Open Media Project

This year we are running a pilot project to see how far we can make use of social media in our work with students, collaborations between ourselves and sharing ideas and thoughts on the changing media landscape with the wider world. The page you have arrived at collects a number of feeds together from people in the department and their current ongoing projects, links to subject blogs, student work and wider links to debates happening outside of the institution. Over the course of the pilot we will track how the space works, what generates interest and what doesn't. How the technology is used and how it maps onto the 4c's of social media. We are keen for people to collaborate with us and comment, so please get in touch.

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Links for Audio Online Podcasts etc

I was asked this morning about podcasting. Things have moved on quickly over the past year or so and it is possible to hook into new online audio editing tools for producing quick podcasts. One such editor is called MYNA and can be found here. Great for students editing, developing original soundtracks for podcasts or moving image. Can share by using Read full article »

Massing The Future of Journalism

A thoughtful article goes beyond the usual black and white oppositions. Of all the dismal and discouraging numbers to have emerged from the world of newspapers—the sharp plunges in circulation, the dizzying fall-off in revenues, the burgeoning debt, the mounting losses—none seems as sobering as the relentless march of layoffs and buyouts. According to the blog Paper Cuts, newspapers lost 15,974 Read full article »

Hans Rosling Access to Public Data

Hans Rosling has given some great talks at TED and has embarked, with Google funding, on extending the public use and visualisation of public funded data sets. To get a sense of the cultural importance of these projects have a watch of this documentary. You can also see the software in action in more detail at Gapminder.org Read full article »

Rheingold beyond skills to literacies

Rheingold spoke about 21st century literacies at the Reboot Britain event in London, July, 2009. It is well worth listening to as it talks about useful methods for crap detection on the web, a sceptical attitude always useful in the wider world and in relation to any media source we encounter. Read full article »

Busy Media Summer

Edinburgh TV Festival: Robert Peston's Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture The BBC's Robert Peston debates the future of journalism in a recessionary world at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. Peston makes some interesting points and raises some important questions about the "total journalist". Read full article »