Several companies are investing in digital technology to improve urban infrastructure, reduce costs, and enhance the overall quality of public and private services. Based on sharing economy, these companies seek to optimize resources through the redistribution, sharing, and reuse of…
CCA Conference 2016 – I/O: Enforcing Idealized Newsmaking Practices Through Algorithm
During the Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Conference 2017 (Toronto, Canada), I presented the paper “ I/O: Enforcing Idealized Newsmaking Practices Through Algorithm”. Below you will find the abstract and my slides. Abstract For more than two centuries the production of…
CCA Conference Paper: Uber’s Dysfunctional Discourse of Technological Disruption
During the Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Conference 2016 (Calgary, Canada), I presented the paper “Accelerating Sharing Economy: Uber’s Dysfunctional Discourse of Technological Disruption”. Below you will find the abstract, my slides, and the link the completed version of this paper.…
Decoding Location-Based Information: Mobile Media Approach
Physical space always served as a support for human expression: inscriptions on stones, statues, billboards, posters, and so on. However, the production of location-based information is usually restricted and controlled by government powers, which have the authority to choose what…
Workflow Mutation: From Tedious to Fun
The process of modeling workflows for any purposes might be seen as a laborious and tedious experience. Even fun projects, like the development of mobile applications or video games, depending on tools with very formal structural representation, usually not user-friendly,…
Touching the Physical World Through Mobile Media
Up to now, this panel has been about multitouch surfaces and interactions with the text. We have discussed how our fingers almost “touch” digital objects through a thin layer on top of a screen. The response is so fast that…