Have been looking a lot at this previous student blog for ideas on formatting and layout of ideas – they did a LOT of research! CONVERGENCE IS HERE [...]
Archive for March, 2012
March 23rd, 2012 - 11:53 am § in Uncategorized
NEW, new direction.
Still continuing to narrow down our topic, this time we’ve landed on: “Examining the influence of American storytelling in the context of Australian TV cultures.” I also threw all our topic idea into Weebly, a blogging site which would be perfect for our needs (dropdown menus, tabs[...]
March 22nd, 2012 - 4:48 pm § in Uncategorized
PROGRESS HOORAH
Working with Sofia, Karina and Charles on our assignment, which is centered around local identity. We were looking at the topic question: is it possible to have globalisation without losing individua cultural identities?..but decided this was too broad, as there was no concrete answer, or means of r[...]
March 22nd, 2012 - 1:04 pm § in Uncategorized
Mark Elliott: Guest Lecture
Collabforge - Collaboration strategy - Online community building - Social media and Web 2.0 Is it possible to design purposefully large-scale collabortions, or do they have to come about organically? (Wikipedia: Case study) Idea: Only 1% of your target audience will engage with your project. Does th[...]
March 21st, 2012 - 2:31 pm § in Uncategorized
More:
Another site which could be useful in shaping our new (potential) idea – The Infiltration of American Media on International Identities” Click Here to read the full article, but the key quotes (though crudely worded and translated from some Nordic slang) that would help us (in terms of d[...]
March 21st, 2012 - 2:23 pm § in Uncategorized
More idea refinement
Thinking more about the study of “Americanisation” in respect to globalisation, it’s a bit of a can of worms so may need some guidance from Rachel on this one, too. Here’s some of my suggestions to Charles (and now, Sofia) in the Facebook group we created in order to keep in [...]
March 21st, 2012 - 10:28 am § in Uncategorized
Thoughts and findings for this week
In relation to our question: Does globalisation pose a threat to cultural identity? I found this. It looks like another student study; a more general discussion among students studying this topic, rather than a case study type thing that we are looking at doing. FORUM FOR DIALOGUE: Is Globalisation [...]
March 19th, 2012 - 8:41 am § in Uncategorized
Breif (so far)
Media Industries [1] Semester One, 2012. Stephanie Winkler and Charles Bai Research Brief Issue/Question: Is it possible for countries to globalise themselves, while retaining and promoting their unique cultural identity? Background Material: There is no denying that digital media is one of the key [...]
March 19th, 2012 - 8:39 am § in Uncategorized
Notes on our assignment..
Is it possible to have globalisation while retaining individual media cultures? http://www.polity.co.uk/global/pdf/gtreader2etomlinson.pdf Pros: Closing digital divide Global rise in democracy (digital democratisation) Global sharing of ideas Increase in global awareness and political discussion Abl[...]
