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Do-It-Together: Media-Making and Community-Building (104720)
Session Chair: Eszter Salgo
Monday, 11 May 2026 11:25
Session: Session 2
Room: Room G410 (4F)
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
With the rise of global developments in generative AI and computing technologies, alongside the accelerated immersion and reliance on globally interconnected media, technology, and information infrastructures and ecosystems, we have seen a "return to analog" (Francombe, 2025). This project looks at analog media-making as a site of resistance to technofeudalism through two stages: firstly, using ‘Do-It-Together’ (DIT) as an anchoring term, we conduct a systematic literature review (Aytac, Scheinfeld, & Tran, 2025) to develop an initial understanding of how DIT has been engaged and defined in scholarly texts and databases, particularly in relation to the "Do-It-Yourself" (DIY) movement (Cramer, 2022). Then, we connect with Hong Kong third-places (archives, community spaces, and small publishing houses) to look at how alternative media-making sites engage the idea of ‘do-it-together.’
This paper has two key objectives: firstly to understand how the term "Do-It-Together" has been conceptualized and engaged across disciplinary and geographical sites, and secondly to engage grounded normativity approaches that foreground place-based solidarities (Ackerly et al., 2021; Coulthard & Simpson, 2016) to understanding how the global returned interest in analog and material modalities of shared media-making and creative practice (Galarreta, 2025; Shetty, 2025; Lamberink, 2024) are emerging in Hong Kong. Broadly this project looks to understand some of the ways artists, activists, and community organizers are using shared media-making, archiving, circulatory practices, and creative community building to develop collective imaginaries and media practices beyond the confines of the enshittified walled garden model of digital platforms and governance (Doctorow, 2025).
Authors:
Jessica Hatrick, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China
Fidelia Lam, Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Jessica Hatrick is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo China.
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