Here are some video and audio presentations from Pat Kane on the relationships between play and social media, technology, business and education. If you'd like to engage Pat for this kind of presentation, please contact playethical@gmail.com.
VIDEO
Some clips of my speech at the Scottish Media 140 conference in Glasgow - see the Pat Kane tag to watch all five (including a very nice testimonial from the audience).
Movie 1 picks out my points about the next wave of social networking seeing competitive advantage in more self-conscious privacy considerations.Back-up links to speech below. (BTW "extimacy" is originally a concept by the political philosopher Slavoj Zizek (via Lacan), which has recently been applied to social networking behaviour).
Pat Kane - movie 1 - intimacy v extimacy from media140 on Vimeo.
Movie 2 re-examines Tom Peters' 90's concept of 'The Brand Called Me' in light of the public display of character that social media provides.
Pat Kane - movie 3 - Establishing the brand called 'Me' from media140 on Vimeo.
And movie 4 continues that theme, connecting the Roman definition of fame to our presentation of self in social media.
Pat Kane - movie 4 - Fame - The Public Display of Character from media140 on Vimeo.
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"This is a crowdsourced video of my academic presentation at the Digital Labor / Internet as Playground and Factory conference (it starts about five minutes in)". The slides and paper are available here.
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"Here's a keynote I presented at the Media140 conference in London in May 2009. The topic was the relationship between traditional journalistic practices, and the new 'real-time' media epitomised by Twitter. I drew on my own experience as a founding editor of the Sunday Herald in 1999. The slides are available here."
Pat Kane - Media140 Keynote - 20th May 2009 from media140 on Vimeo.
* * *"This is an excerpt from my presentation at the Scottish Arts Council's Partnerships 2.0 conference in October 2008, where the theme was how can social media/web 2.0 help arts organisations to flourish. The question I'm answering here is: 'Is Web 2.0 the Emperor's New Clothes?'" My afternoon workshop presentation is available here."
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"This is a sample from the Hue And Cry Music Club - the social network that supports my brother Greg and I's band, Hue And Cry. The "Lyrics Lab" is a video channel on the site, where I explain the meaning and context behind our songs (Greg produces and directs all the videos). This particular Lab focusses on the song 'Plan B', from our new album Open Soul. The lyric very much resonates with the 'player's' post-work lifestyle. But it has a certain wry consciousness about it all..."
