presentation euroitv2009 - people, things, ecologies: alienation as a driver for change in media
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This is the presentation made by Niels Hendriks & Liesbeth Huybrecht for the EuroITV2009-conference in Leuven, Belgium.TRANSCRIPT
People, things, ecologies:alienation as a driver for change in media
news not (only) covered by large news corporations
but blogs, visual material and video clips made by individuals
Lonelygirl15 – online video series three unsuccesful story writers Beckett, Flinders
& Goodfried YouTube-Channel has approx. 1,5 billion viewers
Back To Iraq embedded vs independent journalism funded by his readers
dichotomy – “new” media vs mainstream media “new” media = participatory/democratic/critical?
does not automatically lead to more democracy or a public forum 2.0
Lovink: “identity circus of self promotion” opportunities for “dispersed” creativity, more
participation opportunities for questioning the existing media
ecology
“strange” methods to get beyond the dichotomy
Joselit – get a more nuanced view on media by handling it as a Readymade
Duchamp – Making the obvious strange an ecology of people and tools pops up!
Media & Design Academy Experience Design lab, Social Space Group
experience design = participatory design participatory design = design process that
includes end-users as full participants (Greenbaum & Kyng, 1991; Muller & Kuhn, 1993)
+ strange teams!
“the strange” reveals people and things in changing constellations:
ethnography: observing existing relations people (elderly) and tools (tv, frame), how people (re)design the world (and their media) in an informal way
Design ethnography: changing constellations (recycle people and tools)
how? participatory mapping, design games, performance or role playing,...
ecological (metaphorically and literally... recycle) view on media
“strange” methods that adress informal cultures (like lonelygirl15,...)
predict potential media design by users