Here’s an article about Malcolm Turbull Killing Community TV from theage.com. Here’s a Facebook page supporting Community TV And here’s an image of committocommunitytv.org.au‘s response to the decision to kill community TV: Such a… Continue Reading
General Notes: Intent can be lost through context – eg. changing the tone of a sentence changes its meaning Frued – conscious vs. unconscious Semiotics – notion of a signifier and a signified – signifier = the body; signified =… Continue Reading
Watts, Duncan J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. London: Vintage, 2003. Print. I didn’t like this reading. It’s not that it didn’t make sense or that it was difficult to follow, I’m just not quite sure what… Continue Reading
Okay, so it’s this time again… I like how George has attempted to answer the symposium questions himself, and feel that his opinion as a stand alone makes more sense than the jumbled opinions thrown at us in the Q&A style… Continue Reading
Before the symposium tomorrow, I want to get my current opinion out on the idea of form vs. content, unaltered from the discussion that will inevitably take place surrounding the importance of form as opposed to the material within it.… Continue Reading
Murphie, Andrew, and John Potts. Culture and Technology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Print. ‘Theoretical Frameworks’ extract (PDF) This reading focussed largely on the idea of technological determinism, a concept which has recently been covered in Communication Histories and Technologies and hence… Continue Reading
For anyone not too busy watching Big Brother tonight, there is an awesome doco playing right now on SBS called The Real History Of Science Fiction. And when I say awesome I mean you should watch it, because they’re talking about… Continue Reading
Can technology progress independently of art and culture? what is meant by key words? culture vs. technology – use of everything = technology adrian: there is no culture without technology to make art you need technology – dependent – development… Continue Reading