Category: politics
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Ngapartji Ngapartji (Online Aboriginal Language Course)
Ngapartji Ngapartji Here is a highly innovative online course to teach Aboriginal languages (crew based in Darwin). What a great idea! So what is the online language course and how does it all work? The Ngapartji Ngapartji team are putting together a 26 part online Pitjantjatjara language course for audiences of the Ngapartji Ngapartji theatre
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BBC is criticised over website plans
BBC is criticised over website plans – Technology – theage.com.au What a wonderful innovation from the BBC. I wonder why Rupert Murdoch doesn't like user-driven web developments? Too democratic perhaps? Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate on Wednesday accused the British Broadcasting Corp. of using taxpayers' money to build a "digital empire" that would compete with commercial rivals. The
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Techne: Internet 2.0
…people, institutions, companies, and society extensively transform any technology by appropriating it, modifying it, or experimenting with it. Castells 2001 Summary Technology is a modern word that combines the Greek techne (skill, metier) with logos (knowledge). Techne crudely translates into the craft of knowledge and is not just the skill of technique or creating a
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EngageMedia
Engage Media is a Melbourne based crew and part of the group behind the 'Seditious Intent Short Film Festival'. They have just started out, so it is worth watching their progress. About Us — EngageMedia EngageMedia is a website and a network for distributing social justice and environmental video from South East Asia, Australia and
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The World’s Most Popular Blog
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things (From The Age) AT FIRST glance, the world's most popular blog, Boing Boing, looks like a pleasant 10-minute diversion: links to "nerdcore" rap music downloads, photos of shoes made from computer keyboards and South Park updates. But the six-year-old "directory of wonderful things" attracts more than 1.7 million
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New media, New Politics?
I have to give a lecture on Monday in my class “Politics, Media, Communication on the politics of new media and how this impacts upon and alters the broader political-media landscape. It should be good, I look forward to it, but lectures are so much work to prepare. I gave one on the same subject