Drawing on her experiences working as part of collaborative research-design teams that combine art/science/design/engineering, Anne Balsamo will describe her new research on public interactives and the infrastructures of public intimacy.
Creative Industries, Micro-productivity and Social Learning: A Cultural Science Approach to Cultural and Media Studies
John Hartley on recent developments in the field of cultural and media studies, including an account of changes in the economy, culture and technology, and consequent initiatives in educational provision for the creative industries.
Mimi Ito, “Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World”
Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture came to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad.
Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, Mimi Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
Podcast: John Bryant, “Revision, Culture, and the Machine: How Digital Makes Us Human”
John Bryant on revision studies, adaptation, translation, creativity, appropriation, and cultural difference in the ethics and editing of revision.
Podcast: “Media in Transition 7: Archives and Cultural Memory”
Does it still make sense to distinguish the roles of museums, galleries, and spaces for exhibition from those of archives and repositories?
(Face)book of the Dead
In the Age of Always Connect, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? Are social networks its vectors of transmission? Is this the “Death of Shame”?