Category: Scraps

This category collects assorted brief writings and other work. Click on the titles to read each post.

Open Access Now! (Notes for a presentation at Central Saint Martins)

~ Ernesto Priego

I have shared a deck of slides on Slideshare that contains the notes I prepared for a debate about Open Access publishing organised by Roger Sabin at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.

Tomorrow: Social and Collaborative Practices, Authorship and Engagement Strategies

~ Ernesto Priego

We go into week 3 of our Digital Cultures module at City University London…

Ernesto Priego's avatarDigital Cultures (AMM 421)

For Week 3 of our Digital Cultures Module we’ll have an exciting day covering different aspects of digital strategies, including social media engagement and collaborative practices.

To start the day Sabrina Francis, social media officer at City University, will talk with us about her role and the social media strategy at City.

From 11:30am we will have a guest lecture by Professor Blaise Cronin (Indiana University) titled “How Collaborative Practices are Changing our Conception of Authorship”. Check Moodle for room information and the abstract for this lecture.

In the afternoon session Spyridon Georgiadis from the British Council will talk about the social media strategy at the British Council, and we will then round up with an exploration of how blogging and different platforms can be integrated in digital marketing strategies for wider public impact.

Please check our Moodle for all the relevant links. Also don’t forget to check our #CityDigiCult

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~ Ernesto Priego

This post on the external blog I set up for the Digital Cultures module I am leading with Lyn Robinson at City University London is my personal view on how things went during the first day.

Ernesto Priego's avatarDigital Cultures (AMM 421)

Digital Cultures Week 1I thought I would very briefly sum up what happened during the first two sessions (morning and afternoon, 1st March 2013) of our Digital Cultures module, from a personal point of view.

In the morning session I introduced some of the key issues that will frame the rest of the module. Through some practical (and I should even say also ‘tangible’) examples I tried to set out the landscape so to speak of what came before ‘digital cultures’, what ‘culture(s)’ means and how different media, artistic processes and artworks and people have related to and interconnected with each other.

We briefly referred to definitions of digital, digitisation, culture, cultural heritage and digital heritage, and also referred to some key terms in digital cultures debates. I can appreciate time and concentration will be needed to explore some of the more complex theoretical approaches. I would like to encourage students to revise…

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