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Groundbreaking Australian book gets to the heart of the YouTube phenomenon
Jean Burgess and Joshua Green analyse the most successful videos on Youtube with some surprising results.
Job Opportunity: Researcher / PhD on ABC Pool project
Closes this Friday 21 August
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Feeling glum after GLAM-Wiki 9 Aug 09 | from Angelina Russo Two days in Canberra with some of the most thoughtful and proactive professionals in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) sector should have left me on a high. Yet somehow, this conference, organised by Wikimedia to explore potential relationships between them and the cultural sector presented more questions than provided answers.
Other news
$3 million for national pilot to increase cyber-safety in schools Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations The Federal Government has announced a national pilot project aimed at addressing cyber-bullying in Australian schools.
Students tweet telescope takeover
CSIRO
Students from three Melbourne high schools have taken control of CSIRO's famous Parkes telescope in NSW using the internet and post their results on Twitter.
In a digital future, textbooks are history
Tamar Lewin | New York Times 8/10/09 In Arizona, teachers are being encouraged to create lessons that incorporate materials they find online.
Booking the future
Ransom Stephens | OpenDemocracy Is the book dead? Will publishers find a new profit model? Can bookstores survive the internet?
Money for nothing (and clicks for free)
William Davies | Prospect Chris Anderson's big idea is to charge nothing for everything. It's good publicity for his own brand; but not necessarily good business for everyone else.
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Australian School Libraries Research Project 16 August, 2009 | This survey asks participants about their qualifications, their role ( what they do); and professional development activities. Ben Cameron | Australia Council for the Arts 13 August, 2009 | While the attention of many arts organisations is faced on the global economic crisis, the issues facing the arts are far more than financial ones. Mary Madden | Pew Internet and American Life Project 13 August, 2009 | As the audience for online video continues to grow, a leading edge of internet users are migrating their viewing from their computer screens to their TV screens. At the same time, more cell phone users are opting for the convenience of watching video on smaller screens via their handheld devices. OECD 17 August, 2009 | The OECD Communications Outlook 2009 presents the most recent comparable data on the performance of the communication sector in OECD countries and on their policy frameworks. Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design (ACID) 17 August, 2009 | Pool is a collaborative space created by the ABC where audiences can share and talk about creative work - music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more. The site is being redesigned by ACID and RMIT University. This report looks at: Ann Chapman, Rosemary Russell | Ariadne 14 August, 2009 | This article describes a part of a UKOLN and JISC-funded study looking at the use of Web 2.0 tools and services in the UK Higher Education sector, with the aim of finding out who is using these tools and services and the purposes to which they are being put. Ahrash Bissell | ccLearn 14 August, 2009 | The hurdle for those who seek educational resources on the Internet is not a lack of materials, but the difficulty of discovery of appropriate and desired materials. Australian Computer Society 17 August, 2009 | The report incorporates statistics on the Australian ICT sector including higher and vocational education, trade, employment and skills, immigration, with breakdowns of the statistical data on a national and state/territory basis. Daniel Castro | Information Technology and Innovation Foundation 14 August, 2009 | South Korea is poised to become the world leader in green technology, through a wide array of government policies supporting green technology, strong national leadership and a substantial commitment of public funding for this effort. Brian Whitworth, Rob Friedman | First Monday 14 August, 2009 | This paper chronicles the inevitable limits of what can only be called a feudal academic knowledge exchange system, with trends like exclusivity, slowness, narrowness, conservatism, self-involvement and inaccessibility. John Stanwick, Jo Hargreaves, Francesca Beddie | National Centre for Vocational Education Research 14 August, 2009 | This study examines where and how NCVER's research has influenced vocational education and training (VET) policy and practice. Australian School Libraries Research Project 16 August, 2009 | Australia’s school children are in danger of not getting what they need to support development of critical skills in information and reading literacy according to this survey. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 14 August, 2009 | This briefing paper provides an outline of key technical challenges for utilising new ways of technology-enabled collaboration and learning in Australian schools. Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council | Department of Health and Ageing 17 August, 2009 | This paper describes and seeks comment on legislative proposals to support the establishment and implementation of national healthcare identifiers and enhanced arrangements for the privacy of health information. New audio 10 August, 2009 | Peter Clarke talks to four journalists and researchers about alternative futures for journalism on Inside Story. New video 17 August, 2009 | In response to John Howard's recent lecture about the media and politics, some of Australia's leading political journalists and commentators come together to give their perspective on this relationship. 17 August, 2009 | In this lively presentation to the State of Design Festival in Melbourne, design expert David Berman discusses the power and effectiveness of good design, and therefore the need to incorporate notions of social responsibility into design principles. New jobs ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation 17 August, 2009 | The successful applicant will participate in overseeing and coordinating the activities of the Pool user community, and examine practices and dynamics within the community. (More information on Pool and its future development are available in a recent ACID report.) New submissions 23 October, 2009 | In recent years it has become increasingly evident that those who wish to advance the cause of the arts, culture and creativity as a recognized element of social policy and as a significant contributor to the new imagination economy have to find new arguments and evidentiary materials in their support, and new ways to present them 30 December, 2009 | I invite contributions that explore everyday media culture and the issues of women as ‘consumers’, women as ‘representations’ and women as ‘creators’, to offer an understanding of changing lives and frustrated desires, contradictions and dispersed sites of female individualization that are refracted into various degrees and forms Deadline 30 December 2009 New events 21 August, 2009 | A seminar with Helmut Anheier, Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy Director, Centre for Civil Society and Centre for Globalisation and Policy Research on the Global Cultural Futures project. 02 September, 2009 | presented by RMIT University and the Cultural Development NetworkReGenerating Community Conference is about ways in which global issues are being addressed locally through collaboration New books 13 August, 2009 | In this timely and comprehensive introduction to how YouTube is being used and why it matters, Burgess and Green discuss the ways that it relates to wider transformations in culture, society and the economy. New guide 14 August, 2009 | JISC’s new guide to Second Life is written by lecturers for lecturers, to help others to use virtual worlds for teaching. New websites 14 August, 2009 | "What is the future of regional Australia?" and "What is the role of the creative arts in regional development?" This website and project explores the convergence of these questions in Australia today. |
