Yolngu studies: A case study of Aboriginal community engagement Michael Christie / Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement The paper gives details of the Yolngu studies program at Charles Darwin University which has been active in the teaching of Yolngu (East Arnhemland Aboriginal) languages and culture, in collaborative transdisciplinary research, and in community engagement. Posted
15-11-2008
Great art for everyone: a consultation on self-assessment and peer review Arts Council England Arts Council England has announced proposals for peer review and self assessment for regularly funded arts organisations, and is inviting artists and arts organisations to have their say in how it will work.Posted
18-11-2008
Business Development
Amateur-to-amateur: The rise of a new creative culture F. Gregory Lastowka and Dan Hunter / Cato Institute The functions that make up the creative cycle -- creation, selection, production, dissemination, promotion, sale, and use of expressive content-- have historically been carried out and controlled by centralized commercial actors. However, all of those functions are undergoing revolutionary decentralization and disintermediation.Posted
17-11-2008
Fair use group comes up with classroom copyright primer John Timmer / ars technica Content owners have attempted to restrict the copying of digital media through laws and legal campaigns but these efforts have often ignored the concept of fair use entirely.Posted
17-11-2008
Most users don't office in the cloud: 1% use Google Docs Jacqui Cheng / ars technica Google has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Microsoft, but it still has a chance at growing its productivity market share.Posted
18-11-2008
Great art for everyone: a consultation on self-assessment and peer review Arts Council England Arts Council England has announced proposals for peer review and self assessment for regularly funded arts organisations, and is inviting artists and arts organisations to have their say in how it will work.Posted
18-11-2008
Knowledge economy and enterprise Ian Brinkley / The Work Foundation Is the transformation towards a knowledge based economy also seeing a shift to what some people call an 'entrepreneurial economy', or is the knowledge economy seeing the rebirth of the corporation as the most effective means of generating and exploiting new forms of knowledge?
Posted
19-11-2008
Digital Media
Report on the World Summit on the Information Society stocktaking 2008 World Summit on the Information Society This report updates stakeholders on activities undertaken by governments and other organizations with regard to bridging the digital divide between less and more affluent countries and other WSIS objectives between 2005 to mid 2008.Posted
17-11-2008
Social networking Sepp /autonomo.us This article examines a range of social networking sites from the perspective of opening up the software behind these to create an open software services ecology.Posted
17-11-2008
Fair use group comes up with classroom copyright primer John Timmer / ars technica Content owners have attempted to restrict the copying of digital media through laws and legal campaigns but these efforts have often ignored the concept of fair use entirely.Posted
17-11-2008
Internet censorship and mandatory filtering Tom Edwards and Gareth Griffith / NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service This paper outlines the current debate over the Commonwealth Government's filtering scheme for internet content and the practice of governments in other countries.Posted
18-11-2008
When technology fails John B. Horrigan and Sydney Jones / Pew Internet and American Life Project Modern information and communication technologies open doors to a wealth of information. But many users find it difficult to set up these devices and frustrating when they break. Posted
18-11-2008
Most users don't office in the cloud: 1% use Google Docs Jacqui Cheng / ars technica Google has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Microsoft, but it still has a chance at growing its productivity market share.Posted
18-11-2008
Collaboration in context: comparing article evolution among subject disciplines in Wikipedia Katherine Ehmann, Andrew Large and Jamshid Beheshti / First Monday This exploratory study examines the relationships between article and Talk page contributions and their effect on article quality in Wikipedia. Results indicate the initial article creator's critical role in providing a framework for future editing as well as a remarkable stability in article content over time.
Posted
19-11-2008
Wikiversity; or education meets the free culture movement: an ethnographic investigation Norm Friesen and Janet Hopkins / First Monday This paper investigates the communal and cultural dynamics of an undertaking that - should it meet only with a fraction of Wikipedia’s success - will be of obvious significance to education generally.Posted
19-11-2008
Games
Simulated urbanism and its effects on the negotiation of hyperreal cities Rowland Atkinson and Paul Willis / Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania This paper looks at the experience of intense video gaming activity and conceptualises the links between gamers' apprehension of the relative realism of an in-game environment and its influence on their experience of traversing 'real' urban environments. Posted
15-11-2008
International
Report on the World Summit on the Information Society stocktaking 2008 World Summit on the Information Society This report updates stakeholders on activities undertaken by governments and other organizations with regard to bridging the digital divide between less and more affluent countries and other WSIS objectives between 2005 to mid 2008.Posted
17-11-2008
Collaboration in context: comparing article evolution among subject disciplines in Wikipedia Katherine Ehmann, Andrew Large and Jamshid Beheshti / First Monday This exploratory study examines the relationships between article and Talk page contributions and their effect on article quality in Wikipedia. Results indicate the initial article creator's critical role in providing a framework for future editing as well as a remarkable stability in article content over time.
Posted
19-11-2008
Wikiversity; or education meets the free culture movement: an ethnographic investigation Norm Friesen and Janet Hopkins / First Monday This paper investigates the communal and cultural dynamics of an undertaking that - should it meet only with a fraction of Wikipedia’s success - will be of obvious significance to education generally.Posted
19-11-2008
Knowledge economy and enterprise Ian Brinkley / The Work Foundation Is the transformation towards a knowledge based economy also seeing a shift to what some people call an 'entrepreneurial economy', or is the knowledge economy seeing the rebirth of the corporation as the most effective means of generating and exploiting new forms of knowledge?
Posted
19-11-2008
Law and Policy
Yolngu studies: A case study of Aboriginal community engagement Michael Christie / Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement The paper gives details of the Yolngu studies program at Charles Darwin University which has been active in the teaching of Yolngu (East Arnhemland Aboriginal) languages and culture, in collaborative transdisciplinary research, and in community engagement. Posted
15-11-2008
Amateur-to-amateur: The rise of a new creative culture F. Gregory Lastowka and Dan Hunter / Cato Institute The functions that make up the creative cycle -- creation, selection, production, dissemination, promotion, sale, and use of expressive content-- have historically been carried out and controlled by centralized commercial actors. However, all of those functions are undergoing revolutionary decentralization and disintermediation.Posted
17-11-2008
The durable internet: preserving network neutrality without regulation Timothy B. Lee / Cato Institute An important reason for the Internet's remarkable, cheap and efficient growth over the last quarter century is the "end-to-end" principle that networks should confine themselves to transmitting generic packets without worrying about their contents. Posted
17-11-2008
Report on the World Summit on the Information Society stocktaking 2008 World Summit on the Information Society This report updates stakeholders on activities undertaken by governments and other organizations with regard to bridging the digital divide between less and more affluent countries and other WSIS objectives between 2005 to mid 2008.Posted
17-11-2008
Fair use group comes up with classroom copyright primer John Timmer / ars technica Content owners have attempted to restrict the copying of digital media through laws and legal campaigns but these efforts have often ignored the concept of fair use entirely.Posted
17-11-2008
Internet censorship and mandatory filtering Tom Edwards and Gareth Griffith / NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service This paper outlines the current debate over the Commonwealth Government's filtering scheme for internet content and the practice of governments in other countries.Posted
18-11-2008
Great art for everyone: a consultation on self-assessment and peer review Arts Council England Arts Council England has announced proposals for peer review and self assessment for regularly funded arts organisations, and is inviting artists and arts organisations to have their say in how it will work.Posted
18-11-2008
Knowledge economy and enterprise Ian Brinkley / The Work Foundation Is the transformation towards a knowledge based economy also seeing a shift to what some people call an 'entrepreneurial economy', or is the knowledge economy seeing the rebirth of the corporation as the most effective means of generating and exploiting new forms of knowledge?
Posted
19-11-2008
Open Systems
Amateur-to-amateur: The rise of a new creative culture F. Gregory Lastowka and Dan Hunter / Cato Institute The functions that make up the creative cycle -- creation, selection, production, dissemination, promotion, sale, and use of expressive content-- have historically been carried out and controlled by centralized commercial actors. However, all of those functions are undergoing revolutionary decentralization and disintermediation.Posted
17-11-2008
The durable internet: preserving network neutrality without regulation Timothy B. Lee / Cato Institute An important reason for the Internet's remarkable, cheap and efficient growth over the last quarter century is the "end-to-end" principle that networks should confine themselves to transmitting generic packets without worrying about their contents. Posted
17-11-2008
Social networking Sepp /autonomo.us This article examines a range of social networking sites from the perspective of opening up the software behind these to create an open software services ecology.Posted
17-11-2008
Screen Industries
Simulated urbanism and its effects on the negotiation of hyperreal cities Rowland Atkinson and Paul Willis / Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania This paper looks at the experience of intense video gaming activity and conceptualises the links between gamers' apprehension of the relative realism of an in-game environment and its influence on their experience of traversing 'real' urban environments. Posted
15-11-2008
Workforce Skills and Training
Yolngu studies: A case study of Aboriginal community engagement Michael Christie / Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement The paper gives details of the Yolngu studies program at Charles Darwin University which has been active in the teaching of Yolngu (East Arnhemland Aboriginal) languages and culture, in collaborative transdisciplinary research, and in community engagement. Posted
15-11-2008
Fair use group comes up with classroom copyright primer John Timmer / ars technica Content owners have attempted to restrict the copying of digital media through laws and legal campaigns but these efforts have often ignored the concept of fair use entirely.Posted
17-11-2008
Creating effective websites for university teaching: An educational framework Kerri-Lee Harris and Deborah Jones / Centre for the Study of Higher Education This guide presents a conceptual framework for planning subject websites, based upon educational purpose rather than technology. The booklet provides a practical tool that presents the options and considerations in a question-based approach.Posted
18-11-2008
When technology fails John B. Horrigan and Sydney Jones / Pew Internet and American Life Project Modern information and communication technologies open doors to a wealth of information. But many users find it difficult to set up these devices and frustrating when they break. Posted
18-11-2008
Beyond the classroom: building new school networks - Introduction Rosalyn Black / Australian Council for Education Research This new book, based on the findings of a year long research project, offers a clear strategy through the uncertainty and controversy surrounding the current education agenda. The message that emerges from the research is that piecemeal reforms to schooling will not provide solutions to the widening gaps in education that limit opportunities for many young Australians. Posted
20-11-2008
