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“A Still Sunrise” at Cannes

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From the first time I read the first draft of the script, the story really stuck in my head. I loved the idea of dealing with …

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68th World News Media Congress

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The World Assocation of Newspapers 68th World Media Congress captured the imagination of over 700 attendees in the historic city of Cartegena, Columbia for 3 days …

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MIS Review Launch Evening

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May marked a milestone in the evolution of the Media Innovation Studio. Four years after establishing the Media Innovation Studio as an international research and learning …

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Graphene-UAV first for UCLan and University of Manchester

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Cutting-edge nano-materials and sector-leading research on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) met today in world-first aeronautic collaboration. Today (September 15th, 2015) saw the first flight of a …

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Civic drone Centre @LancScifFest #LSF2015

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Over 10 000 visitors across three days were welcomed across UCLan’s threshold to participate in a series of highly interactive workshops, hear about deadly jelly fish, …

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The International Conference on the Freedom of the Press

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I’ve just returned from speaking at the International Conference on the Freedom of The Press. It was hosted and organised by The Jerusalem Press Club. The club enjoys a view across the city walls of Old Jerusalem. From the terrace of their restaurant a glimpse of a much newer construction dubbed the ‘Apartheid Wall’ by Palestinians is a poignant reminder to those like me, not locally immune to its presence, that Jerusalem is divided.

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Collaborative Revenue Capture for Exiled and Restricted Media

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As part of our ongoing projects in restricted environments, Clare Cook has been working with media providers in exile and restricted media to understand ways to make …

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DroneHack for humanity

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At the Civic Crone Centre we believe unmanned aerial vehicles could transform life in the field for our medics, our search and rescue professionals, and people …

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Landed

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‘Trespass’ is a site specific app/artwork by international artist Layla Curtis, commissioned by Lancaster’s StoreyG2 as part of ‘Landed (Freeman’s Wood)’. The ‘Trespass’ artwork features an application designed for iphone which uses a custom drawn map, geo-location and audio recordings to invite users to participate in an oral history of Freeman’s Wood; an area of urban edgeland on the outskirts of Lancaster, in Lancashire.

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Great Northern Creative Festival

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Well over 350 undergraduate and post-graduate students were in the Media Innovation Studio at the end of April, rubbing shoulders with an amazing array of guests and alumni from UK and International film and television production companies, animation studios, news organisations and broadcasters. A cast of writers, producers, creative directors, news editors, reporters, graphic designers and 3D artists celebrated the week long Great Northern Creative Festival.

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Data dashboard charts Ranulph Fiennes’ desert challenge

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With temperatures reaching over 50 degrees celsius, a total distance of 156 miles, Saharan sand dunes, limited water and hydration and 1,360 competitors, the Marathon des Sables is one of the toughest events on the globe. the Media Innovation Studio is collaborating with production company Fieldcraft Studios and Kingston University to chart Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ attempt at the Earth’s most challenging races

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What’s Slack?

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Slack is a platform for team communication: everything in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. Slack brings all your communication together in one place. …

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Datamakers school workshop: “It was really fun because now I like data”

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30 year six students joined us in the Studio in the first of our Datamakers workshops, exploring data and data collection apps.

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New European Media: Content empowerment

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The New European Media (NEM) group met at the equally new (relatively) Digital Catapult Centre on Euston Road for their annual General Assembly meeting.

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Civic Drone Centre workshop launches ‘UAVs for good’

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or ‘drones’, are often viewed in a negative light because of their military association but the Media Innovation Studio has hosted a one-day workshop to launch its Civic Drone Centre project by highlighting how drones can be a force for good.

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Interactive Print showcased at European Patent Office

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The Media Innovation Studio team pulled the best of British interactive print together for an exclusive audience with the European Patent Office in the Hague this week.

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Collaborative revenue capture for media under threat

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For media seeking to support the free flow of information in fragile environments, the issue of financial sustainability is complex. Both media in exile (out-of-country news …

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#ODISummit: Celebrating the growth of open data

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The Open Data Institute held their second open data summit in London on the 3rd and 4th of November.

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Jam Packed with Raspberry Pi

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Raspberry Jams are set to roll out across the North of England thanks to funding from the DfE and the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

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Web-connected ‘news objects’ to make news physical

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Take an everyday object. Connect it to the web. Stream news and information to it!