http://remix.networkedbook.org/

ABSTRACT: "Remix and the Rouelles of Media Production" explores concepts of remixing not only in content and form, but also in process. The aim of the collaboration is to evaluate how the creative process functions as a type of remix itself in a period when production keeps moving toward a collective approach in all facets of culture. The emphasis on video remixing is the result of a collaborative rewriting activity among the contributors, who each wrote independent paragraphs that went through constant revisions once combined as a single text. Video was selected as the subject of analysis because members have a common interest in time-based media, and also because video remixing is at the forefront of media production. One of the group goals is that the text becomes a statement of what video could be as a reflective form of the networked culture that is developing at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The text is in constant revision and readers are encouraged to join in its writing.

"Remix and the Rouelles of Media Production" is the result of an ongoing collaboration that started in January 2010, when Owen Gallagher invited Mette Birk, Mark Cantwell, Martin Leduc, and Eduardo Navas to join a Remix Theory and Praxis online seminar. In April, Navas invited Tara Zepell to join the group.

APOLOGY TYPOLOGY records a visit Sarah Jacobs made to her ebook Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here. The original Report contained links to over 25o websites collected in the months following publication in the journal Nature of “The sequence and analysis of duplication-rich human chromosome 16” (Vol. 432. December 2004).

However over the years many of the websites have changed, migrated or are no longer available, leaving in their place only a nonchalant expression of regret: an internet refrain.

An interactive version of this project can be seen in the PDF here, by hovering your cursor over the yellow tabs.

This project will also appear in print in a future edition of The Blue Notebook. The original ebook, published by Information as Material, can be seen here.

Creative Technologies. Computer Technology. Electromagnetics. Energy and Sustainability. Engineering. Informatics. Forensics. Media Design. Media Technology. New Product Design. Pharmaceutical Technologies. Textiles Engineering……

Thursday 9 September 2010. De Montfort University, Leicester

See how our cutting edge creative technologies can benefit your organisation at this free one day event: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/techshowcase

Our experts will be on hand to demonstrate and discuss how their specialist knowledge and research can support your business objectives. View exhibitions featuring the innovative work of our research groups, take a tour of our studios and laboratories and see our cutting edge facilities and creative technologies, first hand.

The event will be an opportunity for you to discuss any ideas or projects you have with our research experts. Reserve your place at this year’s free event and discover how DMU’s world leading research technology could bring real change to your business.

Register your place here

Course: Processing and Arduino in Tandem.
Instructors: Joseph Gray
Length: 5-Weeks
Class Dates: Tuesdays, August 31 - September 28, 2010
Live Video: creativelive.com/live

Digital Economy All Hands Meeting - Digital Futures 2010
Crowne Plaza, Nottingham

October 11th and 12th 2010 with satellite workshops on October 13th

In collaboration with the Research Councils UK Digital Economy Programme
www.horizon.ac.uk/digitalfutures http://www.horizon.ac.uk/digitalfutures

Following the success of the UK eScience All Hands Meetings, we are pleased to announce the inaugural All Hands Meeting devoted to the Digital Economy. The Digital Economy involves the novel design or use of information and communication technologies to help transform the lives of individuals, society or business. This is a fundamentally multi-disciplinary challenge, requiring input from areas including, but not limited to, the arts and humanities, economic and social scientists, medical sciences, in addition to computing, engineering and physical sciences, with the potential to have radical impact on many sectors (for example, transport, healthcare and the creative industries) and societal concerns (for example, quality of life, social and digital inclusion and sustainability).

The UK, through Research Councils UK, has invested significantly in this area over the last year with the creation of a number of Digital Economy Research Hubs, Doctoral Training Centres, community projects and other research grants, with a total investment of around £120m (http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/digitaleconomy/).

This two-day event will include keynote speakers, talks from selected submissions, and posters. A day of workshops will follow the main conference.

The main conference website may be found here https://www.horizon.ac.uk/news/digitalfutures.html, while the registration details may be found here https://www.horizon.ac.uk/news/digitalfutures/digital-futures-reg1.html. The conference is two days long (October 11th and 12th) with a third day of satellite workshops (October 13th). Various registration packages are available, ranging for a single day-only registration to a three-day full-board package. Accommodation at the venue is limited, and therefore we recommend registering early if you require a bedroom at the venue. The registration website https://www.horizon.ac.uk/news/digitalfutures/digital-futures-reg1.html also carries information regarding various hotels in the area, for which preferred rates have been negotiated.

Queries regarding registration may be sent to: digitalfutures-registration@horizon.ac.uk

We look forward to welcoming you to Nottingham for Digital Futures 2010!

Wednesday 13th October 2010

9.30am to 6.30pm

Phoenix Square Film and Digital Media Centre, Leicester, UK http://www.phoenix.org.uk

Vision2020 invites you to be part of Leicester’s big discussion.

Creative businesses, thinkers and practitioners are invited to share their visions for the future and learn how to future proof their business.

Keynote Speaker: John Thackara on ‘How To Make Less, More’ “A visionary voice for the wired era” (Wired)

Vision2020 on October 13th focuses on innovation, creative technologies and sustainability, with inspirational speakers, networking, presentations and an unconference designed to challenge traditional ways of thinking and working..

Inspirational leaders in the fields of communication, retail, transport, technology, property, law and finance will be discussing how emerging technologies are shaping the future of their businesses and attendees will have the opportunity to lead discussions of their own.

Thanks to a joint initiative between De Montfort University and the Amplified Leicester team, Leicester City Council, Prospect Leicestershire, Leicester Creative Business Depot and Phoenix Square, you have the chance to be part of a big discussion that predicts how innovation will influence business, social and family life in the future.

Book before 15th September 2010 for the special price of £19.50. Includes: Conference, lunch and wine reception. Please join us!

For more information or to book tickets visit www.vision2020.org.uk.

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Between July 27th and August 29th, 2010, the eleventh edition of the FILE festival is taking place in Sao Paulo (Brazil), at several locations along the popular Paulista Avenue. After a decade of existence, this veteran festival, which spreads over several cities in Brazil (including Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre) as well as other international locations, has introduced for the first time its own award: the FILE PRIX LUX. With a total amount of approximately 120,000 euros, distributed in three categories, the prize is unprecedented in the continent and has received, on this first edition, 1,235 registrations from 44 countries.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=407

Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen

Over 600 pages
With co/authors from: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, India, North America, South America
From a wide variety of fields and perspectives.

Contents:

Forward:
The New Media, the New Meanwhile, and the Same Old Stories
Steve Jones

Introduction
Jeremy Hunsinger and Matt Allen

Are Instant Messages Speech?
Naomi S. Baron

From MUDs to MMORPGs: The History of Virtual Worlds
Richard A. Bartle

Visual Iconic Patterns of Instant Messaging: Steps Towards Understanding Visual Conversations
Hillary Bays

Research in e-Science and Open Access to Data and Information
Matthijs den Besten, Paul A. David, and Ralph Schroeder

Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment
Geoffrey C. Bowker, Karen Baker, Florence Millerand, and David Ribes

From Reader to Writer: Citizen Journalism as News Produsage
Axel Bruns

The Mereology of Digital Copyright
Dan L. Burk

Traversing Urban Social Spaces: How Online Research Helps Unveil Offline Practice
Julie-Anne Carroll, Marcus Foth, and Barbara Adkins

Internet Aesthetics
Sean Cubitt

Internet Sexualities
Nicola Döring

After Convergence: YouTube and Remix Culture
Anders Fagerjord

The Internet in Latin America
Suely Fragoso and Alberto Efendy Maldonado

Campaigning in a Changing Information Environment: The Anti-war and Peace Movement in Britain
Kevin Gillan, Jenny Pickerill, and Frank Webster

Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm
Susan C. Herring

The Regulatory Framework for Privacy and Security
Janine S. Hiller

Toward Nomadological Cyberinfrastructures
Jeremy Hunsinger

Toward a Virtual Town Square in the Era of Web 2.0
Andrea Kavanaugh, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, John C. Tedesco, and William Sanders

“The Legal Bit’s in Russian”: Making Sense of Downloaded Music
Marjorie D. Kibby

Understanding Online (Game)worlds
Lisbeth Klastrup

Strategy and Structure for Online News Production – Case Studies of CNN and NRK
Arne H. Krumsvik

Political Economy, the Internet and FL/OSS Development
Robin Mansell and Evangelia Berdou

Intercreativity: Mapping Online Activism
Graham Meikle

Internet Reagency: The Implications of a Global Science for Collaboration, Productivity, and Gender Inequity in Less Developed Areas
B. Paige Miller, Ricardo Duque, Meredith Anderson, Marcus Antonius Ynalvez, Antony Palackal, Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo, Paul N. Mbatia, and Wesley Shrum

Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft
Bonnie Nardi and Justin Harris

Trouble with the Commercial: Internets Theorized and Used
Susanna Paasonen

(Dis)Connected: Deleuze’s Superject and the Internet
David Savat

Language Deterioration Revisited: The Extent and Function of English Content in a Swedish Chat Room
Malin Sveningsson Elm

Visual Communication in Web Design – Analyzing Visual Communication in Web Design
Lisbeth Thorlacius

Feral Hypertext: When Hypertext Literature Escapes Control
Jill Walker Rettberg

The Possibilities of Network Sociality
Michele Willson

Web Search Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Web Search Engines
Michael Zimmer

Appendix A: Degree Programs
Appendix B: Major Research Centers and Institutes

as described on the backmatter:

This handbook, the first of its kind, is a detailed introduction to the numerous academic perspectives we can apply to the study of the internet as a political, social and communicative phenomenon. Covering both practical and theoretical angles, established researchers from around the world discuss everything: the foundations of internet research appear alongside chapters on understanding and analyzing current examples of online activities and artifacts. The material covers all continents and explores in depth subjects such as networked gaming, economics and the law.

The sheer scope and breadth of topics examined in this volume, which ranges from on-line communities to e-science via digital aesthetics, are evidence that in today’s world, internet research is a vibrant and mature field in which practitioners have long since stopped considering the internet as either an utopian or dystopian "new" space, but instead approach it as a medium that has become an integral part of our everyday culture and a natural mode of communication.

(I don't know if it was the first of the kind published, but I think it was the first done this way -jh)

Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech

http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki
http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

"An alternative to the Big Publishing model is already with us, and despite the odd viral phenomenon it consists in the main of very large numbers of small-scale products reaching small audiences, rather than small numbers of very high-profile products reaching huge audiences. This alternative model is enabled by digital technology, and it replaces high production values and market-minded editorial controls with the principle that people's desire to publish themselves and to look at each other's efforts is itself a profit motor."

To read the whole article, go to http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewdigitalpublishing.php or http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=406 .