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Theory on Demand

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Institute of Networked Cultures has a theory on demand project (just think print on demand). Available via pdf or print on demand. If you used something like Papers on the iPad you could then include this in your reference collection. Alternatively you could make an iPad specific version, but while that might have lots of clever bells and whistles at the moment I suspect most of us would gain more value keeping it as pdf simply because of all the apps that can do useful, scholarly like things with your pdfs.

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Video Vortex Blog

The Institute of Networked Cultures has maintained the Video Vortex project for a few years now, and they’ve updated the Video Vortex site come blog. Useful to keep an eye on this as it is one of the busiest places generating material around online video.

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Agendas

The next Video Vortex event is being organised and an email arrived listing possible themes with an invitation to suggest others. This is my response:

1. Documentary and online video practice.
Just something with stronger connection to previous genre/form/practices. The rise of informal video making (like blogging before it) has strong connections in relation to some forms of personal documentary. What are they? And what might this mode of making contribute to new documentary forms or practices?

2. Online video and new narratives.
The majority of video online is still a) treating video as a single whole object and b) linear. As far as I know we still haven’t even really managed something like Flickr’s squaredcircle or something with the density of connections that a decent blog manages. Why not? Is this a problem of video in itself so video will always be ‘book like’ (bounded and relatively closed in itself) is this is just the hegemony of heritage media?

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International Handbook of Internet Research

Was about to recommend the International Handbook of Internet Research, a new publication until I saw that it is 219 Euros. No disrespect to Jeremy, Lisbeth or Matthew, but that’s a fuck off kind of price really isn’t it? Another nail into the legitimacy of the unpaid labour for publishers that is academic publishing.

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