[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Media in Transition 5: Creativity, Ownership and Collaboration in the Digital Age (1/5/07; 4/27/07-4/29/07)

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CALL FOR PAPERS (submission deadline: Jan. 5, 2007)

media in transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the
digital age
an international conference

April 27-29, 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Full CFP: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5

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.
Networked culture is enabling both small and large collaborations among
artists who may never encounter each other face to face. Readers are
actively reshaping media content as they personalize it for their own
use or customize it for the needs of grassroots and online communities.
Bloggers are appropriating and recontextualizing news stories; fans are
rewriting stories from popular culture; and rappers and techno artists
are sampling and remixing sounds.

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? Or when materials
created by a community or religious or ethnic tradition are appropriated
by technologically powerful outsiders? What constitutes creativity and
originality in expressive formats based on sampling and remixing? What
obligations do artists owe to those who have inspired and informed their
work and how much creative freedom should they exercise over their
borrowed or shared materials?

One source of answers to such questions lies in the past  -- in the ways
in which traditional printed texts -- and films and TV shows as well --
invoke, allude to and define themselves against their rivals and
ancestors; and -- perhaps even more saliently -- in the ways in which
folk and popular cultures may nourish and reward not originality in our
modern sense, but familiarity, repetition, borrowing, collaboration.

This fifth Media in Transition conference, then, aims to generate a
conversation that compares historical forms of cultural expression with
contemporary media practices.

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 seawell at mit.edu no later than January
5, 2006. Brad can be reached by phone at 617-253-3521. Email submissions
are preferred, but abstracts can be mailed to:

Brad Seawell
14N-430
MIT
Cambridge , MA 02139
USA


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Brad Seawell, Program Coordinator
MIT Communications Forum
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum
14N-430
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

voice 617-253-3521
fax 617-253-6105
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