Participatory Media: Approaching Freedom

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This is part of a presentation held in April 2012 at the BEA conference in Las Vegas. The talk went over 8 quests that follows from a collaborative study (with the Jannissary Collective) of three-dimensional outlook on the participatory mode of being

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Participatory Culture & Media Life

The chapter presents a collaboration of 7 authors

Jenna McWilliams (Education@IU)

Laura Speers (Media Culture@Kings College, UK)

Watson Brown (Communication&Culture@IU)

Lindsay Ems (Telecommunications@IU)

Mark Deuze (Telecommunications@IU)

Nicky Lewis (Telecommunications@IU)

Peter Blank (Telecommunications@IU)

writing as the

Janissary Collective.

It suggests an opening for Grand Theory as emanating from the need to

ontologically shift our perceptions of Media Life (Deuze, 2012).

It provides an example of how it's possible to map our participatory reality.

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Design, infrastructure and use of media...

“Participation”...

Emancipation and the archive...

self-reference...

Does 'self' exist...?

“We accept the realityof the world with which we are presented” - Truman Show

Embrace our delusion to truly see our reality....

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