Category Archives: Paper Abstracts

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 →

“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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

User-generated interactive documentaries: an emerging genre Sandra Gaudenzi This presentation wants to assess the effects of crowd sourcing and user-generated culture onto the documentary world. It argues that web 2.0 participatory culture has already changed the production and distribution of … Continue reading →

Voices from the field? The democratisation of communication and challenging NGO evidence Jessica Crombie, picture editor in the humanitarian field In this paper I will outline communication practices within NGOs, evidence gathering practices that have been in common use since … Continue reading →

No Laughing Matter: The Downfall Of The Downfall Parody Andrew Clay, De Montfort University Constantin Film’s decision from 21 April 2010 to use the automated Content ID system on Youtube to remove the ‘Hitler Finds Out…’ Downfall parody videos is … Continue reading →

Emma Agusita “Platform futures” will examine current debates and research that concern: How participatory media are being employed in youth practices and agendas within the field of community media and informal media education; through mapping an ecology of youth practices … Continue reading →

Positioning participatory production: user-generated content and professional production futures Dr Dan Ashton, Bath Spa University Examining specific contexts and ‘motivational economies’ (Banks and Humphreys, 2008), this paper will discuss how digital games design students generate content as a means to develop … Continue reading →