Analysis Project | Story 5 | Week 8

Friday, 8th, May, 2009

30th - 7th

Possible Stories

1. Fujitsu-wins-Qantas-deal - 30 April
2. Vodafone-3G-hits-80-per-cent - 30 April
3. NBN-company-details-hard-to-find
4. NBN-company-constitution-revealed
5. Facebook-opens-Aussie-HQ
6. Havyatt-demands-more-NBN
7. Victorian-Budget-IT-spend-tops-100m
8. Auditor-General-to-probe-NBN-decision
9. Turnbull-slams-dangerous-NBN-delusion

1. Many Twitters are quick quitters, finds study 30 April
   

chosen:
Turnbull slams dangerous NBN delusion

Analysis Project | Story 4 | Week 7

Friday, 24th, April, 2009

22nd to 23rd

Possible Stories

1. Telstra-snags-1bn-CBA-deal - 22 April 2009
2. IceTV-wins-EPG-High-Court-decision - 22 April 2009
3. CASA-flys-to-ASG-in-8m-deal - 22 April 2009
4. Hackers-breach-Joint-Strike-Fighter - 22 April 2009
5. Telstra-strike-kills-Xstrata-s-phones - 22 April 2009
6. Optus-joins-internet-filtering-trial - 22 April 2009
7. Qld-Education-uses-old-PC-panel - 22 April 2009
8. Google-Australia-offers-free-AdWords - 22 April 2009
9. Sun-buyout-leaves-Aussies-divided - 23 April 2009
10. Qld-picks-driver-s-licence-suppliers - 23 April 2009
11. AAPT-left-out-of-NBN-discussions - 23 April 2009
12. WA-lays-out-NBN-wish-list - 23 April 2009
13. Sept-start-for-NBN-regional-backhaul - 23 April 2009

1. IceTV wins High Court battle against Nine

Chosen

Optus-joins-internet-filtering-trial - 22 April 2009

Analysis Project | Story 3 | Week 6

Friday, 17th, April, 2009

14th to the 15th

Possible Stories

1. rudd-bluffing-broadband - 14 Apr 2009
2. nbn-shafted-0 - 14 Apr 2009
3. iiNet-thumbs-nose-at-AFACT - 14 Apr 2009
4. Audit-office-Unisys-renew-vows - 14 Apr 2009
5. Oakton-appoints-operations-chief - 14 Apr 2009
6. Qld-to-build-Wi-Fi-into-trains - 14 Apr 2009
7. 3-turns-on-Telstra-3G-roaming - 15 Apr 2009
8. Rudd-Govt-to-abolish-patient-privacy - 15 Apr 2009
9. iiNet-piracy-liability-looms-large - 15 Apr 2009
10. Perth-Nigerian-scammer-jailed - 15 Apr 2009

1. Twitter struck by new Easter worm attacks - 14 Apr 2009

Qld-to-build-Wi-Fi-into-trains - 14 Apr 2009

Analysis Project | Story 2 | Week 5

Friday, 3rd, April, 2009

Possible Stories

1. News search News News Police raid Wikileaks.de domain owner Theodor Reppe's home over 'censorship lists'
2. iiNet faces the music in landmark case
3. Crux of iiNet defence due by April
4. Millions may have visited popular websites on 'leaked blacklist'
5. News search News News iiNet quits Government web filter trials
6. News search News News Google gets deep and meaningful with semantic search
7. Nanotechnology regulations must be strengthened - Choice
8. Telstra is chasing your last cent
9. DVD rentals, TV sales rise as economy encourages 'cocooning' at home
10. News search News News New 'ACMA blacklist' leak claims banned websites list was recently edited
11. Keeping an eye on webcams

Commonwealth Bank all a-Twitter over mortgage approval tweet



Refernces

Story
iiNet faces the music in landmark case

Supporting Stories on Similar Issue
Crux of iiNet defence due by April

Links

Analysis Project | Story 1 | Week 4

Friday, 27th, March, 2009


Story Choices

1. Telstra offshoot hires teen hacker 'Akill'
2. ISP pulls out of internet filter trial
3. Govt should drop internet filter: GetUp
4. Broadband brings medical specialists to the bush
5. CommBank mobile phone catch-up bid
6. Telstra's new walk
7. Google removes Street View images after privacy complaints
8. Aussie-made social news sites Kwoff, Regator taking off
9. News search News News Millions may have visited popular websites on 'leaked blacklist'
10. Apple offers a sneak peek at new software for iPhone, iPod Touch
11. 'Leaked list of banned websites' was not the ACMA blacklist, says Stephen Conroy
    

Chosen Story

Aussie-made social news sites Kwoff, Regator taking off

By Lara Sinclair, The Australian, Posted March 23, 2009 02:00am

New media means a consistent torrent of podcasts, news, job listings, web address’s, friend invites, etc. The apparent difficulty of sifting through this information has become a bigger delima then being able to access particular information. Demonstrating that Australians have a need for a local niche social aggregator the creators have built Kwoff a social bookmarking service and a for aggregation and

These technologies demonstrate an anti political route to content receivable. It allows all to see what is popular for the masses at any given moment but also allows the user to search, record and rate certain content. This demonstrates a feedback loop that web 2.0 web culture has allowed. People are enabled to feed from the committee and then feed back into the community.

These technologies are quite similar to the way in which google has grown to a world dominance in internet culture. Google survived the ‘.com’ crash due it’s ability to allow humans to access the world wide web. Humans use google like an eyeglass to see what in the ether we call the internet. Humans are freed

Social benefit of these technologies are there ability for two way communication and suggestion. Using the benefits of human power people are the ones that run the system. A perpetual system of suggestion favorites and dislikes.

Problems with this structured approach are the factors of the repitition of politcal frameworks. The most active users will push certain stories hense becoming the powerful and the less active users becoming consumers and passive. This may to systems of reconfiguation like

References


Story
Aussie-made social news sites Kwoff, Regator taking off

Technologies in question
Kwoff
Regator

Competitors
Delicious
Digg
StumbleUpon
Reddit
2collab

Week 3 | New Media: An Introduction: Chapter 4 Summary

Week 4: The Cultures of New Media

Flew, T. (2008) New Media: An Introduction (3rd Edition), Melbourne: Oxford University Press, Chapter 6

Is 'new media theory' a useful and relevant concept?

Two questions:

Is there a need for a theory of new media in application and design

What is the "new" in new media

The first several paragraphs raises questions on the way new media is described and the way theory along with critical anyalisis has precieved and described new media theory.



Manuel Castells

All statements quoted from Flew, T. (2008) New Media: An Introduction (3rd Edition), Melbourne: Oxford University Press, Chapter 6

• Most significant social theorist in new media in the last two decades
• The information age: economy, Society and Culture series (1996, 1998, 2000a)
• A global network society
• techno-economic paradigm
• Marxist urban sociology
• collective consumption
• informational city
• development of network structures and architectures is a core feature of the contemporary social condition
• biotechnology
• all aspects of the self-identity, experience, relationships-are bound up with the network society
• neither uniformly Utopian nor uniformly Dystopian
• new forms of inclusion and exclusion
  
• 
  

Patrice Flichy

• 
  

Henry Jenkins

• convergence culture: three concepts; media convergence participatory culture and collective intelligence
  
• 
  

Scott Lash

Lawrence Lessig

Sonia Livingstone

Daniel Miller and Don Slater

Mark Poster

Postmodernism and new media: A Case Study in Cultural Studies

Dan Schiller

The Transformation of Telecommunications: A Case Study in Political Economy

Tiziana Terranova

Week 2 | New Media: An Introduction: Chapter 3 Summary

Approaches to New Media

Beyond hype and counter- hype

Approaches to technological change

Social psychology: Identity and interpersonal relations online

Technology and Culture

Political economy and cultural studies

New Media: An Introduction: Chapter 2 Summary

New Media: An Introduction: Chapter 1 Summary

New Media Analysis Project and Submission

Some guidelines for blogging, commentary project.

1. Impact on Australia.
2. Approximately 500 words.
3. Events/issues important of chosen week and why.
4. One Entry Per Week.
5. 5 entries recorded at the time of submission.
6. Each submission should be separated by 5 days.
7. Aim of exercise is to explore the complex nature of new media in 2009.
8. Explore at least TWO of the following dimensions: political, social, economic, technical.
9. Sophisticated entries should incorporate lecture and/or reading material into their commentary.
10. Reputable sources.
11. Avoid focusing too heavily on stories about novel technologies.
12. Policy and social impact stories tend to be the ones
    that work most effectively.
13. Referenced in Harvard style.
14. First two entries due April 3 for feedback and final three are due May 15.
    

Assessment

1. Attendance/ Participation 10%
2. New Media Analysis 30%
3. The New Media Pitch 30%
4. The Exam 30%
   

New Media

Posting new media thoughts, commentaries, essays and theories....