Apologies for Cross-posting CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS PREEMPTING DISSENT: OPEN SOURCING SECRECY An Open Source Documentary Film Project Call for Videos, Testimonials, Photographs, and other Audio Visual Materials This project examines new forms of social control including the proliferation of Tasers and the rise of “no-fly” and watch-lists. We are seeking contributions to this project in the form of video, still images, and testimonials. This content will be made available for others to mix and remix into their own documentaries. HOW TO CONTRIBUTE: We are seeking video content from those of you who have experienced and/or captured on video new forms of surveillance and social control. Have you been Tasered by police, security guards, or other citizens? Did you witness someone being Tasered and record it on video? Has your name been placed on a “no-fly” list – or similar exclusionary watch-list? If so, we invite you to submit your video footage, personal video testimonials, audio testimonials, photographs, news footage, cell phone videos, mash-ups, and any other audio-visual medium which will convey your story. To participate in this project, please go to http://www.opensourcecinema.org/project/preempting-dissent BACKGROUND: Greg Elmer of Ryerson University and Andy Opel of Florida State University are working with Open Source Cinema, to create a collaborative, open-source documentary film based on Elmer and Opel’s book, Preempting Dissent. Using the Open Source Cinema platform - a collaborative website which serves as a repository for user-generated content - the audience will be encouraged to submit their own media as well as to remix media uploaded by the filmmakers and other users. By publishing a “road map” of production, this project will encourage participation through all stages of production. The project will produce a feature length documentary, as well as enable a non-linear open source cinematic database that will evolve over time through the collaborative contributions of users. The documentary, the producer's video clips, and user-generated contributions will all be available for remixing. PREEMPTING DISSENT: This project is based on the 2008 book Preempting Dissent that critically examines new forms of surveillance and social control. This new logic encourages the suppression of public dissent and mobilizes both “fear” of the unknown and “faith” in government leadership. Elmer and Opel show that this new logic stretches well beyond the realm of airport security and international relations into everyday police techniques, including the use of Tasers, the deployment of “stealth” crowd control, the zoning of protestors and the suppression of public dissent. Drawing on social theories and media analyses, this book reveals the underlying”logic of preemption“whereby threats must be eliminated before they materialize. By addressing the implications of this new logic, Elmer and Opel lay the groundwork for more effective resistance. AUTHORS: Greg Elmer is Bell Globemedia Research Chair and Director of the Infoscape research lab, Ryerson University, Toronto. He also teaches in the graduate programme in Communication and Culture, York & Ryerson Universities and the School of Radio, TV Arts. Andy Opel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Florida State University, where he teaches documentary video production and critical media studies. Greg Elmer, PhD Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Ryerson University Director, Infoscape Research Lab, www.infoscapelab.ca Columnist, The Hill Times, www.hilltimes.com Address: Room 309, Rogers Communications Centre Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3 416-979-5282 _______________________________________________
Hello all, The following job announcement is open at the IT University of Copenhagen. Please feel free to contact us and ask about details or to apply. Thanks Rich L. The IT University of Copenhagen invites applicants for associate / assistant professorships starting in January 2010.The IT University is starting a new bachelor program in Digital Media and Design from September 2009. The applicants will be part of a new team developing and conducting courses and new educational formats for this program. Part of the program is offered in collaboration with a university in US. The program covers two main areas: Media and Communication and Interaction Design. Successful candidates should be competent in one of the two areas and must be enthusiastic about: * conducting research at the highest international level * developing and conducting excellent and inspiring graduate and under-graduate teaching * actively taking part in developing the IT University and its relations with external partners Furthermore, faculty on associate professor level are expected to draw in external funding for research and be capable of, and prepared to supervise Ph.D. Students. Applicants in the area of Media and Communication should be competent in a broad selection of topics from the area of digital media and communication, including humanistic, social and cultural aspects of digital technologies. A disciplinary background in the humanities, communication or social sciences is preferred, although others are not excluded if the candidate can document work within the area. Topics of interest are: digital communication (Internet/mobile), academic communication and writing, digital media theory, digital rhetoric, methodologies in the study of communication, strategic communication, cultural and sociological approaches to the study of digital media, digital culture and cultural policy, digital literature, digital aesthetics, art and design, historical perspectives on digital media and design, and visual communication. Moreover, it will be an asset if the applicant engages in creative digital practice. Applicants in the area of Interaction Design should be competent in a broad selection of topics from the area. Topics of interest are: methodologies, methods and techniques for interaction design, contextualized philosophy of science and historical aspects of digital design, techniques and tools for sketching, modeling and prototyping, ethnographic approaches to design, methods for user-driven design, digital aesthetics, pervasive computing, location-based services and gaze interaction. General information: The IT University is a multi-disciplinary, research-based institution with 30 faculty drawn from computer science to the humanities. We provide graduate education to 1500 students in a range of areas.
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