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 * CS27. Simon Lindgren & Ragnar Lundstrom ** – (Tech Panel 2) //Copy, Rip, Learn: Pirate Culture, Playfulness and Creativity//

May 28 Saturday 9:00-10:30 PM HM 138

The aim of the presentation is to illustrate in an inspiring way, how the playfulness that characterizes so called remix culture is a driving force in online processes of creativity and informal learning. Affiliation/Bio: Umea University, Sweden, Professor, simon.lindgren@soc.umu.se. Simon Lindgren (http://simonlindgren.com) researches patterns of social organization, participation and creativity through discourse studies of digital culture. As the use of digital media becomes more and more interactive, user-driven and co-operative, relations of power that were previously well-established are increasingly undermined. Prior ideas about who is supposed and expected to produce things, services, worldviews and ideologies - and who is to consume them - are questioned. Simon analyzes issues concerning power, resistance, learning and collaboration, through these digital media. Co-presenter: Ragnar Lundstrom, PhD student, Department of Sociology, Umea University. Ragnar Lundstrom is working in the field of discourse analysis and media. He works in Lindgren’s research project about pirate cultures.