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Interactive art has become much more common as a result of the many ways in which the computer and the Internet have facilitated it. Issues relating to human-computer interaction (HCI) are as important to interactive art making as issues relating to the colours of paint are to painting. It is not that HCI and art necessarily share goals. It is just that much of the knowledge of HCI and its methods can contribute to interactive art making. This paper reviews recent work that looks at these issues in the art context. In interactive digital art, the artist is concerned with how the artwork behaves, how the audience interacts with it and, ultimately, in participant experience and their degree of engagement. The paper looks at these issues and brings together a collection of research results and art practice experiences that together help to illuminate this significant new and expanding area. In particular, it is suggested that this work points towards a much needed critical language that can be used to describe, compare and discuss interactive digital art.

This guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling

Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography

Cyberpop is a trendwatching blog dedicated to rounding up market research and academic studies on all things related to digital popular culture. It is written by Sidney Eve Matrix.

Welcome to the Estlow Center! Working for public good by researching how people make meaning out of journalism, digital media, and popular entertainment.

Editor's Note: This is a milestone article that deserves careful study. Connectivism should not be con fused with constructivism. George Siemens advances a theory of learning that is consistent with the needs of the twenty first century. His theory takes into account trends in learning, the use of technology and networks, and the diminishing half-life of knowledge. It combines relevant elements of many learning theories, social structures, and technology to create a powerful theoretical construct for learning in the digital age.

DMLcentral.net is the online presence for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and hosted at the UC Irvine campus.

JIME is an educational technology open access journal that focuses on the implications and use of digital media in education.  It aims to foster a multidisciplinary and intellectually rigorous debate on both the theory and practice of interactive media in education.

http://mediatedcultures.net/worldsim.htm digital ethnography course - cultural anthropology

Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. Author of Communities of Practice, Situated Learning, Digital Habitats

Learning, Media and Technology - incorporating Education, Communication & Information - is an international, peer-reviewed journal that aims to stimulate debate on the interaction of innovations in educational theory and practices, with media and educational technologies. Media and technologies are interpreted in the broadest sense, to encompass digital broadcasting, the internet and online resources, and other new and emerging formats, as well as the traditional media of print, broadcast television and radio.

Community news for rthe digital age

Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.

Tracking the new media/digital journalism training at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism - and the changing media landscape

Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century Literacy today depends on understanding the multiple media that make up our high-tech reality and developing the skills to use them effectively By Barbara R. Jones-Kavalier and Suzanne L. Flannigan

The Future Journalism Project is a multiplatform documentary exploring the present state, current disruption and future possibilities of American journalism. It's being produced by ScribeLabs/ScribeMedia and will launch formally in Winter 2011 soon. In the meantime, we're posting clips and notes on this site about our explorations through the current digital landscape.

Journalists have roles to play in collaborating with and organising communities - and the article is just part of the mix