Biotope is a small ecosystem community people can revive. In the 1990s, it became a popular environmental movement among community organizations, schools, local governments in Japan.
Media Biotope is a metaphorical and strategic concept of designing micro media ecosystems against mass media.
Each Media Biotope should connect to make them a flexible and tough network.
We should provide toolkits, workshops, tutorials for community people to develop media biotopes spontaneously.
Media Biotope can include community-based learning places and opportunities for media literacy.
Mizukoshi, S. 2005. Media Biotope: Designing Media Ecosystem. Tokyo: Kinokniya-shoten(Japanese)
Mizukoshi, 2005
Mizukoshi, 2005
Mizukoshi, 2005
Mizukoshi, 2005
2. Challenges 2010s
The arrival of the web 2.0 age
The rapid diffusion of SNSs and N*N communication
The spread of small media ecosystems of cults, ultra-right wings, racists, etc., makes“media biotope” coined in the age of web 1.0 just a utopian concept.
3. New considerations 2020s~
We can reconsider Media Biotope with plural layers: the consumption and production of media content, plus design & experience of media platform & infrastructure.
It is an experimental practice to create an alternative media ecosystem to showcase the next media literacy against platform capitalism: GAFA and BATH.
“Grass-Roots AI”(Hori, 2014)
“Archive As Far As You Can See”(Kariyado, 2014)
A Media Biotope should
consist of interdisciplinary collaborations, social engagements, community-based design of learning communities for diverse people’s media literacy.
connect to make them a flexible and tough social network.
provide toolkits, workshops, tutorials for community people to learn about media spontaneously
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1. Early concepts 1999~2005
2. Challenges 2010s
3. New considerations 2020s~
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