From IntegratedMedia

This website, Iiki, is a research wiki being used by RMIT students doing Integrated Media, a subject offered within the Media stream of the Bachelor of Communication, in the School of Applied Communication, at RMIT University (that'd be in Melbourne, Australia). It is called iiki, which is short for the Integrated Media wiki (which I suppose means it should be called imiki but that would be pronounced i-miki rather than im-iki).

Contents 1 Research Content 2 Research Practice 3 Help 4 Maintenance History

Research Content

• The research that this wiki documents relates to the history, theory and practice of online video and audio work. Currently this concentrates on video and audio blogging and things closely aligned with these. The students are working in small groups to investigate, in some form, individuals who have some relationship to video and audio blogging. Part of the aim of the project is to provide some crude documentation of the early history of this emerging practice, technology and media.

• Please keep in mind that this contains work that is made by second year undergraduate students. It will contain errors (which will be corrected over time). It is not intended to be wikipedia (if it was we'd be writing there) but aims to be more informal, creative and personal than what wikipedia allows.

Research Practice

The wiki is used for research because it allows for:

• the experience of collaborative practice through a shared writing environment
• the public dissemination of research (so students are helped to experience the transition from being information consumers to being knowledge producers)

The research is done in small groups. Each group receives a name or a term, and their role is to begin to identify and sketch what they need to do next. What sorts of things might they need to find out? Why? How? And as this progresses what they find out is used to identify more things they may need to find out, how, and why. (This is using a problem based learning methodology.) The research is expected to take advantage of the basic media skills all the students have, which includes being able to record video and audio, edit it and put it online. The material can be presented in whatever manner 'works' for the topic, and rather than use the encyclopaedia as the exemplar the work is encouraged to be personal, idiosyncratic, and grounded in their everyday.

The subject that this is based on explores the shift from professional and industrial media institutions towards (prosumer/produsage/amateur/participatory) and post industrial media networks, so the technologies used might be mobile phones, domestic still cameras, and interviews using iChat or Skype.

Help

• Basic help about how to write in the wiki is located on the help page. You can either use the navigation menu on the left (just click on Help) or this link right here: help.

Maintenance History

Admin stuff is documented, just in case I go under that bus.