Sigismondi presents "Digital Glocalization" paper at international conference

Communication professor Paolo Sigismondi presented the paper "Evolving Technologies, Global Media, and Local Audiences" at the Eighth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, which took place at UCLA on January 16-18. The paper analyzes the impact of technological evolutions, and in particular the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution, on existing dynamics of the global mediascape. In particular, it focuses on the phenomenon of the “Digital Glocalization of Entertainment” and situates it within the unfolding technological change ushered in by the ICT revolution. About the conference: The Technology Conference is held annually in different locations around the world. The inaugural Technology Conference was held at the University of California, Berkeley, USA in 2005. Since then, the Conference has been held in Hyderabad, India in December 2005; at Cambridge University, UK in 2007; at Northeastern University, Boston, USA in 2008; at Huntsville, Alabama, USA in 2009; at Free University Berlin, Germany in 2010; at Universidad del País Vasco – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea Bilbao, Spain in 2011; and a symposium on Technology and Democracy was held at McGill University in Montreal, Canada in June 2006. Eighth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society