[p2p-research] Important conference in Linkoping Sweden

[Michel Bauwens]

 Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility,
CFP Deadline May 1!!!
http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/details/2010/confdetail316/316-preliminary-programme.html


(hi Chris, I hope you're well, could you possible post this to our main blog
as well?)

"Paying Attention" concerns the politics, ethics and aesthetics of the
attention economy. This is the social and technical milieu in which web
native generations live much of their lives. It will address key questions
like: What architectures of power are at work in the attention economy ? How
is it building new structures of experience? What kinds of value does this
architecture produce? "Paying Attention" encourages dialogue between
researchers from the fields of Cultural and New Media Studies, Philosophy,
Education, Communications, Economics, Internet studies, Human Computer
Interface Studies, Art and Design. It also seeks the input and insights of
creative practitioners exploring critical and alternative uses of new media
forms and technologies.

Through an ever-burgeoning technical apparatus of surveying, data mining and
internet search-tailoring the attention of individual minds is estimated,
costed, marketed, bought and sold. The "attention economy" is enabled by
technologies like Google’s web-crawler and search algorithms and agents and
all kinds of metadata production. The dominance of this mode of conceiving
and calculating attention, above all that of the young, can be seen to be
bearing fruit in many national, regional and global phenomena. The
traditional values of the public sphere are unmistakably reshaped though
these processes.

"Paying Attention" is also interested in how practices such as videogaming,
P2P Filesharing, pervasive media experimentation, and mobile phone activism
create detours, reinventions and reimaginings of the cultural program to
which younger generations are recruited. While there is a concerted effort
to commercialise and exploit these spaces according to the demands of the
global media industries, web 2.0’s reorientation of social communication
practices remains charged with an indeterminate techno-cultural potential
which the conference seeks to explore.

Applications are invited for research paper contributions on any subject
relevant to the conference’s aims. These may include the areas listed below
to indicate the broad scope of relevant topics or subjects. The conference
also seeks through its poster section contributions of an experimental kind
from digital media artists and developers that engage with the conference
theme of attention and experiential design in critical and/or creative ways.
These may take the form of demos, animatics, ethical or critical design
projects, installation treatments or concepts in progress. These will form a
major part of the program as key elements in the articulation of viable
technocultural futures. We will be seeking submissions that can engage and
develop the themes of the event through the summer of 2010 through the
online community of conference delegates. Practice based researchers should
apply under the poster programme using the 400 word abstract to describe
their plans for the event.

*Key themes will include: *

   - Education, Technique & Responsibility
   - The Political Economy of Digital Experience
   - Emerging forms of knowledge and value transmission
   - Ethical design, trust and security
   - Experiments with mediated attention and experience
   - Value in the new social spaces of digital culture
   - Records, archives and digital memories
   - Metadata, search algorithms and politics
   - Entertainment, marketing and attention technologies
   - Web 2.0 : Playbour and Grammatisation
   - Profiling Data Mining and Control
   - Pervasive media and remediated living spaces

*Conference format:*

   - lectures by invited high level speakers
   - short talks by young & early stage researchers
   - poster sessions, round table and open discussion periods
   - forward look panel discussion about future developments

Invited speakers will include:

   - Michel Bauwens, Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives
   - Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield .org Independent Net Art collective, UK
   - Jonathan Dovey, University of the West of England, UK
   - Aphra Kerr, National University of Ireland Maynooth, IE
   - Simon Poulter, Independent  Digital  Artist and Curator, UK
   - Stanza, Independent Digital Artist, UK
   - Bernard Stiegler, Institut de recherche et d’innovation, Centre Georges
   Pompidou, FR
   - Tiziana Terranova, University of Naples, IT



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