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	<title>Matthew Allen</title>
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	<description>Researcher, Educator and Net Critic</description>
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		<title>Learning Beyond the Classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spoke recently at the Media140 Perth Conference, on the digitalfamily day, presenting some views on the now and future state of education, in which social media and digital media devices will make a big difference to the way that we think about learning. My presentation is a visual evocation of both the similarities between school education in the past and the differences which new connective technologies are bringing. Slides, with full notes, are available. <a href="http://www.netcrit.net/learning-beyond-the-classroom/"> Click to read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594; </span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mobility and Place: play, creativity and conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am co-convenor of a symposium of ideas, methods and perspectives for research into digital culture, focusing on mobile media/devices, being held at Curtin University in association with Murdoch University. This is the first of three symposia in 2012 to be organised through the Creative Networks and Commons research cluster, in the Faculty of Humanities. Featuring Jean Burgess, Larissa Hjorth and Rowan Wilken, as well as reponses by Clare Lloyd and Ingrid Richardson, the symposium will explore emerging research that is already helping us understand this new social and cultural phenomenon, with particular attention to the way mobile networked devices enable new forms of conversation and play, in both public and private domains, and the blurring of boundaries between the two. <a href="http://www.netcrit.net/mobility-and-place-play-creativity-and-conversation/"> Click to read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594; </span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wikis as Individual Student Learning Tools</title>
		<link>http://www.netcrit.net/wikis-as-individual-student-learning-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elaine Tay (Murdoch University) and I have recently published a second article on the use of wikis in higher education for developing better student learning. This article, in <i>International Journal of ICT Education</i>, presents research into the attitudes and behaviours of students using wikis for individual writing tasks. The wiki-based assignment differs from the use of wikis normally researched because it was an individual task, not involving collaborative writing. We conclude that using wikis for individual writing tasks can, where appropriate active instructions are given to support development of cognitive abilities, lead to improved outcomes for students. <a href="http://www.netcrit.net/wikis-as-individual-student-learning-tools/"> Click to read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594; </span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jumping on the social media bandwagon</title>
		<link>http://www.netcrit.net/jumping-on-the-social-media-bandwagon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended the Media140 DigitalBusiness conference in Perth and liveblogged a panel discussion on <b>Jumping on the social media bandwagon</b>.  Participants in the panel were: Louise Bourke, Venessa Paech, Kate Carruthers and Rod Farmer. Some useful information presented, with key points emerging concerning future social media innovations, importance of identity in social media use and more. <a href="http://www.netcrit.net/jumping-on-the-social-media-bandwagon/"> Click to read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594; </span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Media140 Digital Business &#8211; blogging Jacobs and Paech</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: live-blogging Digital Business, Media 140 Joanne Jacobs, 1000Heads Reflects on the bad reaction she got from many businesses in the mid-2000s when attempting to promote the value of social media. What is the value proposition of social? How are stories crucial? what is happening with mobiles? Emphasises that businesses can&#8217;t manage conversations, can&#8217;t manage communities, and can&#8217;t control the message. Reflects on the gap between marketing now, and marketing as represented in programs such as Mad Men. Value proposition for social business is its use for all business activities &#8211; not just marketing, but HR, logistics and so on. For example, using twitter&#8217;s private functions to connect people and share critical information. &#8216;Social&#8217; means saving money, not just bringing in more business. But it is not just technology &#8211; &#8220;we are the ones who made these technologies&#8221;. &#8220;Social media came about because trust in corporate messages had declined&#8221; &#8211; in other words, what we think of as social media is the result of many aspects of the managed, controlled marketing process which had come to dominate consumer life in the 1990s. Crucial to the power of social media is trust, and trust is formed through social interactions. Social interactions … <a href="http://www.netcrit.net/media140-digital-business-blogging-jacobs-and-paech/"> Click to read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594; </span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Media140 Digital Business</title>
		<link>http://www.netcrit.net/media140-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: liveblogging (for more information about this event, see Media 140 Digital Business) The Hybrid Media Challenge: Taming the Coming Perfect Storms Gary Hayes, ABC EMphasising that the ABC is a leader in multi-patform media, but there are more challenges ahead. Ecosystem of devices that each user has, forming effectively a single &#8216;platform&#8217; for which multi-platform development and distribution is essential. &#8220;Transmedia is about keeping the user engaged with the story&#8221;, across platforms. Hayes identifies &#8220;transmedia rituals&#8221; and &#8220;multiplatform cultures&#8221;. There&#8217;s not as much distinction anymore between media as content and media as interaction, &#8216;media&#8217; encompasses it all. Mobile access to ABC content is growing rapidly, around 1% / month at the moment, with more and more time being spent in this form of access. [Personal media is, truly, coming away from a fixed location and into the hands of people where they are, at this moment.] Hayes argues that the business of &#8216;doing&#8217; media online (not just watching, but also creating, sharing, reviewing) is taking more and more time, time that is taken from the traditional patterns of &#8216;media viewing&#8217; of TV and other old media. Second screen Social TV is a key phrase helping to define the approach … <a href="http://www.netcrit.net/media140-1/"> Click to read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594; </span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Comments welcome? News sites and user comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is prompted by a discussion recently with a journalist from the excellent ABC program Media Watch about the problems caused potentially by websites (specifically news-oriented sites) that allow users to comment on stories. At issue here, in particular, is the commentary (if one can call it that) to be found at Yahoo! news in Australia. The story went to air this week (&#8220;Not all things good in moderation&#8220;) An example not covered by Media Watch is the recent report of the arrest of a man in NSW alleged to have trafficked women for sex. The comments are revealing. One asserts &#8220;Thats why these young Thai and Philipino women come here for. They work in brothels while they await some old, dirty, fat, red neck Aussie man to marry them. You see them together everywhere, these girls are young enough to be there daughters or granddaughters. Its disgusting.&#8221;. While one reply corrects the poster, pointing out that the women had no choice, another is simply insulting &#8220;Aussie men marry Asian women because they are a much better alternative than bitter twisted hags like you&#8221;. None of the comments materially add to the debate except insofar as they reveal the … <a href="http://www.netcrit.net/commentswelcome/"> Click to read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594; </span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Research in Action for Community Informatics</title>
		<link>http://www.netcrit.net/research-in-action-for-community-informatics-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcus Foth and I have co-edited a special issue of <em>Journal of Community Informatics</em> focusing on the action research links between universities and communities. We explore some issues relating to the importance of conversation as the guiding principal for effective interaction in this domain. Link to full text available. <a href="http://www.netcrit.net/research-in-action-for-community-informatics-2/"> Click to read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594; </span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Broadband in Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently organised a symposium at Curtin University entitled Broadband in Society: International Perspectives and Research Challenges. The symposium was held to mark the formation of the BroadBand Research Team, involving several international researchers all with a particular interest in the social and policy dimensions of emering high-capacity, fast broadband networks such as Australia&#8217;s National Broadband Network. My presentation, entitled Broadband in Australia: commonplace but why? considers the extent and significance of the Internet connectivity in this country, especially since most people have some kind of a broadband connection, and also looks at the importance of understanding the relationship between mobile and fixed connectivity. Broadband in Australia &#8211; commonplace but why? View more presentations from Matthew Allen]]></description>
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		<title>Designing social media into university learning</title>
		<link>http://www.netcrit.net/designing-social-media-into-university-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elaine Tay (Murdoch University) and I have just had published the first article on research we conducted into the use of wikis in a unit at Curtin University. Our paper shows how social media might be used effectively in higher education. We place into question the assumption that such technologies necessarily engage students in constructivist learning; we argue that the affordances of social media must be complemented by social affordances, designed into the learning experience, which thereby generate the necessary connection between students’ motivations to study and their motivations to exploit social media. We demonstrate, via the example given, how assessment structures and strategies are the most effective focus when attempting to create the pedagogical affordances that might lead to collaborative learning. <a href="http://www.netcrit.net/designing-social-media-into-university-learning/"> Click to read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594; </span></a>]]></description>
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