WCU Project Yeungnam University

I just came across an innovative group blogging project that is part of a UC Berkeley seminar, entitled Blogging China. As part of the class project, students compile English and Chinese language (news) materials and publish them in the group blog, China Digital Times. Based on a first glance, the material seems wide-ranging, well-composed and [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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