November 2009
6 posts
BLOG Week 13 – Final Presentations
Our final presentation went very well. We managed to further integrate our academic resources into the presentation to provide context to what we were saying about Obama’s use of online social media. Finding academic resources that directly referenced Obama were difficult to find because his election to president was so recent, to combat this issue we decided to look beyond this to the wider issue...
BLOG Week 12 – Course Feedback
The class this week was supposed to be about Twitter and politics in Iran, However Jason decided to use the class as a opportunity to get feedback about the subject, and the Digital Communications specialisation overall. Most students appear to be enjoying the course content (myself included). One thing that I suggested was a clearer picture of the course structure, particularly with a lot of the...
BLOG Week 11 – Case Study 1 – ‘Globama’ – the...
BLOG Week 10 – Labour Day Public Holiday (No...
Due to the Labour Day public holiday there were no classes this week.
BLOG Week 9 – Student Research Proposal...
I think the proposal presentation went fairly well. We got positive feedback about our presentation. They appeared to be interested with our ideas for the final project. The idea of concept mapping was a way of presenting our ideas showing connections between ideas, essentially creating a network of ideas. This is similar to the way that Obama created an online social network to spread his...
BLOG Week 8 – The Glocalised Internet
This week we looked at the internet as being ‘glocalised’ – That is that the idea that the internet is both global and local at the same time. The most interesting thing I remember from this lecture is the PacNet mobile internet vans operating in India. I thought that it was a fascinating way to look at the different ways that people can access the web worldwide. For this week’s blog post I’ve...
September 2009
7 posts
BLOG Week 7 – Global Countercultures, Social...
Digital Activism
Oxfam Australia – Sisters on the Planet campaign
“Oxfam Australia is part of a global movement of dedicated people working hard to fight poverty and injustice” (Oxfam Australia, 2009).The Oxfam Australia Sisters on the Planet campaign is asking people to support their efforts to tackle climate change. The campaign hopes to raise awareness of the ways that climate change is...
BLOG Week 6 – Global Media Business and...
Global Media Organisations: Time Warner
Who- Ownership, management, employees
Ownership: Time Warner Inc. is a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the code TWX (Hoovers, 2008).
Management:
*Chairman and CEO- Jeffrey L. (Jeff) Bewkes
*EVP and CFO- John K. Martin Jr.
*EVP Corporate Communications- Edward I. (Ed) Adler
*SVP Global Public Policy- Steve Vest
...
BLOG Week 5 – New Media, Material and Immaterial...
Industry Careers
*Job Title: FOXTEL New Media Marketing Coordinator (NOR0569)
*Location: Ryde, New South Wales (FOXTEL’s TV Centre, “FTC”)
*Job Type: Full-Time – Permanent
*Employer: FOXTEL
*Job Posted: 1/9/09
*Applications Close: 8/9/09
*Job Description: The position involves managing relationships with clients and coordinating marketing content for FOXTEL’s New Media division...
BLOG Week 4 – Globalisation and the New Economy
LCD Manufacturing
I wanted to investigate manufacturers of LCD displays for my week four blog. On my search I came across a company named Orient Display, a company producing LCD screens and technology for various applications. Some of these applications include portable devices such mobile phones, mp3 players, cameras, and GPSs as well television/computer screens – pretty much anything that could...
BLOG Week 3 – Global Communications Networks
Vodafone and the Global Communications Network
For this week’s blog I’ve decided to look at Vodafone, and their global communications network. Vodafone Group describes itself as “the world’s leading mobile telecommunications company” (Vodafone, 2009). The group has 315 million customers (at 30th June 2009). The company has a number of subsidiaries and joint venture with other...
BLOG Week 2 – Ideas/Ideals of Global Communication
Reflections on Readings
The Gutenberg Galaxy
I’m not really sure that I fully understood the point being made by McLuhan in this chapter. Perhaps it was his reference to Shakespeare’s King Lear, a text with which I am unfamiliar. Regardless, this is what I understood from the reading. He uses King Lear as an example of the “modern idea of delegation of authority from centre to margins” (p.11)...
BLOG Week 1 – Introduction: Globalisation? New... →
No blog post required this week.
August 2009
1 post
