Blog City has been chosen as the venue for students at Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus enrolled in the third year CyberStudies course, “Digital Production Methods” (3805ART), to conduct their on-line journals.
The running Journal is an assessment item and represents 40% of the overall final mark. Assessment of the Journal will involve assessment of the students’ ability and skills in documenting the technical and artistic problems encountered and the creative solutions employed to overcome these restrictions in digital production.
The Digital Production exercises assess the students’ ongoing ability to comprehend and respond creatively to a variety of applications and production issues and the use of software as a tool for expressing content.
The Journal assesses the students’ ability to develop an evaluative process for their work, and to be able to identify weaknesses and strengths in the software and in their own art practice. The journal should also reflect the research carried out by students to supplement their practical development, reviews of media on CD-Rom or Web site surfing.
The use of Blogging software should facilitate students maintaining a regularly updated Journal during the course of the semester. It is required that the Journal contains content that is relevant to both the course and their own personal experience.
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Traditionally, the transfer of information between these “people” would have to flow through an information gatekeeper before it could reach the person who wanted it - an analogous process to “conducting” the information from source to receiver. However, as the information gradient between individuals strengthens, that “base” system for transferring information reaches its full potential. If the information gradient continues to strengthen, some sort of dissipative structure has to emerge from the surrounding information environment to more efficiently deal with the differences. The Blogosphere can be thought of as a dissipative system for dealing with a strong information gradient. Instead of being conducted from first hand source to gatekeeper to audience, information in the Blogosphere is capable of traveling directly from the source to the audience - eliminating the limiting factor in the information transfer.