Next week we give PIM (Post-Industrial Media) an airing at the Australian Screen Production Education & Research Association (ASPERA 2008) conference being held here at RMIT.
Some notes on wiki about the presentation which is currently a work-in-progress.
The conference schedule.
FC just published New Media, Networks and New Pedagogies a journal publication edited by Adrian Miles. The summary outlining the topic for submissions.
It is easy to argue that much of the rhetoric attached to “new media” and the internet in relation to pedagogy has mistaken quantity for quality. It has been a conversation that has confused the qualitative changes that our new conceptions of media, knowledge, and networks afford with the quantitative changes beloved of those who confuse teaching and learning with instruction and consumption. These new qualities are the differences between the vector and commodity, blogs and books.
However, imagine if our universities had been invented now. What would pedagogy be? What form would teaching and learning take? What would count as knowledge? Expertise? What forms would this knowledge take?
Taking this as a departure this issue of the Fibreculture Journal invited those working in new media, internet studies, education, and cognate disciplines to discuss the strengths and celebrate the possibilities that new media and its networks affords teaching and learning. The emphasis in this issue is not on the criticism or description of existing models and paradigms but to invite the exploration and celebration of new possibilities, real or imagined. What new knowledge formations should there be? How would they be taught? How could they assessed (if at all)? What critical academic work, and in what forms, would our students be producing?
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.
There is some interesting initiatives going on in and around Malmo University (Sweden) in Media and Communication.
Networked Digital Storytelling is a course that critically explores the artistic possibilities of new networked media such as videoblogs, social media, mashups and locative media. Participants in the course use these technologies in a series of workshops built around the theme of mediating and telling stories about the city.
My interest in Lawrence Lessig’s writing led to some feedback on his simplified powerpoint presentation style. I discovered what is called the ‘Lessig method‘ of presentation on Garr Reynold’s blog. Here is Lessig’s ‘free culture’ example on video. Which linked me to the humorous webcast presentation example on identity 2.0 by Dick Hardt. A follow up led to other related presentation styles - ‘Living large: “Takahashi Method” uses king-sized text as a visual’; The Kawasaki Method: an enlightened presentation approach…
Authors: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison, Social Network Sites: Definition and Conception
In this special issue, we are using the term “social network sites” to refer to websites that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within the system and formally articulate their relationship to other users in a way that is visible to anyone who can access their profile. While we are using the term “social network site” to define this space, another common term that appears in public discourse is “social networking sites.” This term grew in popularity through press coverage of these sites after “social networking systems” and “social networks” failed to take hold. In public discourse, the term “social networking sites” been expanded to refer to any site that allows people to communicate with people that they don’t know: dating sites, chatrooms, community sites, bulletin boards, etc. What makes social network sites unique is not the ability to meet new people, but the ability to articulate one’s social network.
Michel Bauwens is visiting Melbourne to lecture to students in Networked Media
as well as give a public presentation and discussion. An event organised as a
collaboration between the Media department and MCD: studio to be held in the new
research studio.
Venue: bldg 4.level 5. room 1
Date: Wednesday August 1
Time: 6pm
A summary of the public presentation provided by Michel Bauwens:
Peer to peer is much more than just the sharing of music and film by
contemporary teenagers— it is in fact a new relational dynamic,
enabled by P2P- based infrastructures and organisational techniques,
which fundamentally changes the dynamic between institutions and the
peer- enabled individuals. No longer are institutions (companies,
governments, NGOs, mass media) communicating with isolated
individuals, but it is now the individuals who, assisted by their
peers, approach the institutional world from a totally different
perspective (pull and intention economy).Far from limited to the co- creation of value with corporations and
media (think crowd sourcing and citizen journalism), it is creating a
whole new set of social processes such as peer production (think
Linux and Wikipedia), peer governance (how are these projects managed
without pre- established hierarchy?), and peer property (a new set of
licenses that protects the common production).In this specific talk we want to focus more specifically on the
political implications of peer governance, and how it relates to
democratic models of governance.
Bio
Michel Bauwens was one of the internet pioneers in his home country
of Belgium, where he created two startups (e- Com and KyberCo)
respectively involved in the fields of intranet/extranet and
interactive marketing. He was also the eBusiness Strategy Director
for the country’s leading telecommunications company Belgacom as well
as European Director of Thought Leadership for the worldwide
webconsultancy USWeb/CKS- MarchFIRST. Prior to his involment in the
internet he was information analyst, and knowledge manager for BP.
Along the way, he has taught post- graduate MBA courses, been editor
in chief of a magazine (Wave), co- produced a 3- hour TV documentary
(TechnoCalyps), and co- edited two French- language volumes on the
anthropology of digital society.
In 2003, he moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, which is surrounded by 60%
of the world population in a 1,500 miles radius, and started the
Foundation for P2P Alternatives to research, document and promote
such practices as peer production and peer governance.
Testimonials
There is an extensive list of Testimonials.
– The P2P Foundation researches, documents and promotes peer to peer
alternatives.
Wiki and Encyclopedia ; Blog; Newsletter
Basic essay; interview video interview
The P2P Foundation is support
Adrian Miles published recently an article titled ‘Blogs in Media Education’. From the opening paragraph:
In this article I would like to introduce and explore the possible use of blogs in media education. What follows applies, more or less equally, for students and teachers, so if you are wondering about how blogs may be relevant to your professional practice as a teacher, or as a classroom tool, then most of what follows will apply.
I have been keeping my eyes out for media literacies resources for teaching networked media.
Michel Bauwens sent some links to me recently which I would like to follow up. First the work by the peer-to-peer foundation on education. The New Media Literacies project list of skills for younger people on engaging with participatory media, along with David Warlick’s writing ‘Redefining Literacies for the 21st Century’.
I found a useful social media report on Adrian’s blog. The sections on blogging provide an overview and follow up links. The white paper Social Media: or “How I learned to stop worrying and love communication”, is written by Trevor Cook (Trevor’s blog Corporate Engagement) and Lee Hopkins. It tackles as the sub-heading states “An introduction to the power of “web 2.0″. The blogging section covers tips on writing for blogs. The extra reading suggestions are this Stephen Downes paper E-learning 2.0. (includes a useful video version) and James Torio’s article Blogs: A Global Conservation which is a pdf (the links is down for the moment?) plus slight aside on podcasting Kevin Dugan’s post 20 Creative Uses for Podcasts. The white paper and many other extra sources provide a pragmatic, current overview on social media from a more commercial perspective.