Professor Marko Turpeinen

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Media Factory Benchmarking

• Professor Marko Turpeinen
• Network Society Research Programme, HIIT
• Center for Sustainable Communications, KTH

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• What kinds of mission / vision statements do the
  leading university institutes in U.S. have?

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Mission statements MIT

• MIT Media Lab
• The Media Lab is a place where the future is
  lived, not imagined. Our domain is designing
  technology for people in a world where radical
  technology advances are taken for granted, we aim
  to harness these changes to create a better
  future to invent and reinvent how humans
  experience technology. Traditional disciplines
  get checked at the door by our future-obsessed
  researchers and sponsoring organizations, who
  work side by side to foster a unique environment
  for creativity and non-linear thinking.

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Mission statements MIT

• Comparative Media Studies
• The program is committed to the art of thinking
  across media forms, theoretical domains, cultural
  contexts, and historical periods. CMS studies new
  forms of popular art and entertainment, ranging
  from computer games to digital cinema, and the
  social networks that are created around them. CMS
  is a center for examining this shifting media
  landscape, hoping to offer a new vocabulary that
  will enable media practitioners to better
  understand these new modes of expression.

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Mission statements Stanford

• H-STAR
• Interdisciplinary research center focusing on
  people and technology how people use
  technology, how to better design technology to
  make it more usable (and more competitive in the
  marketplace), how technology affects people's
  lives, and the innovative use of technologies in
  research, education, art, business, commerce,
  entertainment, communication, national security,
  and other walks of life.

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Mission statements Stanford

• Media X
• To build bridges among scholars and thought
  leaders from influential companies to address
  questions of real importance within both academia
  and industry.

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Mission statements UC Berkeley

• CITRIS
• The Center for Information Technology Research in
  the Interest of Society creates information
  technology solutions for many of our most
  pressing social, environmental, and health care
  problems.

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Mission statements UC Berkeley

• Center for New Media
• To understand what is new about each new media
  from cross-disciplinary and global perspectives
  that emphasize humanities and the public
  interest.

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Mission statements UC Berkeley

• BiD
• The Berkeley Institute of Design (BiD) is a
  research/teaching unit that fosters a new and
  deeply interdisciplinary approach to design for
  the 21st century The design and realization of
  rich, interactive environments which are shaped
  by the human activities they support.
• Here "environments" include architectural spaces,
  products, web sites, and other artifacts that
  support complex human activity. The program
  combines technical and social/humanist
  perspectives on design. It acknowledges that
  design in the era of ubiquitous technologies
  means not only technical innovation, but deep
  understanding of behavior and the experience that
  technology should enhance. It mixes engineering
  design with psychology, social sciences and art
  practice. It combines Berkeley's rigor in
  engineering with its commitment to social values
  and critical reflection.

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Mission statements HIIT

• HIIT Network Society
• Pioneer in human-centric and multidisciplinary
  anticipation and development of ubiquitous
  information and communication technology based on
  comprehensive understanding of needs and
  practices in the everyday life and social
  relations of a network society.

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Politiikka ja internet
Thank you! marko.turpeinen_at_hiit.fi

• Prof. Marko Turpeinen
• Ajatuspaja e2, 1.10.2008