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 an interactive QuickTime essay that explores the relationship of a rhizomatic form to softvideo practice. It also details a series of video templates that have been created to explore alternative forms for online video.

Softvideo is a term applied by the author to video works which treat the computer as the means of production, distribution and consumption of video works. In these contexts video develops novel affordances or possibilities that problematize traditional uses and understandings of video as time based media. In this essay, which consists of a printed essay and an accompanying interactive academic QuickTime project, a critical and reflective analysis of a series of softvideo templates - the "rhizome templates" - is undertaken. These templates are publicly available and allow video bloggers and others to experiment with softvideo forms. The essay documents the use of the templates and situates them within a critical view of traditional video practice from the point of view of softvideo and video editing as a rhizomatic practice.

These are slides (presented as pdf) of some thoughts about writing as a specifc sort of academic material practice. I use some ideas about the actual and virtual to tease at this, eventually using hypertext as an exemplar. The work is to be developed into an essay.

These are the slides (as pdf) of the report I gave at the Affective Atlas 01 Symposium at RMIT in October 2007. The affective atlas is a large research project to investigate and prototype alternative geoknowledge tools, and this report is on a field trip with honours students where we collected media samples to make a prototype atlas using a GoogleMap.

Slides from a brief introduction at the Affective Atlas 01 Symposium (Melbourne, October 2007) outlining why the larger project is entitled "affective atlas". Uses Deleuze's concept of affect and applies it to a digital atlas.

Online interactive video has a 'facetted' model where each shot (and each part of each shot) instead of only having a single possibility of connection with another shot or sequence now has multiple facets. These slides describe this (essay is in the works, as is interactive video essay).

Network literacy are those skills that are required to be a peer and participant within contemporary information ecologies (let's just call that the Internet). This essay introduces the idea of network literacy, and goes on to discuss some of the implications of this for media education.

Introduction to what network literacy is, and its implications for media education.