Quelle: 25 Jahre Videotext
Die ARD hält auf ihrer Internetpräsenz ein Dossier zum Thema 25 Jahre Videotext bereit. Neben einem historischen Rundgang gibt es dort auch zwei "Erklärfilme von früher".
annekewolf - 2. Jun, 20:58
CfP "RE:activism conference". Budapest, October 14-15, 2005
RE:activism: Re-drawing the boundaries of activism in a new media environment
Re:activism conference addresses what role social activism can play in the broad process in which emerging new media technologies transform existing structures of cultural, economic and political power. The conference offers eight panels, each of them representing an important approach from which the transformative potential of new media can be meaningfully addressed.
On the first day, we gather to discuss the new dynamics of culture production. Digital networks allow the large scale cooperation of individuals with diverse motivational backgrounds. This cooperation often results in globally competitive ideas, (software) products, (social) services. The productive activities of ad-hoc activist or expert networks on the Net can best be theorised by a new approach in political economy exploring the structure and dynamics of peer production networks. Since the emergence of peer networks transforms the established institutions of the production of memory and cultural canon, a panel session will be devoted to new forms of grassroot journalism and open archiving. Another important challenge for the status quo of culture production is the fast development of digital techniques allowing new forms for remix and detournement, in a word, culture jamming. Finally, a special panel will explore how various social, economic, and legal agents of regulation in a post-Westphalian world order can react to all these processes.
On the second day we take a step closer to groups and individuals calling themselves explicitely „activist” and we explore the various forms of local and global activism in the context of new media. Cheap and decentralized communication channels have fertilized new forms of activist practices through which social movements and civic action groups have organized themselves. The emergence and operation of world large anti-globalization activist networks is the most evident example of new media triggered activism. Maybe less manifest, still very important, is the urban guerilla activism enabled by the developing infrastructure of locative media and wireless technologies. One of the panels will explore how activists can turn, by the means of locative media, the urban fabric into a battleground. One of our main aims is to establish a conceptual framework that helps describing the civic uses of new media technologies, the emergence of local civic engagement in the digital media landscape. Finally, by exploring new media activism in the context of democratic elections we can dive into the forces that change contemporary political systems.
The aim of RE:activism conference is to bring together various people with various backgrounds, interests and projects, still, all immersed in the field of activism and digital media. RE:activism will serve not only as an academic conference, but as a large-scale social event enabling academics and practitioners, eastern and western, European and North-American, groups and individuals, to engage in communication and to establish further cooperation.
About the conference
CALL FOR PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED IN THEMATIC CONFERENCE PANELS
The RE:activism conference offers eight panels, each of them representing an important approach from which the transformative potential of new media can be meaningfully addressed. We invite academic participants to present papers and take part in round table discussions with activists in one of the following panels:
Zum CallforPaper
Download all the information about the conference in PDF format
Re:activism conference addresses what role social activism can play in the broad process in which emerging new media technologies transform existing structures of cultural, economic and political power. The conference offers eight panels, each of them representing an important approach from which the transformative potential of new media can be meaningfully addressed.
On the first day, we gather to discuss the new dynamics of culture production. Digital networks allow the large scale cooperation of individuals with diverse motivational backgrounds. This cooperation often results in globally competitive ideas, (software) products, (social) services. The productive activities of ad-hoc activist or expert networks on the Net can best be theorised by a new approach in political economy exploring the structure and dynamics of peer production networks. Since the emergence of peer networks transforms the established institutions of the production of memory and cultural canon, a panel session will be devoted to new forms of grassroot journalism and open archiving. Another important challenge for the status quo of culture production is the fast development of digital techniques allowing new forms for remix and detournement, in a word, culture jamming. Finally, a special panel will explore how various social, economic, and legal agents of regulation in a post-Westphalian world order can react to all these processes.
On the second day we take a step closer to groups and individuals calling themselves explicitely „activist” and we explore the various forms of local and global activism in the context of new media. Cheap and decentralized communication channels have fertilized new forms of activist practices through which social movements and civic action groups have organized themselves. The emergence and operation of world large anti-globalization activist networks is the most evident example of new media triggered activism. Maybe less manifest, still very important, is the urban guerilla activism enabled by the developing infrastructure of locative media and wireless technologies. One of the panels will explore how activists can turn, by the means of locative media, the urban fabric into a battleground. One of our main aims is to establish a conceptual framework that helps describing the civic uses of new media technologies, the emergence of local civic engagement in the digital media landscape. Finally, by exploring new media activism in the context of democratic elections we can dive into the forces that change contemporary political systems.
The aim of RE:activism conference is to bring together various people with various backgrounds, interests and projects, still, all immersed in the field of activism and digital media. RE:activism will serve not only as an academic conference, but as a large-scale social event enabling academics and practitioners, eastern and western, European and North-American, groups and individuals, to engage in communication and to establish further cooperation.
About the conference
CALL FOR PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED IN THEMATIC CONFERENCE PANELS
The RE:activism conference offers eight panels, each of them representing an important approach from which the transformative potential of new media can be meaningfully addressed. We invite academic participants to present papers and take part in round table discussions with activists in one of the following panels:
Zum CallforPaper
Download all the information about the conference in PDF format
kschoenberger - 2. Jun, 11:47
Per aspera ad astra - digitale Quellen zur historischen Technikforschung I
Es folgt der Auftakt einer Reihe persönlicher Bestenlisten von digitalen Quellen. Sie sind sämtlich im Internet frei zugänglich und für Fragen nach "Technik + Kultur + Geschichte" hilfreich, oft unverzichtbar. Los geht's mit einigen allgemeinen und voluminösen Nachschlagewerken des 18. und 19. Jh.:
- Zedler's Universallexikon: Zwischen 1732 und 1754 in 64 Bänden plus 4 Supplementbänden erschienen. Ein Klassiker ohnegleichen. Auf der Seite des Münchener Digitalisierungszentrums kann der Index mit allen Stichwörtern durchsucht werden, die betr. Scans der Buchseiten können als pdf-Dateien (einzeln) gespeichert werden. Eine Volltextsuche ist nicht möglich.
- Johann Georg Krünitz: Oekonomische Encyklopädie oder allgemeines System der Staats- Stadt- Haus- und Landwirthschaft ... Erschienen zwischen 1773 und 1858 in 242 Bänden. Unverzichtbare Referenzquelle. Die digitalisierte Version der Univ. Trier umfaßt z.Zt. die Bände 1-50 und die Kupfertafeln: Volltextsuche ist möglich, allerdings leidet das Projekt etwas an seiner Überdigitalisierung.
- Ersch/Gruber: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste ... Erschienen 1818-1889 in 167 Bänden. Das Werk ist unvollendet geblieben, es liegen vor die Stichworte zu A-G, H-Ligatur und O-Phyxios. Keine Suchfunktionen, man kann direkt zu den Bänden/Artikeln gehen, die Seiten werden als Scans der Originalseiten angezeigt, Downloadmöglichkeit von Einzelseiten als pdf-Datei.
- Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm. 16 Bde. (in 32 Teilbänden), erschienen 1854-1960. Volldigitalisierte Version mit Möglichkeit der Stichwortsuche.
- Meyers Konversationslexikon. 4. Auflage in 16 Bänden, erschienen 1888-1889. Stichwort- und Volltextsuche, Anzeige als Textdatei (teilweise) und/oder Scan der Originalbuchseite.
andreasreucher - 2. Jun, 05:54
