The London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum in which to present its results. Although the forum is primarily for those working in textual and literary studies, history of the book, humanities computing and related fields, its mandate is to address and involve an audience of non-specialists. Wherever possible the issues it raises are meant to engage all those who are interested in a digital future for the book. The Seminar is sponsored by the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, the University College London Centre for Digital Humanities and the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Co-convenors: Professor Willard McCarty (King's College London) and Professor Andrew Prescott (King's College London). |
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2013-14 |
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23 May 2013 |
Venue: Room 234 (Senate House) Faith Lawrence (King’s College London): 'Reframing Popular Culture: Media Fannish Response From Slideshows to 'Mashups' The mash-up video rose to prominence as part of the web 2.0 remix ethos, but the roots of the phenomenon are much deeper. This talk will look at the history of "vidding" from its pre-digital origins in media fandom in the 1970s to highly technical works produced today. In doing so we will consider some of the significant contributions with the genre and look at how the narratives expressed in the works parallel and reflect on traditional literary tropes and motifs while offering and illustrating alternate readings. Examples will explore the multitude of ways the video creators - as audience - respond to, celebrate, deconstruct and reinterpret the narratives of popular culture across the decades and themselves in relation to them. Warning: this talk contains nudity/sexuality, violence, scenes which the viewer may find disturbing and 80s power ballads. Specific warnings will be given as appropriate during the course of the presentation. |