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\"\"<\/a>I have been organizing a Research Seminar Series, taking place at Coventry University<\/a> in this term and the next, on ‘Open Media’. Last Tuesday the first lecture was given by Federica Frabetti<\/a> from Oxford Brooks University entitled ‘DIGITAL AGAIN? The Humanities Between the Computational Turn and Originary Technicity’. You can find more information about the lectures in the first term at the end of this post.<\/p>\n

The series will be podcasted and will be made available via iTunesU and this blog.<\/p>\n

Related to the series, let me draw your attention to some other recent material that challenges the concept of openness in a more fundamental way. HASTAC,<\/a> the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, has for instance been drawing attention to the concept of openness via a few blog posts, including this one<\/a>, (do also check out the extensive forum comments underneath) and it has been hosting the Storming the Academy<\/a> event at the Drumbeat Festival<\/a> in Barcelona a few weeks ago. There is also a wiki <\/a>related to this event where you can find more information.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, I came across this fascinating presentation today by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun<\/a>, in which she, amongst others, critiques the notion of content as being object-based.<\/p>\n

[vimeo http:\/\/vimeo.com\/16647697 w=500&h=400]<\/p>\n

Coventry School of Art and Design and the Department of Media and
\nCommunication invite you to<\/h2>\n

– OPEN MEDIA –
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A year-long series of research seminars on the theme of openness in media in all its forms. All the seminars are free to attend and open to all.<\/em><\/p>\n

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OPEN MEDIA<\/em><\/p>\n

Digital Media have today become ubiquitous and all pervasive. Our lives and experiences are being mediated non-stop by a host of mobile and web-based devices which offer the possibility of merging, mixing, and mashing-up texts, images, sound and other data formats. In the digital age we are no longer confined by the boundaries that once governed traditional media. Notions of authorship, expertise, authority, stability, ownership and control from above are all being challenged by the prosuming multi-user and crowd-sourced use of borderless multimedia applications. People can produce and publish their own books via Lulu.com, promote their art on online gallery sites, and advertise their music via Myspace and Youtube. They can educate themselves via iTunesU, call friends abroad for free via Skype, connect and update the world via Facebook and Twitter, and fund projects via Kickstarter.<\/p>\n

These developments have led many to claim that the web and digital media offer unprecedented democratizing possibilities for media producers, consumers and critics. However, reality is of course more complicated than that. A lot of (public and tax-funded) media are still behind pay-walls. Our private data are hosted and distributed by commercial social media platforms. Blogs are still not taken seriously in the academic world. Google is digitizing our books. Many makers of music mash-ups are being sued for copyright infringement and fears regarding ebook piracy continue to rule the literary world.<\/p>\n

The concept of openness is often employed as part of a radical critique of the closed-off worlds of what might be called \u2018traditional media\u2019. It is variously used to urge for the right to transparency, the ethics of sharing, the value of re-use and the benefits of connecting. But openness also has its drawbacks. If cultural products are freely available, who then pays the producers of those products? Does open data pose security risks? And who gets to control the data? Who governs our creative outputs? In what way can we control and keep a check on the media we use? Is there still a place for authority and expertise in open media, or are these notions being explicitly challenged? In what ways can media be open, and can they ever really be truly open? What are the limits of openness? Where does openness end? Or should we perhaps just focus on degrees and aspects of openness? How can we compose a media critique when media – including our critique itself – are constantly in the process of being upgraded, updated, merged, mixed and changed?<\/p>\n

This series of research seminars will explore various aspects of openness. Special attention will be given to the benefits and drawbacks of openness, and to the many possibilities openness offers for the future of media production, use and critique.<\/p>\n

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Programme: November-December 2010<\/strong>
\nTuesday 9<\/strong>th<\/sup><\/strong> November<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

Federica Frabetti<\/a> (Westminster Institute of Education) – \u2018Digital again? The Humanities Between the Computational Turn and Originary Technicity’<\/p>\n

Tuesday 23th November<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

Mafalda Stasi<\/a> (Coventry University) \u2013 \u2018Transmedia and fan cultures\u2019<\/p>\n

Tuesday 30<\/strong>th<\/sup><\/strong> November<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

Shaun Hides<\/a> and Peter Woodbridge<\/a> (Coventry University) \u2013 \u2018Open Source Education: A radical\u00a0case for the Arts and Humanities\u2019<\/p>\n

Thursday<\/span><\/strong> 9th December<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel Rourke<\/a> (Goldsmiths, University of London) \u2013 \u2018Errors in Things and the\u00a0“Friendly Medium\u2019
\nNote: in ET 130 (Ellen Terry Building) Jordan Well, <\/em>Coventry CV1 5FB<\/p>\n

All seminars are free to attend and open to all
\nTime: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
\nVenue: RCG25 (Richard Crossman Building) 44 Jordan Well Coventry CV1 2,
\nUK (unless otherwise stated)<\/p>\n

For further details on how to get to Coventry see:
\nhttp:\/\/wwwm.coventry.ac.uk\/university\/maps\/Pages\/Travelinformation.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

All enquiries please contact:<\/p>\n

Janneke Adema | Email: ademaj@uni.coventry.ac.uk |
\nwww.openreflections.wordpress.com<\/a> | http:\/\/twitter.com\/Openreflections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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