There is an excellent recent post by Henry Jenkins titled ‘In Defense of Crud‘ in which he examines some of the recent debates around fan fiction, YouTube etc. Jenkins’ response to some of the criticisms of ‘participatory culture’ is wonderfully distilled into seven precepts which can be broadly applied. 1. We should not reduce the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Digital storytelling'
Simple gender determination from linguistic analysis
December 29th, 2006 3 Comments
The Gender Genie is a little text analyser that suggest the gender of the writer based on the frequency and occurrence of particular words. (via Gizmodo)
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Shirky (and boyd) on problems of reality in Second Life
December 20th, 2006 3 Comments
Typical – the day I go on internet-free holidays is the day Clay Shirky posts on Second Life. Shirky’s examination of Second Life bores through the hype generated by ever increasing media coverage (yes, even in Australia) of Second Life. He asks, pertinently, what is the churn rate of users – that is, how many [...]
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Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala
November 21st, 2006 Comments Off
Adam Cadre’s story Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala is an amusing look at authority and authenticity on Wikipedia and is based on those Encyclopedia Brown books that you may have read as a youngster . . .
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New public facing blog at Powerhouse Museum
June 7th, 2006 Comments Off
Photo by Brendan Fletcher. In conjunction with our upcoming Great Wall of China exhibition the Powerhouse Museum has launched a new public-facing blog called Walking The Wall. The Walking the Wall blog is an online travel diary being written over the next 6 months as Brendan Fletcher and Emma Nicholas walk the 3000 kilometres of [...]
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Gamer Theory / MacKenzie Wark
May 23rd, 2006 Comments Off
MacKenzie Wark’s new ‘interactive’ book called Gam3r 7h30ry (yes, l33t speak), is now online at Future Of The Book. Written as a range of short chapters it invites participation, comment and play.
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Powerhouse Museum’s Hedda Morrison photographic collection website online
May 12th, 2006 Comments Off
Today we launched a new project, the Hedda Morrison photographic collection. In 1992 the Powerhouse Museum was donated a large collection of photographs taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison (1908-1991). These photographs, numbering some 350, were printed by Hedda Morrison and featured in exhibitions held in Canberra and Sydney in 1967, 1970 and 1990. The collection [...]
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More on the Prod-User
April 5th, 2006 1 Comment
In the digital driven ‘Developmental Space’ of contemporary cinematic form whereby the relation and distinction between User and Viewer, between Viewer and Participant, between Player and Watcher is inceasingly thin there is the new noun we’ve heard much about and been kicking aorund – Prod-User. This noun is really growing on me as usuful and [...]
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Lego Bionicle, power, language, meaning and the global ‘commons’
March 21st, 2006 1 Comment
Excellent, fascinating and thought provoking article, Rhetorical Virtues: Property, Speech, and the Commons on the World-Wide Web by Rosemary coombe and Andrew Herman which examines the particularly American libertarian values behind the current debates around co-creation and digital media. They look in detail at the Lego Bionicle controversy and the interaction between fan communities who [...]
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On How MySpace beat Friendster / Engaging young people & social networking
March 17th, 2006 Comments Off
Interesting comments from Schonfeld on How MySpace Beat Friendster But it was Tagworld CEO (and aspiring MySpace competitor) Fred Krueger who really put his finger on why MySpace succeeded and Friendtser didn’t (that’s him in the picture putting his finger on it): “There is a tendency to over-intellectualize the problem. The reason kids left Friendster [...]
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