culture

After 50 years, what are the implications of Uses of Literacy for educational modernisation, in the light of subsequent changes from 'read only' literacy to 'read-write' uses of multimedia?

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride.

This book chapter was published in Theorizing digital cultural heritage: a critical discourse, edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine, MIT press, 2007.

Despite the proliferation of web-based news and information services, there remains a lack of online destinations from which to obtain reliable and authoritative cultural knowledge. In many countries, such knowledge is provided by cultural institutions such as museums and libraries. Recent discussion suggests that social media – including blogs, wikis and digital stories – may provide a creative solution to the ongoing interaction between cultural institutions and communities of interest.

The argument that studying the arts boosts academic achievements in other subjects has been the subject of extensive research and the consensus view could be summed up as 'not proven'. But as Kate Oakley argues, there is stronger evidence for the relationship between arts education and a variety of social or 'non cognitive' skills, from self-confidence to communication skills.

Pham B. and Smith, R., ‘Metadata Augmentation for Semantic- and Context-based Retrieval of Digital Cultural Objects’, DICTA 2007 – Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, Adelaide, 3-5 December 2007.

Smith, R., Pham, B. and Choudhury, S., ‘A Digital Artworks Expression Language (DAEL)’, 11th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 2007.