Stepping towards a better world one project @ a time
Settling back into the adult world from academia is a process. Keeping a foothold in both the professional and the academic is a privilege, a pleasure (and an all consuming pain) I would recommend. Now that new specs enable faster, more fluid consumption of texts, the momentum of my research and processing of inter-related concepts, examples and ideas are starting
Read moreAlthough I don’t necessarily agree with Tudor Gates’ ‘this is my screenplay and I’ll write as much direction as I want to’ approach, in his book Scenario, he poses six kinds of questions that a screenwriter should ask themselves during the writing process. I have found these monumentally helpful in maintaining a concentrated focus on the key construction drivers during
Read moreIn 1995 two things happened: the amateur sport of rugby union officially turned professional and the world wide web was born for broader public consumption. In the southern hemisphere, the rugby union governing bodies of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, formed the business collective, SANZAR self-appointed administers of a new international provincial competition known as the Super 12, This
Read moreTwenty-first century media is global, social, ubiquitous and cheap and has transferred to an amateur media environment where the ‘audience’ are now full participants (Clay Shirky, 2010). What Shirky is describing is a move away from traditional media and communications practice, that was structured around the principle of control. Traditionally, key corporate messages were distributed from business via accepted channels (ie: fax,
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Read moreI met with my supervisor last Friday (yes, I am writing my dissertation / thesis) and she recommended that I blog about my on-going research. I suspect there are a plethora of reasons for this, one of which is to develop my critical reading and writing skills (which is a lot harder than it sounds when you return to tertiary
Read moreI have been spending A LOT of time in cyberspace of late – moreso than usual. Not surprisingly, I’ve noticed new trends re: how individuals (both trained and citizen journalists) are actually developing their ‘online voice’ – the charming and evolving skill – we all continue to refine. However, they are doing so at the expense of readability with layouts
Read more>Take one little piece of social media, an ABC journalist (with an opinion), a national, government news corporation (and no it’s not North Korea), 24 hours out from an election, what do you get? News.Where are the clearly delineated lines of independent, unbiased reporting and professional opinion? Is there room for diversity of opinion in news reporting at the ABC?
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