Media Convergence Handbook - Vol. 1 / Media Business and Innovation (PDF)

Artur Lugmayr is A/Prof. at Curtin University, Australia, where he teaches and supervises students in visualization technologies, interactive media, media management, and digital humanities. Artur was Professor for digital media management at the Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), Finland 2009-2014 establishing the Entertainment and Media Management Lab. and the New Ambient Multimedia Lab. 2004-2009. Artur holds a Dr.-Techn. degree (Information Technology, TUT), and is pursuing his Dr.-Arts studies at Aalto Univ., Helsinki, Finland in motion pictures. He was visiting scientist in Singapore, Brisbane, Austria, Ghana; since 2000 raised/involved in 1.7+ MEUR funding; 170+ publications; 24+ invited keynotes; organised 8+ intern. conferences, edited 6+ books, and 12+ special issues, and held 27+ invited guest lectures. He founded and chairs the Association for Information Systems (AIS) "SIG eMedia" and the International Ambient Media Association (iAMEA); is active member of the ACM TVX steering board, IFIP TC 14 for Entertainment Computing, MindTrek Association, and IEEE IG MENIG.

Cinzia Dal Zotto is Professor of Media Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Before that she was Research Director at the Media Management and Transformation Centre at the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden. Dal Zotto received her PhD in Organizational and Human Resource Development at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Between 2001 and 2003 she had a post doc scholarship funded by the German Ministry of Education and her research dealt with new ventures' growth in the media sector. Within that period she was also visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. Dal Zotto has published in the fields of organizational behavior, human resource management, entrepreneurship and strategy. She has taught at universities in various countries including Germany, France, Italy, UK, India, and South Africa.