Floating Island

This is a preliminary list of websites and feeds that will be relevant to my new media project on cross-border art and cultural impacts since 1997:

The website of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department provides a braod array of official information on Hong Kong’s cultural offerings and its arts scene. It includes a page of […]

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This week, we are engaging with RSS feeds and news readers to consider how the new forms of content delivery and organization will affect news reading and reporting habits.
Four News Feeds
First, we all signed up for Google Reader accounts and were asked to try out the news feeds of four fairly different (in the online […]

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I’d like to examine the role of artistic and cultural exchanges between Hong Kong and mainland China in the 10 years since 1997.
We’ve seen increasing collaboration in some areas, such as film production, and also an increase in stage and musical performances from mainland China. I expect that with the coming handover anniversary, there will […]

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Chief among the concerns of our fellow journalism students is the implication of new media on our careers– how we will get (and keep) our jobs in the future. Will we have to become editors instead of reporters?
We still do not know if there are viable business models out there for the new media, and […]

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Here’s a recent example of how traditional print organizations are becoming more savvy in using the web to their advantage (via Editor & Publisher):
The San Francisco Chronicle recently broke a story of the city’s mayor’s affair with the wife of his campaign manager. (SF’s mayor, Gavin Newsom, is fairly young, photogenic, and recently divorced, so […]

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During our first class, I looked up Joi Ito’s Web ahead of his appearance. As I was scrolling through his recent blog posts I found myself distracted by his diary of a vegan diet. Now of course, Joi was not coming to our class to discuss how giving up meat and dairy products has changed […]

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Welcome to sky’s JMSC Blog. This blog has been set up for the New Media Workshop at HKU’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
Who is Joi Ito?
We had a surprise guest for our first class. His name is Joichi “Joi” (pronounced like Joey) Ito and he is the reason why our teacher, Rebecca MacKinnon, left […]

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