Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape.
* Covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling youth movement, participatory public history, audience reception, videoblogging and microdocumentary
* Pinpoints who is telling what stories where, on what terms, and what they look and sound like
Faculty Seminar Series
Professor Justin O’Connor, Research Capacity Building Professor Tuesday 28th April 12pm-1pm The Hall (Z2-226) CI Precinct QUT Kelvin Grove
Creative labour: emancipation or honey-trap?
The contribution of creative occupations to Australian healthcare was examined using a mix of statistics and case studies. Creative occupations were found to be making significant, growing and widespread contributions to the development and delivery of healthcare goods and services, the initial training and ongoing professionalism of doctors and nurses and the effective functioning of healthcare buildings.
How is media convergence impacting on established, ‘broadcast-era’ community media? In this paper Ellie Rennie takes SYN (a community radio licensee in Melbourne) as a case study and employs media ethnography and policy analysis to identify contemporary challenges facing community media.
Issues of spatial distribution, allocation and access to resources prevail when establishing a long-term and viable e-community within the cultural sector.
This paper outlines the notion of a 'user centred' broadband system because so little attention is generally given to the demand side of the side of the broadband roll out equation. The author suggests that the Netherlands, Europe's leading county for broadband usage, has created one of the most remarkable models with its Kenniswijk experiment. Over 1000 users were invited to submit proposals for the kind of broadband services they wanted, and test beds subsequently built many of those services that were initially offered for free.
