::fibreculture:: Games industry discussion

[Stefan Schutt]

Hi Melissa and others.

I¹ve also wondered about the winding down of Fibreculture as an active place
of discussion and debate.

I¹m tending to think it might be partly due to the decline of Œlist culture¹
and partly the result of a kind of weariness; of years battling
state-promoted antagonism towards anything that might suggest or promote
values other than the puritanically economic; of the endless tide of data
that keeps assaulting us; of the realisation that the Internet has not saved
us from ourselves.  I remember the excitement, passion and at times outrage
generated on and by this list. I was new to the field and, though I
sometimes felt intimidated by the theoretical language deployed in the
discussions on fibreculture, felt that here was a group of people for whom
the web and new media mattered. It felt like the discussions were important,
that they somehow had consequence and import.

Since then it seems we¹ve all become lurkers. Do we still think these things
matter? Is the Internet so woven into our lives that it¹s morphed into just
another work tool? Are we so concerned about paying our mortgages, doing our
admin and clearing our inboxes that we don¹t have time for discussion? Or
are we just doing the discussions elsewhere?

Thanks for your post ­ it was a very interesting prod.

Stefan

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From: Melissa Gregg <m.gregg at uq.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:22:20 +1000
To: <list at fibreculture.org>
Subject: ::fibreculture:: Games industry discussion

Dear fibreculture,

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6892

Reading this article today, I was thinking how valuable it would be for this
list to be re-activated as a place for informed discussion and debate about
net-related issues in this region. 

There are local conditions described here that I find difficult to hear
discussed in other places. It is also interesting to me that Online Opinion
is now sourcing articles like this -- from the Courier Mail no less! What
does this mean?

It makes me wonder, is it one of the great ironies of fibreculture that just
as its areas of expertise have become more mainstream, we are no longer
talking together? Do people no longer talk here because they have finally
achieved rewarding paid employment in the very areas and specialisms that
once brought us together as a politics? The article is one example of how
much economic clout the industries we work and train in are said to deliver,
but I worry that at the very time when fibreculture could be useful as a
defense against hyperbole of various kinds, we don't stay in touch. 

Anyway, I would love to hear from some of you who are teaching - or better,
are graduates of - some of the courses discussed in the piece, to understand
your take on the industry's present and future. And also where you are all
hanging out to chat these days. It doesn't seem to be Facebook (which is its
own relief, but makes me so very conscious of what was good about lists like
this).

Best wishes
Melissa

 
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