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New Media is Neither New nor Media. Discuss.David Parry / University of Texas at Dallas

Good post regarding arts media, social tools.

museummedia.nl is the online place for curators and museum staff looking for the most up-to-date information on new media for museums.

Interesting observations on using blogs, Flickr, Facebook, and Youtube.

I'm thinking of buying the book just to see what her strategies are.

Good reflections on effective strategies for using social media to promote arts organizations.

Push your media out! Check out the their blog "About" for a comprehensive overview.

Video Vortex "focuses on the status and potential of the moving image on the Internet..." Over the past years the place of the moving image on the Internet has become increasingly prominent. With a wide range of technologies and web applications within anyone's reach, the potential of video as a personal means of expression has reached a totally new dimension. How is this potential being used? How do artists and other political and social actors react to the popularity of YouTube and other 'user-generated-content' websites? What does YouTube tell us about the state of contemporary visual culture? And how can the participation culture of video-sharing and vlogging reach some degree of autonomy and diversity, escaping the laws of the mass media and the strong grip of media conglomerates?"

another link found through Jenkins' "seven principles" post on his blog (Dec. 09).

grabbed this link from Jenkin's post on 'seven principles of transmedia storytelling"

This is the first part of an eight part essay by Andy Oran of O"Reilly media on digital identity. The other seven parts can be accessed from this one. I am bookmarking it here because it alludes to a transmedia approach to the construction of personal narratives.

This is a post from Jenkins' blog that contains course info/syllabus for a new course he is running at USC (Fall 09). His blog contains many references to and discussions about the concept of 'transmedia'

What us the course level for this class?

What struck me first in a negative way was the focus on commercialism and corporate marketing. Simple because corporate ownership of media isn'tinline with my vale system. I am pleased and most interested in. The application to social cause. Very intriguing art applications.

This panel will broaden the discussion of transmedia properties to areas beyond the commercial or promotional. What are the potentials for transmedia to be used to affect social change? What parallels can we draw between the activities fan communities and other sites of collective activity? How does participation in the collectives that emerge around transmedia properties equip young people with skills as citizens? What responsibilities should corporations bear, if any, as they try to court fan communities and deep engagement? 

The FTC/FCC are looking into cloud computing and consumer privacy protection. Their findings could pose to be a game-changer for cloud computing and the collaborative web.

From the 1/12 edition of the NY Times. "Mr. Lanier, a musician and avant-garde computer scientist - he popularized the term "virtual reality" - wonders if the Web's structure and ideology are fostering nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, "You Are Not a Gadget," is a manifesto against "hive thinking" and "digital Maoism," by which he means the glorification of open-source software, free information and collective work at the expense of individual creativity."