On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:31 AM, sarv?daya <[email protected] > >> Post your info and any thoughts on the conference!
Hiyo! I'm Kevin Driscoll, a PhD student in Communication at U. of Southern California. I'm most chatty on twitter: http://twitter.com/desconcentrado And am seeking more SFC friends on diaspora: [email protected] Free culture issues regularly surface in my research and I'm always looking to collaborate or toss around ideas so I'll tell you a little about my scholarly work: I'm part of a research group at USC called Civic Paths that studies popular/participatory cultures and civic engagement. Last year, I wrote about a group of rock musicians (Living Room Rock Gods) who organized a campaign called "Tribute is not theft" after dozens and dozens of their videos were removed from YouTube: http://sites.google.com/site/participatorydemocracyproject/case-studies/tribute-is-not-theft You can read more about the work of my Civic Paths colleagues on our blog: http://civicpaths.net/groupblog In 2009, I wrote a Master's thesis called "Stepping your game up: Technical innovation among young people of color in hip-hop" that looks at hip-hop as an approach to producing free and participatory culture: http://cms.mit.edu/research/theses/KevinDriscoll2009.pdf Three areas of research I'm working in now that relate to SFC are.... * Studying 1970s hobbyist microcomputer clubs through their newsletters (They were talking about the problems of "owning" software as early as 1975!) * Looking to amateur radio, early cable/satellite TV, and BBSes as models for building new internet infrastructure (including open mesh, natch!) * Encouraging social science and humanities scholars who study online phenomena to learn to read & write code. Lana Swartz (from the fashion panel), Joshua McVeigh-Schultz (also from USC), and I are going to be running a related workshop called "DIY Data-mining" next month at the DML conference in Long Beach. (BTW - Asheesh's 2009 lecture about web scraping was a big inspiration for this work!) If you're into similar stuff, please don't hesitate to get in touch. Thanks for starting this thread, Danny. I'm looking forward to reading more of these introduction emails! Kevin http://kevindriscoll.info _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
