Archive for the 'New Media' Category
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Check the first video online on the Mediacom Studio weblog at:
http://www.mediacomstudio.com/
It is also hosted on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfpmvhGkxTk
The video is about the Innovation Week 2008.
Feel free to comment and disseminate.
Christina Chan-Meetoo
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I am pleased to announce that the Communication Studies Unit is now equipped with a multimedia studio which I have set up with (a lot of) help from Avinash. The studio has been baptised Mediacom Studio and even has a website which we have launched yesterday at www.mediacomstudio.com
The facility has been created thanks to funding [...]
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I am pleased to announce that the Communication Studies Unit is now equipped with a multimedia studio which I have set up with (a lot of) help from Avinash. The studio has been baptised Mediacom Studio and even has a website which we have launched yesterday at www.mediacomstudio.com
The facility has been created thanks to funding [...]
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
So, after the Facebook - ICTA controversy, Trilock Dwarka, Chairman of the Authority, has admitted that the decision to block access to Facebook completely on Thursday 8th Nov (a black day for the Mauritian online democratic community) was excessive in an interview with L’Express on Tuesday 13th. But, he was shrewd enough to lay the [...]
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
French futurologist and scientist Joël de Rosnay gave a conference last week at UOM on ‘Nouvelles Technologies, Innovations et Résistances au Changement’. He drew a well organised map and catalogue of the crucial areas of innovation and listed the many stumbling blocks that need to be overcome in order to make the most of these [...]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
There have been a few developments lately in the local mediascape related to the web (at last!) that are worthy of attention. Starting with the Défi Media Group which has launched its website for the first time at the following address: http://www.defimedia.info
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This was long overdue as oddly enough, none of the print media titles [...]
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
In my last post, I invited my readers to fill in a survey about ICT, Society and Poverty in Mauritius for a paper I had to present at a conference on Poverty and Development which took place on the 1st and 2nd October at Bell Village. I am here posting the slides I used for [...]
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