RECLAIMING THE COMMONS: PUBLIC CULTURE IN DIGITAL TIMES
Professor Graham Murdock
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
29 October 2014 at 5PM
Lecture Theatre SMB014 (Stewart Mason Building)
Since Feudal times, resources held in common have been under attack by efforts to enclose them, to fence them off and deny or charge for access.
Today, the latest battleground for resources held in common is on the internet. While ‘New’ media may be novel technologically, the struggle over their social and cultural uses has deep roots and has long been a topic of debate.
Professor Murdock will explore the idea of the commons, tracing its history, and examining its contemporary relevance. Digital gift economies and the digitalisation of the public cultural resources held by museums, libraries, galleries and universities provide a potential basis for a new digital commons openly accessible and free to all, but they face an intensified push to enclose the internet.
Detailing this movement, Professor Murdock will examine the rise of Google and the other internet majors, the ubiquity of advertising, the expansion of surveillance, and the implications of the ‘internet of things’. He will ask what the outcome of current battles over digital enclosure might mean for the future of public culture.
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