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trouble in the media archive:. hybrid practices, hybrid discourses expert meeting on online archives mars lab, st augustin, october 25-26 2002 minna tarkka, chair, m-cult. m-cult, centre for new media culture.
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trouble in the media archive: hybrid practices, hybrid discourses expert meeting on online archives mars lab, st augustin, october 25-26 2002 minna tarkka, chair, m-cult
m-cult, centre for new media culture m-cult was established in 2000 to support production, research and development of new media culture by an active involvement in the practices, policies and structures of the field. aiming at long-term sustainable development of media culture, m-cult strives at creating productive and critical, multidisciplinary encounters between actors in culture, technology and society.
m-cult works to establish a major international research, development and production centre for new media culture in Helsinki by 2004.
networked expert organisation prior to the opening of the fully staffed centre m-cult operates as a networked expert organisation, carrying out research and development projects, consulting on policy and educational issues, publishing information and producing international events and conferences.
m-cult.net online information and communication resource database of actors, events weblog and list digest .. to be developed: metadata – keywords in media culture organisational memory - information ergonomy personalised service, registered user input
mediumi web journal for new media culture forum for researhcers and practitioners thematic issues: ecity, mobile culture, open source.. review and keyword sections to be developed: audio/visual features, multi-platform publishing
new media culture as innovation environment finnish&international research commissioned by ministry of trade&industry ministry of traffic&communication
hybrid practices: ’tactical’ crossovers between artistic and commercial work multi-contextual production parallel organisational modes and economies example: katastro.fi
hybrid discourses: notions drifting across disciplines and practices, socio/technical, culture/economical, techno/pedagogical… example: value-added
translations and politics in translation, not only objects but also their contexts are changed (akrich, latour) categories have politics (suchman); politics is ontological (mol) boundary objects – weakly structured, ambiguous but constant enough formations that travel across communities of practice (bowker & star)
politics of archival technologies? self-organizing maps .. metadata, object-relation models .. user-produced input and categories ..