The Fibreculture Journal

FCJ-065 RoundTable on Technology, Teaching and Tools

By FCJManager ⋅ November 7, 2007 ⋅ One comment

This is a roundtable audio interview conducted by James Farmer (Edublogs) with Anne Bartlett-Bragg (University of Technology Sydney) and Chris Bigum (Deakin University). Skype was used to make and record the audio conference and the resulting sound file was edited by Andrew McLauchlan. roundtable.mov You can download the file by right or control clicking on this link Author’s Biographies Anne Bartlett-Bragg (ABB)-Cert IV AWT, Dip HRM, Dip e-Learning, BEd (Adult Education), MEd (Adult Education), PhD candidate. Currently she is working as a part-time academic in the Faculty of Education at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She developed and delivers e-Learning content – in the organisational context. Anne also has a consultancy business, Digital Dialogues, and is the Executive Director of the Learning Technologies User Group (LTUG), and a member of the advisory board for the Australian Businesswomen’s Network. https://digitaldialogues.blogs.com/ Professor Chris Bigum BSc, Dip.Ed, PhD, is Dean of the…

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FCJ-064 Some thoughts on the evolution of digital media studies

By FCJManager ⋅ November 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Lisa Gye, Media and Communications Swinburne University of Technology June 13, 1993 – Can you read that? in St Kilda, a somewhat run-down, turn of the century beach suburb in Melbourne – glorious architecture, too many cafes now that the intelligentsia have rediscovered its charm – and my friend is in Northcote, across town, only about 15 kilometres away but worlds apart. Northcote is north of the city and while it’s still considered to be inner-city by the real estate agents, it is only just beginning its upward spiral towards gentrification. We’re playing a networked game of Doom on our newly acquired 14400 modems and talking on the telephone. “Yes, yes, I can see you”. We’re yet to discover the inbuilt text function in the game that would allow us to dispense with the phones and chat via the screens. I’m blown away, metaphorically. And then, literally, as my friend…

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FCJ-063 The Digital, the Virtual and the Naming of Knowledge

By FCJManager ⋅ November 5, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Darren Jorgensen Curtin University, Western Australia Amidst shifting modalities of culture, inflected with new technologies and changing social desires, university disciplines have experienced seismic shifts in focus. Literature and Cultural Studies are being superseded by Communication Studies, Creative Enterprise, Creative Industries, Converged Media and other such nominalisms. In my workplace, the structure that was inaugurated only a few years before is already looking clunky, an outdated batch of titles and course content. Is it still appropriate to be talking about ‘Multimedia’? Are ‘New Media’, ‘Digital Media’ and ‘Converged Media’ sufficiently different substitutes? Are animation and gaming the province of Multimedia, Design, Art or Film and Television studies? From the growing number of enquiries from students about crossing areas we have been forced to look at the relations between them, and yet it seems that no amount of synergy could adequately capture the multifarious interests of a wired generation. We are…

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FCJ-062 Reinventing the Possibilities: Academic Literacy and New Media

By FCJManager ⋅ November 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Cheryl Ball, Department of English, Illinois State University Ryan ‘rylish’ Moeller, Department of English, Utah State University This in an interactive text—click here to open. Abstract This webtext demonstrates the possibilities of using new media to teach students critical literacy skills applicable to the 21st century. It is a manifesto for what we think writing scholars should be teaching in general-education “writing” classes like first-year composition. In order to answer the question of what we should teach, we have to ask what kinds of academic literacy, if any, we value. We argue here that rhetorical theory is a productive way to theorize how meaning is made among new media texts, their designers, and their readers. We use the Ancient Greek concepts of topoi and commonplace to explain how designers and readers enter into a space of negotiated meaning-making when converging upon new media texts. That negotiated space offers a new-media…

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FCJ-061 Composing and Compositing: Integrated Digital Writing and Academic Pedagogy

By FCJManager ⋅ November 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Jamie ‘Skye’ Bianco Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Composition, Queens College, City University of New York Prelude: Formal Anticipation and Origins[1] This middle does not play the role of an average but rather serves as the means by which life enjoys ‘the absolute speed of movement‘ (Pearson, 1999: 169) As the epigraph might be understood in the context of this essay to point to movements or to methods of composing, let us begin with the premise that Part I of this essay need not necessarily come first and that the reader might happily jump from ‘Collisions, Collusions, Compositions’ directly to Part II, ‘Composition, the Discipline, the Course and the Product.’ And of course a reversal of this premise might also possible. And yet the force to read through the form of this piece as presented and ‘from the beginning’ ‘to the end’ pulsates in the adherence to or rebellion against…

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FCJ-060 Toward an Algorithmic Pedagogy

By FCJManager ⋅ November 2, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Holly Willis Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California Colleges and universities in the United States currently face a daunting challenge: how can we transform longstanding definitions of literacy to account for not only the vast social shifts wrought by the centrality of networked, visual and aural media, but epistemological shifts as well? Calls for reconsidering literacy in light of digital tools are multiple and varied in approach and orientation, ranging from the declaration that every grade school student deserves access to a computer by then President Bill Clinton in 1996 (U.S. Dept. of Education, 1996), to the articulation of multimodal literacy outlined by Gunther Kress in his seminal book Literacy in the New Media Age to the taxonomy of skills characteristic of a new generation of students who currently inhabit a digital and participatory culture listed by Henry Jenkins in his 2006 paper for the MacArthur Foundation, ‘Confronting…

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Issue 10 – New Pedagogies

By FCJManager ⋅ November 1, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

This issue of fibreculture journal is based on an invitation to respond to the following provocation: It is easy to argue that much of the rhetoric attached to “new media” and the internet in relation to pedagogy has mistaken quantity for quality. It has been a conversation that has confused the qualitative changes that our new conceptions of media, knowledge, and networks afford with the quantitative changes beloved of those who confuse teaching and learning with instruction and consumption. These new qualities are the differences between the vector and commodity, blogs and books. However, imagine if our universities had been invented now. What would pedagogy be? What form would teaching and learning take? What would count as knowledge? Expertise? What forms would this knowledge take? Taking this as a departure this issue of the Fibreculture Journal invited those working in new media, internet studies, education, and cognate disciplines to discuss…

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