network literacy
Thu, 29/05/2008 - 14:56 — Adrian
Original Citation: An invited presentation for the Victorian branch of the Australian Science Communicators, May 29, 2008 in North Melbourne (Victoria, Australia).
abstract: This is the brief I was received:
"they have no idea what Web 2.0 means but would dearly like to know how, why, when and it [sic] what way it effects the way they do their job."
These are just slides, mostly cryptic as their just pointers for me to remember what to talk about.
Mon, 12/05/2008 - 23:18 — Adrian
Original Citation: Miles, Adrian. "Networked Knowledge Objects." Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, Internet Research 7.0. Brisbane: AoIR, 2006.
abstract: Much teaching practice that looks to video and blogging, including the examples offered by pod and video casting, confuses the affordances of blogging (what makes blogging successful and qualitatively different to other writing practices) with ease of publication, and in doing so replicates old media paradigms of video in new media contexts. However, for video to be successfully integrated in converged online environments it requires similar affordances to those identified and established in educational blogging. Hence, video needs to become granular, fragmentary, and something that is 'written with' rather than just a delivery or publication format.
Such a conception of video recognises that the paradigm shift afforded by the World Wide Web, which blogging and its avatars are the latest expression of, is a revolution in writing.
Tue, 18/12/2007 - 12:11 — Adrian
abstract: This is a special issue of the Fibreculture Journal that I edited (with necessary prodding from Andrew Murphie and markup from Lisa Gye). This themed edition is entitled "New Media, Networks and New Pedagogies" and there is an introductory essay by me and then work by a variety of people. (It's a good collection.)
This is my editor's introduction to this special issue. Reproduced with permission of Fibreculture Journal.
New Media, Networks and New Pedagogies
Wed, 05/09/2007 - 08:27 — Adrian
Original Citation: Miles, Adrian. "The Emperor's New Clothes." Media International Australia 81.August (1996): 68–76.
abstract: Multimedia is a term and a product which appears to have managed to monopolise the public, corporate, institutional, and political high ground in the debate about new media. Variously characterised as a synergy between existing media, a combination of text and visual data into a revolutionary recombination, or as an interactive and emancipatory text, multimedia has been promoted in terms that bring it dangerously close to an object that has more to do with Utopian projections about the next millennium than with what any of its fundamental claims might entail.
INTRODUCTION
Wed, 05/09/2007 - 08:24 — Adrian
abstract: A self published report on the implementation of hypertext in a media studies program in 1995.
What follows was only published via the original hypertext.RMIT server as a report into the first iteration of the Hypertext Theory and Practice course that I developed and delivered in 1995.
Wed, 05/09/2007 - 08:22 — Adrian
Original Citation: Miles, Adrian. "Pedagogy Goes to the Movies: Hypermedia in the Cinema Classroom." ACH-ALLC'99 International Humanities Computing Conference. Ed. Amy Sexton. Charolottesville, Virginia: ACH-ALLC
Insitute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, 1999. 19-22.
abstract: A paper that combines hypertext theory with cinema studies practice to describe a way of 'doing' cinema studies that takes advantage of hypertext theory and practice and the affordances of digital media.
This conference paper was presented at the Association for Computing Humanities 1999 Annual Conference, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Wed, 05/09/2007 - 08:20 — Adrian
Original Citation: Miles, Adrian. "Realism and a General Economy of the Link." Currents in Electronic Literacy Fall.5 (2001)
abstract: Oh, the essay uses George Bataille's theory of the general and restricted economy as the basis of a critique of some instrumental approaches to linking in hypertext. I also point out that the idea that the link is neutral and only ever instrumental also has affinities with realist literature.
Realism and a General Economy of Links
Wed, 05/09/2007 - 08:17 — Adrian
abstract: In hypertext criticism when students don't 'get' a hypertext they 'bite the breast' claiming the irrelevance of hypertext rather than questioning the adequacy of their own reading schemas. This brief work uses object relations psychology and its description of our relationship to art, and idea of the breast as a ‘transitional object’ for the child as a model for describing such criticism. The transitional object is that thing that the child uses to mediate its first experiences of itself as an entity separate in the world.
This is a short piece that appeared in an issue of the Journal of Digital Information that was dedicated to hypertext criticism.
Wed, 05/09/2007 - 08:15 — Adrian
abstract: In this brief essay I argue for the materiality of hypertext as a necessary part of interpretation while arguing that the intent of the work is the work for itself, not to be confused with the intent of the author, reader, narrator or whatever.
This is a short piece about hypertext criticism that I wrote for an issue of the Journal of Digital Information that was dedicated to hypertext criticism.
Wed, 05/09/2007 - 08:13 — Adrian
abstract: Writing on specific hypertext titles appears to have commonly confused reviewing with criticism. These are two distinct though complementary genres and each ought to have quite individuated aims and objects.
The third and final contribution I made to an issue of the Journal of Digital Information dedicated to hypertext criticism.
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