Author: Shin Mizukoshi

On September 4th, 2020, Shin Mizukoshi presented at the international webinar: Rethinking Literacy, Digital Competency and Media Education in the Age of Digital Platforms, hosted by Gyeongin National University of Education & Incheon Community Media Center in Korea.
The title of his presentation was Media Landscape without Apple: A Workshop for Critical Awareness of Alternative Media Infrastructure. He will publish an article based on this presentation soon.

Thank you so much, Professor Hyeon-Seon Jeong and her colleagues, for a wonderful online seminar!

2021年4月2日に講談社ブルーバックス・オンラインで水越伸が、新型コロナ禍のメディア・リテラシーの状況と、その新たなあり方についてのエッセイを公開しました。

「非常時だからメディア・リテラシーが大切という声がうさん臭い理由：答えは『寄生虫』で描かれた知性に」

ブルーバックス・オンラインで水越が書いたその他のエッセイについては、こちらをご覧ください。

Symposium “Platform Cooperativism” Second Day
シンポジウム「プラットフォーム協同組合主義の現在」2日目

International Seminar “Toolbox of Infra-Literacy”
国際セミナー「インフラリテラシーの道具箱」

日本語版は下部にあります

The New Literacy for Media Infrastructure Project will hold the 7th seminar on September 22, 2019, to report our ongoing activities which aim to establish a new media theory and design educational workshop programs to develop new media literacy in the era of media infrastructure.  

 At this English event, we will introduce the latest prototype of our workshop, followed by a discussion with panelists including Professor Trebor Scholz of the New School University, an advocate of the “Platform Cooperativism,” Professor Kazunori Mizushima of social thoughts and cultural studies, and Professor Junko Taguchi of a new field: architect education.
Registration is required for this free event.  

 This seminar is also part of the two-day international symposium on the present and future relationship of digital platform and co-operatives titled “Platform Cooperativism”  jointly held by Japan Co-operative Alliance(JCA) and the Media Infra-Literacy Project of Shin Mizukoshi Lab, the University of Tokyo.  

 We look forward to seeing many of you there!   

Shin Mizukoshi, The New Literacy for Media Infrastructure Project 

• Title：International Seminar: Toolbox of Infra-Literacy 
• Date： September 22, 2019 13:30-17:00 
• Venue： Nobuo Ishibashi Memorial Hall, 3F, The Daiwa Ubiquitous Computing Research Building, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
  （Access → http://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access） 
• This event will be free. Registration for the seminar is necessary: 
  • https://forms.gle/ZCar6j8S5Dx3nMVh7
• Language： English 
• Host：   Shin Mizukoshi Lab, The University of Tokyo 
• Contact: Infra-Literacy Project: infra@mediabiotope.com
  

Program  

1. Opening（13:30-13:35/5min） 
2. Overview of Infra-Literacy Project（13:35-14:00/25min）
   Shin Mizukoshi, Professor, The University of Tokyo 
3. Media Landscape Workshop 2019(14:00-15:00/60min)
   Atsushi Udagawa, Masahiro Katsuno and Setsuko Kamiya, The University of Tokyo
4. Break(15:00-15:15/15min)
5. Panel Discussion: “How to Become Aware of the Existence of Media Platforms”(15:15-16:45/90min)
   Panelists:
   Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor, The New School University
   Kazunori Mizushima, Professor, Osaka Sangyo University
   Junko Taguchi, Project Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
   Chair: Shin Mizukoshi
6. Closing remarks(16:45-17:00/15min)

This seminar is part of “A New Literacy for Media Infrastructure” research project supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B) from 2018 to 2020: Grant Number JP18H03343. 

For the first day’s information of the international symposium “Platform Cooperativism” on September 21, click here.

From June 29 to July 28, the infra-literacy project has been facilitating a long term workshop: Media Landscape Workshop with twelve participants from a variety of social sectors and academic disciplines in the Hongo campus, University of Tokyo.

A detailed report will come soon.

Shin Mizukoshi’s online essay in Japanese “Resistance to GAFA Empires: Re-thinking about the future of digital platforms” has been out on the Kodansha online essay. It discusses the financial resources of media from radio to facebook and examines the possibilities of cooperative management of digital platforms.

http://bit.ly/2U9IKsc_shin

2019年4月、水越伸のオンラインエッセイ「GAFA帝国への抗い：デジタル・プラットフォームの未来を問い直す」が講談社現代新書、およびブルーバックスのウェブサイトにアップされました。

メディアはいかに稼いでいるのか、どんな財源確保のしかたがありうるか。従来のマスメディアとは異なるメディア・インフラストラクチャーにおいて、そのことはどうなっているのかを論じたもので、この研究プロジェクトの成果を生かした内容となっています。

Dear all,

We are going to hold an international seminar with Prof. Warren Sack, an eminent researcher on digital media studies and keen software designer and artist, University of California Santa Cruz.
This time, he will bring us fruits of his forthcoming book The Software Arts (MIT Press) and his interdisciplinary activities of media theory and practices mainly in California.

Continue reading “Mar. 27 Warren Sack’s Talk on the Software Arts”

みなさま

2018年度からはじまった「インフラリテラシー・プロジェクト（科研費基盤B：メディア・インフラに対する批判的理解の育成を促すリテラシー研究の体系的構築）」の初年度末セミナー（第6回研究会）を下記の要領で開催します。

Continue reading “Mar. 16, 2019 Infra Literacy Project Annual Seminar インフラリテラシー・プロジェクト年度末セミナー”

Information about 4th Media Infra Research Project Meeting
第4回インフラ・リテラシー研究会のお知らせ

Topic:
Theoretical Frontline of Media Literacy: Reports of Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2018 and Media Education Summit 2018 Continue reading “第4回研究会 181208「メディア・リテラシー理論の現在」のお知らせ”