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Leavin’ (on a jet plane)
One more sleep until I take off for the UK to attend the Oxford Internet Institute Doctoral Summer Programme. The recently published schedule and participants’ bios [link removed on request] have built up a healthy level of excitement. I’m looking forward to the intense immersion in key questions around the internet, culture and society, working…
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Plagiarism resource site
One to note for next semester: Plagiarism resource site
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Beautiful objects and wondrous things
Beautiful objects at mocoloco. And as always, wondrous things at things magazine.
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Digital Storytelling Workshop: Reflections
Here’s a couple of the participants in the YIRN Digital Storytelling Workshops at Visible Ink putting the final touches to their films in Adobe Premiere. The trainer in the shot is Jo Tacchi They all finished in the three and a half days total workshop time and the results were great. Once they’re up on…
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starfishman: the book, the movie, the website
One of my ex-students from the music subcultures and the media course has revealed to us his multi-talented secret identity as a creator of the comicbook superhero starfishman. Starfishman is blue, cute and quite the gallant knight in shining..er…scales. He’s also a hand-illustrated book, a film-in-progress, and a website. I must insist you check it…
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urban nostalgia and wonton soup
I’ve been having a great time working as a digital storytelling trainer at Visible Ink (see below) and have been inspired by the creativity of the young participants, and the diversity of their approaches to what a digital story can be about and for. So while I’m on the show and tell kick, and to…
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thesis
I’ve finally gotten around to submitting my Masters thesis for permanent binding. It’s now online for your reading pleasure. If you find typos, don’t tell me! But any other feedback or comments would be hugely appreciated. Here’s the abstract: High Culture as Subculture: Brisbane’s Contemporary Chamber Music Scene The aim of the dissertation is to…
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Digital Storytelling is Go
Tomorrow I start to put my money where my mouth is, as part of a team of QUT trainers conducting a digital storytelling workshop with young people at Invisible Ink in Fortitude Valley. It’s part of the Youth Internet Radio Network project as well as research for my PhD. I’m very excited about putting my…
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Folk Like Me
Does the world need yet another social networking website? Mine probably doesn’t, as I’ve joined and ditched just about every one of them so far (for research purposes, don’t you know). But I do feel obliged to encourage initiatives that attempt to form interest communities rather than provide icky dating services. So after finding a…
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The verdict on class blogs
At the last lecture of MSTU2000 Music Subcultures and the Media, I administered a student questionnaire as one way of evaluating the usefulness of the research weblog assessment task I had implemented for the first time this semester. Here are the results (apologies in advance to any stats junkies – bare frequency tables only, I’m…