Pam Cook
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Black Moses Barbie
Brilliant entry Mark- and the link to the interview with the Bennus on Left of Black is really useful. I like Bennu's point that social media enables micro-scale production that irritates the mainstream audio-visual industries on so many levels- your ... -
Risk/reward
Thanks Michael- the issues you raise are really important. For me, the contact with others outside our field means that we can learn from them, rather than simply assume that we will teach them. This two-way process will surely change academia for the bet ... -
(Re)search
Hi Suzanne- great to talk to a fellow James M. Cain fan! And yes, the infrastructural tools are so important to this process. At the moment, it seems difficult to find ways to understand searching/sharing mechanisms and their consequences- but what an exc ... -
What exactly is being studied?
Hi Wen- thanks for your interesting response. One of the exciting and challenging aspects of open source academia is the complexity of the questions raised. It enables us to revisit, reassess and reformulate some of our cherished methods, assumptions and ... -
Uncontrollable outcomes
Thanks for your great comment Stephanie- it may be that we can start by acknowledging the limits of our control as researchers/scholars, and then move on to opening up dialogue with those unidentifiable user/reader/participants. However, this isn't w ... -
Something to prove?
Great insights Suzanne- it's really interesting to see how this thread has developed over the week (and more to come). Your caveats about potential (and actual) discrimination resulting from open source are really important- and we do need to be atte ... -
Scholarly Striptease
A lovely post Catherine, bringing home the way open source academia dissolves the boundaries between academic scholarship and fan activity. Those boundaries were always permeable, but I think videography's cut-and-paste way of 'writing' mak ... -
Scholarship, self-reflection, and open source academia
Thanks for this Vicki- I'm totally committed to open source academia, partly because (as you and others contributing here point out) it encourages us to think about established ways of thinking about and carrying out theory and practice- and the rela ... -
When Mildred met internet
Hi Jacob- thanks for your great response- for me, the de-centering and de-familiarization process is welcome, and I wouldn't wish to reclaim my work from anyone who wants to use it in their own interests (whatever those may be). In my opinion there a ... -
Transtextual encounters
A wonderfully thought-provoking collection and intro Katie! I'm struck by the diversity (in terms of concept, approach and execution) of these examples of new audiovisual research and, above all, by the creativity and technical ingenuity of the video ...