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The film of tomorrow
From scratch video, via Trine: The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. The young filmmakers will express themselves in the first person and will relate what has happened to them: it may be the story of their first love…
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Daniel Meadows: Digital Storytelling Lecture
Daniel Meadows is a world leader in the Digital Storytelling movement and is here at QUT to offer a master-class workshop on new directions for digital storytelling. Come and join us… Public Lecture: Digital Storytelling: the journey from ‘doing media to people’ to ‘enabling people to do media’. When: Tuesday 1st November (THIS COMING TUESDAY)…
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Bringing Theory Home
Lilia Efimova has been thinking about the academic’s desire to explore and hunt down treasures deep in “theory land”, and how best to reconcile that with the ethics of research – by which both she and I mean something much more than the functional applied ethics that are represented by the hoop-jumping processes of getting…
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Activating the research ‘subject’
I’ve been aware of David Gauntlett’s ArtLab project at Bournemouth Media School’s Centre for Creative Media Research for a while, and keep meaning to post briefly on it. The ArtLab studies represent a new type of research in which media consumers’ own creativity, reflexivity and knowingness is harnessed, rather than ignored. In these studies, individuals…
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Daniel Meadows Interview
J.D. Lasica has posted the video of an interview he did with Daniel Meadows at the Digital Storytelling Festival at KQED in San Francisco. In the interview, Daniel – who started it all here at QUT with a “train the trainers” workshop back in April 2004 – talks with characteristic passion about the social power…
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Public Space in the Media City
If you’re in Sydney next Wednesday and you’re interested in the history of new media technologies in relation to cities, space or place, try to get along to hear Scott McQuire talk about his current research: Public Space in the Media City University of New South Wales Media, Film and Theatre Seminars 5pm, Wednesday 26…
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nonverbal
So I guess this is my first videoblog post, but it’s also my first entirely non-verbal (i.e. not just oral rather than written) one. Oh, guess I just stuffed that up. Update: If I really knew what I was doing, this is how I would do it.
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T-Shirt Stoushing
Have I invented a meme? Will fame and fortune finally be mine? We all know that’s less than likely, but my slightly childish (and little-understood) substitution of a t-shirt design in the place of rational debate about identities and television prompted Mark to appropriate the idea as a new weapon in “blog stoushing”, and it…
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three little things
First: It is too hot – no, not in the good way, and not with two Ts. Brisbane has apparently decided to do away with the season in between winter and summer entirely this year, and it doesn’t look like it will ever, ever rain again. I am writing up a storm, but in my…
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personal media: the view from the Beeb
J.D. Lasica has posted the video of his interview with BBC technology reporter Jo Twist about the personal media revolution. Here are my notes on the interview, trying to pull out the way Twist characterises the relations between technology, creativity, and cultural participation (I am such a broken record, thanks to this damn PhD, oh…