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possible workshops for ir11
by jeremy hunsinger 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

I'm thinking about putting together a pre-conference workshop at ir11. I'm torn between a few topics and I'd like to gauge interest before i go further. I'm thinking of one workshop as: 'Forms of the Critical in internet Research' in which we'd discuss what we mean by the critical. In my work, critical is an essentially contested concept, which means it is defined not singularly, but multiply and every paper should confront this multiple nature and try to bring meaning to the word critical within the theme of the conference. So the workshop would require papers a few months before, which we'd review and discuss and try to develop. Another would be much the same, but would center on the topic of Politics and the political. Ideally, i'd like to confront some of the politics of research in terms of internet research. otherwise, anyone interested in say... values in design for a workshop, infrastructure studies, or learning infrastructures? both of these would be open call workshop, probably with minimal external funding that would hope to develop some of the work toward a publishable form. We would need 10-20 participants for either, though we could get higher numbers. Everything would be reviewed before inclusion, etc. Finally, i could not do a workshop, which is an option i've not pursued for several years. thoughts? please respond offlist. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow Center for Information Policy Research Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Re: [Air-L] distributed imagery and copyright (was: a question of open source ethics)
by Mridula 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

The issue with the independent ended up by the paper apologizing for the use of the 'all rights reserved' photo. Here is more on it the British Journal of Photography- http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=872764 To me (as a less than amateur photographer) the issue is very clear. When I post something under 'all rights reserved' that is how it should remain. If someone asked me permission for the use of a photograph and they are not for profit, I ask for a credit and let them use it. If it is a commercial site I ask for token money and usually in India you never hear from them again. In this part some of us use 'all rights reserved' to initiate a conversation. I once found, and not so long back, a photo of mine in an Indian national newspaper's Sunday supplement after cropping out (c) Mridula D from the image. Hence, the hesitation to use creative commons, that it would be taken as an excuse by everyone to use pictures. Regards, Mridula -- http://www.gonomad.com/traveltalesfromindia/

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8th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video EuroITV2010 "web.sharing.tv.content"
by Lugmayr Artur 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

8th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video EuroITV2010 "web.sharing.tv.content" June 9th-11th, Tampere, Finland, http://www.euroitv2010.org/ 3rd Call for Papers, Demos, Tutorials, and Industrial Exhibitions News - Full Paper deadline extended till 24th January 2010 - Tutorial deadline extended till 15th January 2010 - Short Paper deadline approaching 7th February 2010 (!) WE ESPECIALLY ENCOURAGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 'INTERACTIVE CONTENT & ART' TRACK (!) New in EuroITV: - 4 tracks: interactive content & arts, HCI, technology, and media studies - video and TV in the age of Web 3.0. - EuroITV competition grand challenge - targeted and themed workshops - email list: on https://listmail.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/euroitv2010 - proceedings published within the ACM Digital Library and special issues Thanks to our Sponsors: Nokia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content creation community. In addition to previous years' topics of the conference, EuroITV 2010 offers new opportunities this year: * INTERACTIVE CONTENT & ARTS TRACK EuroITV 2010 extends its tracks with a new track to explicitly attract the creative media production community dealing with interactive video, 3D cinema, TV program formats, film production, and consumers as content creators and contributors. * VIDEO IN THE AGE OF WEB3.0. EuroITV 2010 faces the challenges of TV as changing environment and explicitly invites contributions dealing with user-generated content, video in social networking, mashup networks, IPTV, cross-media, broadcasting everywhere, 3D cinema/3D IPTV/3D content, and video.b * EuroITV COMPETITION GRAND CHALLENGE EuroITV 2010 also offers a competition opened for artistic content creators, application developers, and service designers to get awarded by EuroITV. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 15th, 2010: Tutorial Proposals (extended) January 24th, 2010: Full Paper Submissions (extended) February 07th, 2010: Short Papers, Posters, Doctoral Consortium, Demos March 21st, 2010: Industry Exhibitions April 1st, 2010: EuroITV Competition Grand Challenge More information about other sessions, e.g. for business oriented work, will follow soon. More details can be found on: http://www.euroitv2010.org/ CONFERENCE TRACKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year's conference consists of four tracks, each with their own program committee and a separate track chair, coordinated by an overall Program Chair. Full papers, short papers and posters have to be submitted in one of these tracks, to optimize the review process. If not sure, choose the track which is closest to the main topic of your submission, and of which you feel that community is most appropriate to review your work. Track 1: Interactive Content & Arts Track 2: Human-Computer Interaction Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies Track 4: Systems and Enabling Technologies Track 1: Interactive Content & Arts Track . Studies of interactive, collaborative content & video . Storytelling . Digital gaming . Role playing . Virtual worlds, mixed reality, and bringing video into the world . Distributed and networked experience design . Immersion . Social media in storytelling . Ambient media, locative media, cross media formats, and social media . Artistic and aesthetic uses of interactivity . Viewer, player, user, and collaborative co-creator . Towards a new form language for video & television . Social media utilizing online video as an art form . Video and TV genres on interactive platforms and in virtual worlds . Video and TV as alternate reality games Track 2: Human-Computer Interaction . User-centered design . Development and evaluation of iTV systems and services . Interaction technologies for interactive TV and cross-media technologies . Studies on iTV and media usage . Design and evaluation methods for the area of interactive TV . Case studies of successful/unsuccessful iTV systems and deployments of usability and user experience . Accessibility of iTV services . Cross-over media concepts and implementations . Investigations on iTV acceptance and related concepts (trust, privacy, security). Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies . Television practices and experiences related to privacy, trust and security . Direct marketing and profiling techniques for interactive TV: personalization and user modelling . Measurability, interactivity and addressability of ITV use and prosumption . Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, t-learning . Interactive Digital Television and internet-of-things applications . Audience research, television studies, ethnography, user studies . New advertising and revenue models for television . User creativity on/via television: Web2.0, social media, community television, user-generated content . Ethical, regulatory and policy issues . Everyday life practices by family, elderly, youngsters and children . Digital divide and e-inclusion issues . Methods for digital television research and design . >From mass media to mass self-communication . Transitions in broadcasting industry and policy related to digital convergence and experience economy Track 4: Systems and Enabling Technologies . Mobile TV . Ambient intelligence . Social TV . Digital content production . HDTV and digital cinema . Entertainment computing . Interactive services (games, betting, game shows) . Broadband, IPTV, 3DTV and VR systems . Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction . Web 2.0 . Internet TV (P2P TV, Web-based Interactive TV) . Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports) . Multimedia communication services . Video technology (video conferencing, broadcast, video search) . Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL) CONTACT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.euroitv2010.org/ Send any inquiry about the conference to: info(a)euroitv2010.org To receive updates about the EuroITV2010 Conference, subscribe to the Conference mailing list by subscribing on https://listmail.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/euroitv2010 or sending an email with "subscribe" in the subject to: euroitv2010-request(a)listmail.tut.fi. Host: EMMi Lab., Department of Business Information Management and Logistics / TUT Tampere (http://www.tut.fi/emmi) -------------- seuraava osa -------------- HTML liite on poistettu...

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CFP: IJEI special issue 'Digital technologies and educational integrity'
by Chris Moore 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Call for papers: 'Digital technologies and educational integrity' A special issue of the online refereed journal IJEI Edited by Chris Moore and Ruth Walker University of Wollongong This special issue of the International Journal for Educational Integrity (IJEI) seeks articles that address the impact of digital technologies on educational integrity. Many different terms have emerged in an attempt to capture the shifting terrain of media use and users in various networked environments: 'social', 'participatory', 'user-generated' or simply 'new' media. Common to the online interactive spaces of Web2.0 is the challenge of technologies and practices that are capable of changing the way we teach, learn, and share knowledge. How can we best engage and support students and colleagues coming to terms with the dynamics of these technologies and the development of new literacies? We are particularly interested in innovative research from scholars in cultural and media studies and/or the scholarship of teaching and learning, and welcome interest from other disciplinary researchers, who might consider a broad range of questions about digital technologies that critically unpack the conversation about academic integrity and go beyond a preoccupation with plagiarism and research ethics. Critical voices of concern, examples of best practice and consideration of the perceived impact of digital technology on institutional boundaries are keenly sought as is research exploring the collaborative approaches to social and participatory media that challenge conceptions about authorial identity and scholarly writing practices. Research examining the development of new literacies that celebrate the appropriation, adaptation and transformation of source material would fit well within the scope of this special issue. We also welcome reviews of relevant books or publications. Abstracts (max 500 words) due date: 31st March 2010 Full papers (3-6000 words) due date: 1st July 2010 Book reviews (1000 words) due date: 1st September 2010 Special issue release date: December 2010 Please send all enquiries and abstracts to the editors at ruth_walker(a)uow.edu.au. International Journal for Educational Integrity: http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/IJEI/issue/current Submission style guide: http://www.unisa.edu.au/EducationalIntegrity/Journal_submission_guidelines.… About the editors: Chris Moore is a father, gamer and lecturer in Digital Communications, Games and Media Studies at the University of Wollongong. Currently researching Australian gamers and their cultural, economic and social contributions, this focus has emerged from analysis of the complementary and alternative regimes of intellectual property generation and management, including the Open Source movement and digital games modification sub-cultures and online learning practices. Ruth Walker teaches a range of academic writing programs in the Faculties of Creative Arts and Law at the University of Wollongong. Her research interests take a cultural and media studies approach to academic integrity, particularly regarding the impact of media technologies on critical writing practices. She is currently the deputy chair of the Asia Pacific Forum for Educational Integrity (APFEI).

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2nd CFP: IWIPS Growing Global Design Communities - London 2010
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

9th International Workshop of Internationalisation of Products and Systems www.iwips2010.org London, England, 7 - 10 July 2010 to be held in Thames Valley University. IWIPS 2010 committee is seeking submissions on the topics of localization and globalization, with an emphasis on this year's theme: Growing Global Design Communities. The objective of the 2010 theme is to focus on the impact of international design teams on the design, evaluation, and development of products and systems. IWIPS invites several types of submissions, including papers, case studies, research-in-progress and tutorials. All submissions are due 15 February 2010, unless indicated otherwise. Accepted submissions (except tutorials) will be published in the IWIPS 2010 proceedings. Suggested Topics for Submissions As the world's economy recovers from the downturn, the need increases for effective, efficient, and socially responsible strategies for supporting global design communities. Strategies that address both business and human issues are of great importance. Topics of interest for IWIPS 2010 include, but are not limited to the following: Cross-cultural issues in IT design User centric strategies for economic and community development IT projects Revised models for global IT off-shoring, outsourcing and distributed resources Sociotechnical design and evaluation frameworks Methods for software localization / globalization Designing for trust Dealing with intercultural issues in participatory design The impact of Social Networks and other CMC tools across cultural boundaries Interactions between culture and user-centred design Managing geographically dispersed multicultural design communities Localising usability evaluation and requirements gathering techniques Submission Types Papers - Papers are formal reports of completed research, organized on a modified APA model. The length of the paper should be no more than 10 pages in the proceedings format. Case Studies - Case studies are structured descriptions of the lessons learned in applied design, evaluation, or development of products or systems within industry. The length of case studies should be between 4 to 8 pages in the proceedings format. Research-in-Progress - Research-in-Progress briefs should provide a description of the background, procedures and methodology, anticipated results, and preliminary findings (if any) of ongoing research or applied product design, evaluation or development. The length of the Research-in-Progress brief should be 6 to 10 pages in the proceedings format. (Graduate students are encouraged to submit a brief based on their theses or dissertations.) Tutorials - A tutorial is a comprehensive delivery, in an interactive and applied style of a core set of internationalisation or localisation skills methodologies or procedures. Tutorials should be interactive and applied in the nature of their delivery. Initial proposals should be 3 to 5 pages in length and do not have to be submitted in the proceedings format. The final submission will be between 15 to 30 pages, in the proceedings format, due on 15th of April 2010. Important Dates Papers, case studies, and research-in-progress briefs Submission deadline 15 February 2010 Notification to authors 15 March 2010 Camera ready copies of papers 5 April 2010 Tutorials Initial proposal 15 January 2010 Final submissions 15 April 2010 More info on http://www.iwips2010.org/calls.html

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Satellite-Linked PDAs Promise To Speed Haitian Relief Effort > John Dodge / SmartPlanet / January 15 2010
by gerrymck 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

As Haitians dig furiously through the rubble to find survivors and the dead, Global Relief Technologies (GRT) is planning to map and record the destruction on the ground to give relief workers critical realtime information as they race against the clock. The Portsmouth, N.H. company’s Rapid Data Management System will be used to collect data on the ground with PDAs. A variety of media - texts, reports, photos, video and tweets - are transmitted via satellite to an Internet-based and secure Collaboration Center custom-designed for the client and its relief workers. Satellite communications are critical because land lines and cell towers are down in the ravaged areas. With respect to Haiti, GRT is working with the Marines, National Guard, Red Cross and the USS Comfort floating hospital ship, which is heading to Haiti. Members in those units can securely access the Collaboration Center through any number of computing devices, PDAs and smartphones. [snip] Just about any rescue or reconstruction information can be handled within the RDMS to answer questions such as. is a building intact, partially damaged or destroyed? What’s it location? What does it look like before and after? Perhaps there are people still trapped inside. How many and for how long? What’s known about their injuries? What’s the local availability of resources? What are the detailed conditions of the roads, bridges and other infrastructure? And emergency alerts can be broadcast to field workers as events dictate. With the earthquake disaster and heartbreaking search for survivors dominating the news, local media outlets here in Boston with its sizable Haitian community have rushed to cover GRT. [snip] Source > Relevant Links > Graphic/Photo Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/ye93577 ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

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Re: [Air-L] Multiple Social Platform Uses + Web 2.0 and Handicraft + Racialization on the Web
by Denise N. Rall 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Dear Ostap - There is my own modest contribution - Rall, D.N. 2007. "Spinning around in a 'Martha Stewart world': Craft in the Age of the Internet" Australian Folklore, 22: 198-212. Also see - Humphreys, S., Grassroots creativity in new media environments : Yarn Harlot and the 4000 knitting Olympians (2008) Download http://hdl.handle.net/2440/51162 Publisher Carfax Publishing Limited Another good source for 'resistance' and fashion is the collection: (Ed) Palmer, A. and H. Clark (2005) Old clothes: new looks: Second Hand Fashion. Oxford: Berg. There is no mention of electronic media in this collection but plenty of networking (the old fashioned kind). Denise N. Rall, PhD. Special Projects, Faculty of Arts & Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Mobile +(61) (0)438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Join the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org IR 11.0 Meets: 21-23 October 2010, U. of Gothenburg-Gothenburg,Sweden --- On Sat, 16/1/10, Ostap Bender <ostapben(a)gmail.com> wrote: > From: Ostap Bender <ostapben(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Air-L] Multiple Social Platform Uses + Web 2.0 and Handicraft + Racialization on the Web > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org __________________________________________________________________________________ See what's on at the movies in your area. Find out now: http://au.movies.yahoo.com/session-times/

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ACLU reports US Customs searches 1500+ digital devices at border in nine months]
by George Lessard 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

- RT @mediamentor: RT @michaelgeist: RT @eMichaelPower: ACLU reports US Customs searches 1500+ digital devices at border in nine months: http://ow.ly/XU7F [excerpt] The ACLU's analysis of the first batch of documents released by CBP reveals: In a span of just nine months, CBP officials searched over 1,500 electronic devices belonging to travelers. Under the current policy, they were not required to justify a single one of these searches. Travelers' laptops are not the only devices at risk of being examined, detained, or seized by the government. In fact, cell phones were the most commonly searched and seized devices between October 2008 and June 2009. Other types of devices that were searched and detained during this time period include digital cameras, thumb drives, hard drives, and even DVDs. Between July 2008 and June 2009, CBP transferred electronic files found on travelers' devices to third-party agencies almost 300 times. Over half the time, these unknown agencies asserted independent bases for retaining or seizing the transferred files. More than 80 percent of the transfers involved the CBP making copies of travelers' files.

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Re: [Air-L] A question of Open Source ethics (paul caplan)
by Colleen Morgan 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hello all, I replied to Paul privately, but then realized that the broader list might be interested in a link that I forgot to append. This is the International Visual Sociology Association's new code of ethics for performing research with visual sources: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a916859855 Cheers, Colleen > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Air-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 17 (Mridula) > 2. Vacancies at Roskilde University, Denmark (Robin Cheesman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:31:10 +0530 > From: Mridula <mridula(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 17 > Message-ID: > <459bd09b1001170501l35fd7c84r1b5925f6447d94fa(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I post my pictures on Flickr and if my images would be pulled (which would > not be the case given your research topic) I would like that permission > was > asked beforehand. Otherwise to me it is like opening a Pandora's box. > > To give you a simple case many of us post under all rights reserved and > only > today I saw this > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/petezab/4276745361/ > > Looks like the Independent pulled some images and some people of course > did > not like it. In your case at least there is no commercial use but still > there is no harm in asking beforehand if that is feasible for you. > > I don't think photographic quoting makes sense because you would probably > not quote a small part of the picture as under fair use. But then this is > just my opinion. > > Regards, > Mridula > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 4:30 AM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > >> Send Air-L mailing list submissions to >> air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. A question of Open Source ethics (paul caplan) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:35:25 +0000 >> From: paul caplan <praxis(a)theinternationale.com> >> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org >> Subject: [Air-L] A question of Open Source ethics >> Message-ID: <4B51A47D.5080605(a)theinternationale.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Hi. I'm after a bit of advice from wiser souls! >> >> I am developing an AHRC-funded, practice-based PhD >> (http://olympicarcades.theinternationale.com) at Birkbeck, University of >> London. >> >> In short I am exploring Flickr as a space for imag(in)ing the London >> 2012 Olympics through the development of a mobile phone App(aratus) >> using a model based on Benjamin's Arcades Project. >> >> The question I have is about collecting the Flickr rags 'n refuse. >> >> I will be pulling images from Flickr into the App allowing users to see >> the distributed imagery. So far so simple, no real issue over browsing >> Flickr. >> >> However I also want to use the App(aratus) to screengrab those images >> and add them back onto Flickr where they will become part of the >> distributed imag(in)ings. Furthermore, following Benjamin, I want to >> screengrab/'quote' and annotate those images with textual commentary. >> Both of these sets of images would be on my Flickr page. >> >> The App(aratus) would also allow the user to screengrab the flow of >> images and upload to their Flickr pages (which would then be pulled back >> into the flow). >> >> All these quoted and annotated images would include links back to the >> 'originals'. >> >> In short, what are the ethical issues here about 'photographic quoting'. >> I know there is a long tradition of postmodern imagers like Levine >> rephotographing and then displaying images but this is slightly >> different. Obviously if I was only 'using' Creative Commons images, >> there would be no problem, but part of the issue I am looking at is the >> broader issue of network imag(in)ing and ideally I don't want to rule >> out any distributed 2012 images. >> >> Do people think there are any research ethics issues here? >> >> Any thoughts welcome. >> >> -- >> paul caplan >> content to be different >> the Internationale >> olympicarcades.theinternationale.com >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> >> End of Air-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 17 >> ************************************* >> > > > > -- > http://www.gonomad.com/traveltalesfromindia/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:09:45 -0500 > From: Robin Cheesman <robin(a)ruc.dk> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org, ecrea(a)listserv.vub.ac.be, > announcements(a)iamcr.org > Subject: [Air-L] Vacancies at Roskilde University, Denmark > Message-ID: <4B533649.6010904(a)ruc.dk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > At the Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, a position > as assistant professor in Cultural Encounters is to be filled from 1 > August 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applicants should have done > research on new media in a global perspective and hold qualifications in > research fields that are prioritized by the research group, Intercultural > Studies. Also a full professorship in Cultural Encounters is to be filled > by 1 January 2011. > > More at: http://orecomm.net/2010/vacancies-at-roskilde-university/ > > CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS TO BOTH POSITIONS IS: MONDAY 1 FEBRUARY AT > 12:00 NOON. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 18 > ************************************* > -- Archaeology PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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Flickr, distributed imagery and copyright (was: a question of open source ethics)
by Paul Caplan 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Thanks to everyone who has responded, on list and off. There seem to be some really interesting issues: Apps as frontends to websites. There are many Apps that allow users to browse Flickr (their own photos and others) including those photos 'taken nearby' (cf. mobilefotosapp.com) These are effectively providing frontends to Flickr but from within a standalone App. The user of the App is 'browsing' Flickr but can save images they like to their phone, just as they could save from the main Flickr site or even the mobile version of the Flickr site. The question is whether there is some difference (legal or otherwise) between browsing a website through a browser and through an App. Flow of images versus individual pictures Flickr makes use of the fact that images are now arguably an issue of flow and distributed media. The slideshow option to view an individual or a Group's images - again replicated on mobile Apps such as cooliris - foreground the issue that part of the cultural practice of Flickring is assembling these montages. The question is what happens when those slideshows are created and displayed on the fly, by software perhaps in a flow that changes each time the App is fired up. Augmented reality Augumented reality Apps further complicate the issue by repositioning images as data to be pulled in alongside other data across a live view. To see those images is one thing. What about using them as part of one's own imag(in)ing as I've been playing with ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/content2bdifferent/4247003217/)? In this case I'm 'using' a corporate logo (arguably copyrighted and trademarked) but what if I pull some other data from the distributed web as part of my image as Twittality (http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/twittality-augmented-reality/id339494135?mt=8) does when it pulls in people's avatars? And does that change when I freeze that flow as my created image? Copyright and sharing Of course users of Flickr can attach licences to their images. The question is where issues of 'fair dealing' and critique (http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-other/c-exception.htm) come in when a user's browser (mobile or not) can cache images, they can be bookmarked, added to Evernote or Zotero, embedded etc. Perhaps a more interesting question still is how a site that positions itself as 'photo sharing' rather than 'photo album' works with that logic. If my images get part of their power and 'meaning' from their relation to the community and the wider distributed flow, where are the boundaries between my 'work/creativity' and someone else's or even the site's? Doubtless those with more legal knowledge than I will be able to point to the current state of thinking on this (and thanks for the various links people have sent) but I think the debate needs to happen at other levels than just the legal or even the ethical. This seems to me to go the heart of the issue of networks as protocol-driven (cf Galloway) assemblages where one's entry into those spaces/practices places one's photographs, photography (production and consumption) into new sets of power-full relations. If the App I am building (like those that have gone before) provide a window onto distributed space - that's one set of relations. If it allows people to filter those views and remix data - that's another set. If they can then embed, save, pass-on those views - still different sets of relations. And if they can use the App as a different sort of image maker - well different again. When Levine rephotographed Walker Evans' work, the postmodern affectation was around the display in a gallery. When the game happens in networked space, the issues are... interesting. Paul Caplan praxis(a)theinternationale.com 07801 151 052 www.theinternationale.com http://olympicarcades.theinternationale.com

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