 8:00 -to 9:30 am in the SJMC conference center.
  • Minnesota Electronic Theater
    October 13, 2004. Universoty of Minnesota.
    The Minnesota Electronic Theater will take place October 13th from 5 to 10PM at the University of Minnesota Campus Club. The deadline for animation and effects submissions is September 17th, 2004. Please visit our website for submission details and entry forms: http://www.MET2004.com     For 14 years The Minnesota Electronic Theater has been the annual meeting place for the state's computer graphics community. It has served as the premiere showcase for locally-produced award-winning animation and a unique venue for computer graphics professionals, educators, and students to socialize.
  • Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
    August 4 – 6, 2004. Toronto.
    This annual gathering of journalism educators features panels and programs on a variety of topics. INMS Director Nora Paul will be co-hosting and presenting in a panel on research issues for online news, a panel on ethical issues for news websites, and giving the luncheon speech for the Visual Journalism division.
  • Media Center / American Press Institute – Digital Storytelling Master Class
    July 26 – 30, 2004. Reston, VA.
    The Digital Storytelling Master Class is designed to inspire online journalists and digital producers to think of new ways to craft stories. Through presentations by innovative online producers, discussions of digital content crafting issues, and a field trip to the Smithsonian Institute’s online collection development office, the journalists get an inside view, and an opportunity to frame their own vision for digital storytelling.
    INMS Director Nora Paul is co-hosting the seminar and will be holding a Mid-west version at the University of Minnesota December 6-10.
    For information about the seminar: http://www.mediacenter.org/04/Digitalstory/
  • Workshop on the Economics and Laws of Virtual Worlds
    February 23, 2004. Universiry of Minnesota.
    The spillover of the virtual into the real worlds of economics and law is growing. Digital assets acquired in games are being sold on Ebay. The legal and moral rights of avatars in virtual worlds can have implications for the real world gamers. The emerging issues of virtual economics and law are just beginning to be explored.
  • American Press Institute: Digital Storytelling Master Class
    June 22-26, 2003 | December 7-11, 2003. Reston, VA.
    The API and INMS have a common objective: to help online journalists develop the digital medium into a unique storytelling space. One way they have worked together on this is through collaboration on a series of Digital Storytelling Workshops. The workshops were held at API's venter in Reston, VA.
  • Gravel: Kickoff Event
    October 3, 2003. University of Minnesota.
    On October 3 INMS hosted the GRAVEL kickoff, a public event intended to demonstrate the importance of game research in an academic setting. The Kickoff – from 12:00 to 5:00 started with two hours of game playing at the mobile game salon provided by “The Loading Zone.” Following "game-play", speakers from outside the U discussed why games are important opportunities for academic research and then a panel of UM students and faculty from 12 departments ranging from physics to mass communication, from innovation studies to architecture, briefly discussed their own angle on game research.
  • New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methodologies
    September 4-6, 2003. University of Minnesota.
    INMS convened fifty academic researchers from 33 different institutions representing 11 different disciplines for the New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methodologies Symposium. The event focused exclusively on the kinds of research methods being used to study new media, and the kinds of technologies available that make new kinds of methods possible. Nine invited speakers representing a variety of academic disciplines drew a crowd of academics who applied to take part in the conference.


2002-2003

  • Sensing the News: New Audio and Video Techniques for Story-Telling
    July 12-13, 2002. University of Minnesota.
    http://www.newslab.org/resources/sensingnews.htm
    The third in a series of workshops focusing on innovations in online news explored cutting-edge audio and video technologies. This event featured keynote speaker Merrill Brown, former MSNBC editor-in-cheif, and was co-sponsored by INMS and Washington D.C. think-tank NewsLab.
  • The Wall Summit
    June 5-7, 2002
    More than 30 people from around the country using a GeoWall, an immersive, virtual environment used for learning and training, gathered at the University of Minnesota for "The Wall Summit". The goal: to discuss current and future applications of the technology.
  • Emerging Digerati Showcase - Season 1
    Held on the first Monday of each month during the school year, these informal showcases by UM students and faculty, explore the boundaries of new media use in art, science, and humanities and reflects the intersection between the wide variety of disciplines with new media.
  • The Net & Elections and Online Advocacy in Minnesota
    February 20, 2003. University of Minnesota.
    In 1994, Minnesota E-Democracy created the world's first election-oriented web site. In 1998, Governor Jesse Ventura create a global Internet buzz when he credited the use of the Internet as crucial to his victory. In 2002, awareness of election use of the Internet was eclipsed by our tragic election season, the post-dotcom hangover, and by the Internet's integration into our political life. This panel presentation exposed important lessons learned and discussed future trends to watch.


2001-2002

  • Norwegian Journalist Group
    April 29 - May 3, 2002. University of Minnesota.
    A group of journalists from Norway visitied the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Institute for New Media Studies for a four day conference on New Challenges / New Opportunities for News. They visited some area news organizations and heard from SJMC professors, New Directions for News director Dale Peskin, and local news leaders. This was the first stop in their US visit. Following Minneapolis they ventured to the University of Texas - Austin for two weeks of news management and leadership training.
  • Painting the News
    February 15-16, 2002.     University of Minnesota.
    What Journalism Can Learn from Digital Art
    In her role as Director of the Institute for New Media Studies, Nora Paul is always on the lookout for new forms of storytelling. Through the workshop series, "Innovations in Online News," Paul has brought journalists together with members of the Internet community to examine what new story forms the groups could create.
  • News Libraries in Crisis
    November 15-16, 2001.     University of Minnesota.
    There have been tremendous changes in the operation of news libraries over the past half decade. The Institute and the Minnesota Journalism Center collaborated a research project to assess the current state of news libraries. The goal was to provide insight and guidance into how news librarians and their managers can make effective decisions about the news library operation in light of the challenges facing news organizations.
  • Playing the News: Journalism, Interactive Narrative, and Games
    November 1-3, 2001. University of Minnesota.
    This workshop brought journalists and game designers together to discuss the ways journalistic story-telling might take advantage of game techniques for creating more involving and engaging content.
  • New Media Dons:
    October, 2001. Berkeley, California.
    New Media Dons is an informal, non-profit, grassroots, loosely organized, (usually disorganized), leaderless, member propelled (when they have time) collaboration of educators engaged on the frontlines of new media education in journalism. There are no bylaws, no dues (although donations are appreciated to offset publication costs!) and no set agenda.
    Seventeen professors and leaders of new media from 13 journalism programs across the country took part in the first New Media Dons sit-down in October, 2001. In the course of 8 or so hours, the Dons discussed approaches to incorporating new media into the curriculum and outlined the specifics of programs for undergraduates, graduates, and mid-career journalists.
    Visit www.newmediadons.org for an extensive look at the "meat and potatoes" of the October meeting and the Dons' attendees thus far. Read transcripts of their talks and sign up to be informed about the New Media Dons upcoming meetings and events.


2000-2001

  • Visualizing Information: Implications for Story-Telling: a conversation among crafts
    February 15, 2001.     University of Minnesota.
    This workshop brought together professionals from a variety of fields (geology, meteorology, architecture, and journalism) to talk about information visualization techniques they use. The audience of journalists and strategic communications professionals were able to reflect on how these techniques might be used effectively in their own work.
  • Enduring Values? Examining Journalism's Values, Checking for Erosion
    May 20-21, 2001.     University of Minnesota.
    This session, held at Stanford University, was the first of three programs that New Directions for News will be holding in 2001. This roundtable discussion invited in four "constituencies": Media Audience, Media Partners, Media Insurgents, and Media Insiders, to talk about their views on journalism values. Small group discussions provided feedback and ideas about the key issues they saw coming out of the roundtable discussions.
  • PR and the Internet
    May 1, 2001. University of Minnesota.
    This workshop featured public relations executives from around the country discussing how the Internet is changing the nature of public relations work. This conference was one of a series of regional conference set up to discuss the results of the Council of Public Relations Firms' report: "The Impact of the Internet on Public Relations and Marketing Communications: How New Models of Communication Will Create Risks and Opportunities for Communications Professionals."
  • Transforming Your Publication Into a Multi-Media Product
    April 4, 2001. University of Minnesota.
    This daylong workshop had CEO's from three publishing groups talk about their successful, and less successful, multi-platform publishing efforts. The speakers were: David J. Fishman - Sr. VP of Brand Development for Hachette Filipacchi Magazines; Stephen Hedlund - President of Ehlert Publishing Group, Inc.;
    Roger Heegaard - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Homestyles.
    A survey was designed by Nora Paul, director of the Institute for New Media Studies, and sent to MMPA members prior to the conference. She gave a presentation about the results, which revealed members' issues and concerns with multi-platform publishing.
  • Interactivity and Open Media: Embracing the Digital Age
    October 12, 2000.     University of Minnesota.
    This workshop explored the three C’s of interactivity in new media: communications, content, and customization. People from non-media organizations talked about how they applied those interactive elements in their work and the audience of journalists discussed how they were, and weren’t, attempting to do this sort of interactive work in their own organizations.