Some useful stuff i've come across this week...
The Education Arcade
http://www.educationarcade.org/
Established by Henry Jenkins and his colleagues at MIT to explore the promotion of learning through gaming.
The Australian Media Diary
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php
A daily blog regarding all things "media" published online in The Australian.
I Want Media
http://www.iwantmedia.com/
A one-stop-shop of media resources for those in the media industry (or students like myself).
Media / Culture
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
A webpage complied by students of New Media Technologies at Queensland University of Technology. The M/Cycolpedia is particularly useful.
The Age - Media Matters
http://blogs.theage.com.au/mediamatters/
Media blog published online by The Age.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Engaging Media - Week One
First week of the Engaging Media unit. Seems as if it will be quite a departure from previous units after listening to the first ilecture.
This week will be spent toying with some ideas for my first assessment and checking out other relevant blogs, online resources and newspaper articles.
I suppose I am most interested in the television medium as I personally find it to be the most accessible and entertaining. I am also greatly interested in "the news" and keeping up to date with what is happening in the world. I find it important to read the newspaper everyday. I am fairly new to blogging - both reading and writing. This will be an area that I hope to explore a lot more over the course of the semester.
I found this week's reading by Jenkins about rethinking the purpose of video games and examining the debate regarding video game violence to be interesting. I personally have no real interest in gaming and it isn't a hobby I engage in, so the reading was enlightening. Jenkins introduction really struck me - the fact that a US District Judge would make a ruling based on such little evidence and with such a narrow focus is really disturbing. I appreciated Jenkins' comparison of this situation to that of books. Limbaugh's decision regarding the constitutional status of video games was akin to giving a judge American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange and a little Stephen King to read in order to determine the protection of books in general under the First Amendment. Scary stuff.
A good piece I found on the subject of gaming and censorship is Jacqui Cheng's article regarding the Chinese Ministry of Culture's decision to restrict online access to games that they deem as being "against public morality and the nation's fine cultural traditions", with Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars cited as a prime example. While i'm not a fan of video game violence and certainly wouldn't be rushing out to buy this one, the issue of media and online censorship is really concerning.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/07/video-games-glorifying-the-thug-life-to-be-blocked-in-china.ars
This week will be spent toying with some ideas for my first assessment and checking out other relevant blogs, online resources and newspaper articles.
I suppose I am most interested in the television medium as I personally find it to be the most accessible and entertaining. I am also greatly interested in "the news" and keeping up to date with what is happening in the world. I find it important to read the newspaper everyday. I am fairly new to blogging - both reading and writing. This will be an area that I hope to explore a lot more over the course of the semester.
I found this week's reading by Jenkins about rethinking the purpose of video games and examining the debate regarding video game violence to be interesting. I personally have no real interest in gaming and it isn't a hobby I engage in, so the reading was enlightening. Jenkins introduction really struck me - the fact that a US District Judge would make a ruling based on such little evidence and with such a narrow focus is really disturbing. I appreciated Jenkins' comparison of this situation to that of books. Limbaugh's decision regarding the constitutional status of video games was akin to giving a judge American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange and a little Stephen King to read in order to determine the protection of books in general under the First Amendment. Scary stuff.
A good piece I found on the subject of gaming and censorship is Jacqui Cheng's article regarding the Chinese Ministry of Culture's decision to restrict online access to games that they deem as being "against public morality and the nation's fine cultural traditions", with Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars cited as a prime example. While i'm not a fan of video game violence and certainly wouldn't be rushing out to buy this one, the issue of media and online censorship is really concerning.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/07/video-games-glorifying-the-thug-life-to-be-blocked-in-china.ars
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