Category: notes
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Audience Collaboration in the Niche Creative Industries.
A new guest lecture for BCM303 Collaborative Production Workshop. Audio Version Square brackets represent transitions in the lecture slides: Introduction Hello, in this lecture, I want to explore the various ways we can think about what audiences do, and how we might think of audiences as collaborating in the production of media experiences. A [common…
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persona autosurveillance
Nearly finish impmapping* the paper for the October talk on ‘Persona Autosurveillance’ over the weekend, still some missing pieces but I’m happy with the shape that is slowly coming together * impermanent mapping – a temporary mind map of the flow of a research project
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ecologies and networks
An ecology is a study of interactions and relations among organisms and their environment (Bennett 2010). An ecology is a co-presence of objects in a shared arrangement of space and time. A network, defined by Kadushin (p14 Loc 382), is a set of objects (nodes) and a description of relations between them. A network is…
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persona studies
In preparation for the upcoming book on Persona Studies, and the M/C journal ‘persona’ edition I thought I would just share a couple of blog posts that all use the term ‘persona’ to talk about very different issues and concepts. Persona 5 – a very popular Japanese game Persona – the television show Persona and Greek Theatre…
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Serres, time travel and the Gothic in science fiction
Three new postgraduate students to co-supervise this year. The first I’ve caught up with so far is a Creative Arts students writing a science fiction novel. The exegesis for the thesis will focus on the Gothic in science fiction and to kick the process off, we will be working on an analysis of the Gothic…
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Creative Commons in Higher Education, Research and Teaching
Deakin librarian Amy Sellers interviewing me on the benefits and disadvantages of using creative commons copyright licenses in Higher Education for Teaching and Research.
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effective assessment in higher education
The sixteen indicators of effective assessment in higher education is a useful checklist (link broken, new source needed!) that provides a timely opportunity to review the changes introduced to the unit I inherited at the start of the current trimester. I reflect here on a several, but not all the indicators and address their concerns…
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online teaching and teaching online (more GCHE posts)
This is an archived version of my online participation in a Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, this is from a post on the experience and challenges of ‘online’ teaching. One of the biggest challenges as a tutor and new unit chair at Deakin has been the diverse student population spread across the multiple campuses, or…
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and now for something not so completely different
I’ve been neglecting the blog again while teaching intensified again, but now the tsunami of marking is receding and exposing the wreckage of my research in its wake, I figure its worthwhile sharing (or at least archiving here) the (very ordinary) contributions from my recent reiteration as a student participating in a mandatory Graduate Certificate…
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