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Affect and Cultural Participation
I meant to blog my notes from a seminar here at QUT the other day given by Stephen Coleman, visiting professor of e-democracy at the Oxford Internet Institute. Now, e-governance and e-voting aren’t exactly my bag, but cultural democracy (by which I mean a democratic cultural sphere) and the ways in which digital networks and…
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An Embarrassment of Riches
A busy few weeks here–on Friday we had a visit from Nick Couldry, who gave a seminar on the topics of citizenship, culture and the (im)possibility of connectedness to a ‘public sphere’. I’ve liked Nick’s quite particular approach to the key issues in cultural studies ever since I came across his provocative book Inside Culture,…
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Everyday Transformations
Everyday Transformations: The Twenty-First Century Quotidian Annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Perth / Fremantle, 9-11 December 2004 Call for Papers New technologies, increasing work pressures, changing gender roles and family structures, increasing flows of refugees and asylum seekers, concerns about security, environmental risks, the escalating speed and complexity of social transactions…
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M/C: The “Porn” Issue
CALL FOR PAPERS M/C: THE “PORN” ISSUE: An upcoming issue of M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture Much media and cultural studies work on, and media coverage of, pornography focuses on the politics of sexual representation on the one hand, and arguments for or against censorship on the other. This issue of M/C aims…
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Charles Leadbeater: Users, Innovation, and the ProAm Economy
Hot off my notebad, here’s my version of what transpired at Charles Leadbeater’s seminar at QUT today. Just the main points on the role of users in innovation and the emerging category of the ProAm which Leadbeater thinks is a growing force in the cultural economy. His approach has significant similarities to the standard cultural…
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Fibreculture Journal Launched
Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. The journal encourages critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media…
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Digital Music Symposium
Video footage of the recent Digital Music Symposium, featuring Fred Von Lohmann of the EFF is now available online.
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Higher Ed Reforms Passed
Students face higher fees for university degrees after the federal government finally won support for its contentious $2.4 billion university reform package yesterday. But at least the link between funding and industrial reform has been removed. lowercase yay. Uppercase Sigh.
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M/C – Joke
M/C – Journal of Media and Culture’s latest issue Joke is now online.
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Distributed Creativity
I keep forgetting to post something about the Distributed Creativity forum which I first heard about on the fibreculture list. Thanks to Anne for reminding me. As regular visitors know, I’m interested in emerging definitions of creativity, and I have a sense that the concept has shifted in meaning and has absorbed or displaced elements…