Media and communications research at Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media, Arts, and Communication School (BFM)

and Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT)
 
 
 

Newsletter 
1/2 2018
 
 

Indrek Ibrus,

Professor of Media

Innovation,

Head of MEDIT
 

Dear colleagues,

A lot has been changing at the Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM) and the MEDIT centre of excellence. The latter, in particular, has been growing fast, bringing together new projects, people and ideas. Because of this, and because of the excellent friends and colleagues our team has all over the world (that is you), we are staring a 2 times a year newsletter. You are receiving this, because one of us considers you a friend and a great colleague, and thought you might want to keep up with what we are doing. If this is true, please click here to receive future newsletters. You can learn more about our daily activities on our website and on our Facebook page. We look forward to developing more international cooperation projects on topics such as social media or media innovation studies, neurocinema studies, media industry and policy studies or contemporary media transformation studies especially regarding audiovisual screen media. Let us stay in contact!
 
 

NEW BOOK
 
 

Katrin Tiidenberg

Selfie Culture

Katrin Tiidenberg, BFM's Associate Professor of Social Media and Visual Culture recently published a new book titled Selfies, Why We Love (And Hate) Them (Emerald) [tiitli ja kirjastuse all link kirjastuse saidile].  The book has recieved a lot of international media coverage. It has been talked about on BBC Radio London, in The Irish Sun, in The New Statesman,  The Scotsman but also in ScienceNordic and Videndkab.dk. As of June Tiidenberg is a new addition to the Association of Internet Researchers Executive Committee, where she newly holds the position of secretary. 

 

See Tiidenberg's One Minute Lecture video on Selfies
 
 

NEW RESEARCH PROJECT
 
 

Pia Tikka

Enactive Virtuality at MEDIT
 
 

Research Professor Pia Tikka won the Estonian Research Council’s Top Researcher’s Grant for the project titled Enactive Co-presence in Narrative Virtual Reality: A Triadic Interaction Model, which is a research project that combines arts and sciences to explore how the viewer’s experience of co-presence can be controlled by parametrically modifying the behavior of a screen character or its context. 
 
 
 
 

European Media Management Association
 
 
 

Ulrike Rohn, our soon-to-be Professor of Media Management and Economics, was re-elected as the president of emma (European Media Management Association). 
 
 
 

Media Industries

Current Debates and Future Directions
 
 
 

Ulrike Rohn was an invited plenary speaker at the conference MEDIA INDUSTRIES: CURRENT DEBATES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS at King's College in London from April 18-20. Together with David Hesmondhalgh (Leeds University), Jennifer Holt (University of California, Santa Barbara), Ramon Lobato (RMIT University, Australia) and Alisa Perren (University of Texas, Austin) she discussed the current scope of media industries research. 
 
 
 

Open Science

Stakeholder Attitudes

BFM researchers Arko Olesk and Esta Kaal participated in a study investigating the stakeholder attitudes towards Open Science in Estonia. A web survey among Estonian researchers and qualitative interviews with stakeholder representatives showed that the respondents generally support better access to scientific articles and research data but see all kind of practical hindrances for actual implementation of such practices. Lack of money, time and skills were mentioned as barriers but also lack of motivation, related to not seeing the direct societal benefits of Open Science. The current Open Science practices between scientific fields are considerable.

 

The study was commissioned by Estonian Research Council and conducted in collaboration with the Estonian Academy of Sciences. The full report in Estonian with a summary in English is available here.
 
 
 

PUBLICATIONS IN 2018
 
 

Articles and Chapters in Books

Books
  • Ojamaa, Maarja. “Words and Images of Flight: Representations of the Seashore in the Texts about the Overseas Flight of Estonians during the Autumn of 1944.” In: Johannes Riquet, Elizabeth Kollmann (Ed.).  Spatial Modernities: Geography, Narrative, Imaginaries (139). Routledge.
  • Fiadotau, Mikhail. Phenomenological Hermeneutics as a Bridge Between Video Games and Religio-Aesthetics. In: Sister, Vit; Radde-Antweiler, Kersin; Zeiler, Xenia (Ed.).  Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion (101−114). New York: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture).

  • Ibrus, Indrek; Ojamaa, Maarja. Estonia: Transmedial Disruptions and Converging Conceptualizations in a Small Country. In: Freeman, Matthew; Proctor, William (Ed.).  Global Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth (83−97). London: Routledge.

  • Rohn, Ulrike. Media Management Research in the 21st Century. In: Albarran, Alan; Mierzejewska, Bozena; Jung; Jaemin (Ed.). Handbook of Media Management and Economics. Routledge

Articles
 
 
 

Baltic Screen Media Review

Open Access to Articles
 
 
 

BFM continues to publish its own journal titled Baltic Screen Media Review. The BSMR's core mission is to publish original and critical research articles on a variety of screen media forms and phenomena that are either produced in or represent the cultures and realities of the Baltic region. The next issue is expected in October 2018.
 
 

What the Future Holds
 
 

CUDAN
 
 
 

BFM, TLU School of Humanities and School of Digital Technologies received the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme an ERA Chair grant for a five-year project titled Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN) Open Lab. The project will develop new cultural data analytics methods in order to develop new kinds of socially beneficial cultural services and policies. The project will develop an Open Lab space and platform in order to work on joint issues with a variety of external partners. 
 
 
 

Springer Series in Media Industries
 
 
 

Ulrike Rohn signed a contract with Springer to publish a book series titled "Springer Series in Media Industries". She will co-edit this series with Professor Björn von Rimscha from Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. The aim of the book series is to connect research that focuses on the economics and the business of the media with research that is more concerned with the cultural, political and social role of the media.
 
 
 

New Book Agreement
 
 

Indrek Ibrus signed an agreement with the publishing company Emerald, to edit the book "Cross-Innovation: The Audiovisual Sector Co-Innovating with Education, Tourism and Health.” The book will discuss the results of the Cross Motion project. From BFM Alessandro Nanì, Silja Lassur, Külliki Tafel-Viia and Mikhail Fiadotau will also contribute chapters to the book. The book should be published in March of 2019.
 
 
 
 

ICCPR 2018
 
 

BFM is hosting the 10th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research - the registration is open until August 6th! Read more about the conference, see the programme and register here.
 
 
 

Editor

Ele Arder
ele.arder@tlu.ee
+372 61 99 914
 

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