Digital development and Application; Content and Creativity
The publishing industry is currently undergoing major challenges: digitisation: is changing the material form of the industry’s key artefacts; the internet is transforming the potential ways in which publications can be distributed and the expectations of their consumers; and these two lead to profound implications for the business models of companies in the industry. Through this event we hope to bring together individuals and organisations involved in academic publishing to identify the issues and set out a way forward. We will present research we have undertaken into the perceptions of publishers, and identity models for the future which have been developed in both publication and our own work with the music business.
Professor Tim Wall & Dr Paul Long, recently presented a paper at a ‘On, Archives!’, a conference that took place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA from July 6-9.
This is Paul’s report.
On, Archives! was hosted by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) and also contained within it a dedicated symposium on ‘Broadcasting in the 1930s’ organized by Hugh Chignall (Bournemouth) and Jamie Medhust (Aberystwth).
En route to Madison we stopped over in Chicago. Now Chicago is undoubtedly a ‘cinematic’ city, so mythologised in American and wider cultures as to be already familiar to new visitors like me. We arrived on Independence Day which meant that the Stars and Stripes was ubiquitous and firework displays abounded.
Given the tendency to wax lyrical about such places in comparison to the familiarity of home I’ll reserve further remarks for another occasion. However, and acknowledging the trompe l’oeil effect of the cityscape and delights of wandering the streets in sweltering heat, what impressed were the various ways in which the cultural heritage of the city was celebrated.
Prof Tim Wall and Dr Paul Long presenting to the Sights and Sounds conference, University of Salford, June 2010. All You Need is Love is a 17 part documentary covering the Story of Popular Music. The program was originally broadcast between 1976 and 1981, but since that time it has neither been commercially released or repeated.
You are invited to attend a screening of ‘Philip Donnellan’s The Colony’ (1964) followed by a discussion of an ongoing project to explore and promote the resources of the Philip Donnellan Archive.
The Colony, originally made as an innovative TV documentary, explores the experience of members of the Caribbean migrant community in Birmingham and the Midlands. The film allows its subjects space to candidly evaluate their reception in the UK and their relationships with home and other migrant workers. Controversial at the time of its original broadcast the film is an enduring and powerful document of a key moment in post-war British history. Read the rest of this entry »
June 21st, 2010 |
by Rob Horrocks Published in
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Among our collection of academic activities, we have involvements with a number of journals, either as partners, editorial board members, or regular contributors. Midland History is one of these, and as Interactive Cultures’ work is sometimes historical in focus, and often about the midlands, you might find this prize of interest. Read the rest of this entry »
The recent conference at the Open University, The Future of Cultural Work inspired much debate and discussion amongst delegates and touched on many pertinent issues for my PhD research into cultural entrepreneurship and education policy. With many strands including capitalism and work, precarious labour, working in television and inclusion & exclusion, it offered a variety of perspectives and provocations in relation to cultural work and cultural labour. Not only were the themes appropriate to my research, but many key academics on the subject presented and attended the conference – I must admit to being a little start-struck! Read the rest of this entry »
Members of the Interactive Cultures team presented three papers at a conference called Sights and Sounds – Interrogating the Music Documentary, 3rd-4th June 2010 at Adelphi Research Institute for Creative Arts and Sciences, University of Salford.
We will be uploading videos of all three presentations to this blog in the next few days.
In this post is Matt Grimes’ paper: Punk’s Underbelly: De-Canonizing Histories of Punk which he has written about and posted in full on his own blog.
June 8th, 2010 |
by Rob Horrocks Published in
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The Interactive Cultures research team are very pleased to welcome Nacho Gallego Pérez as a visiting researcher. Nacho obtained a PhD from Universidad Complutense, Madrid where his research concerned the impact of podcasting on Spanish radio broadcasting. He is now teaching at the Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual, in the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Nacho joins us until the middle of July and will be returning to Birmingham in August.
On his arrival Nacho commented: “There aren’t many research centres in Europe where the relationships between music, technology and culture are being researched in the way that the Birmingham centre is doing. I want to develop my postdoctoral research round these relationships.”
We look forward to working with Nacho during his time in Birmingham.
A new one hour film about Birmingham’s music heritage called Made In Birmingham: Reggae, Punk, Bhangra received a private invitation only premiere recently.
In the video above, Jez Collins of interactive cultures explains the purpose and the genesis of the film, and how it connects with the Birmingham Music Archive.
Interactive Cultures is the research centre of the Birmingham School of Media at Birmingham City University.
Tel: +44 (0) 121 331 7280 info@interactivecultures.org
