Conference on 'Paying attention: digital media cultures and generational responsibility', Linköping, Sweden
6 September 2010 - 6 September 2010
Sweden
A conference on 'Paying attention: digital media cultures and generational responsibility' will take place from 6 to 10 September 2010 in Linköping, Sweden.
Through an ever-burgeoning technical apparatus of surveying, data mining and targeted internet search, the attention of individual minds is estimated, marketed and traded. The 'attention economy' is enabled by technologies like web-crawlers, search algorithms and agents, and all kinds of metadata production. The dominance of this mode of conceiving and calculating attention gives rise to many national, regional and global phenomena. The traditional values of the public sphere are being unmistakably reshaped though these processes.
The conference is also interested in how practices such as videogaming, filesharing, media experimentation and mobile phone activism create cultural opportunities. While there is a concerted effort to commercialise and exploit these spaces according to the demands of the global media industries, the reorientation of social communication practices by web 2.0 technologies remains full of potential.
The event will seek to encourage dialogue between researchers from the fields of cultural and new media studies, education, communications, economics, internet studies, human computer interface studies, art and design. It also seeks the input and insights of creative practitioners exploring critical and alternative uses of new media forms and technologies.For further information on registration, please visit:
http://www2.esf.org/asp/esfrcaf.asp?confcode=316&meetno=1(opens in new window)
Through an ever-burgeoning technical apparatus of surveying, data mining and targeted internet search, the attention of individual minds is estimated, marketed and traded. The 'attention economy' is enabled by technologies like web-crawlers, search algorithms and agents, and all kinds of metadata production. The dominance of this mode of conceiving and calculating attention gives rise to many national, regional and global phenomena. The traditional values of the public sphere are being unmistakably reshaped though these processes.
The conference is also interested in how practices such as videogaming, filesharing, media experimentation and mobile phone activism create cultural opportunities. While there is a concerted effort to commercialise and exploit these spaces according to the demands of the global media industries, the reorientation of social communication practices by web 2.0 technologies remains full of potential.
The event will seek to encourage dialogue between researchers from the fields of cultural and new media studies, education, communications, economics, internet studies, human computer interface studies, art and design. It also seeks the input and insights of creative practitioners exploring critical and alternative uses of new media forms and technologies.For further information on registration, please visit:
http://www2.esf.org/asp/esfrcaf.asp?confcode=316&meetno=1(opens in new window)