We are pleased to announce the first speaker in the 2013/14 series of Culture, Film and Media Research seminars hosted by the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham. All welcome.
Graham Murdock
Professor of Culture and Economy (Loughborough University)
Tuesday 8 October 2013
5.00-6.30pm
Cultural Enclosure: The Struggle for the Digital Commons
We can usefully think of current struggles over the commercial annexation of public space – both physically in contemporary cities and virtually, on-line- as the latest stage in the long battle to resist enclosure and preserve the commons. This paper has four aims. First, to offer a critical review of recent debates on the nature of the commons and their relevance to the analysis of culture and communications. Secondly, to argue that far from marking a decisive break with the past, current struggles over the control and use of the internet and the networked commons continue and intensify processes of enclosure and resistance rooted in the early transition to capitalism and its extensions in the age of urban industrialism. Thirdly, to detail the present intensification of commercial cultural enclosure and examine the counter movements represented by the emergence of digital gift economies and the digitalisation of public cultural resources. Finally, to ask whether it is possible to build a digital cultural commons in current conditions and if so how?
Venue: Clive Granger A48, University Park Campus
Details of how to get to the University Park campus can be found at -
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/visitorinformation/mapsanddirections/universityparkcampus.aspx
The Clive Granger building is number 16 on the map at -http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sharedresources/documents/mapuniversitypark.pdf
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