I managed to fit in a day at the research retreat that we have been planning for awhile before I headed off on holidays to NZ. We have named the research The Post Industrial Media project and have been working collaboratively in a wiki. The photo gallery for the retreat.

The Post Industrial Media project is a small collaborative project undertaken by staff within the RMIT media program. Post industrial media is a term that we have adopted to refers to the changes in media production, use, consumption, distribution and design that are the consequence of distributed networks, digitisation, and soft social systems. The project specifically deals with media education in the tertiary sector and describes teaching and learning experiments and probes undertaken within the media program to develop appropriate curriculum content and methods for teaching graduates who intend to enter the post industrial media landscape. We term this ‘media literacy 2.0′.

Connected with this work is a Carrick project that AM has been working on called The Digital Learning Communities Project, a drupal site.

The Digital Learning Communities Project is exploring the role of social software and social networking in supporting peer learning in higher education.