What Age are we in?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Education, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Networks, Philosophy, Quotes | 2 Comments »I was in Amsterdam yesterday working with the staff from Freedom Lab in Amsterdam - probing, exploring, discussing some of the major themes that preoccupy me. And one of the questions that came up yesterday was - What Age ...
New Media and the Creative Industries In the UK
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Economics, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Television, Trends, Web/Tech, iPTV | 3 Comments »The Culture, Media and Sport Committee report Opening paragraph of summary The pace of change is so rapid that solutions to some of the problems that we sought to address have already begun to emerge. However, at the ...
The ?26 billion spent on bailing Northern Rock out is double the entire primary school budget.
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in Economics, Education, Government & Politics, News, Society | No Comments »So even the most starry-eyed socialist could not have imagined that Gordon Brown would be seriously contemplating the nationalisation of a high-street bank six months into his premiership. The opinion polls say that voters are losing faith in the ...
Participatory Media to better enable Civic Engagement
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in Culture, Education, Engagement Marketing, Gaming, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Second Life, Social Networks, Society, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech | No Comments »Howard Rheingold writes in Using Participatory Media and Public Voice to Encourage Civic Engagement Teaching young people how to use digital media to convey their public voices could connect youthful interest in identity exploration and social interaction ...
Moonedit: Technologies of Co-operation in Education
Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted in Education, Generation C, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Travel, Web/Tech | No Comments »Of course it was the great Howard Rheingold who uses the phrase technologies of cooperation around all things that relate to information/cultural economic production on digital platforms that enable many people to become actors to engage, act, edit, and collectively ...
The architecture of participation: or, Nobody is as clever as everybody
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 Posted in Culture, Economics, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Science, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The architecture of participation, is a great line and nice idea that is part of a post at Epic blog Further Students in some institutions are now being encouraging to add and edit information on Wikipedia as part ...
What do students and think today, How do they see their education system?
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 Posted in Culture, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Philosophy, Society, Strategy, Web/Tech | 5 Comments »I have nothing more to add except education thinking needs to embrace the age of engagement
An open letter to Steve Ballmer
Saturday, October 6th, 2007 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Mobile, Participation, Philosophy, Science, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Statistics, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »Steve Ballmer left a note on our blog about Social Networking. Its a fad like hot pants and Bellbottoms So I thought I would take my comment and post it because there seems perhaps to be some misunderstanding. Dear ...
Mobile Phones - Education and Mobile minds
Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Education, Generation C, Media, News, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »An indepth look at youth, education and mobile phones Have a gander here Mobile is without doubt the 7th Mass Media, inextricably linked to how young people are interacting with each other. in 2006 35bn txt messages were sent in ...
Wikipedia and media literacy
Sunday, July 1st, 2007 Posted in Culture, Education, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Media, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »At CDB we are huge fans of Henry Jenkins And I think this recent piece is extremely insightful about wikipedia and media literacy Wales's analogy between Wikipedia and "Rock'n'Roll" suggests that the Wikipedia debate has also ...
