With the usual apologies for cross-posting, here are details of two new
research papers.
Pavis Papers in Social and Cultural Research
Newly published:
Stuart Hall, The Multicultural Question
Pavis Paper number 4
For Stuart Hall, the multicultural question is: "how we are to envisage the
futures of those many different societies now composed of peoples from very
different backgrounds, cultures, contexts, experiences and positions in the
ranking order of the world; societies where difference refuses to
disappear". This paper is based on the October 2000 Pavis Lecture, given in
the week following the publication of the Runnymede Trust's report on The
Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain (Stuart Hall was on the committee which
produced the report). A transcription of the question and answer session
that followed Stuart Hall's talk is also included.
Jason Toynbee, Creating Problems: Social Authorship, Copyright and the
Production of Culture
Pavis Paper number 3
Copyright - the most important form of cultural commodity - relies on the
Romantic conception of individual authorship. Toynbee argues instead for a
notion of social authorship, which provides "a more limited and nuanced
model of creativity and hence of the property rights which might accrue to
creators". The paper includes an analysis of the impacts of the internet and
Napster on understandings of creativity and copyright. Essential reading for
anyone interested in issues of cultural policy and new media.
Series editor: David Hesmondhalgh
Associate editor: Fiona Harris
For copies of these papers, send a cheque (or international money order) for
£3 (US$5) (Aus$7) per paper, made out to 'The Open University'.
to:
The Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural Research
Faculty of Social Sciences
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
UK
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http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/sociology
Tel: 01908 654458 Fax: 01908 659267
Also available
Tony Bennett, Intellectuals, Culture, Policy: The Technical, the Practical
and the Critical
Pavis Paper number 2
Elizabeth B. Silva The Politics of Consumption @Home: Practices and
Dispositions in the Uses of Technologies
Pavis Paper number 1
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