YIRN!

This weeks lecture was on the digital divide, and how providing infrastructure and services to rural areas can allow people access to creative media which they didnt have before. The specific program in question was the Youth Internet Radio Network, which allowed students from around Queensland to create audio and visual content, and tell unique stories from their points of view, which can be very different to people from urban areas. One of the assumptions with these sorts of programs is that urban and suburban people already have access to this infrastructure, which is often not the case, however this is neither here nor there. Obviously the concept of the network is not to get access to EVERYONE :>

This is an interesting concept, and one which we are going to look into for our community presentation, for which we have decided to create a short film based community, where people can look at short films and rate them and discuss them. One of the aspects of this community will be to push the community to all corners of Queensland, and attempt to, similarly, give people access to services they didnt have before.

I have added links to YIRN, as well as to the journals of some of my team members...