From: Gary Hall [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 October 2008 15:01
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Subject: Mark Poster lecture at Coventry University
Coventry School of Art and Design invite you to a lecture by Professor Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine, and Centennial Professor of Film and Media Studies at the London School of Economics
'Global Culture and Media'
Date: Tuesday 21^st October, 2008. 5.00-7.00pm
Venue: Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE),
Coventry University Enterprises, Parkside CV1 2QR
The event is free and open to all
'Global Culture and Media'
This lecture asks what questions are relevant to the examination of global media culture. Media culture is changing, and new cultural practices where the ordinary individual becomes the consumer, distributor and creator - for example, YouTube - are emerging. Modern cultural industries are finding it difficult to cope with these developments in media culture because billions of texts are being shared, and users are inventing new ways of packaging their content, thereby extending their freedoms and circumventing copyright restrictions. Universities should embrace these new 'global cultures', Poster argues, leading the way in celebrating what is on offer.
Mark Poster is the author of numerous books including /Information
Please: Culture and Politics in a Digital Age /(Duke University Press, 2006), /What's the Matter with the Internet?/ (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), /The Second Media Age/ (Blackwell, 1995), /The Mode of Information/ (Chicago Press, 1990) and /Cultural History and Postmodernity/ (Columbia University Press, 1997). He also edited /Jean
Baudrillard: Selected Writings/ (Polity, 1988).
For further details on how to get to Coventry see:
http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/university/maps/Pages/Travelinformation.aspx
For information on how to get to ICE - the venue for the talk:
www.coventry.ac.uk/ice <http://www.coventry.ac.uk/ice>
(ICE is number 15 on this map:
http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/university/maps/Pages/Campusmap.aspx)
Tel: 02476 158300
All enquiries, please contact Claire Williams
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University Director of the Cultural Studies Open Access Archive http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch
Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
My website http://www.garyhall.info
Check out my new book, Digitize This Book!
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hall_digitize.html
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list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic
study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit:
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