Hyperpolis 3.0: Really Useful Media

Call for Papers/Proposals

We know too muchabout media communications technologies as instruments
of social control. We don't know enoughabout media technologies as instruments of civil society and cultural development. We know too muchabout media discourses as, on the one hand, “popular culture”: alienated and commodified cultural forms; and on the other, “cultural theory”: paranoid cosmologies of hyper-rhetoric, and the ubiquitous inevitability of evil...
We don't know enoughabout digital media as something other than a means to an end, as “instrumental culture”, where culture itself —mainstream, alternative, underground, or otherwise— is degraded to the status of tools (some hard, some soft, all ware).

Hyperpolis: Really Useful Mediawill provide a forum for the discussion
and presentation of some positive contributions to the field, in light of these chronic imbalances.

1 Media practices whose product is an improvement in the integrity and
vitality of the culture and society in which they are embedded.
2 Media practices whose processes are in and of themselves desirable.

Deadline:
June 15th, 2006
Conference and Celebration:
October 20th, 2006
Hosts:
Integrated Digital Media Institute
and Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
Info:
http://idmi.poly.edu
Contact:
Carl Skelton, Director, IDMI
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
RH 701, Six MetroTech Center
Brooklyn NY 11201 USA
hyperpolis@idmi.poly.edu

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