media

Russell Davies who gave an outstanding talk at Lift10 (yes, that was him with the big red button), recently published an article in the UK print edition of Wired. Thanks Russell for your kind words on Lift! You can read the article here.

And while we're at it, we suggest you watch his Lift10 talk:

Russell Davies "Printing the internet" par liftconference

You can listen to the 15 minutes discussion in mp3 or directly on the WRS website.

A new research by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has come up with several interesting findings. The study "was designed to examine the media coverage that occurs when technology news crosses beyond technology-oriented outlets or news sections to the top of the American news agenda—to front-pages, the national nightly news, cable prime-time and other general interest news outlets. It did not delve into specialty publications or sections."

• The press reflects exuberance about gadgets and a wonder about the corporations behind them, but wariness about effects on our lives, our behavior and the sociology of the digital age.
• The mainstream media’s coverage of technology was not vast. It made up less than 1.6% of the total coverage over the course of the year, ranking it 20th out of the 26 identified topics. That puts technology news in same range as the environment, sports and education. And while it trails far behind crime (4.7%), it comes in ahead of religion (.6%) and immigration (.9%).
• The study examined which technology companies generated the most media attention in these venues. Apple, with its flashy press events and often drawn out releases of new products, narrowly outpaced Google in total coverage. Twitter and Facebook ranked third and fourth. Microsoft, on the other hand, once the feared technology behemoth, fell far behind—attracting just a fifth of the coverage of Apple and less than half that of Twitter.
• For Apple, the most heavily covered technology company, 42% of the stories described the company as innovative and superior, and another 27% lauded its loyal fan base. But there were doubts. The most common such negative thread, that Apple products don’t live up to the hype, appeared in 17% of stories about Apple. For Google, the company’s advancements in making content easier to find topped its coverage at 25%. But it was only half as likely as Apple to be framed as having superior, innovative products (20%).

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Check out the two clips Euronews did on Lift France 10. We had an amazing time in Marseille, the official Lift France 10 videos will be published in a few days.

For the french-speaking lifters among you: France Culture made a very interesting radio show about Lift10. You can listen to it here.

When: Thursday May 6, 2010 , 18:00 (program begins at 18:30), cocktail 21:00
Location: Opposite Lift10 conference center : Conference Centre Varembé (CCV), 9-11 rue de Varembé, Geneva, Switzerland Map
Free registration required before Wednesday 5 here

Mobile Monday workshop at Lift10
Mobile Monday Switzerland workshop brings mobility right at the heart of the Lift10 conference and this year's topic "Connected People" is just the right one for mobile innovation. Come and discuss with us social and cultural success factors and the technology cocktail of smartphones, application stores. And enjoy drinks and cocktail with Lift and MoMo "mobile connected people". They will present their views on the following topics :

• Communities : how is Mobile Web 2.0 progressing and what are social / technical challenges ahead?
• Old new media : what is the role of mobile media and entertainment in this new media space and how will mobile engage people?
• Evolution of privacy : how much will people share location, phone contacts and real-time messages.

Format for this meeting: Short presentations by MoMo speakers from chapters worldwide, and a panel interaction. Full program here

Invited Speakers : Dan Appelquist, Sivakumar Kuppusamy, Monty Metzger, Katrin Verclas, Peter Vesterbacka, Jukka Kiiskinen and met our MoMo Switzerland team : Peter Angelos, Sid Arora, Claude Florin,Christine Perey, Nicolas Sierro.

Nicolas and myself spent the evening at the Radio Suisse Romande for "Devine qui vient dîner, a one hour discussion around Nicolas' latest book on Geolocalised medias ("Les médias géolocalisés") where we ended up explaining much about our work at Lift.

You can listen to the show (in French) on rsr.ch, in streaming and mp3.

Lifestyle Experiments and the Crisis of Agency

Working at the crossroads of contemporary art, science, and engineering, Natalie Jeremijenko shows various projects of hers related with environmental issues. Each of them exemplifies a peculiar aspect of her approach that aims at addressing the transformative potential of new technologies in unexpected ways.

Lift was featured in this week's Atelier Numérique on BFM radio, an occasion to introduce Lift to French media, discuss the programme of the Marseille conference, and spotlight one of the projects that will be presented during the experience: Interac Wearing.

Listen to full show (the Lift part happens around 30 minutes)