[ecrea] CFP - Media Piracy: the politics and practices of borrowing

Call for Papers (doctoral students):

Media Piracy: the politics and practices of borrowing

Keynotes: Lawrence Liang (Alternative Law Forum)
                               Dr Anne Barron (London School of Economics)

A one-day symposium hosted by the AHRC Network project ‘Bazaar Cinema: 
Re-purposing Media and debating cultural rights of Youth Communities in 
London and Mumbai’

Queen Mary University of London, Arts 1 Mile End Road campus
Tuesday June 17th, 2014


Questions of media piracy are typically modeled in conversation between 
lawyers, judges, government ministers, and media lobbyists, far from the 
ordinary ways in which people access or make the media they want. This 
symposium takes a fresh look at what Ravi Sundaram has called “cultures 
of the copy” from the perspective of new frameworks (open source, 
policy, creativity, and self-organisation) and new practices (of 
forwarding, peer to peer sharing, hacking, and everyday consumption and 
media habits). Whilst government agencies, media industries and their 
marketing apparatuses are variously trying to freeze or extract value 
from the emergent cultures of media piracy across postcolonial, 
industrial, and political-economic contexts, there are broader interests 
at stake. The symposium explores what frameworks can help the different 
communities of media creators, digital activists, hackers, researchers 
and everyday tinkerers move beyond the moralism of copyright and toward th
e pragmatic considerations of creating a contextual movement for a 
vibrant and participatory digital commons.

With a limited number of speaking slots this call is restricted to PhD 
students. Papers from all angles are invited - particularly welcome are 
presenters engaging with one or more of the following:

- What can we understand of the inequalities of media flows from 
practices of piracy and parasitism?

- What are the critical differences between first world and emergent 
media cultures?

- Do informal pirate networks (particularly in emergent media cultures) 
suggest new business models?

- What are the material conditions that affect the retrieval, 
transmission and aesthetics of pirated media?

- Can we think of a century of cinema as a global resource for 
image-makers and distributors?

- Do we need a new vocabulary of ‘borrowing’ and ‘informal production’ 
rather than piracy as Lawrence Liang provocatively suggests?

Please send a proposal (300 word max) by 18th April 2014 to Dr Gil 
Toffell (g.toffell /at/ qmul.ac.uk).

For more information on the AHRC Network project ‘Bazaar Cinema’ at 
Queen Mary, University of London please see; 
http://filmstudies.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/node/786#overlay-context=news_events


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