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Sunday, January 19, 2003
mediumi 1.4 open source
call for proposals: open source politics and cultural practices
mediumi the Finnish web journal for media culture publishes its fifth
theme number mediumi 1.4 open source in English. This call is for
submissions articles, essays, reviews that address the economical or legal
logic and various cultural/social politics regarding open source
software. We are particularly interested in approaches that view software
from the user or user group point of view, situating the software in its
cultural and social context.
Open source software is often technically exclusive in its development
and description. In which ways could open source become more accessible
by non-programmers or non-sysadmins? What kinds of research projects,
archives or meta-archives address the user end of open source?
In many ways open source economy is far from optimal, since without
complimentary strategies it does not provide resources to renew, research
and develop further. What kind of models can be created to maintain
networked development, free non-commercial distribution yet generate
sustainable economies? How to protect open source and open knowledge from
becoming approprietarized (sic!), while enabling also commercial
non-exclusive use?
While an increasing amount of technical knowledge is not publicly
available, creating accessible software, related knowledge archives, and
learning environments has become an acute political issue. What kind of
policies or civil action is necessary to guarantee this? What kind of
artistic or cultural interventions are taking place that address open
source as not only a tool or a movement, but as a terrain for creative
work?
submissions
We invite submissions in the following categories:
Article/essay 3000-4500 words
Interview/dialogue 2000-3000 words
Review of project, event, book 1500-2500 words
mediumi is a forum for researchers and practitioners of new media
culture. However we also wish to have the articles accessible for wider
audiences interested in new media. Please keep this in mind when submitting
eg. by explaining the more advanced technical or theoretical concepts!
December 27th, 2002 - 100-150 word abstracts sent to mediumi 1.4,
guest editor, Tapio Mäkelä, tapio.makela@m...
January 20th, 2003 - Final deadline for full texts.
The journal will be launched in February 2003.
mediumi is published by m-cult, centre for new media culture in
Helsinki, Finland. mediumi forms a part of m-cult.net, information and
communication server for the Nordic new media cultural scene. (English
version launched in 1/03).
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