It takes an exceptional situation for me to begin the day by viewing a video copy of a TV program, but chance would have it that I took to watching ’Another Perfect World’ this morning, which was broadcast last night on one of the Dutch PBS channels. As it turns out, this production was prepared in [...]
Entries from July 31, 2009
European links
July 13, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Hi folks, I’ll be stationed in the UK for 2009, so don’t be too surprised if I start posting more UK and European links (though the Canadian stuff will inevitably flow as well). While this project will focus on elections and other political campaigns on the net our research group tends to come from Communication, [...]
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e-Research: Core Literature
July 13, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Some half-dozen book-length volumes have been published on e-research and the related notions ‘e-science’, ‘cyberinfrastructure’, and ‘cyberscience’. There is, of course, a wider range of literature in journals and conference proceedings, and a good place to foray that material is a JCMC theme issue on e-science. A comprehensive bibliography is now being prepared and should [...]
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Online Media & Politics in Korea
July 13, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Ki Hyun has, once again, pointed me/us in the direction of scholarship relevant to the WCU project, this time by suggesting three journal articles and a conference paper of relatively recent vintage. Although I have only read the first pages of these documents, I strongly sense their value, particularly as the project gains formation during [...]
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OhmyNews
July 12, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
One of the most interesting initiatives in alternative media – anywhere – is OhmyNews and it illustrates what some consider to be a viable model for citizen journalism. In December 2007 the Berkman Center for Internet & Society published a study about OhmyNews, prepared by Mary Joyce, as part of its program related to the Internet [...]
Media in Korea: an overview
July 11, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Korea Press Foundation provides an overview of the media landscape in that country. Thanks to Ki Hyun (master’s student at the Univ. of Amsterdam) for sharing this site. Ki Hyun also gave a presentation on Korean media and the slides of that overview are available here. Finally, she prepared a summary of media characteristics, based largely [...]
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Cyber Attacks
July 11, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Seoul Times ran a story on 11 July about cyber attacks, suggesting the conflict with North Korea as the possible cause; title: Another Wave of Cyber Attacks Expected Late July 9,2009. The title suggests that there have been previous ‘waves’ of such attacks. Has anyone examined and analyzed these activities across time, I wonder. [...]
Chronicle story on WCU
July 11, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a story on 26 June 2009 about the WCU project, entitled ‘South Korea Powers Ahead With Globalization Plans’. The story critically presents Korea’s WCU initiative, posing difficult long-term questions that reflect the challenges involved in raising the standards of a country’s higher education system. The story is available here, [...]
Google Groups & WCU Project
July 11, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
A site has been established at Google Groups for all persons involved in the WCU project, called WCUatYeungNam (http://groups.google.com/group/wcuatyeungnam). This site is restricted to project participants; contact Sejung Park (madeinpsj@gmail.com) for further information and access to the site. NJ
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Welcome to the WCU Project Group Blog
July 11, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
This is a group blog established for scholars – students, faculty, researchers – involved in the World Class University (WCU) project initiated at Yeungnam University in the Republic of Korea. The principle investigator is Han Woo Park and the two continuously participating international scholars are Greg Elmer and Maurice Vergeer. Several other international scholars will [...]
