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When we say that the design must “tell a story,” we are not just talking about games or interactive fiction, or even about turning a work application into an adventure (“Conquer the benefits allocation maze…”). Instead, we mean the kind of stories that help you create new designs. These stories are used to make you think of new possibilities, give you the tools to encourage a self-reflective kind of thinking—design thinking—or so you can imagine designs that will improve the lives of other people. Stories explore ideas from user research. (quoted form the online magazine article)

Rebecca Young's PhD project which was submitted recently.

'Under fire for its App Store not being more open, recently, Apple’s response has been that there is a portion of its devices that is totally open: the web. If developers don’t like some of the App Store’s restrictions, they should make a web app, Apple reasons.' (quoted from techcrunch article)

Apple Responds To Adobe With Cool HTML5 Playground
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5:46 am, June 4th, 2010, John Brownlee

'As an indirect response to Adobe’s own We <3 Flash campaign, Apple has unveiled a wonderful new sandbox playground advocating HTML5, which allows users to play around and do a number of things in their browsers that they might not even know HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript can do.' (quoted from the website)

'As the promotion of media literacy moves up the policy agenda there is a growing need to understand and share learning at a global level. Media literacy researchers often receive an audience for their work only in their own country, and the Forum provides a platform to improve understanding of the emerging issues, promote innovative methodologies and facilitate dialogue between researchers, policy makers, practitioners and regulators worldwide. The Forum is currently supported by leading organisations in USA, Australia, Canada, Europe, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK with broader networks to follow. '(quoted form about on website)

'The book focuses on the experience of viewing gallery-based artworks made with film, video, and computer screens, but I encourage readers to think much more broadly. Screen-mediated viewing existed well before the invention of still or moving photographic media. Artistic screens have had an implied “depth” or virtual component to them ever since the Renaissance, for example, and camera obscura images, shadow shows, magic lantern projections, panoramas, dioramas, and a variety of peep-show based attractions also positioned their observers in front of “screens” of various kinds.' (quoted from book desription)

Prison valley producer website with other online documentary projects.

'town in the middle of nowhere with 36,000 souls and 13 prisons, one of which is Supermax, the new 'Alcatraz' of America. A prison town where even those living on the outside live on the inside. A journey into what the future might hold.' (synopsis quoted from opening web page)

May be useful for looking at other approaches toward audiovisual production. Including a focus on sound.

Useful for editing media texts which covers the Scott McCloud reading.

History of the development of computers in relation to TV with plenty of historial footage thrown in. Really useful for networekd media in terms of coming from a TV perspective.

(quoted) The JW Player for HTML5 is a fully skinnable and configurable player based on the new <video> tag found in HTML5. It is built using javascript (jQuery) and enables a seamless fallback to the popular JW Player for Flash.