tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69283197635113068582012-01-07T01:24:10.230+11:00Exploring media and technology convergenceMaria Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12907950773535071670noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928319763511306858.post-46207245286102706702011-01-15T15:39:00.043+11:002011-01-17T09:37:01.055+11:00

  The likes of Google and Facebook are going beyond the hypertext form of indexing into a visual realm. Say hello to the hyperimage. It's being used for online shopping in Google's Boutiques.com website and will be coming soon to all Facebook users as part of its 'facial recognition' photo tagging feature, enabling your name to be suggested to friends when a photo looks like you.

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This is an update to the post I made last year on 'How to add the Facebook Fan Box on Blogger'. Instructions:Get the code for your Facebook Like Box. You can do this through the Facebook Plugin Page, or if you're already logged in to your Facebook page, go to Edit Page > Marketing and click Add a Like Box to your Website. See the pics above if you're having any trouble.Under Facebook Page

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View the instructional package:Blender 3D - Quick Start Guide This is an interactive instructional package I created for those new to Blender's 3D software.It's a great guide for those new to 3D modeling, rendering and animation and aims to help you to get started with the basics of using Blender.The guide covers a lot of topics including how to install Blender, which is a free open source

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Download or print this publicationPeople know that piracy is illegal, but at least two thirds of Australians are still tempted to obtain pirated material according to a recent Newspoll survey (Stafford, 2009), which found that almost half of the respondents were undeterred by the possible legal ramifications of such actions. In light of the recent financial crisis, the results are understandable

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Digital information technologies offer liberating, emancipating opportunities for the creation of new communities and spaces where young people can belong, yet they can be constraining and oppressive as well.Digital information technologies could be considered constraining and oppressive in terms of access and usability, and the broad appeal and reach of digital information technologies has

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Download or print this publicationThis essay discusses rave culture by describing how a member performs their 'raver' identity online.Why oh why can’t you just accept it? I’m a raver, not a f***ing drug addict! Yeah that’s right I do Es, I get plastered. Leave me alone, it’s my life, I think it’s sorted (DJ Hixxy & MC Storm, 2001).Once an ‘underground’ youth subculture of the Gen X and Cold

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An updated version of this guide can be found here: http://maria-tan.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-add-facebook-like-box-on-blogger.htmlPlease note: 'How to add the Facebook Like Box' is the new version of this post. The post you are viewing now was made in 2009 and may no longer work.Get the code for your Facebook Fan Box. This can be done in a few ways, see the image above, or visit the fb Fan

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Download or print this publicationThis essay analyzes the role 'play' performs in media engagement, and discusses what the study of media play adds to traditional media theory.“We are always immersed in something, whether it is narrative, a form of media, or just our own thought process” (Brooks 2004, p. 15). To ‘play’ is to begin one such process of immersion, to enter a state of mind which can

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Download or print this publicationAn online example of geeks as 'resistance' and 'project' identities based on Castells' theory of the network society which explains how producers use language strategically to invite audience members to collaborate in the cause.It’s the rise of the token smart guy, coming to a computer screen near you. Nowadays the mass media is saturated with symbols of ‘

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One of the world's largest freelance project outsourcing websites, GetAFreelancer.com (GAF), is now Australian owned, after a recent buyout by promising Sydney based communications academics saw the acquisition of GAF's Swedish parent company.Previously owned by Plendo Sweden AB and Innovate it, GAF will now fall under the management of Australian company, Ignition Networks, under the direction

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Within 48hours of this blog's previous post on the Picture Kingz phishing scam, the website has successfully been shut down. The news was spread quite quickly throughout online social networks such as Facebook, Digg, and Reddit among other sites.Mozilla FF users will now see an active Phishing and Malware Protection page when visiting this site, while IE, Safari and Google Chrome users will be

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Recent spam messages sent from MSN referring you to a site called Picture Kingz is a phishing scam designed to steal your Windows Live ID account details. The messages may be spread through your friends accounts referring you to their photos or other files.Do not enter your account details on this website. Their terms and conditions clearly state:We may temporarily access your MSN account to do

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Download, share or print this publicationIn light of the Rudd Government's plans to enforce internet censorship in Australia, this essay discusses the current state of research conducted by the Australian government in contrast with influential internet and digital literacy research from the UK.Twenty years ago surfing this sea of information through a web of interconnected networks was an

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Download or print this publicationThis essay discusses the concept of audience as a media commodity and their power as citizens of the digital media age.For two years running, Australians have ranked politicians higher than journalists in ethics and honesty (Roy Morgan, 2007 & 2008). In 2006, Roy Morgan’s ‘End of Year’ survey found that 59 per cent of respondents “don’t trust journalists to tell

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Download or print this publicationThis essay discusses the bearing 'spaces' have on how audience members are positioned and perceived by media producers.It’s the phrase real estate agents swear by like some unspoken sales creed of official truth. Although ‘location, location, location’ is advice generally applied in a literal sense when, for example, purchasing the ideal business property to

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Audiences are not just passive consumers brainwashed by media products, but are active participants who make their own meanings (O’Shaughnessy & Stadler, p. 105).I chose this quote because I think there has been a shift in recent times due to the popularity of digital media.The contemporary ‘audience’ is no longer passive but interactive.The audience itself can inexpensively produce its own

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Download or print this publicationThis essay explores the current state of multimedia technologies and explains why audio and video streaming is an unreasonable expectation for the internet Since the advent of the graphical user interface, multimedia has become a popular way to present and exchange information by combining various types of content such as audio, video, text and images onto a

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