Is the transformation towards a knowledge based economy also seeing a shift to what some people call an 'entrepreneurial economy', or is the knowledge economy seeing the rebirth of the corporation as the most effective means of generating and exploiting new forms of knowledge?
This paper investigates the communal and cultural dynamics of an undertaking that - should it meet only with a fraction of Wikipedias success - will be of obvious significance to education generally.
This exploratory study examines the relationships between article and Talk page contributions and their effect on article quality in Wikipedia. Results indicate the initial article creator's critical role in providing a framework for future editing as well as a remarkable stability in article content over time.
Arts Council England has announced proposals for peer review and self assessment for regularly funded arts organisations, and is inviting artists and arts organisations to have their say in how it will work.
The three technology giants have signed up to the Global Network Initiative, a new human rights coalition that helps companies stand up to authoritarian regimes.
Google has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Microsoft, but it still has a chance at growing its productivity market share.
Modern information and communication technologies open doors to a wealth of information. But many users find it difficult to set up these devices and frustrating when they break.
This paper outlines the current debate over the Commonwealth Government's filtering scheme for internet content and the practice of governments in other countries.
This guide presents a conceptual framework for planning subject websites, based upon educational purpose rather than technology. The booklet provides a practical tool that presents the options and considerations in a question-based approach.
Content owners have attempted to restrict the copying of digital media through laws and legal campaigns but these efforts have often ignored the concept of fair use entirely.
This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
This article examines a range of social networking sites from the perspective of opening up the software behind these to create an open software services ecology.
This report updates stakeholders on activities undertaken by governments and other organizations with regard to bridging the digital divide between less and more affluent countries and other WSIS objectives between 2005 to mid 2008.
An important reason for the Internet's remarkable, cheap and efficient growth over the last quarter century is the "end-to-end" principle that networks should confine themselves to transmitting generic packets without worrying about their contents.
The functions that make up the creative cycle -- creation, selection, production, dissemination, promotion, sale, and use of expressive content-- have historically been carried out and controlled by centralized commercial actors. However, all of those functions are undergoing revolutionary decentralization and disintermediation.
The paper gives details of the Yolngu studies program at Charles Darwin University which has been active in the teaching of Yolngu (East Arnhemland Aboriginal) languages and culture, in collaborative transdisciplinary research, and in community engagement.
This paper looks at the experience of intense video gaming activity and conceptualises the links between gamers' apprehension of the relative realism of an in-game environment and its influence on their experience of traversing 'real' urban environments.
Peter Ellingsen on the failure of imagination in journalism and the difficulties of reporting on China.
