Something to keep up with is the EuroITV 2009 conference. Context:
EuroITV2009 is a forum for professionals not only from Europe, but from all over the world who are interested in, work with and do research on all aspects of interactive television. The conference will be held in the lively university town of Leuven, Belgium [...]
Trends are, we think, important to follow, especially when trends noticeably impact things. This from ReadWriteWeb
No matter which department you’re in, Web 2.0 technologies have had an impact. If you’ve been ignoring their prevalence and adoption, you’re at risk of falling behind in your career and your business is at risk of losing ground [...]
Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, set out to study the culture of YouTube users, and he ended up becoming a video star in the process. He and his students have been lovingly documenting how people are using their Web cams to express themselves, and his short videos about [...]
For our (future) discussions regarding social networking, Frontline has a great piece on Growing Up Online: Just How Radically is the Internet Transforming Childhood?
Great journal/blogging ideas here for discussion. You can watch the complete program online too. Take the time to check this out.
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This article from the New York Times caught my eye this morning.
iPhone 2.0 will turn this phone into an engineering tool, a game console, a free-calls Skype phone, a business tool, a dating service, an e-book reader, a chat room, a database, an Etch-a-Sketch…
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Idea for ongoing blog posts:
Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular
How does this phenomena relate to the 5 principles of new media and to the concepts of readerly vs. writerly?
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Beau alerts me to this event at CCSU:
Blogger Wars: How the New Media are Changing the Presidential Contest
Panel Discussion and Debate: What’s Hot and What’s Not!
Host: Ned Lamont, adjunct professor of political science and philosophy, CCSU
Panelists:
Dan Gerstein – political communication consultant and communication director for Joe Lieberman
Colin McEnroe – talk show host on WTIC [...]
Earlier in New Media we do a little bit on the differences and similarities between the digital and paper newspaper. Sometimes the differences are subtle, such as in this Hartford Courant article on a recent AP poll on parental involvement in gameplay with children titled Games Poll: Parents Aren’t playing.
The paper version includes a graphic [...]
Apparently, the Journal Register Company, which owns such outfits as The Bristol Press, is seeking positions to fill in multimedia sales, multimedia editing, and web development and design. The latter two types of positions are exactly what we provide foundation for in NMC.
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We here at Tunxis New Media offer our regrets and sympathies to the community of Virginia Tech. At colleges and universities everywhere, people are supposed to gather and read and speak together. We should never tolerate any interruption of this practice. Their space is our space.
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This article at the Hartford Courant sent me off on a search for the referred to report, as mentioned in this quote:
WASHINGTON — Educational software, a $2 billion-a-year industry that has become the darling of school systems across the country, has no significant effect on student performance, according to a study by the U.S. Department [...]
Matt Mullenweg and Co. at Wordpress have a list of mentors and ideas for the Google Summer of Code. Interesting times. See the list here.
It’s going to be an interesting summer.
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USA Today has updated and redesigned its website. It would be a nice extra for someone in new media to analyze the changes given our recent subject of icons, sequences, and dynamic content.
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Ohio University is where I did my graduate work (specifically in the College of Fine Arts) and they’ve just entered a new virtual world for adult learning.
Called a “a next-generation learning development environment,” it is quite an interesting project.
Read the article here.
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Snagged from the Serious Games Source feed in the sidebar of this weblog:
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh has announced that the university’s Art Institute Online division has opened a student campus in Linden Lab’s nonviolent MMO world Second Life. The virtual campus will be the forum for the university’s new Business Communications course.
Here’s the [...]