[ecrea] CFP - Access All Areas: Symposium on User-Generated Content

> ACCESS ALL AREAS: SYMPOSIUM ON USER-GENERATED CONENT
>
> Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England
> 20th/21st May 2010
>
> http://www.dcrc.org.uk/
>
> Call For Papers:
> Not even the most utopian critics of 20th 
> Century mass media could have predicted the 
> explosion of human creativity and digital 
> diversity at the start of the 21st Century. The 
> net continues to offer participants 
> possibilities to interact with media that are 
> refashioning the whole enterprise of cultural 
> production.  The growth of the blogosphere, the 
> influence of peer-to-peer media distribution, 
> and the continuing escalation of diverse forms 
> of video and photo sharing have all shaken the 
> foundations of the mass media industries.  The 
> traditional gatekeepers of cultures, the editors 
> and filters of news, and custodians of media 
> quality have all been forced to adjust to the 
> realities of participatory cultural 
> production.  Traditional notions of the 
> political and cultural public sphere are being 
> refashioned and troubled through ecological 
> approaches.  This unsettling influence is not 
> limited to the cultural industries.  The 
> dynamics of â??web 2.0â?? and participatory 
> media now ripple out across all sectors of the 
> economy where â??consumer participationâ?? and 
> â??open innovationâ?? have become watchwords for growth.
>
> Access All Areas is a two-day symposium that 
> will develop the critical questions that we need 
> to understand this emerging field.  This event 
> will have a single strand running from lunchtime 
> on Thursday 20th May through until the afternoon 
> of Friday 21st May.  Presentation proposals are 
> welcomed that address the following indicative areas:
>
> â?¢     â??A million channels and nothing onâ?? 
> â?? what is â??qualityâ?? in user-generated content?
> â?¢     â??Show me the moneyâ?? â?? what revenue 
> streams are emerging for user-generated content?
> â?¢     â??Playbour?â?? â??What are the new 
> labour relations of the voluntary free work provided by the growth of UGC?
> â?¢     What are the new genres and aesthetics of participatory media?
>
>
> Proposals should be submitted by the 16th April 
> 2010 to Nick Triggs [(nick.triggs /at/ uwe.ac.uk)] at 
> the Digital Cultures Research Centre as Word 
> documents (.doc) or Rich Text Files (.rtf).
>
> This exciting event is open to 30 participants 
> at a cost of £30, with some reductions for 
> postgraduate researchers on a limited basis.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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