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PhD scholarship in Digital Storytelling and Co-Creative Media
I’m one of the Chief Investigators on a project called Community Uses of Co-Creative Media (for short), and we’re offering a scholarship to support a PhD student commencing in 2011. Please pass this information on to anyone who may be interested and eligible! The project Applications are invited for a Queensland University of Technology (QUT)…
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a (very) short history of social media taglines
Lawson Fletcher has written a very insightful post about a funny little Twitter exchange I had with various people last night, prompted by some observations I made about the way social media taglines have changed over the past 5 years or so. Go over there to see how it all started. While it was mostly…
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Travel Gazette 1: Ankara & Istanbul
I’m still near to the beginning of a five-week research trip through Europe – I get home at just about the end of October. I’m going to do a series of gazettey blog posts, both as an aide-memoire and a way of sharing my trip given the patchiness of internet connectivity that goes hand in…
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New blog: Mapping Online Publics
Just a quick note to say that I’ve started blogging elsewhere as part of the 3-year ARC Discovery project I’m working on with Axel Bruns. The project’s official title is “New Media and Public Communication: Mapping Australian User-Created Content in Online Social Networks”, and the blog is called Mapping Online Publics. We’ve been posting mainly…
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Obligatory Google Buzz post
Cross-posted to the Air-l list. In a discussion about Google Buzz, surveillance and privacy, Christian Fuchs said: Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently remarked about Internet privacy: “Ifyou have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnot be doing it in the first place”, which points towards a lack ofunderstanding of the online…
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Short courses in digital storytelling at QUT
The Creative Industries Faculty at QUT is now offering short continuing professional education courses in digital storytelling and co-creative media, with an option to gain academic credit for the course. The course includes hands-on training in a workshop environment. There will be three courses run this year – there is likely to be strong demand…
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Public Space and Its Discontents
In addition to a lot of predictable Banksy spottings, there are some interesting images in this Flickr group, including this one: Group description: This group is interested in how people use, abuse and subvert ‘public’ spaces. Now that we lead sedentary indoor lives, public spaces are often neglected or strictly controlled and regulated. We are…
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OII Summer Doctoral Programme to be held in Brisbane in 2009
Back in 2004, along with my good friend and colleague Marcus Foth, I was a participant in the second annual Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program. It was one of the most intellectually stimulating experiences of my PhD candidature, and the friendships established there have remained both socially and academically rewarding ever since. It was…
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Responses to the Apology: Digital Stories Now Online
I was recently involved in a collaboration between the State Library of Queensland, a large and diverse team of participants and facilitators, and QUT. The project aimed to capture responses to the 2008 Apology using participatory methods, and the digital stories produced out of the project are now online. Links to all of the stories…
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Talkings (updated)
Following the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Copenhagen later this week (which I’m very excited about!), I’ll be spending a few days in the UK and I’m giving a couple of talks there. The first is at City University, where the CCI has established a ‘node’. QUT colleague John Banks and I will be…