Janine’s blog

Listening to Margaret Throsby interview on ABC Classic FM. She is interviewing  Dr Jim McNamara,  Professor of Public Communication at the University of Technology Sydney and Director of the Australian Centre for Public Communication, on the topic of  emergent media. It is interesting to listen to such interviews during the day and realise that there is still a need for education at a really simple level.  His conversation does a good job of this as one would expect from his position title!

Some paraphrased snippets:

“…..this gets to some fundamental beliefs such as ‘Do you believe in participatory communication’…..

“….It’s not just new media that are emergent but rather that existing media are changing eg newspapers online, podcasting, RSS feeds……”

“What are the filters so that people know what is accurate?”
“This is one of the challenges….that is why there is a continuing need for editors, journalists….but the public is making it clear that they are tired of the gatekeepers……

 http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby/stories/s2262283.htm

I’ve returned from my OS travels and am easing back into real life via two weeks school holidays.  My travel blog  is almost complete and has been great fun to use as a way to play with some new tools (well new to me anyway). It’s c-o-l-d here in Tassie even compared to London at present so I am taking the luxury of reading and listening in bed for a while.

I’m looking forward to playing with the new Edublogs features that have come with version 3.0 – thank you Edublogs for a great birthday present!

I am listening to Margaret Throsby’s morning interview with Dr Jim McNamara on the topic of emergent media (see next post for more).