Convergence - Further Reading

•Bhuiyan, S. (2006) Impact of new media technology on society. Available at: http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=52164 (Accessed: 10 August 2007) 

 

•Logan, K.R. (2007) Extending McLuhan - Converged Devices Doesn’t Mean Fewer Devices. Available at: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/08/extending_mcluhanconverged_dev.html (Accessed: 10 August 2007)

Social Media readings (links)

•Communications of the ACM November 2008, Vol 51, No.11 (accessible on site).

See also:

•http://mashable.com/2009/05/04/old-media-goes-social/

•http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/ill-take-my-community-to-go

•http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-wisdom-of-community/

•http://mashable.com/2009/05/03/twitter-research-tools/

•http://mashable.com/2009/03/10/twofish/

•http://mashable.com/2009/03/07/manage-multiple-profiles/

 

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Hard Copy Contents

The blue box contains the following items:

Research Skills
(NB. Readings only - ignore the exercises, unless you really want to do them!)

1. Extract from Developing Essential Study Skills
2. "Session 3 handout"  - is re. Qualitative Methods etc (pp.137-194).
3. Other sections summarizing methodological questions as appropriate.

Media Discourses

1. Myth Today
2. What is Web 2.0 (from p.73)
3. The Mobile Phone and the Public Sphere (from p.80)
4. European National News Agencies (final article)

Electronic Texts (spiral bound)
       Ten essays/chapters inside - see contents page for details.

More content will be added when it becomes available.

Level 2 Readings

Dear Students,
This blog exists to link to relevant materials for the first semester of Second Year study. Suggestions for other useful links are welcome.

In the student centre - for onsite use only - you will also find the following readers:

* Research Skills
* Media Discourses
* Electronic Texts (spiral bound)

and a printout of Siobhan Thomas, 'Persuasive Learning Games: Explorations of hybrid educational gamescapes', from Simulation Gaming, 2006; 37;41.