http://hdl.handle.net/10453/77 2013-06-19T04:09:22Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17880 The semiotics of decoration Van Leeuwen Theodoor K.L.O'Halloran and B.A.Smith In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, fuelled by the industrial revolution and the questions it raised about the difference between handmade and machine-made objects, were intense debates about the nature of decoration and its place relative to, on the one hand, non-decorated objects and on the other hand, the arts. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17879 Collaborative Systems for Narrative Construction Hills Damian Candy, L. & Edmonds, E. This chapter outlines my work on creativity support tools for collaborative narrative and storytelling. I present this through the lens of an artefact I call assimilate, a work that builds upon a communal set of narratives that are seeded from mythology and folklore. Assimilate also serves as a prototype for evaluating reusable software architecture for collective knowledge accumulation and reflection. The technical aim is that of an holistic architecture, by which I mean a system that enables active engagement in the emergence of meaningful community narratives. These are systems that amplify or extend knowledge, based on its historical relationship to the environment and where the role of the participant is integral to the system¿s feedback and the maintenance of its self-organised behaviour. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17878 Art, Interaction and Engagement Edmonds Ernest Candy and Edmonds The chapter reviews the development of frameworks for thinking and talking about interactive art in the context of my personal practice over the last forty years. It traces a number of paths taken, from an early simple direct notion of interaction through to communication between people through art systems and, more recently, interactive art for long-term engagement. The frameworks consist of an evolving set of concepts, over several dimensions, which are developing together with the practice of interactive art. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17424 Convergence: the Intersection of Citizen and Mainstream Journalists on the Internet Knight Alan Prasad, Kiran What is journalism in an era in which traditional notious and practices of journalism are continually challenged/matched/ complemented by an explosion of digital practices, insurrections and resistances both within and outside mainstream media organisations? What does it means to be a citizen journalist iu a digital era characterised by traus-national multiple flows of images, people, resources, iu which our sense of place and time is being radically restructured by rapid technological innovations and consequent cultural and social dislocations? The intertwined relationships between journalists employed by conventional news organisations and citizen journalists have become problematic for news consumers confronted by an array of choices of accounts of events. The consumers may be entitled to reframe the old question, 'Who creates the news'? Cornet Harry Windsor had to cease active service and return to Britain in 2008 after his presence in Afghanistan was revealed by the Australian magazine, New Idea, and the blogger, Matt Drudge. So what were the differences between journalists and bloggers in this affair? 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z