[PD-ot] Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media Call for Papers/Proposals

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:05 PM, Carl Skelton wrote:

> Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media
> Call for Papers/Proposals
> We know too much about media communications technologies as  
> instruments of social control.
> We don't know enough about media technologies as instruments of  
> civil society
> and cultural development.
> We know too much about media discourses as, on the one hand,  
> “popular culture”: alienated
> and commodified cultural forms; and on the other, “cultural  
> theory”: paranoid cosmologies
> of hyper-rhetoric, and the ubiquitous inevitability of evil...
> We don't know enough about digital media as something other than a  
> means to an end,
> as “instrumental culture”, where culture itself —mainstream,  
> alternative, underground, or otherwise—
> is degraded to the status of tools (some hard, some soft, all ware).
> Hyperpolis: Really Useful Media will provide a forum for the  
> discussion and presentation of
> some positive contributions to the field, in light of these chronic  
> imbalances.
> 1
> Media practices whose product is an improvement in the integrity  
> and vitality
> of the culture and society in which they are embedded.
> 2
> Media practices whose processes are in and of themselves desirable.
> Deadline:
> June 15th, 2006
> Conference and Celebration:
> October 20th, 2006
> Hosts:
> Integrated Digital Media Institute
> and Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies
> Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
> Info:
> http://idmi.poly.edu
> Contact:
> Carl Skelton, Director, IDMI
> Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
> RH 701, Six MetroTech Center
> Brooklyn NY 11201 USA
> cskelton at poly.edu

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