Media Studies 2.0 Seminar

For anyone interested, I'm giving a seminar paper on 'Media Studies 2.0' at London Metropolitan University. The details are:

Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design, London Metropolitan University, Research Seminar -

William Merrin, University of Swansea: 'Media Studies 2.0'

Weds 30th May (4pm – 6pm)

ILRC Seminar Room Commercial Road(http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/about/find-us.cfm)

Further information: Contact Jon Baldwin(j.baldwin@londonmet.ac.uk)

1st-8th May

Internet:
On how virtual campuses are springing up in Second Life (8th May): http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2074202,00.html

Music:
UK electrical store Currys announces it will no longer stock audio cassettes (8th May): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6634553.stm

Internet:
T0ny Blair uses Youtube to congratulate Nicolas Sarkozy in French on his Presidential win (7th May): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6633355.stm

Video Games:
On challenges to WOW in online gaming (7th May): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6619875.stm

Internet:
Tighter restrictions on military blogs announced by US army (5th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2072949,00.html

Internet:
On Barrack Obama's row with a leading supporter on Myspace over who controls his site and his support (4th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2072058,00.html

Internet:
On BSkyB's successful launch of its broadband internet service and increased revenue per customer (3rd May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2071023,00.html

Future technology:
On how snowflakes may provide a way of increasing chip speeds (3rd May): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6618919.stm

DVDs:
An article on the current state of the DVD format war (3rd May): http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2071631,00.html

DVDs/Security:
On corporate attempts to block the blogosphere from publishing details of a crack for HD-DVD DVDs and the blogosphere's revolt. As Wired says, posts citing the hexadecimal series 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 5688 C0 have multiplied across the web' (2nd May): see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6615047.stm and http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/news/2007/05/digglegal and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6623331.stm

Television/Internet:
BBC is given go-ahead to offer TV downloads on the net via its new iplayer, to be launched in November (1st May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2069351,00.html The next day ITV announce its own plans for a video on demand service via the web (2nd May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2070161,00.html