The Fibreculture Journal

FCJ-007 Learning through New Media Objects

By FCJManager ⋅ December 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Karen Woo University of New South Wales Learning objects sneaked into educational technology vernacular in the latter half of the 1990s. [1] Its origin can be traced back to military training, where the Sharable Content Object Reference Model was invented (ADL 2003). Through workplace training and learning/ content management systems, these obscure objects have recently…

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FCJ-006 Halflives, A Mystory: Writing Hypertext to Learn

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Lisa Gye Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology In what ways do electronic media, and, in particular, online media or hypertext, have the potential to change the ways in which we acquire and generate knowledge? How does writing hypertextually transform the learner’s experience of the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in contrast to the…

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Issue 02 – New Media, New Worlds?

By FCJManager ⋅ December 1, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

The second issue of the Fibreculture Journal reflects on both new media in relation to their past, and some attempts to adapt the past to contemporary technologies in the new circuits of education. Of course, these two concerns are closely related. Education is very much trapped at the moment between present (technologically informed) potential and…

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FCJ-005 The Erasure of Technology in Cultural Critique

By FCJManager ⋅ November 6, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Belinda Barnet University of New South Wales Isaac Asimov once suggested that it would make far more difference in our everyday lives if the automobile had not been invented than if Einstein had failed to formulate the theory of relativity (Hansen, 2003: 1). Theory and technology are very different things. Likewise, language and technology are…

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FCJ-004 The Military-Entertainment Complex: A New Facet of Information Warfare

By FCJManager ⋅ November 5, 2003 ⋅ One comment

Stephen Stockwell and Adam Muir Griffith University All by itself, a Go piece can destroy an entire constellation synchronically; a chess piece cannot…Chess is indeed a war but an institutionalized, regulated, coded war… Go is war without battle lines, with neither confrontation nor retreat, without battles even: pure strategy, whereas Chess is a semiology. (Deleuze…

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FCJ-003 Internet Politics in an Information economy

By FCJManager ⋅ November 4, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Jon Marshall University of Technology, Sydney Introduction The Internet, and information technology generally, is not separate from the social world in which it is embedded, neither does it fully determine that world. It may, however, allow modifications, intensifications or even subversions to occur. This paper will discuss some of the problems and paradoxes of the…

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FCJ-002 Perfect Match: Biometrics and Body Patterning in a Networked World

By FCJManager ⋅ November 3, 2003 ⋅ One comment

Gillian Fuller School of Media and Communications, UNSW Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an object at very close range by way of its likeness. (Benjamin, 1992: 217) When a body is in motion, it does not coincide with itself. It coincides with its own transition: its own variation. (Massumi, 2002:…

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FCJ-001 Report: Creative Labour and the Role of Intellectual Property

By FCJManager ⋅ November 2, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Ned Rossiter Communications and Media Studies, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University This report is based on the survey I conducted for the fibrepower panel initiated by Kate Crawford and Esther Milne – ‘Intellectual Property-Intellectual Possibilities’ (Brisbane, July 2003). I wanted to explore in some empirical fashion the relationship between intellectual property and…

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