The main website with static information about the conference is at http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk.

it might be worth fleshing out what Media Studies 2.0 means, in contrast to the still-popular traditional model.

n the old world, IT has done a poor job of understanding basic human behaviours and internal communications has continued to believe that its role is to act a as vehicle for transporting ‘the message’ from the centre to the periphery.

The recent rush by major Internet portals to buy advertising companies and extend their sales networks is a sign that the business of being a one-stop shop for information and entertainment isn’t what it used to be.

Nielsen Net Ratings and comScore Media Metrix data are soon to be – assuming they are not already – worthless bullshit. If these ratings companies are complicit in this arrangement or if they even know and tolerate it – their business model goes kaput.

Call it social finance. A bunch of investing sites, from MarketWatch and Motley Fool CAPS to Cake Financial and Social Picks, let investors create fantasy portfolios and track their performance.

a broad look at the definitions and issues with the Social Graph; and explore some ways in which the standards and laws can actualize.

American consumers between 13 and 75 years of age are using media and technology today, Millennials (13-24) are leading the way, embracing new technologies, games, entertainment platforms, user-generated content and communication tools.

MeeTimer: Curb your Procrastination. MeeTimer logs where you spend your time online, grouping it into activities, and actively discouraging time wasting.

Social networks are often said to be about giving power to the people, “democratising the web”, and so on. The implication is that they take power away from traditional suppliers of content on the web, including businesses

Howard Rheingold was the keynote speaker for education.au’s final seminar for 2007. Howard is an internationally renowned critic and writer on cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media.

MySpace and Facebook continue to lead the pack as the two most popular social networking sites but for the first time, it also seems fairly clear that Facebook will soon overtake MySpace in overall usage, particularly as it offers a richer overall platfor

Wachovia plans to introduce its social networking service to its 110,000 workers by early 2008. Like the popular Facebook service, the network will allow users to upload photos of themselves—not just corporate ID mug-shots, either—and personal informa

ook blogging is a no-brainer so far as I’m concerned. The benefits are huge, in terms of getting a book in front of more people, boosting web traffic, engaging readers. It should be done routinely:

White paper By Henry Jenkins with Ravi Purushotma, Katherine Clinton, Margaret Weigel, and Alice J. Robison.

“vernacular creativity” and its relationship with participatory culture, media literacy, and civic engagement.

A talk I would like to see – Dan Saffer at the Design Research 2007 conference.

Usability on websites is exploding right now. AJAX has enabled web developers everywhere to add functionality to their sites like never before.

Despite an ever-expanding array of advertising platforms and sources, consumers around the world still place their highest levels of trust in other consumers, according to a recent global Nielsen Internet survey

The single most important concept to master when designing mobile device interfaces is “context”. The context in which an application is used and the context of how information is input are both key issues; each must be understood before a well crafte

Michel Bauwens speaks at Swinburne University in Melbourne Australia about p2p