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SUMMARY:Indrek Ibrus presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Indrek Ibrus is a Professor of Media Innovation at Tallinn University’s (TLU) Baltic Film\, Media and Arts School (BFM)\, Estonia. He also curates BFM’s doctoral program. His research interests include media innovation\, the evolution of the ubiquitous spatial internet\, the emergence of contemporary metadata formats for audiovisual culture and industries\, the broader evolution of modern creative industries\, and the implications of cultural heritage digitization. He is currently principal investigator in the Estonian government-funded research project “Public Value of Open Cultural Data” and a work-package leader of CresCine\, a Horizon Europe funded multi-year project improving the conditions for Europe’s small film countries. He has been a co-editor (together with Carlos A. Scolari) of Crossmedia Innovations (Peter Lang\, 2012)\, editor of Emergence of Cross-Innovation Systems (Emerald\, 2019) and co-author (with John Hartley and Maarja Ojamaa) of On the Digital Semiosphere (Bloomsbury\, 2020). He is currently editing also research journal Baltic Screen Media Review. \n  \nThe Public Value of Media Data: Conceptualizations and Ways of Measuring\n \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Ibrus will be reporting on the work of their ongoing multi-year research project (https://publicvalueofdata.tlu.ee/) that studies the complex ways in which open data solutions in media and cultural sectors could generate ‘public value’. In conceptual terms\, it builds on existing research traditions on (public) value creation\, links these to work on innovation systems in media industries and investigates how new open data technologies such as the linked data and blockchains could be seen as conditioning the emergence of new kinds of “media innovation systems”. They have been studying existing data management systems to interpret how public service media institutions generate public value. But they are also developing new systems for them enabling them to do it even better. They are also collaborating with various startups experimenting with public blockchains in order to decentralize online media economies and generate public value again in different ways. That is\, this project has been conceptual\, empirical\, and interventionist. It is also highly interdisciplinary as it combines network science and data science with media and innovation economics\, media and communications studies\, and cultural semiotics. The presentation will discuss their research results as well as their emergent conceptualizations of ‘public value’ in the era of media datafication.\n\nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/indrek-ibrus-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:DDI\, 7460 - TASC 2\, SFU\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Dr. Roopa Vasudevan presents to the DDI
DESCRIPTION:High-Level Creativity: New Media Art and the Priorities of the Tech Industry\n\nArtists working with emerging technologies are often depicted as existing “outside” of the technology industry\, both by scholars exploring technology and society as well as within their own perceptions of themselves and their output. Their works are alternately positioned as innovations\, diagnostics and correctives; they are frequently depicted as carrying unique perspectives that do not exist within the technology industry otherwise. However\, these artists are very much subject to the norms and limitations inherent to digital technology. The protocols and ideologies of the industry have a sizable impact on the work artists can make; how they are able to share and preserve it; and even how they envision their broader cultural roles.\n\nThis project examines the relationships between new media artists—practitioners who see themselves expanding\, reinventing\, or misusing technological expression—and the industry that controls the tools\, resources\, and protocols necessary for their work. I demonstrate that new media artists are heavily bound up in the workings of the contemporary tech industry\, in both material and ideological ways. Drawing on theories of art worlds\, scientific infrastructure and creative labor\, I argue that the power and impact that the tech industry exerts on almost every facet of contemporary life also guides\, influences and shapes the creative possibilities and conventions that new media artists are able to harness in their practices. Additionally\, using the concept of the imagined affordance\, I make the case that\, rather than operating externally to the industry\, these artists are seen as a vital resource due to their perceived ability to envision uses for emerging technologies that elude the capabilities of traditional engineers and developers. Through this revised subject position\, I argue that we can gain a more nuanced understanding of where and how the tech industry exerts control over culture and creative practice\, allowing for a re-conceptualization of how art can challenge the dominance of technical systems.\n\nEmail ddi_comms@sfu.ca for details and Zoom link.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/dr-roopa-vasudevan-presents-to-the-ddi/
LOCATION:By zoom
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