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FCJ-011 Textual Dreaming: Dis-Ease in the Interface

Phillip Roe Central Queensland University New media presents us with a diverse range of texts which tend to manifest through the centrality of the interface. The interface is often argued as the most important part of any digital application (i.e. Bolter and Gromala 2003: 11). It becomes the surface upon, or perhaps through, which a…

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FCJ-010 Email and Epistolary technologies: Presence, Intimacy, Disembodiment

Esther Milne Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology Introduction “Presence” is a major focus for researchers and artists of digital culture, computer networks and new medical, communication and entertainment technologies (Donati and Prado, 2001; Lombard and Ditton, 1997; Mitchell, 1999; Murphy, 2000; Ryan, 1999; Sheridan, 1992). Presence refers to the degree to which geographically…

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FCJ-009 That-which-new media studies-will-become

Phillip Roe Central Queensland University The terms new media, new media studies and new media research are being taken up in a number of ways with different traditions, methodologies, and ways of constituting object(s) of study. In an article entitled ‘What is New Media Research?’ (2001), Chris Chesher has considered what distinguishes the research on…

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FCJ-008 WebCT: Will the Future of Online Education be User-friendly?

Tama Leaver English, Communication and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia The impetus for this paper comes from two related events: the first is my initial contact with the online education ‘courseware’ package or Managed Learning Environment (MLE) called Web Course Tools (commonly abbreviated as WebCT); and the other is the University of Western Australia’s…

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FCJ-007 Learning through New Media Objects

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

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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FCJ-005 The Erasure of Technology in Cultural Critique

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

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

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

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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