This is Jeremy Rifkin on climate change, the financial crisis, the energy crisis, food and, yes, shifts in modes of publishing/media forms. It’s all about new forms of distribution creating local/hyperlocal possibilities away from centralized control (and blundering) … “if people hear nothing else from what I’m saying … distributed, distributed, distributed”.

Used in the Lecture

http://bavatuesdays.com/a-message-from-the-bava/ (this is a great blog by Jim Groom, one of the champions of open education, to whom we at UNSW will always be grateful).

Lessig 1; Lessig 2

Lawrence Lessig’s Ted lecture (the law is strangling creativity) (in general the Ted lectures are great on all kinds of topics)

The Internet as Playground and Factory conference

Creative Commons

Edupunk …

personal learning spaces

Lawrence Lessig

Lessig’s site (lots of downloads, including his books)

Lessig Videos

Free Culture (audio plus good powerpoint—main points)

Against transparency (analysis)

Elinor Ostrom

Nobel Prize analysis

What she does (basic)

What she thinks

Cooperation/Commons

Ostrom on

Insights on Linking Forests, Trees, and People from the Air, on the Ground, …

Profile/Summary

More links

P2P foundation/P2P foundation/P2P Foundation Blog/Michel Bauwens (great thinker about these issues—also gathers excellent resources)

Howard Rheingold

Edupunk: Stephen Downes; Anthem;  definitions; Edupunk Battle Royale;

Bavatuesdays is a great blog to read on these matters … As is Mike Bogle’s Techticker

Open Access Publishing— a good place to start might be Open Humanities Press or the Public Library of Science

ARTS1091

Open Access

Open Source

Copyright

Good Copy Bad Copy (downloadable film—I’m not saying I agree with everything in it, or on these sites, by the way

Open Access Education

Open Access Publishing

Cooperation/CreativeCommons/Community

Everything Open/Open Everything

Great post by Mark Pesce which powerfully outlines the fundamental issues involving contemporary communications—as these challenge established forms of power and social conventions.

Here is an interesting example of where some more specialist magazines are going online—it also shows how there’s so much more to communication and “journalism” than “journalism”, and how some of the extended roles of newspapers are now dispersing throughout newer media.

It’s a video from a forthcoming series put online by the science magazine Seed, on contemporary design. Well known artist Natalie Jeremijenko (born Australia, now at Yale), talks about Environment Design. There are lots of other great videos on design there as well.

Here are some places to go for weeks 8, 9 and 10. Via these links, you can explore issues such as the future of journalism, new forms of media discussion and activism. There is also a small case study set of links concerning climate change. For very recent links go to

http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/digitaljournalism

Bold links are the most useful. Also, if you use Diigo or Delicious to tag sites you find, it’s useful if you also tag these sites as “mdcm3000″ and perhaps, for example, “digitaljournalism” or “climatechange”.

Here are the links to the two online required readings for week 9:

Michael Hirschorn’s ‘End Times’

Emily Nussbaum’s ‘The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady’

More specific links below, but, broadly speaking, it’s worth glancing through my links on these and related topics at:

http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/digitaljournalism

http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/globalwarming

http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/mdcm3000

Current and Future State of Journalism

This concerns more than journalism—in fact communications in general—but it’s relevant to journalism. Mark Pesce on new forms of power and communications (very succinct and powerful summary of the issues).

And here’s a very recent—and informative—discussion of the present and future of journalism in the New York Times. (registration, for free, might be required)

Debates

http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/sciencejournalism

Swine Flu, Hype and Media

http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/digitaljournalism+mdcm3000

(also http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/news)

SourceWatch (lists the often hidden affiliations of various “experts” and institutions such as think tanks)

Documentary reflecting on series 5 of The Wire (warning: Spoilers! - go the The Wire - The Last Word)

New Kinds of News Sites

http://www.nowpublic.com/

Hyperlocal news sites

SiloBreaker

Open Democracy

http://www.daylife.com/

and this on “daylife” kind of sites

The Daily Beast

Huffington Post

Global Internet Activism

Seed Magazine Videos on Design

Wikinews

IndyMedia

Journalism, Recession and Climate Change

Virgance (”Activism 2.0″)

Climate Change/Global Warming

The Road to Copenhagen (Nature magazine on the current situation - a good primer)

Global Warming 101 (video below)

Propaganda and Skepticism Towards Climate Science

The Case of Ian Plimer’s recent book Heaven and Earth.

Brave New Climate

Jennifer Marohasy

The Science is Missing

Review of Ian Plimer’s earlier book

Deltoid on the graph that came from ..

“The Australian’s War on Science 35″

“The Australian’s War on Science 36″

The supposedly “silenced” Ian Plimer

Ian Plimer on ABC’s Lateline

The Australian’s initial Framing and Coverage of this Event (please note that none of the below is written by climate scientists)

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25348271-11949,00.html

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25395523-16741,00.html

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25348908-16382,00.html

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25329958-20261,00.html

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25395364-17803,00.html

and, to be fair, here is a counter to Plimer’s arguments in the Australian

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25433327-25192,00.html

and once again in The Australian, long after the initial fuss, this devastating review

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25433059-5003900,00.html

and for some commenting/reporting on what’s currently happening in terms of policy in Australia

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/brag-now-pay-later–its-just-hot-air-20090508-axx8.html?page=-1

more …

The Age - The Skeptic’s Shadow of a Doubt

Why Isn’t the Brain Green?

Taking a Stand for Science

Anti-green Economics

The Global Warming Debate—A Layman’s Guide

Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics

What does it all mean?

Climate Disaster

Some Blogs

Deltoid

DeSmogBlog

Real Climate

International Journal of Inactivism

Science News

Science Daily

Nature on Climate Change

ScienceMag

and Climate Science related journals … for those who want to go to the source(s)

Alternative Economics

http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/economics

Publishing

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/reinventing-the-book-age-of-web.html

http://recursivepublic.net/

http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/openaccesspublishing

http://delicious.com/ibbertelsen/publishing

and finally, an interesting recent scandal concerning academic/science/medical publishing

I was talking about Manuel Castells and his ideas concerning the network society today. Here’s an interview with him, which you can also find on YouTube.

Two interesting articles about contemporary documentary making.

One of my favourite doco makers (like a lot of people) is Adam Curtis, he of the Century of the Self and The Trap fame. This is big picture, big idea stuff—full of such hugely convincing and entertaining conspiracy theories that explain, well, everything, that you just want to go along with it. However, I’m never completely convinced in the cold light of day (for one thing Curtis rather trendily and far too easily dismisses the 60s). There’s a great critique of all this in the recent issue of Mute magazine (which is one of the more interesting, savvy and politicial publishing exercises on the web).

At the same time, via Twitter, I came across this great article in the New York Times on “just-in-time” documentary making and activist documentary maker, Robert Greenwald.

For those who are interested in documentary, some things to think about.

I’ve never seen so much on the web about education and media technology—or known a time when education was changing so dramatically. Some quick examples:

Henry Jenkins on Games and Learning

Here is a famous post by Michael Wesch on “students today”.

And here one of the founders of the whole concept and practice of virutal community, Howard Rheingold, talks about participatory learning, and here co-teaching (where “students” and “teachers” work as equal partners.