Syndicate: Exploding Media - August 29 - Manchester

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:34:17 +0000
From: Robin Hamman <Robin@socio.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Exploding Media - August 29 - Manchester - Speakers?

EXPLODING MEDIA (A one day symposium in Manchester, August 29)

There is an explosion of media; desktop and online publishing have become a
common place, digital media production and broadcasting have lead to a
multiplication of 'channels' and the quality of consumer electronics rival
high-tech equipment.

The increase of independent, subcultural and grassroots media as well as
multi-media cross-fertilisation has recently been formulated as a
hybridisation of the mediascape. Coincidentally, the term hybridity has
gained currency within post-colonial cultural and political debates. When
talking about hybridity, a deviation from a pure origin is implied. And
hybridity always points back to its points of origin. Does the explosion of
media really just come down to an extension of a media mono-culture or does
this fresh harvest challenge its domination?

The issues at stake in an expanding mediascape are inevitably multiple.
Does such a diversification destabilise or add to the culture of
simulation? Does representation become more or less diverse? Is there a
font for everything? By taking hold of media, do marginal groups develop
complicity with mainstream power, or tools for social and political
leverage? Do the moguls remain unshaken when assimilating the shaky cameras
of subculture? Are alliances between marginalised groups developed or
dissolved? Does a multiplicity of media promote direct democracy or develop
into a structureless chaos, or even organise a new culture of conformity?

Exploding Media will dismantle the oldest stencil for communication.
Organised into 3 corresponding panels, the symposium will explode the
SENDER, explode the SIGNAL, and explode the RECEIVER.

SENDER: the manufacture of content is undergoing a parallel expansion -
across previously untapped territories and into the nooks and niches of
minute market segments. In an environment of merging multi-nationals, does
niche specialisation create the illusion of choice within the themed mega
mall of mainstream culture?

SIGNAL: There is no pure signal, there is no objective truth, we always
already think about the context, and yes, communication is always
interactive. What is the relationship between medium and message in a
many-too-many media environment?

RECEIVER: in a culture of amateur hobbyists and 'independent' media
practitioners, not to mention a highly developed media literacy, is it
possible (if it ever were) to talk of the category media receivers? Do
networked and community media create a shift in the understanding of the
audience?

URL: http://www.yourserver.co.uk/

Those wishing to give presentations should contact: Robin Hamman
(Robin@hrc.wmin.ac.uk) or Micz Flor (micz@yourserver.co.uk)



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