Currently: My focus this semester is on Interactive Television as leader of the GT eTV Group.

My name is Sergio Goldenberg and I was born in Santiago de Chile. In 1978 I moved with my family to Argentina until 1981, when we returned to Chile. I did my Elementary School at Craighouse and then at Saint George's College. Then I studied my B.A. and Journalism Professional degree at the Catholic University of Chile.

Since 2001 I have been part of the faculty staff of my school and I have been teaching new media and internet related undergraduate and graduate courses, and doing research on this area.

Also, I spent half of my day, until 2005, as the Advanced Web Developer at one of main TV networks in Chile, Canal 13. In 1999 we were 3 persons involved in the new website project. Today, there are more than 30 people working on their staff.

In 2005 I moved to Atlanta to study. In August I started my Master in Science program on Information Design and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

My framework and Inspirations

One of the certainties about our present, and future, is the growing influence of technology and communications in our lives. Although many people see the relationship between these two areas, they may not realize how deep and vital is the connection of both.

I believe I have an uncommon profile, rarely found at the professional or academic world in Chile. Even though my formal academic training was done in a traditional humanistic discipline like Journalism, my passion and abilities put me in a privileged position. I have been always involved deeply with technology, professionally and personally. Many of my scientific skills are self-taught (eg. computer programming languages, IT hardware and software solutions design, etc.) while others were learned in my professional work. This passion with the scientific world has always helped me to see communications, and its implications, in a very different and broad way. I know that this knowledge mix has shaped my future, reinforced and solidified my interest in both areas. One person that was vital in this view was Dr. Janet Murray with her book Hamlet on the Holodeck.

Thus my professional and academic experience had shown me very clearly how to combine successfully both technology and communications. I also became aware about the worrying lack of interest of the local media industry on how to take full advantage of technology to face incoming challenges, such as new ways of storytelling, the increasing interactivity in journalism, next steps of Internet development, human-computer interfaces, virtual reality, work on complex multidisciplinary teams, etc.

Note: 'headspace' was a concept I got from a great thinker, Nathan Shedroff