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Cyberspace in its Plurality: Cybercultures Workshop at TISS, Mumbai
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<b>Cyberspace has become one of the most potent and persuasive metaphors of our times, enveloping and embracing a wide range and scope of areas across disciplines and perspectives. The cybercultures workshop is designed to be an introduction to the multiplicity of cyberspaces and internet technologies and the key questions which have emerged in the almost four decades of cyberculture theory. The workshop is designed across four days; each day dealing with a certain understanding of cyberspace – in its materiality, in its imagination, in its instrumentality – in order to present a comprehensive view of the vast terrain of cyberspace and its intersections with the contemporary worlds we live in.</b>
<h3>Workshop @ Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai<br /></h3>
<p>The four day workshop at the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.comminit.com/en/node/265160">Centre for Media and
Cultural Studies</a>, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, sees CIS engaging with one of the most exciting spaces in the Indian
academia; we design and administer an introduction course on
cyberspace and its plurality to students of media and cultural
studies. The workshop is a part of the Centre for Internet and
Society's larger concern on providing a multidisciplinary,
multi-media approach towards the internet and contextualising it in
India.</p>
<p>Structured on a seminar model, the workshop hopes to
bring together the questions in academic debate as well as in the
realm of cultural production, for students to understand the internet
technologies and cyberspaces as not only important cultural outputs
but also crucial forms that shape the world we live in.</p>
<p><strong>Objectives:</strong>
The four day cybercultures workshop hopes to achieve the following
objectives:</p>
<ol><li>To introduce the students
to the multiplicity and complexity of ‘cyberspace’.</li><li>To introduce ‘cyberspace’
as an epistemological category to emphasise the centrality of
cyberspaces in understanding the mechanics of urban survival in the
contemporary.</li><li>To orient the students
towards understanding the textuality of cyberspace; rescuing it from
the confines of digital networks and locating it in the transactions
of globalization and urbanization in Asia.</li><li>To introduce the key
debates in cybercultures theory: body, gender, sexuality, authorship,
ownership, access and information democratization.</li></ol>
<p><strong>Design:</strong>
The cybercultures workshop is designed to be conducted over four days with two
sessions (of three hours each) per day. Each day is thematically divided to
look at a particular idea of cyberspace; the sessions are further
sub-divided to introduce a particular perspective on the day’s
theme. Each session has its set of individual pre-readings which will
serve more as indicators of the stake of the debate rather than as texts around which the class will be centred. The readings shall remain as introductory
material, and the class room discussions, while referring to them,
will not concentrate on explaining the material.</p>
<h3>Day 1: Cyberspace – Form, Textuality and Frameworks</h3>
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<h3>Session 1: Exploring Cyberspace:</h3>
<p>Definitions, explanations, locations</p>
<p>Cyberspace and Digital Technologies</p>
<p>Form, text, textuality</p>
<p><strong>Pre-reading: </strong> Shah, Nishant, 2005. “Playblog:
Pornography, Performance, and Cyberspace” available<a class="external-link" href="http://www.cut-up.com/news/issuedetail.php?sid=413&issue=20"> here</a></p>
<h3>Session 2: The Digital DNA – Database, Networks,
Archives</h3>
<p>The Database Imperative: Sorting, information,
databases</p>
<p>The Networking Impulse: Social Networking Systems and
the condition of networking</p>
<p>The Archiving Aspirations: Intention, aspiration and
archiving the present</p>
<p><strong>Pre-reading:</strong> Manovich, Lev, 2001. “The
Database as a Symbolic Form” available <a class="external-link" href="http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/warner/english197/Schedule_files/Manovich/Database_as_symbolic_form.htm">here</a></p>
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<h3>Day 2: Information technology and
human engineering</h3>
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<h3><strong>Session 3 : Gender, Technology and Cyberspace</strong></h3>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>Gendering of Technology; Gendered Technologies</p>
<p>The body and its boundaries</p>
<p>Physical bodies; Digital selves; cyborgs</p>
<p><strong>Pre-reading: </strong>Light, Jennifer, 1999. “When Computers Were Women” available<a class="external-link" href="http://tinyurl.com/Jennifer-light"> here</a></p>
<p>Dibbell, Julian, 1991. “A Rape in Cyberspace: How an Evil Clown, a
Haitian Trickster, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a
Database into a Society” available <a class="external-link" href="http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html">here</a></p>
<h3> Session 4: Techno-social Worlds</h3>
<p> Orkut Deaths : The distributed self</p>
<p> Role playing and identity : The real and the authentic</p>
<p> DPS MMS: The trajectories of selves</p>
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<h3>Day 3- 4 : Cyberspace and the
Infobahn</h3>
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<h3>Session 5: Movie Screening: <a class="external-link" href="http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/">Good Copy, Bad Copy</a>
(followed by discussion) <br /></h3>
<h3>Session 6: Who owns Cyberspace?</h3>
<p>Ownership and Possession</p>
<p>Licensing and access</p>
<p>Open source and the gift economy</p>
<p><strong>Pre-reading:</strong> UNCTAD essay on copyright and related
questions, available <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/iteipc200610_en.pdf">here</a></p>
<h3>Session 7: 18 Reasons Why Piracy is Good for You</h3>
<p>The need for piracy</p>
<p>Piracy, theft, and property</p>
<h3>Session 8: The Cultural Value of Intellectual
Property</h3>
<p>The Digital Millenium Rights</p>
<p>The Copy Right and the Copy Left</p>
<p>Open Access and the Creative Commons</p>
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<p> Outputs</p>
<ol><li><a class="external-link" href="http://community.livejournal.com/authenticpirate/">http://community.livejournal.com/authenticpirate/</a></li><li><a class="external-link" href="http://myspaceformusic.livejournal.com/">http://myspaceformusic.livejournal.com/</a></li><li><a class="external-link" href="http://jennyontherocks.livejournal.com/">http://jennyontherocks.livejournal.com/</a></li></ol>
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