| Index REM - Research on Education and Media Vol. 2, n. 2, December 2010 Editor in Chief Pier Cesare Rivoltella Editor Mario Ricciardi Scientific Committee
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Introduction
This issue of REM is dedicated to two themes:
– locative media and the Internet of Things
– the creative industries.
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The “City Centered, a Festival on locative media and urban community” was held this year, in June, in San Francisco. The Festival is the most recent and relevant occasion to compare different approaches in locative media research and it is here used to examine some issues related to the emergence of locative media as one of the most creative and innovative experiences in the digital contemporary culture.
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The “City Centered, a Festival on locative media and urban community” was held this year, in June, in San Francisco. The Festival is the most recent and relevant occasion to compare different approaches in locative media research and it is here used to examine some issues related to the emergence of locative media as one of the most creative and innovative experiences in the digital contemporary culture.
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Locative media as a term shares with another term, the “Internet of Things”, the very state of the art attempt to define the technical and cultural shift anticipated in the society as it moves to a ubiquitous form of computing in which every device is “on”, and in some way connected to the Internet.
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This paper explores a series of transpositions; event to data to code to behaviour to experience. It draws off the experience of the authors working with augmented environments (architectural, social, and reciprocal), framed collectively as Operating Systems, culminating in recent developments implementing an environmental Operating System.
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The two most relevant developments of the past few years, characterized by the systemic crisis of financial markets, are the explosion of social media, on the one hand, and the advent of cloud computing, on the other.
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This article is a synthesis of the Green paper presented by the EU Commission on the cultural and creative industries (CCI) (April 2010). The Green paper is an attempt to identify the needs of cultural and creative industries in order to build a framework at EC level to enhance the growth of CCI.
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This article intends to propose a contribution to the reflection on creativity in its many meanings, technological, social, artistic, and the debate on cultural heritage, including UNESCO Heritage List, with particular attention to the problems inherent to its management.
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Facing aging and depopulation, Japan is being forced to change its socio- economic structure from one based on growth to a more sustainable model. Globalization is also having a great impact on Japanese society, including the Japanese economy as a whole as well as people’s daily lives.
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In recent years, creativity and its leading role in the development of a country had a relevant place in the agenda of numerous scholars. Almost in parallel, the importance of redefining the creative professions, along with their trends, has been recognized.
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Creativity represents a very interesting issue because it’s considered as a key asset for innovation and economic development, that’s why the argument is so discussed at the European level. Present debates are strongly focused on the financial crisis and the international market fragility.
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The world economic crisis represents a big issue in the recent debate and it’s analysed from many viewpoints. Do you think there is a relation between creativity and the economic crisis. Does the crisis represent a turning point or has it somehow influenced the present creativity approach?
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