Well, I’m back in Perth after delivering my keynote at the Drama Australia “Turning the Tides” conference. I was presenting on Monday morning and was first up – there were quite a few latecomers as the conference dinner was held on the Sunday evening. My topic was This drama is pwned: 1337 drama – a […]
As I’ve been dipping into YouTube lately – I had encountered this account – “Lonelygirl15” was showing in all the most viewed listings as well as viewer favourites. It seems now that she is a fiction and the whole thing has been a marketing plan to develop interest in a new approach to interactive storytelling […]
Not to be confused with the new Web 2.0 tool Innertoobâ„¢ – but exciting nonetheless – CBS has launched Innertube. Innertube is a new streaming video service – and several of the networks major primetime programs will be streamed live. There is also a good selection of play-on-demand videos that go behind the scenes on […]
Well, its about time… Some online video games found to promote ‘sociability,’ researchers say The researchers, Constance Steinkuehler and Dmitri Williams, claim that MMOs function not like solitary dungeon cells, but more like virtual coffee shops or pubs where something called “social bridging” takes place. Blogged with Flock
There is quite a flurry of discussion on US bloggging and eductaion sites about the passing of the DOPA – Deleting Online Predators Act. I suspect it is a case of well-intentioned ignoramuses making policy that throws the baby out with the bath water. We all know the benefits of engaging students through online interaction. […]
From Christy Dena over at Writing About Virtual Words at WRT: Writer Response Theory we learn that: SLATE Magazine (Second Life Arts & Total Entertainment Magazine) is a new Second Life magazine that covers the arts in SL. There are 14 authors in the collective so far and we’re a mixed bunch of artists, academics, […]
More from Terra Nova – Nick Yee and buddies have been investigating different aspects of virtual interaction and claim: Our data showed that many patterns of physical interaction in the real world carry over into the virtual world. In other words, our insistence on embodiment in virtual environments structures social interactions in these worlds in […]
Innovative new media arts collective Blast Theory are looking for participants for their new project starting next month. Blast Theory – Soft Message on Radio 3 Ever wanted to talk to a stranger? If so, Blast Theory want to talk to you. We are a group of three artists fascinated by how and why we talk […]
As the Digital Chalkie team were completing the second in their series on blogging (sorry to have been unable to participate) some of my colleagues at QUT have just released a book on the topic… Uses of Blogs, an anthology of scholarly essays edited by Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs, is now officially available. Axel […]
Digital Learning India 2006 23-25 August,2006 Hotel Taj Palace New Delhi, India http://www.digitalLEARNING.in/DLindia Dear Members, The Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (www.csdms.in) is organizing a three day conference entitled ‘Digital Learning India 2006’ in conjunction with ‘egov India 2006’ and ‘Indian Telecentre Forum 2006’ to be held during 23-25 August, 2006 at Hotel […]