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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Post Match Reports
The symposium on Friday was, I thought, really successful and I’m already having ideas about how we do AAA2 next year – as a two day event with a higher profile. This is hardly headline news, but the focus on … Continue reading
Participatory documentary as “Convivial Media” – M. Rose
Mandy Rose, UWE Creative Arts Fellow “Convivial tools”, wrote the radical philosopher Ivan Illich in 1973, “ are those which give each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her … Continue reading
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Book your place for Access All Areas
The Digital Cultures Research Centre invites you to take part in Access All Areas, a timely and critical reflection on User-Generated Content. The symposium takes place on 21st May between 09:30 and 17:00 at the Watershed Media Centre. Tickets for … Continue reading
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Changing Landscapes: The Emergence of Publish then Filter Processes
Due to the changing landscape of media within the online sphere, traditional processes of production are being called into question. Within this post, UWE MA student Rhea Bawden discusses the development of these processes in relation to user generated content, … Continue reading
Understanding ‘Gate-keeping’: A Brief History
Within the digital environment, issues of new gate-keeping structures are often discussed. But what do we mean by ‘the gate-keeper’? UWE MA student Rhea Bawden investigates the history of the metaphor.
“A true reflection of who I was at the time” – T. Dowmunt
“A true reflection of who I was at the time”: authenticity and artifice in video diary confessions. Tony Dowmunt, Goldsmiths In the offered promise of both access to television by outsiders and ‘non-professionals’ – and of less mediated, more authentic … Continue reading
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Anatomising User-Generated Content
Posted on behalf of Professor Jonathan Dovey. In the preparation of materials for this symposium Sam Kinsley & I realised that we were working from quite different interpretations of the term ‘user generated content’. Given our different perspectives (ageing media … Continue reading
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Network economics of personal content – M. Thayne
Martyn Thayne, University of Lincoln Emerging from a critique of recent celebratory studies of new media (what have been classified as Media Studies 2.0: Tapscott, 2006; Rosen, 2006; Jenkins, 2006; Gauntlett, 2007; Merrin, 2008; Bruns, 2008), I incorporate a Deleuzian … Continue reading
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The BBC and UGC – J. Jones
The BBC and UGC – turning the news chain upside down Janet Jones, UWE With a new team at Number Ten, the BBC is vulnerable and needs to prove beyond doubt that it passes the all important ‘ public value … Continue reading
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Journalists who Boycott User-Generated Content – A. Degand and C. Hambursin
Journalists who Boycott User-Generated Content Amandine Degand and Christine Hambursin The management of the Belgian national news agency Belga created an interface called “I have news”. This was intended to allow citizens to broadcast their own information to journalistic customers. … Continue reading
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