Pop.Akademie

Baden-Württemberg

Die Popakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH wird von einer Gesellschafterstruktur aus öffentlichen und privaten Trägern finanziert. Sie ist bundesweit das einzige Institut in seiner Branche mit der Zielrichtung, Kreativität und wirtschaftliche Praxis zu verknüpfen. Dies wird insbesondere durch die Zusammenarbeit von Partnern aus Politik, Medien und Wirtschaft ermöglicht.

[ www.popforum.de ]
[ www.pop-akademie.de ]

Transliteracies Project

Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading

Established in 2005, the Transliteracies Project includes scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and engineering in the University of California system (and in the future other research programs). It will establish working groups to study online reading from different perspectives; bring those groups into conjunction behind a shared technology development initiative; publish research and demonstration software; and train graduate students working at the intersections of the humanistic, social, and technological disciplines.

Technological development will be integrated with humanistic and social-science research (empirical, historical, interpretive, critical, aesthetic) that explicitly questions what “improve” or “community” might mean. The idea is to exploit cross-disciplinary expertise to approach online reading from multiple angles simultaneously, rather than just as an engineering problem, just as a hermeneutical problem, or just as a social problem. The goal, in other words, is avoid producing a quick-fix extra “feature set” for online reading, but instead to create a demonstration technology founded upon deep, wide reflection on the issues.

[ transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu ]

THE KAOSPILOTS

WHERE CREATIVITY & INNOVATION GO TO SCHOOL

The KaosPilots’ staff and students are just as creative, audacious, curious, risk-taking and socially engaged today as they were when the school opened its doors to the very first team of students 14 years ago – if not more so.

The school’s academic and pedagogical ambitions have, none the less, remained the same over the years: to develop a unique educational program and competency environment for young people who wish to make a positive difference in society.

The criteria for success are not only that the students get good jobs after they graduate, but that they create new and exciting jobs.

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[ www.kaospilot.dk ]