Tuesday, March 13, 2012
11:30am-1pm, Fleming 157:
Creative Industries and the Future of Universities
Terry Flew
Professor of Communication and Media Studies,
Queensland University of Technology – Brisbane, Australia
In his presentation, Prof. Flew will draw out some of the contextual factors that have shaped the creative industries debate in Australia, particularly the centrality of cultural studies to media and communications research in Australia and tensions surrounding the expectation that such work be both critical and popular in its focus. He will also highlight ten external developments to the university environment that are acting as forces shifting media and cultural policies toward the creative industries, and what such developments may mean for future teaching, research, industry, policy, and community engagement at universities.
2pm-3:30pm, Fleming 157
Panel Discussion: ”Public Media and the Digital Migration”
Jessica Clark, Author and Media Strategist
Wick Rowland, President and CEO, Colorado Public Television, and former dean of journalism and mass communication at CU Boulder
Michael Tracey, Professor, CU Journalism and Mass Communication
For the past several years, public broadcasting in the United States and in many other countries has experienced a far-reaching technological transformation. Because of media convergence, and because of the migration by broadcasters from analog to digital platforms that place fewer restrictions on the temporal and spatial reach of their programming, public broadcasting operations now increasingly are referred to as “public media.” This panel of experts will discuss the cultural and political implications of the digital migration that continues to re-shape the scale and scope of public media.
5:15pm-6:45pm, Humanities 150
“Design Thinking: How it Can Help You To Be More Innovative and Creative”
Warren Berger
Author of Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Business and Your Life
“Design thinking” has become a popular business term in the past few years, yet there’s some confusion about what it means. Innovation expert Warren Berger explains that design thinking is a way of approaching and solving problems in a creative, constructive manner. And it’s not just for designers—it’s for anyone who wants to innovate, reinvent businesses, and tap into their creativity. Berger studied more than 100 leading designers and innovators and has distilled their solutions down into several key steps that can be applied to almost any type of challenge that requires reinvention and innovation.
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
11am-12pm, Old Main Chapel
“Rethinking Public Media: More Local, More Inclusive, More Interactive”
Barbara Cochran
Professor and Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, University of Missouri
Government funding for public broadcasting has long been a subject of political debate. Cochran will offer five broad strategies and 21 specific recommendations to reform public media, as illustrated in her 2010 Knight Commission white paper “Rethinking Public Media: More Local, More Inclusive, More Interactive.” The strategies include strengthening local news operations, sharing digital platforms among public entities, recruiting more diverse workforces, and reforming public media structures. It also makes the case for increasing government, private, and philanthropic funding of public service media.