The Un-Symposium: Week Twelve

I attended today’s lecture, but unfortunately most of my attention was elsewhere. I’ll give summing up the lecture a go, regardless. Today’s lecture was more of a re-cap of the topics covered over the last 11 weeks, so excuse me…

The Un-Symposium: Week Eleven

Again, my rough, unedited notes: Carry over questions: Why didn’t Tim Berners-Lee patent the web? Adrian: You freely donate your information to Facebook and they on sell this to other companies and we don’t see a cent – this is…

Un-Symposium: Number Ten

These are my rough unedited notes from yesterday’s lecture. The Faces of Facebook Public API’s: Facebook’s approach is the exact opposite to that of traditional heritage media. Conversely, Coles-Myer will never make their database public. Brian’s take-away idea from the 80-20…

The Un-Symposium: Number Nine

Our class’s lasting sentiments: The Russian guy’s ideas on interpretation: how inserting something into a narrative can completely change its meaning Sam’s “heated discussion” with Adrian: difference between infinite capacity (has the capability of stretching on forever) and infinity (the…

“All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

So instead of attending the un-scheduled un-symposium this week (which some of us may or may not have tried to go ahead and do anyway ***note to self: read Networked Media blog more often***), we were instructed to watch a…

Un-Symposium: Mercantile Assumptions of Learning

Un-Symposium: Mercantile Assumptions of Learning

Of this week’s unlecture, I was once again quite surprised. Whereas I thought we were going to continue with the egalitarian symposium Q & A format, it seemed we reverted to the dictatorial system of information consumption that Adrian had…

My article for The Melbourne Globalist. "Radical Transparency: is privacy a thing of the past?"

The Internet: to what extent has it changed us?

Back in May, I wrote an article for The Melbourne Globalist that addressed the social and cultural implications of the Internet. Specifically, it dealt with whether privacy, as a social norm, was still relevant in today’s society. Our lecture this week and…

“The Un-lecture” Numero Dos

I must admit, I was a bit of a skeptic in regards to how successful I thought the ‘un-lecture’ was going to be. The unconventional format seemed a bit far-fetched, radical and idealistic to me; you could say I’m a…

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