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The Online Mainline 2011 – CFP

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Alternative Media and Remediation

Event: Thursday, 15th September 2011

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20th May 2011

Digital culture innocuously pervades our everyday lived experience. It shapes how we define ourselves, organises our communication and mediates our cultural moment. The Online Mainline event aims to map the territory of the new digital age, examining how the online environment has come to shape our offline world and experiences in new, innovative and productive ways. Impacting upon our social experiences, business organisation and industry connections, the online environment has come to define the ways in which our society becomes mediated across generations and cultures.

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Animation Explosion 2011 – CFP

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Event: Weds, 14th September 2011

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20th May 2011

Animation Explosion seeks to examine the all pervasive nature of animation across multi-media platforms. The aim of this one day event is both multidisciplinary, but also multi-modal in its output, aiming to examine both a range of approaches to the analysis of animation, but also to identify the breadth in application through animation practice. The event seeks to provide a welcoming space for the dialogue between animation practitioners and academics alike. To this end, we are seeking both academic papers, but also practical demonstrations. In addition this event will also foster the space for roundtable discussion with divergent animation groups, educators working within the realm of animation and industry practitioners to examine the future of funding and the sustainability of animation work across an international context.

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Creative Enterprise Conference, 18th May

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A one day conference exploring a range of approaches to enterprise education for creative, media, art and design students on Wednesday 18th May in Birmingham. Topics to be discussed include: the graduate experience of enterprise projects; incubating creative entrepreneurs, developing entrepreneurial behaviours in students; how competitions can help foster enterprise and emerging research in entrepreneurial journeys.

This conference is born out of the ECCE Innovation (ECCEi) project, which supports interventions in cities to promote the creative and media industries, and aims to inform EU policy. ECCEi fosters collaborative working between EU partners including: Aachen, Birmingham City University, Cardiff, CIDA in Huddersfield, Dublin, Eindhoven, Nantes, Stuttgart.

Presentations and workshops will stimulate a debate leading to further discussions and collaborations. Confirmed speakers include Dr Colette Henry, Dr Daniel Ashton, Fabrice Hyber, Charlotte Carey and Sian Prime.

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The Digest for February 2nd

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Our digest of links for February 2nd:

  • British politicians engage in modern warfare – Interesting artcile re the old media effects debates as it relates to computer game violence. Tom Watson's position as presented here is an increasingly common one. I've heard a number of commentators come up with the same points in news articles (though I have never heard an MP come out against the moral backlash before). What is particularly interesting is that it is now possible to take a moral position that supports the development of any computer game, including violent ones, but which is always located with in a discussion about the creative industries and the value of the computer games market: the text itself is seen as subordinate to the industry.
  • Hashtags and the desire to own and organise – jon bounds – When two tribes (both self professed "social media experts") went to war over a hashtag, we saw a breakdown in folksonomy, a drive to own in the intangible, and a final denouement of ridicule heaped on all parties.
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The Digest for September 16th

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Our digest of links for September 16th:

  • D’log :: blogging since 2000 » Guide To Sources Of Small Business Finance In The West Midlands –
  • But who appointed the creative policy makers? – IC member Paul Long is seeking to find out something about those who determine creative policy in the UK and their relationship with creative workers who are at the receiving end of policy interventions, decisions and strategies.

A year in the Treehouse

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Bye bye Katie Butler from Leicester

Over the past year I have been working within the Interactive Cultures team as a junior web developer, providing online support for a number of knowledge transfer projects alongside Jon Hickman. I’m now leaving the team to go travelling in Australia. Continue reading →

Event organisation: Unconference

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Guest post by Elizabeth Short, an intern in Interactive Cultures department, currently studying MA Event and Exhibition management. She was asked to help organise the Digital Britain Unconference and is going to share some thoughts on how to go about organising one.

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The Digest for April 25th through May 17th

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Our digest of links for April 10th through May 17th:

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