Month: June 2006
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ABC Digital Radio
Tony Walker, the manager of ABC Digital Radio, gave a talk on the future of radio and all things Web2.0 here at the University of Melbourne the other day. He also discussed how a major broadcaster responds to user-driven media. He kindly sent me a list of the links used in the presentation. Have fun…
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Social Isolation Linked to the web.
This study using Grannoveter's concept of 'strong and weak ties' is interesting, not so much because it is about the Internet, but because it blames the Internet. You could say exactly the opposite (and some researchers do); that the Internet actually increases social networks. Robert Putnam in his mammoth study of the decline of 'social…
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BBC Creative Archive
One of the most exciting developments in the past year or so has been the release of part/s of the BBC archive/s online under what is know as a Creative Archive licence. Bascally what this means, is that anyone can download a digitised film or television production and re-use it under certain conditions. What a…
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The Internet and Political Communication
1) What are the Internet's political features? 2 Why is the Internet important for politics? 3) How does it impact upon the public sphere? What sort of politics? There are a number of different ways that the Internet can be discussed in terms of politics; there are the issues that surround the governance and regulation…
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Asia Pacific Development Information Programme
As the Internet becomes more important within social, economic, and political processes, issues of Internet governance will continue to come to the fore. The governance of the Internet concerns all 'three sectors'; government, the private sector, and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs). Together they confront a range of issues including technical standards, control, and access to the…