tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295756462024-10-06T23:31:59.584-07:00Social Media, Public Media and Cultural ChangeMonique Pottshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144567696391609059noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29575646.post-84281492958998831882015-12-06T03:22:00.001-08:002015-12-06T03:30:36.690-08:00

This post is some background thinking to participation in the internal workshops focusing on ethics and decentralisation to be held at UTS on 7th and 8th December 2015 as part of the Blockchain workshops. The background reading material outlines some of the key ethical issues in relation to internet technologies and consequently blockchain technologies such as questions of access, transparency,

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Over the past few months during the federal election campaign I was working on a project called ABC Campaign Pulse which was looking for interesting ways to visualise trends and sentiment over the period the election campaign.After seeing the prominence of social media and data visualisation in the UK election in April and May of 2010 we wanted to see what we could do in an Australian context. We

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I've been interested lately in ideas or mapping local stories using mashups.There has been some interesting projects being developed in this space lately. Probably the more accessible ones at the moment are those that use a Google Maps/Flickr Mashup such as these onesPaul Hogans's proof of concept mashup for the Powerhousehttp://www.paulhagon.com/blog/2008/08/19/powerhouse-street-view-mashup/Or

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Check out the new ABC Widgets and pull ABC content into your site for freehttp://www.abc.net.au/services/widgets/

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Attached is presentation about ABC and social media, web 2.0 given at Connecting Up conference for nonprofit sector in Brighton Le Sands yesterdayTwitter feed is at #cua09http://www.slideshare.net/moniquep/abc-and-web-20-1427202

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Just wanted to post my submission to the Dept of Broadband, Communication and Digital EconomyMy two cents worth for what it's worth...1. The Role of National Broadcasting• The ABC has an important role in promoting digital media literacy across the community; particularly to groups that might not have access to technology and training. The ABC could set up mobile media centres that can travel to

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BBC management have put forward a proposal to the BBC Trust to revamp it's local websites with a heavy emphasis on locally produced video content. The proposal would expand the number of local sites from 60 to 65 and would spend £68m up until 2013.According to the GuardianEach BBC Local website is planning to offer video, focused mainly on news and sport, as well as weather updates,

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The increased use of social media such as blogs, ugc and social networking over the past 5 years have created changes in people's perceptions of what is private and public information. Increasingly online public spaces are used for personal media and personal opinions and musings. When I told a friend recently that I had 'reworked' my blog and taken out all the more private references to children

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An article by Jem Stone in the BBC Internet blog explained that the BBC has recently joined the OpenID Foundation. OpenID is a movement from the open source community to try and create a single standard compliant login that can be used across a range of sites rather than having to remember individual logins for each site. There are a number of big corporate players on board such as AOL, Microsoft

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A recent move by the BBC to introduce registration to comment on it's blogs comes after ongoing problems with spam and performance with a more open commenting system where no registration was required. They have integrated it with their message boards and have your say registration. This follows the lead of other established media blogging sites such as the guardian. Jem Stone, the BBC Social

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I've been setting up my pageflakes page in the last few days in a effort to try and bring together my social networking and rss feeds into one interface. The beauty of pageflakes over other tools like the new Google home page that comes with IE7 or MyYahoo which I have used up until now for my RSS feeds is that there are also widgets for your social networking tools like Facebook, MySpace, GMail

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I was interested to note the fate of the BBC civic actvisim site iCan or Action Network which will close on April 30th 2008. It seems as if it was always going to be fairly experimental coming out of a brainstorming session at the BBC on how to provide an open social space online to promote active citizenship and launching in 2003. Another suggested motivation was to have a better and quicker

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Having worked in a public brodcaster for some time the BBC 'public value test' seems a curiously political beast. It has been unfortunate to see a very popular project such as the wonderful interactive education site BBC Jam pulled last year because of a perceived conflict in 'public value'. See comments from trust Surely the test of public value must be reflected in the uptake, popularity and

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Robin Hamman's blog Cybersoc recently had an interesting reference to a tool called Spectrum being used at the BBC to use data in online debates to reflect the intensity and type of emotional response to an issue in a visual format.The online debate was based around a recent drama series by the BBC Two called the White Series. I caught one of the episodes called White Girl, which was pretty well

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Long time no post - well if there is anyone out there reading - which I suspect there is not you have probably given up by now.Well I have some new blog friends so I will have to get back onto it...Did presemtation at an industry seminar last week called Net Generations. We had a all girl panel which was great. I as talking about User Generated Content and trends for interactivity at the ABC. It

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Have been doing some research on news websites use of web 2.0 tools such as podcasts, blogs, User Generated Content (UGC) and citizen journalism. I was surpised by how many news sites have a large number of blogs. This seems to have replace message boards or commenting on stories as the main type of interactivity. Some interesting examples are The Guardian's Comment is Free where they have

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It is pretty hard to get any time to yourself when you are a working mum with two ankel biters. Trying to move forward with a career is tricky when you are working part time and have other priorities. But you still want to feel like you are moving forward.I think the idea of work life balance is a bit of a myth really. Sometimes you are going to be more focused on your family and kids and other

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We spent the weekend in the Blue Mountains at the Winter Magic festival. The parade was great like a mini hippy mardi-gras. Good to see the hippies are still alive and well in the mountains - there was even an anti-howard cotingent (which reminded me of how the left seems to have become almost 'quaint' and almost irrelevant)On Sunday there was 'the biggest pantomine' on at the Everglades. A huge

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