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CFP: Media in Transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digial age
Location: Massachusetts, United States (April 27-29, 2007 )
Call for Papers Date: January 5, 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies. An emerging generation of media producers is sampling and remixing existing materials as core ingredients in their own work.
These and related cultural practices have generated heated contention and debate. What constitutes fair use of another's intellectual property? What ethical issues are posed when sounds, images, and stories move from one culture or subculture to another?
This fifth Media in Transition conference aims to generate a conversation that compares historical forms of cultural expression with contemporary media practices. We hope this event will appeal widely across disciplines and scholarly and professional boundaries.
Among topics the conference might explore:
-history of authorship and copyright
-folk practices in traditional and contemporary society
-appropriating materials from other cultures: political and ethical dilemmas
-poetics and politics of fan culture
-blogging, podcasting, and collective intelligence
-media literacy and the ethics of participatory culture
-artistic collaboration and cultural production, past and present
-fair use and intellectual property
-sampling and remixing in popular music
-cultural production in traditional and developing societies
-Web 2.0 and the "architecture of participation"
-creative industries and user-generated content
-parody, spoofs, and mash-ups as critical commentary
-game mods and machinima
-the workings of genre in different media systems
-law and technological change
Short abstracts of no more than 200 words for papers or panels should be sent via email to Brad Seawell at [email protected] no later than January 5, 2007. Brad can be reached by phone at 617-253-3521. Email submissions are preferred, but abstracts can be mailed to:
Brad Seawell
MIT 14N-430
77 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Brad Seawell
MIT 14N-430
77 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-3521
Email: [email protected]
Visit the website at http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/index.htm
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CFP: Media in Transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digial age
CFP: Media in Transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digial age
Location: Massachusetts, United States (April 27-29, 2007 )
Call for Papers Date: January 5, 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies. An emerging generation of media producers is sampling and remixing existing materials as core ingredients in their own work.
These and related cultural practices have generated heated contention and debate. What constitutes fair use of another's intellectual property? What ethical issues are posed when sounds, images, and stories move from one culture or subculture to another?
This fifth Media in Transition conference aims to generate a conversation that compares historical forms of cultural expression with contemporary media practices. We hope this event will appeal widely across disciplines and scholarly and professional boundaries.
Among topics the conference might explore:
-history of authorship and copyright
-folk practices in traditional and contemporary society
-appropriating materials from other cultures: political and ethical dilemmas
-poetics and politics of fan culture
-blogging, podcasting, and collective intelligence
-media literacy and the ethics of participatory culture
-artistic collaboration and cultural production, past and present
-fair use and intellectual property
-sampling and remixing in popular music
-cultural production in traditional and developing societies
-Web 2.0 and the "architecture of participation"
-creative industries and user-generated content
-parody, spoofs, and mash-ups as critical commentary
-game mods and machinima
-the workings of genre in different media systems
-law and technological change
Short abstracts of no more than 200 words for papers or panels should be sent via email to Brad Seawell at [email protected] no later than January 5, 2007. Brad can be reached by phone at 617-253-3521. Email submissions are preferred, but abstracts can be mailed to:
Brad Seawell
MIT 14N-430
77 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Brad Seawell
MIT 14N-430
77 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-3521
Email: [email protected]
Visit the website at http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/index.htm
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