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…