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digital storytelling out of the box and in the classroom
So, I’ve scored myself an iBook through a project I’m involved with at QUT (you gotta love the place sometimes), and have started research for the chapter of my thesis on the technological shaping of amateurism, using Apple’s iLife suite of “creative” software as a detailed case study. Always in my peripheral vision is the…
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The propaganda of the deed
Made curious by Marika’s enthusiastic post a while back, I got hold of John Durham Peters’ Speaking into the air: a history of the idea of communication on interlibrary library loan (thanks to the alma mater). Lucky. Because I was feeling more than a little jaded about new economy/new media hype, more than a little…
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Call for Papers
The Iowa Journal of Communication announces a 2005 special issue on internet communication, guest edited by Mark Johns. Manuscripts should be received no later than *** MARCH 1, 2005 *** Computer-mediated technologies (CMTs) are no longer the province of “techies,” but have become everyday means of social interaction in our society. This interdisciplinary issue welcomes…
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learning as play
Just when I was feeling anxious about the apparently endless complexity of my scattered, bowerbirdesque, messy methods of conceptual work (yes, beware, it’s the PhD monster…), here’s Philip Pullman in the Guardian, via blackbeltjones. It begins with nursery rhymes and nonsense poems, with clapping games and finger play and simple songs and picture books. It…
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Everyone, welcome Danny Butt to the ‘sphere.
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BlogTalk Downunder abstract
Remember, abstracts for BlogTalk Downunder are due on Monday 31 Jan. This is mine, fingers crossed… Blogging Technologies and the Social Construction of Genre The web is rife with over-generalised and underexamined discursive constructions of particular blogging platforms, blogging genres, and their users: we are led to believe that LiveJournal users are all teenage girls…
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Media Convergence in the Blogosphere
SixApart (developers of Movable Type) have bought LiveJournal. What’s next, Google buys SixApart and Flickr? But as I’m just about finished knocking out an abstract for BlogTalk Downunder on blogging technologies and the co-construction of genre, what interests me is the possible impact that SixApart’s need to clearly differentiate their products might have on blogging…
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AoIR 2005
Call for papers: AoIR 2005 (Chicago): “Internet Generations”
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Creative Commons Loot and Conference Schmoozing
The first day of the OCL conference (see previous entry) went not too badly, so here’s some extremely random highlights. In our conference packs we got copies of the Creative Commons copy me/remix me CD (but I really wanted the Wired one), CC buttons and stickers, and a v. nice QUT pen…Larry Lessig gave his…
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Cultivating Intercreativity…
…that’s the title of a short paper I’m giving tomorrow at Open Content Licensing (OCL): Cultivating the Creative Commons (pdf) at QUT, with guest star Larry Lessig. I’ll be appearing as a proxy for the Youth Internet Radio Network (YIRN), which I’ve been involved with as a researcher, but which isn’t really “my” project. YIRN…