Culture Circulatory System Talk with Mirek Filiciak, Alek Tarkowski Media The greatest risk involved in the whole debate is absolute polarisation and utter simplification, while forgetting that freedom entails responsibility. It would be a shame to waste the opportunities offered to culture by the internet, but if that does end up happening, it won’t be the fault of just one side.
We, the Web Kids BY Piotr Czerski Media Participating in cultural life is not something out of the ordinary to us: global culture is the fundamental building block of our identity, more important for defining ourselves than traditions, historical narratives, social status, ancestry, or even the language that we use
Wikianarchy Ruben Maes Media The following debate on freedom in culture took place during the European Culture Congress in September 2011 in Wrocław
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:X as in XXX BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media For those who do look at it, porn is an area in which the key trends of culture 2.0 can be plainly seen. Amateur productions: check. Individuals competing with commercial productions: check. Blurring the boundaries between public and private: yet again, check
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:U as in Ubiquitous Computing BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media Trips to remote places outside the range of communications networks and ubiquitous computing are now treated as tempting adventures
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE: Double P as in Private Sphere, Public Sphere BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media The debate on whether making public that which was private is an underlying cause or a direct result of the trends observed in the internet is reminiscent of the chicken or the egg dilemma
BEFORE THE EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS: The Wall BY John Biweekly Intro You can recycle the internet too. Just give it a thought
BEFORE THE EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS: Culture War BY Edwin Bendyk Media ‘Music is the weapon of the future,’ Fela Kuti used to say. Today it could be broadened into: ‘Culture is the weapon of the 21st century’
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:Ł as in Connectivity BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media In these mediated times, it is hard to determine what the word ‘society’ means. Some writers, among them John Urry, claim that the social sciences will simply have to do without the term. A much simpler alternative would be to follow the network of ties and connections
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:I as in Interactivity BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media The youngest generations, used to constant feedback from the content they consume, are no longer experiencing the awe and joy that were brought on by first interactive contacts with the media
Youth, Media, and Culture BY Mirosław Filiciak Media We need to treat the cultural activities of young people as a ‘bellwether of change’, as Barbara Fatyga once put it. Let’s start a serious debate on the changes underway in culture and the vision that should be followed by institutions that need to reinvent themselves
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:H as in Hypertext BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media In 1968, Roland Barthes published an essay titled ‘The Death of the Author’, in which he described the text as a multi-dimensional space, a tissue of quotes navigated by the reader
