This week I had planned on reading posts about the networked home and your thoughts on the fast or the furious NBN. However, many of you are catching up on blog posts and there has not been a large variety available to read. So instead, I would like to acknowledge some of the different spaces […]
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Collaborative ethnography involves more than simply working together to extract and disseminate information. It includes co-authoring, co-creating, sharing and keeping what is mutually valuable. You were invited to dive deeper into the advantages and disadvantages of this approach to research. Many of you used Luke Eric Lassiter’s Guide to springboard into understanding the practice better. You also located […]
Your posts this week have made such enjoyable reading that it’s been hard to stop. So many of your television memory conversations were rich with detail, embellished with photographs and charming introductions to the characters in your lives who generously shared their stories. There are tales of the once youthful spending sunshine and cordial flavored […]
It’s a sweltering July day in Sydney. Apparently the hottest on record. My mother is in the back of the car trying to coax the intermittent sat nav, that has erroneously led us across the Parramatta River twice, into cooperation. Dad is in the front talking over the weirdly accented Google Map directions from my […]
If you are new to Media Audience Place (MAP), welcome to BCM241, the freshly minted version of what once was BCM240. This site is to support your learning in this subject and to share your stories. In MAP we focus on qualitative research skills in relation to ideas about the experience of media users and […]
This is the time that you are likely to want to down tools for awhile and kick back until the next deadline looms large. I have a better idea. Start planning the final task so that you produce your best work, you have contingency time and you minimise last minute stress. Here is a link to […]
During Week 9 we looked at different levels of media regulation. We thought about media space and place in relation to governance, legislation and citizenship. We looked at media industry censorship and regulation as a business strategy. We discussed our instinct for private and public self-regulation and the persistent desire to outsmart regulatory frameworks. […]
