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RSSMedia's NMT Blog: User-generated content

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A guide for students preparing for OCR's Audience and Institutions unit (2732): New Media Technologies. Monday, March 12, 2007. Here's an interesting discussion of the problems of user-generated content in videogames. It is very specific to videogames, but the issues are fairly universal when applied to other NMTs which encourage the audience to become contributors and producers. Posted by Gavin Luhrs @ 9:25 pm. Comments: Post a Comment.

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RSSMedia's NMT Blog: Handy guide to DRM

http://rssmedia.blogspot.com/2007/02/handy-guide-to-drm.html

A guide for students preparing for OCR's Audience and Institutions unit (2732): New Media Technologies. Monday, February 19, 2007. Handy guide to DRM. The terrific Wired.com has a very useful guide to understanding DRM. Make sure it's top of your 'to read' list! Labels: consumers vs institutions. Posted by Gavin Luhrs @ 7:41 pm. Comments: Post a Comment.

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RSSMedia's NMT Blog: Next next generation a long way off?

http://rssmedia.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-next-generation-long-way-off.html

A guide for students preparing for OCR's Audience and Institutions unit (2732): New Media Technologies. Monday, February 26, 2007. Next next generation a long way off? Many criticise new media for the rapid rate of development, arguing that consumers are being forced to an endless upgrade cycle which is both expensive and environmentally disastrous. For videogames hardware at least, it looks like there could be some stability, forced on the industry by the difficulty in turning development into profit.

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RSSMedia's NMT Blog: 3D MySpace and more on case studies

http://rssmedia.blogspot.com/2007/03/3d-myspace-and-more-on-case-studies.html

A guide for students preparing for OCR's Audience and Institutions unit (2732): New Media Technologies. Monday, March 19, 2007. 3D MySpace and more on case studies. Okay, that's a slight simplification, but it appears one of the big hopes at Sony for the PS3 is the Home Network - dubbed by some as a 3D MySpace. The interaction between films and games. New methods of control which have extended the audience reach of consoles. Consoles as media centres for a home's digital media. Comments: Post a Comment.

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RSSMedia's NMT Blog: 'Wii are not to blame'

http://rssmedia.blogspot.com/2007/02/wii-are-not-to-blame.html

A guide for students preparing for OCR's Audience and Institutions unit (2732): New Media Technologies. Monday, February 19, 2007. Wii are not to blame'. According to a blog, research has suggested that investigations into the links between violence in videogames and violence in real life have been flawed. Of course there isn't! Posted by Gavin Luhrs @ 7:33 pm. Comments: Post a Comment.

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RSSMedia's NMT Blog: Web2.0 (You've Been Framed)

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A guide for students preparing for OCR's Audience and Institutions unit (2732): New Media Technologies. Monday, March 26, 2007. Web20 (You've Been Framed). All this talk of Web2.0 extending the opportunities of audiences, democratising the media and engendering greater creativity does get away from the fact that all kinds of rubbish gets posted on YouTube:. Posted by Gavin Luhrs @ 8:00 pm. Comments: Post a Comment.

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RSSMedia's NMT Blog: More on DRM

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A guide for students preparing for OCR's Audience and Institutions unit (2732): New Media Technologies. Monday, March 19, 2007. Just because you can restrict usage doesn't mean you have to: are the days of DRM numbered? Digital Rights Management technologies are used to place restrictions on how files downloaded can be used.) The BBC has a fairly detailed run through the arguments surrounding the use of DRM. Labels: consumers vs institutions. Posted by Gavin Luhrs @ 10:12 pm. Comments: Post a Comment.

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RSSMedia's NMT Blog: Web 2.0: Everyone's at it

http://rssmedia.blogspot.com/2007/04/web-20-everyones-at-it.html

A guide for students preparing for OCR's Audience and Institutions unit (2732): New Media Technologies. Monday, April 23, 2007. Web 20: Everyone's at it. It would seem that Web2.0 is now officially mainstream. Useful for thinking about the active audience, as well as the blurring of the line between audience and institution. Posted by Gavin Luhrs @ 9:48 pm. Comments: Post a Comment.

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RSSMedia's NMT Blog: Loads on videogames

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A guide for students preparing for OCR's Audience and Institutions unit (2732): New Media Technologies. Tuesday, March 06, 2007. Where to start (there's so much recently)! The BBC have a useful article which goes through the evolution of videogame. It might seem a bit frivolous. But remember that the controller is the means of interaction with the videogame. System. Traditional controllers, especially the bigger and more fiddly ones of recent years, are said to favour male gamers; the Wii's.

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RSSMedia's NMT Blog: Yet more on the end of TV

http://rssmedia.blogspot.com/2007/02/yet-more-on-end-of-tv.html

A guide for students preparing for OCR's Audience and Institutions unit (2732): New Media Technologies. Monday, February 26, 2007. Yet more on the end of TV. That's the box in the living room - TV programmes are more pervasive than ever thanks to another download service, this time from BitTorrent. Posted by Gavin Luhrs @ 9:06 pm. Comments: Post a Comment.