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Remix-a-licious
At Horizon 0, my new favourite online journal (at least for the next five minutes) is an evocative piece on the forms and future of remix culture. Samples from the Heap: Notes on Recycling the Detritus of a Remixed Culture by Bernard Schutze: Mix, mix again, remix: copyleft, cut ‘n’ paste, digital jumble, cross-fade, dub,…
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damn spam
urgh. Sometimes I feel almost as frustrated about ICTs as my students do. Overnight I’ve been hit with a wave of (i.e. nearly a hundred) spam comments. I’m thinking of closing off comments to older entries, but I don’t really like the implications of this. I know that Tom from Plastic Bag changed the names…
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Creative Computing
There is plenty of stuff to unpack and plug in embedded in Adrian Miles and Jeremy Yuille’s Creative Computing manifesto. TBC…
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Lovemarks: Loyalty Beyond Reason
Saatchi and Saatchi “discover” the affective dimensions of consumption and give it a brandname: they propose the term Lovemarks to describe brands to which consumers remain loyal “beyond reason”: Brands have run out of juice. More and more people in the world have grown to expect great performance from products, services and experiences. And most…
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amateurism and de-commercialisation
raccoon wonders whether Internet publishing can be a de-commercialised zone, and whether that would be a good thing.
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Cross-Disciplinary Communication
Fellow QUT Creative Industries doctoral candidate Paul Holland reflects on the challenge of finding a common language to communicate to people in other areas of the creative industries – a challenge that still frustrates more than stimulates me in academia – where there is a kind of anti-pidgin at work (can someone tell me “the”…
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Junk Collector as Online Curator
I’ve had this little question in my head for a while about the distinction between various kinds of amateurism – on the one hand, there are “hobbies” – stamp collecting, gardening, cooking – and on the other there are capital “C” creative leisure pursuits – being in a band, exploring photography, going to life drawing…
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21C Magazine
Very smart thinking on the remixed, networked sonic and social worlds (and other things): 21C Magazine.
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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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The Sounds of Silence
I know I’ve been quiet here lately, but that is because life is so noisy everywhere else. Here are the headlines: teaching It was with great trepidation that I introduced my undergraduate music/media studies students to research blogging this week. I was dumbfounded in some cases when I realised the size of the conceptual leap…