myResearchSpace

A great UWA site from students taking the communication studies unit ''Digital Communication & Participatory Culture'' that was run by Dr Peter Morse last year. Not really about research but it shows the potential of video blogging and it is entertaining and educational as well. Do you know what astroturfing means? Watch Angela Caple's 2 ...

Open-access to scholarly research has been very topical the past few years.  The internet as a means of communication and distribution seems to have led down to paths, increasingly divergent: either academic journals are going open-access, allowing anyone to read the contents; or, they're becoming part of large corporate conglomerates which ...

It would appear that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has the dubious honours of being the first Australian university to have their own YouTube channel.  In the past couple of months, there have been a number of reports of US universities setting up on YouTube.  For example, this article from News.com on UC Berkeley's ...

Michael Wesch and his 200 students in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, Spring 2007 collaborated in exploring what exactly a student does these days.  Their results make a fascinating video and a timely reminder of the way (some) student experiences are changing: [YouTube:dGCJ46vyR9o] Some of the ...

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As readers of my main blog will know, I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane.  It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich conference and a great end to Tama's-month-o-conferencing.  I was the facilitator for the 'Blogging and Education' session so thought, in ...

Yesterday, Karen called me a geek.  She's right; but I suspect a fair few postgrad bloggers are in the geekerly way, too, but: can you prove it? Here's evidence of my uber-geekery... If you've got the same tool, can you out-geek me? :)

Warning: Segue into politics and digital communication... What is Facebook?  Should you care?  Does the fact that John Howard and Kevin Rudd (or their team) have Facebook pages mean anything about Australian politics in a digital era?  If any of these questions have perked your interest, click here.  (At the very least you ...

Given that Robyn's been sharing her heightened enthusiasm for various eResearch tools and David's been talking about some of the eResearch (or, at least, digital communication about eResearch) options already available, I thought I'd throw in an idea I've been thinking about for a while, which is an ePrint archive.  In the simplest ...

Australia's QUT has been in the grip of a very public controversy recently which dovetails between issues of freedom of speech, academic ethics and the transparency of university processes.  The controversy came to light and media attention on 11 April this year when two QUT academics, John Hookham and Gary MacLennan, published an article in ...