We-Media and Collective Identity in the Pre-Digital Age · A good term… •Temporary Autonomous...
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We-Media and
Collective
Identity in the
Pre-Digital Age
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Is ‘We-Media’
possible without
digital technology
and the internet?
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How can we answer this?
Looking at subcultures and trying to identify similar patterns of
• consumption
• production
• Distribution
• Marketing
• and exchange.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GChP1uzjZnE
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Islington Squatter Punk Documentary - YouTube
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What are the similarities between
punk and hip hop subcultures?
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Consumption
• Audiences consume at live, social events (reinforces collective identity of marginalised groups)
• ‘Mixtapes’ and bootlegs of live performances so music can spread beyond one location
• Fanzines encourage sense of solidarity
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PRODUCTION
Non-professionals creating their own music (and fashion, choreography, press).
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Distribution
• Live shows or block parties attract audience to social events
• Mixtapes, bootlegs – and fashion, art, fanzines – sold at events.
• Not controlled by traditional music institutions (yet)
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Marketing
• Word of mouth (intensifies sense of community)
• Fanzines review and recommend music
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What do all these
subcultures
have in common?
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A good term…
• Temporary Autonomous Zones (TAZ) • Phrase created by theorist Hakim Bey to
describe ‘free spaces’ where normal mainstream rules don’t apply
• Fans can be united by their love of a specific type of media (music, film, TV show) ignored/disapproved of by the mainstream
• They then form their TAZ to gather, socialise, exchange their own DIY media.
Choose one subculture – how did they form a TAZ?
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Further Reading
• Clay Shirky: ‘Here Comes Everybody’ or his website:
http://www.shirky.com/
• Charles Leadbetter: ‘We-Think’
http://www.wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx
• Henry Jenkins ‘Textual Pochers’
http://henryjenkins.org/
• Dick Hebdige ‘Subculture: the meaning of style’
• Simon Reynolds ‘Energy Flash: a journey through rave music and dance culture’