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social media lecture

Throught twitter I came across Trebor’s lecture on social media which got me thinking about lots of things as I browsed through the slides.
Trebor’s blip video lecture – Embedding Social Media in the Liberal Arts Classroom
Trebor on slideshare
Notes as I browsed the slides (generally in the order as they where presented)
micro-blogging
A Twitter poetry [...]

Vernacular Video (Howard Rheingold)

Howard Rheingold has made a video clip on the topic Video Vernacular in relation to “education and culture”. Embedded from his vlog http://vlog.rheingold.com/
Rheingold also has notes on course he runs called Virtual Communities/Social Media

PIM given fresh air

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.

pim wiki garderning

We the pimmers (post-industrial media) meet to do some wiki garderning on the pim wiki. We discussed seeing a wiki as a non-architecture entity that is link driven. Adrian suggested that we needed to think of a “promicious linking” where as you write you think about what could be written into that writing as way [...]

New Media, Networks and New Pedagogies

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 [...]

post industrial media

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 [...]

malmo networked media

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 [...]

ppt simplified

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 [...]

social network sites

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 [...]

P2P Public Presentation – RMIT

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 [...]