trouble in the media archive:

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trouble in the media archive

• hybrid practices, hybrid discourses
• expert meeting on online archives
• mars lab, st augustin, october 25-26 2002
• minna tarkka, chair, m-cult

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m-cult, centre for new media culture

• m-cult was established in 2000 to support
  production, research and development of new
  media culture by an active involvement in the
  practices, policies and structures of the field.
• aiming at long-term sustainable development of
  media culture, m-cult strives at creating
  productive and critical, multidisciplinary
  encounters between actors in culture, technology
  and society.

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• m-cult works to establish a major international
  research, development and production centre for
  new media culture in Helsinki by 2004.

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networked expert organisation

• prior to the opening of the fully staffed centre
  m-cult operates as a networked expert
  organisation, carrying out research and
  development projects, consulting on policy and
  educational issues, publishing information and
  producing international events and conferences.

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m-cult.net

• online information and communication resource
• database of actors, events
• weblog and list digest
• .. to be developed
• metadata keywords in media culture
• organisational memory - information ergonomy
• personalised service, registered user input

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mediumi

• web journal for new media culture
• forum for researhcers and practitioners
• thematic issues ecity, mobile culture, open
  source..
• review and keyword sections
• to be developed
• audio/visual features, multi-platform publishing

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• new media culture as
• innovation environment
• finnishinternational research
• commissioned by
• ministry of tradeindustry
• ministry of trafficcommunication

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hybrid practices

• tactical crossovers between artistic and
  commercial work
• multi-contextual production
• parallel organisational modes and economies
• example katastro.fi

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hybrid discourses

• notions drifting across disciplines and
  practices,
• socio/technical, culture/economical,
  techno/pedagogical
• example value-added

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translations and politics

• in translation, not only objects but also their
  contexts are changed (akrich, latour)
• categories have politics (suchman) politics is
  ontological (mol)
• boundary objects weakly structured, ambiguous
  but constant enough formations that travel across
  communities of practice (bowker star)

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politics of archival technologies?

• self-organizing maps ..
• metadata, object-relation models ..
• user-produced input and categories ..

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