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The Horizon Report series is the product of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project, an ongoing research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education around the globe. This volume, the 2008 Horizon Report, Australia-New Zealand Edition, is the !rst in a new series of regional reports, and examines merging technologies as they appear in and affect higher education in Australia and New Zealand in particular.

The Media on the Move Project: New Practices in Flexible Learning 2006 has explored the application of online casting in educational contexts.

Educators today confront an ever-shifting landscape when it comes to Internet technologies and their potential for expanding participatory cultures. Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explores new frameworks for literacy through the lens of participatory culture.

Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century

A white paper funded by the US-based McArthur Foundation presents the findings of a three-year study into young people's participation in, and use of, new media technology.

"Second, with today's digital tools for social networking, people easily and readily can form and re-form groups to engage in joint activity (such as writing fan fiction) and even political interventions (such as campaigning) without the sanction and support of formal institutions. So participation today involves participating in both producer communities and in many other fluidly formed groups organized around a myriad of interests and passions."

By Dan Gillmor

UNSWTV is the new digital media management system for the University of New South Wales. It allows staff and students to easily upload, publish and manage content, including videos, audio and PDFs.