Category: UoW
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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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BCM215 Game Media Industries: Discourse, History and Planning the Digital Artifact
In this lecture, I expand on the idea of discourse from the previous video and explore the history of video games in terms of the relationship between analogue and digital games. In the second part of the lecture, I focus on progressing the core learning assessment strategy for this subject and consider ways of planning…
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Media Archaeology
Part three of my new lecture series in Game Media Industries is now complete and on YouTube. I really enjoyed putting this one together.
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BCM325 Future Cultures: Why Science Fiction?
BCM325 Future Cultures is a third-year subject in the major of Digital and Social Media, which is one of five majors in the Bachelor of Communication and Media. Previously the subject was called ‘Cyberculture’ and had a very techno-social focus, with an emphasis on regulation and policy. My revisions for the subject have responded to…
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Future Cultures
It is a new year and a new semester, and I have been busy writing a new set of lectures for BCM325 Future Cultures. As this subject is going to be available across four campuses over the next couple of years, in Wollongong, Hong Kong, South West Sydney and Dubai, I’ve elected to record them…
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Two colleagues from the University of Wollongong Library, Michael Organ and Rebecca Daly, will be presenting our peer-reviewed paper on the virtual Yellow House pilot project at the VALA2016 conference this week in Melbourne. Owen Godfrey (@Cider3dPrinter) put together these two short videos to give a quick demonstration of the simulation and how it looks on screen…
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taking entrepreneurship seriously
Australia is a stagnant nation, politically, socially, technologically and intellectually and it is really OK to admit this. We have great ideas, great talent, and an amazing environment that our creatives, experts, innovators and risk-takers have to leave in order to be successful more often than they should and more often that is healthy for…
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The University of Wollongong Yellow House Virtual Reality Project
Michael Organ, Rebecca Daly, Neil Cairns from the University of Wollongong, Ted Mitew, myself and others in Graphics Design, History, Media and Politics disciplines have been collaborating on a VR project, for which we recently submitted an OLT seeding grant. Although we missed out we are intending to go forward with the project and seek the…
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