Audio + Video

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

"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.

"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."

"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..."

Find more videos like this on Hue And Cry Music Club

AUDIO

"I'm speaking here at the Radio Academy national event in Glasgow on June 30th, 2008, in their keynote debate. I'm supporting the motion, 'This House...Likes It Local', arguing that local programming is a necessary contribution to global diversity". (8.57)

Radio Academy:

 

"Here's some excerpts from my presentation at Urban Learning Space in Glasgow, 27th June 2008. The topic title was 'Ourselves, Online: A Musician's Quest for a New Business Model in the Age of Networks'. Academic John Williamson introduces. There's also a Slideshare display of the presentation available here."

Ourselves, Online:

 

"I was invited to ask a question at the final 2007 Reith Lecture, presented by Jeffrey Sachs, titled 'Global Politics in a Complex Age'. Sachs thinks the internet can facilitate the informed global cooperation needed to solve environmental and economic problems. I'm wondering whether he knows how fragile these networks are..."

Reith Lectures 2007:

"From 6th April, 2001, an early bit of media coverage of The Play Ethic, from the Boston public radio station WBUR, on their current affairs show The Connection. I'm being interviewed by Jack Beatty, senior editor at the Atlantic magazine, and conduct a discussion with several phone-in respondants." 

Click here to hear show (requires Real Player)