The Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) invites you to its mailing list. The iDC has organized several large-scale conferences such as The Internet as Playground and Factory. Known for its mailing list, the IDC is a forum for informal learning for some 2000 researchers ranging from artists, legal scholars, librarians, media scholars, designers, and educators to political activists.
We do not permit announcements or calls for papers.
To post to the list: idc@mailman.thing.net
The discussion leading up to MobilityShifts:
May 2011: Call
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2011-May/004532.html
June 2011: Public Library Thread and Introductions
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2011-June/thread.html
July 2011 Public Library Thread continued + The Future of the Humanities
+ Hackademia as New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2011-July/thread.html
August 2011Discussion: The Edupunks' Guide + Are We Changing?
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2011-August/thread.html
September 2011 From Digital Natives to Digital Outcasts + Can DIY Education be Crowdsourced? + The Aims of Education
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2011-September/thread.html
A few examples of previous discussion threads:
Digital Labor
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2009-October/thread.html
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2009-September/thread.html
Shelf Life (on the longevity of new media art)
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-November/thread.html
One Laptop Per Child Project
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-October/thread.html
Notes Toward a Theory of Ludocapitalism
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-September/thread.html
What is Left? / What Does a Distributed Politics Look Like?
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-September/thread.html
Immaterial Labor
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-August/thread.html
Everything is Miscellaneous
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-July/thread.html
Will You Delete Your Feedburner Account?
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-June/thread.html
From Counter Culture to Cyber Culture: The "Utopian" Thing.....
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-May/thread.html
A Critique of Sociable Web Media
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-April/thread.html
Some Thoughts on Jean Baudrillard
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-March/thread.html
How Does Social Media Educate?
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-February/thread.html
Partial vs. Peripheral Attention
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-January/thread.html
Play, Open-Ended Research, Post-Critical Approaches
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2006-October/thread.html
ISEA-- Interactive City: Irrelevant Mobile Entertainment?
http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2006-August/thread.html
Media Art Education
http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2005-January/thread.html
Free, Libre and Open Source Software
http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2006-March/thread.html
Digital Rights Management and the Future of The Internet
http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2006-February/000238.html
The Social Event Machine
http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2006-February/thread.html
Precariousness of Labor and Time
http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2005-November/000088.html
Radical Media Activism
http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2005-December/thread.html
Micro-Histories of Media Art
http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2005-October/thread.html
http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2005-December/000124.html
Remix Culture
http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2006-April/thread.html