Highlights

The CITIZEN MEDIA project was presented in the plenary 1 of the Ministerial Conference by Boris Nemsic, CEO Telekom Austria Group.
In addition the pilot-project "Buntes Fernsehen Engerwitzdorf (Colorful TV)" was medal finalist at the European e-Inclusion Award and was elected among the best of five in the category "Digital Literacy". Read more about the event and watch at the videos at following page

During PLAN08 the major of Cologne launched the Unortkataster. In a very original way with artists and choirs, the citizen of Cologne were introduced to the this application. Read more about the event and watch at the videos at following page.

PICNIC conference presents the latest trends at the crossroads of media, technology, entertainment, art and science. At this event the CITIZEN MEDIA organised a Special with 70 participants. During an interactive sessions, the various project parnters challenged the audience with business models of the CITIZEN MEDIA applications. At regular intervals, the entire audience could express their opinion by voting in favour or against the vision established in the project. Read more about the event at following page.

NordiCHI is the main Nordic forum for human-computer interaction research. During the NordiCHI2008 conference from 20 to 22 October 2008 in Lund, CITIZEN MEDIA is organising 3 workshops: New approaches to requirements elicitation, How can HCI improve social media development and co-design and HCI. Read more about the event at the following page.

The people from the "Beukenhoflaan" - an offline community of people living in Limburg / Belgium - shared their experiences regarding their collaboration with the CITIZEN MEDIA project on TV Limburg. They expressed how the technology has affected their community, how they have made contact with new people living in their street.
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Different people within CITIZEN MEDIA were key editors on a whitepaper regarding the Future and Challenges in European Research on User Centric Media published by the Networked Media Unit of the DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission. This public document is available from our website.
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CITIZEN MEDIA is a partner of the European Interactive TV Conference. The conference is held on 3-4 July 2008 in Salzburg, Austria. Besides some project partners being part of the organizing committee, CITIZEN MEDIA will also submit papers and have an exhibit booth at the conference. So hope to meet you there. Read more about the conference and how to submit papers

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Each quarter the project publishes an easy to read newsletter about the results and progress. Download the newsletter

By 3 different studies our project has gained insight in how non-professional users co-create new media applications today, in particular in online and offline communities. The main objective was to identify initial context, user and social requirements for CITIZEN MEDIA applications. Find the document and read more about its press coverage

Viviane Reding, commissioner for information society and media visited the Engerwitzdorf-booth at the conference "Bridging the Broadband Gap 2007", to learn about CITIZEN MEDIA and local pecularities of Engerwitzdorf such as "G'stanzl singen". Read more

Experts from public broadcasters, social networks, media companies and service providers in the Netherlands were invited to share their experiences about the legal and regulatory problems they face today when working with user generated content. Read more

At the start of our project each partner was interviewed about his or her expectations. The management-by-media carried out inside the consortium used these recordings to make a first movie about our project. Watch the movie

On 6 december 2006, Petter Bae Brandtzæg from SINTEF presented results from CITIZEN MEDIA project on the national news. This attacted a lot of attention in the media especially in Norway. Read more about the press coverage and watch the emission online

Workpackage 1, 3 and 5 have setup a workshop about supporting non-professional users in the new media landscape. The workshop will take place in San Jose on 29 April 2007. Read more about this workshop