Posts tagged open access
Aca-article: Designing early community engagement for the revitalization of suburbs - Experiences in Kannelmäki
This paper describes the co-design of a neighbourhood event in Helsinki and they claim that “co-design processes can be crucial in designing for the ‘softer side’ of urban systems and communities”.
Authors: Bäckman, Liao, Marttila and Oguz, School of Art and Design, Aalto University, Finland.
Open access, download pdf.
White Paper: Smart Cities as Innovation Ecosystems Sustained by the Future Internet
This paper focuses on how European cities are currently developing strategies towards becoming “smarter cities” and the lessons we can draw for the future.
Authors: Hans Schaffers, ESoCE Net; Nicos Komninos, URENIO; Marc Pallot, INRIA
Open access, download here.
Aca-articles: Designing for Personal Memories - Past, Present, and Future
This special issue of journal Human-Computer Interaction publishes three for-free articles on “designing for personal memories”. See links below.
1. Introduction to this special issue
2. Socio-Technical Lifelogging: Deriving Design Principles for a Future Proof Digital Past
3. Food for Talk: Phototalk in the Context of Sharing a Meal
Aca-article: The aesthetics of immateriality in design - Smartphones as digital design artifacts
This paper offers a theoretical discussion of how immateriality can be conceptualized as a matter of aesthetics in the face of the challenge that digital artifacts pose to the role and understanding of materiality in design objects.
Access article here, open access, go to page 139.
Author: Mads Folkmann, Associate Professor in Design History, Syddansk Universitet, Denmark.
Published in Design and Semantics of Form and Movement
ABSTRACT - The paper is a philosophical-theoretical contribution to the conceptualization of the span of material extension and immaterial impact in artifacts employing digital technology. Using the smartphone as an example of a widely distributed type of material artifact that operates with immaterial structures of information, the paper offers a theoretical discussion of how immateriality can be conceptualized as a matter of aesthetics in the face of the challenge that digital artifacts pose to the role and understanding of materiality in design objects.
The paper proposes a framework of aesthetics that describes sensual, conceptual, and cultural levels of meaning in and through the object. Further, the paper discusses how this connects to a notion of possibility in design. Thus, the paper contributes to a discussion of the sensuous character and impact of artifacts that are on the verge of immateriality. The relevance to design practice is motivated through the discussion of central concepts of design ontology and the proposal of a framework of aesthetics that in its discussion and structuring of levels of meaning in design can inform the process of developing design.
Keywords: Aesthetics, materiality, immateriality, design ontology, digital artifacts, smartphones.
Call for Proposals: Open Knowledge in Action at the Open Knowledge Festival (Helsinki, Sep, 2012)
This festival will be looking at the value that can be generated by opening up knowledge, the ecosystems of organisations that can benefit from such sharing, and the impacts that transparency can have in our societies.
Proposals due April 20 (1st round) and June 1 (2nd round). Open Knowledge Festival, Sep 17-22, 2012, Helsinki, Finland.
Submit proposals here: http://okfestival.org/call-for-proposals/ and have a look at this etherpad for the collaborative planning of the festival and its themes.
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ABOUT THIS FESTIVAL - This festival will be looking at the value that can be generated by opening up knowledge, the ecosystems of organisations that can benefit from such sharing, and the impacts that transparency can have in our societies. What kinds of new professions, ideas and community initiatives can emerge within our governments, markets, networks and neighbourhoods as a result of these engagements?
The exploration of this theme will not only be visible in the festival’s content, but also in its implementation as the first global event of its kind. At OKFestival, we will experiment with pioneering new forms of collaboration, new workshop formats and new forms of participation. We will highlight the diversity of Finland’s open knowledge communities, encouraging the participation of representatives from Nordic nations. We will bring together civil society representatives, programmers, data wranglers, designers, students, members of government, local communities and citizens for a week of building new things and sharing great ideas.
Hat tip to Anna Seravalli for spotting this.
Aca-articles: What’s trending in Media & Cultural Studies?
The publisher Routledge is opening access to 30 of their most popular articles on media and cultural studies from journals such as Cultural Trends, Journal of Children and Media and Cultural Studies.
The articles will be available until the end of June 2012 (eh, why lock them once they have been opened up?).
A full table of contents is found in this beautiful pdf: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/explore/mcs-citations.pdf
Aca-article: Driving the Internet - Mobile Internets, Cars, and the Social
This paper looks at the tandem technologies of cars and the Internet, and the new ways that they are assembling the social with the mobile Internet.
Author: Gerard Goggin, Department of Media and Communications, The University of Sydney, Australia
Article published in Future Internet 2012, 4, 306-321. Open access: http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/1/306
Abstract: This paper looks at the tandem technologies of cars and the Internet, and the new ways that they are assembling the social with the mobile Internet. My argument is two-fold: firstly, the advent of mobile Internet in cars brings together new, widely divergent trajectories of Internet; secondly, such developments have social implications that vary widely depending on whether or not we recognize the broader technological systems and infrastructures, media practices, flows, and mobilities in which vehicular mobile Internets are being created.
Keywords: mobile Internet; automobile; cars; Internet; mobile media; social transformations
Aca-article: Researching News Discussion on Twitter - New Methodologies
This paper outlines innovative approaches for large-scale quantitative research into how Twitter is used to discuss and cover the news, focussing especially on #hashtags.
Authors: Axel Bruns & Jean Burgess, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Article published in Journalism Studies.
Open access: http://bit.ly/HzQP3m
Abstract
Twitter has become a major instrument for the rapid dissemination and subsequent debate of news stories, and comprehensive methodologies for systematic research into news discussion on Twitter are beginning to emerge. This paper outlines innovative approaches for large-scale quantitative research into how Twitter is used to discuss and cover the news, focussing especially on #hashtags: brief identifiers which mark a tweet as taking part in an established discussion.
Aca-article: Brick Lane - community-driven innovation
In this essay, the authors explore the relationship or the lack of relationships between large and small actors in the Brick Lane area.
Author: Andy Pratt, Professor of Culture, Media and Economy, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries.
Published in Local Knowledge: Case studies of four innovative places. NESTA.
Open access: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/cmci/people/papers/pratt/BrickLanecommunitydriveninnovation.pdf
Background
The name Brick Lane functions as an international ‘brand’, conjuring images of a distinctive urban space. This inner-city area has been home to a succession of migrant groups over the centuries, and has long played a role as a centre of London’s rag trade. Today, as well as clothing manufacture, it is a favoured location for young fashion designers, retailers and others in the creative industries.
The area around Brick Lane has re-invented itself many times over the years in relation to participants and industrial sectors. In addition to clothing and creative industries; tourism, food and the night-time and leisure economies, are also important industrial sectors in this area. This blend of economic activity lends a particular set of characteristics to the Brick Lane area, notably the embedding of economic activities in local social relations.
The creative and cultural sectors that are dominant in this neighbourhood are characterised by micro-enterprises and self-employed entrepreneurs involved in businesses, with quick turnover of product, constant innovation, and risk. Their organisation is better described as networked rather than dominated by firms. These industries share a common thirst for knowledge and know-how, which has to be timely and appropriate to the activity (usually one to which it has not previously been applied). Acquiring and processing knowledge in these industries usually requires proximity, and intensive interaction, of producers and consumers, and niche innovators. Moreover, it is commonly found in an inter-penetration of the formal and informal, commercial and noncommercial fields. Similar characteristics can also be observed in some of the small retail and leisure businesses in the area, whether restaurants on Brick Lane, or retailers in the Truman Brewery.
But alongside this small, even micro economy, land and property development as well as the growth of ‘branded’ retail and leisure experiences, means that larger firms are becoming a more dominant element in the mix. These new players have the potential – via their economic power- to crowd out and to destabilise a number of activities that seem to contribute to the success of Brick Lane. In this essay we explore the relationship – or, as we will argue, the lack of relationships - between innovation in these diverse sectors and across firm size, to see if innovations are transmitted between large corporate and smaller firms in these sectors.
Aca-article: The State of the (Creative) Commons, in “Why Open Source, Open Content and Open Access”
What artists need to see before they can feel confident about the Creative Commons (etc) licenses are examples of others taking the licenses and incorporating them into their practices. This article is about just that.
Author: Rachel Cobcroft, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Published in PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication special issue Yes, We’re Open! Why Open Source, Open Content and Open Access.
Access here: http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/cc_cobcroft.html
Abstract
‘What artists need to see before they can feel confident about the licenses are examples of other[s] taking the licenses; incorporating them into their practices.’ – OpenBusiness.cc, p. 8 The Creative Commons Case Studies initiative, established in 2008, offers the ‘free culture’community a qualitative resource to chronicle trends in open content licensing (OCL). Seeking feedback as to individual and organisational motivations towards OCL adoption, and through its provision of usage data, jurisdiction and disciplinary distribution, the CC Case Studies wiki complements current quantitative research projects such as CC Monitor. Containing over 200 entries in July 2010, the CC Case Studies wiki covers several genres such as publishing, moving images, music, visual arts, interactive resources including games, performance, education, and ‘government 2.0’ open data initiatives. Entries represent 25 contributing jurisdictions, with studies being written in several languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Korean. By sharing stories of success and identifying areas of innovation and collaboration, the CC Case Studies wiki encourages creators to contribute to the Commons, whilst contributing to a broader understanding of the dynamics of ‘free culture.’
View all articles in this special issue here: http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/cc2010.html
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