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Digital Creativity, Ownership & Collaboration

The recent C3 Conference "Creativity, Ownership and Collaboration in the Digital Age." has been captured in the following Media in Transition 5 Blog posts:

Henry Jenkins, Director of C3, Media In Transition

Jason Mittell, C3 Affiliated Faculty Member

Geoffrey Long C3 Member

Julie Levin Russo MiT5 Live Journal.

Axel Bruns on Conference Sessions

MiT5 update

Slide Session

Derek Kompare provides pictures, and Aldon Hynes writes about the conference here, here, and here,
Gene Koo wrote about some of the panels here, , and here.

Benjamin Mako Hill presentation

Stewart Mader presentation

Paul Ham presentation

Jason Tocci's Geek Studies Viewpoint

Repitition

Media Responsibility

The Media Literacy Project.

Podcasts

MIT 5: Learning through Remixing

Historically, engineers learned by taking machines apart and putting them back together again. Can young people also learn how culture works by sampling and remixing the materials of their culture? Might this ability to appropriate and transform valued cultural materials be recognized as an important new kind of cultural competency, what some people are calling the new media literacies? How might we meaningfully incorporate this fascination with mash-ups into our pedagogical practices and what values should we place on the kinds of new content which young people produce by working on and working over existing cultural materials? In this program, we will showcase a range of contemporary projects that embrace a hands-on approach to contemporary and classical media materials as a means of getting young people to think critically about their own roles as future media producers and consumers.

MIT 5: Learning through Remixing - recorded Apr. 28, 2007 - (1hr38min / 113.2MB)

MIT 5: Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art

Today, artists working in new media, including video, web projects and music confront contested and conceptually confusing terrain in which reproduction can be as perfect as the artist desires and endless copies theoretically possible. Yet many find the lack of clarity stimulating and a compelling space in which to break new ground. Why are so many artists today mimicking new forms of visual culture and their distribution systems -- even at the risk of confusion with their popular sources? How are artists debating the value of tightly controlling distribution of media art versus allowing its wider reproduction? What are the tradeoffs artists make between creating artificial scarcity to increase a work's unique value and increasing its visibility through broader reproduction? How are the needs of those who teach and write on video going to be met in the face of hyper-commodification?

MIT 5: Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art - Recorded Apr. 29, 2007 [1hr27min / 100.4MB]

MIT 5: Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons

How has the American tradition of intellectual property law understood the relationship between originality and tradition? What rights do artists and educators have to draw inspiration from or comment on existing works in existing media? What habits, beliefs, legal and policy decisions threaten the emergence of a more participatory culture? What have people done, and what can we do to protect the Fair Use rights of artists, educators, and amateurs so that explore the opportunities created by new media and a networked society?

MIT 5: Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons - recorded Apr. 28, 2007 - (1hr27min / 100.3MB)

MIT 5: Collaboration and Collective Intelligence

"Collective Intelligence" and "the wisdom of crowds" have become central buzz phrases in recent discussions of networked culture. But what do they really mean? What do we know about the new forms of collaboration that is emerging as people work together across geographic distances online? Are we working, learning, socializing, creating, consuming, and playing in new ways as a result of the emergence of our participation in online communities? What have we learned over the past decade that may help us to design more powerful communities in the real world? What lessons can we carry from our Second Lives into our First?

MIT 5: Collaboration and Collective Intelligence - recorded Apr. 27, 2007 - (1hr30min / 103.1MB)

MIT Communications Forum: What's New at the Media Lab?

A conversation between Frank Moss, new director of the Media Lab, and CMS Director Henry Jenkins about ongoing projects and inventive digital applications at MIT's legendary laboratory. Demonstrations were also shown and discussed.

What's New at the Media Lab? - recorded Mar. 1, 2007 - (1hr53min / 129.6MB)

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