Repeat, Remix, Remediate
Modes and Norms of Digital Media Repurposing

Summer School in Media and Communications Hamburg/Germany,
29 July – 2 August 2013

http://www.rcmc-hamburg.de/graduate-school/summer-school

This year’s Summer School offered by the Research Center of Media and Communication at the U of Hamburg is picking up upon a crucial issue for current media development – a topic relevant to academia, media practice and media policy: in the age of digitisation, the landscape of media and communications is being increasingly influenced by phenomena that can be viewed as reappropriations of previously published media communications.

This Summer School will pursue central questions about the kinds of reappropriated media communications that are being developed and the relationship between ‘old’ and ‘new’ shaping them. This repurposing will be analysed from four different perspectives: repurposing as recombination, as reactualisation, as piracy and as plagiarism.

Participants:
We invite PhD students from a wide range of disciplines, including Media and Communication Studies, Sociology, Literature, Linguistics, Economics and Law.
Depending on the number of participants, advanced master's students will also be welcome.

Programme:

The programme will comprise of a mixture of keynote addresses, talks and workshops by renowned scholars both from Hamburg and international partner universities as well as excursions and cultural activities covering a variety of topics from content farming in journalism to media piracy, from hip-hop remixes to video mash-ups. Theoretical work will be complemented by practical exercises in remediation, e.g. creating a video blog.

Organisation:

The number of participants is limited to 25.
The registration fee is 100 Euros. The organisers will assist participants in finding affordable accommodation for the week.
Scholarships covering the registration fee, transportation and housing will be available on a competitive basis.

Contact:
Remediation@uni-hamburg.de
Chairs of the organising committee: Uwe Hasebrink and Andreas Stuhlmann
Research Center for Media and Communication (RCMC) U of Hamburg / Hans Bredow Institute