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CFP: M/C Journal – ‘mobile’
M/C Journal Call for Papers: ‘mobile’ Edited by Larissa Hjorth & Olivia Khoo Convergence has become part of burgeoning mobile media. The mobile phone has come of age. As an integral component of visual media cultures, camera phone practices are arguably both extending and creating emerging ways of seeing and representing. In media footage of […]
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dawn of the organised networks?
From the introduction to what Geert Lovink et al call ‘new network theory’, presented as part of the first call for papers for a conference next year under the same name. This passage, under the heading ‘Dawn of the Organised Networks’, stood out for me among many other interesting and provocative ideas: Community is an […]
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Web 2.0 crowdsourcers tossing coins to the crowds
Via CNet via Rachel’s del.icio.us:
Saturday saw the launch of eefoof.com, a site that promises to share a percentage of the site’s revenue depending on how many viewers a video clip attracts.
CNet positions this as a ‘challenge’ to youtube. Read the full article for the rest of the hot air and vapours. Now, because I am very old, I remember the late-1990s, before any talk of Web 2.0, when user-contributed music websites like mp3.com were ‘the future of the music industry’, because they would allow undiscovered talent to bypass the gatekeeping mechanisms of the record industry. (Bearing in mind that conventional wisdom also suggested that these sites were really a workaround – a way for the companies concerned to stake out marketshare for digital music sevices without having to wait until the copyright mess was cleared up). -
MS Office integrates CC licensing
Talk about the clash of cultures… License your office (documents) Microsoft has released a tool for copyright licensing that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licensing information for works in popular Microsoft Office applications. The software is available free of charge at Microsoft Office Online and will enable the 400 million [PC-based] users of […]
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Crowdsourcing as Free Labour
I love Wired, it is just so blatant: For the last decade or so, companies have been looking overseas, to India or China, for cheap labor. But now it doesn’t matter where the laborers are – they might be down the block, they might be in Indonesia – as long as they are connected to […]
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the uses of participation
Ross Mayfield has made a nice graph of a continuum of participation in social software and online communities: I use something similar in my PhD, talking more specifically about ‘creative’ and ‘network’ literacies. But I was struck by the way that the continuum moves from ‘passive’ consumption through to mastery and control. Something that I’ve […]
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Seminar: The Gendered Ties that Bind
The Gendered Ties That Bind the ‘New Global Governance’ to the ‘New Information Economy’ Associate Professor Lisa McLaughlin CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES Thursday 20th April, 2.00-3.30pm CCCS Seminar Room, Level 4, Forgan Smith Building, University of Queensland St Lucia Campus As the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) illustrates, […]
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A Study of Interestingness and Note Spamming
Interesting indeed. You have to suspect that it was a case of any excuse for a geeky nude-up, though.
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JumpCut
JumpCut is another new player in the “creative online community” business – the idea is to not only upload, share, and discuss, but also edit, collaborate and remix images and video online. You can automatically import sets of images from flickr, too. After having a quick play around with the editing interface, it seems pretty […]
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Vibewire.net e-Festival of Ideas
Vibewire.net e-Festival of Ideas :: April 4-8 2006:: Mark it in your diary now, ‘cos you’re invited to the second annual e-Festival of Ideas – a conference with a virtual, democratic twist. Unlike most physical conferences, Vibewire.net’s e-Festival of Ideas is unfettered by geographic locality, free to participate in, and you can have your say […]