Digital media
Definitions
Digital media: Digitised content, formats and procedures, including text, graphics, audio, and video, that can be stored, manipulated and presented as computer files, web pages or virtual exhibits, transmitted over internet or computer networks.
- Glossary of digital media terms
- A comprehensive listing, courtesy of the SmartVideo website.
Websites
- Digital media literacy
- Digital media literacy is often understood as the ability to access, understand and participate or create content using digital media. This website from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) discusses how developments in digital technology have had significant effects on the way individuals interact with communications and media services. An increasingly wide range of sources of information, ways of doing business, services (including government services) and entertainment are now commonly made available and accessed online and/or through digital media.
- Digital media in Australian homes: First report
- The first report issued by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) in 2005.
An Australia-wide research study which examined: community perceptions of digital media; how people are moving to digital media platforms; the drivers and inhibitors to the adoption of Digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB).
While DTTB is the major focus of the study, this was considered in the context of community adoption of digital media generally, in particular digital subscription television and broadband internet audio-visual content. The research aimed to provide benchmarks as Australians move further towards the adoption of DTTB, and to inform tracking of the DTTB transition process over time.
- Digital media in Australian homes: Second report
- The second report issued by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) in 2006.
Digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB), or digital free-to-air television, is progressively being rolled out in Australia. Free-to-air television services are currently being simulcast in digital alongside the existing analog services across most parts of Australia, and DTTB will eventually replace the analog broadcast of these services.
This second study was conducted in October 2006 with key objectives to: identify the household penetration of DTTB, subscription television, the internet, and personal digital video recorders; understand the 'drivers' for adopting DTTB and reasons for non-adoption; measure awareness of DTTB and analog switch-off, and sources of information about digital television.
- Digital media and film - News and events
- An excellent news site hosted by the Australian Government's The Culture Portal which provides online access to Australian culture websites from all levels of government and the non-government sector.
Print material
To find books in the Library on the topic of digital media you'll need to use the Subject Heading Digital media and sub-headings such as Digital media--Social aspects.
Journals
We subscribe to these journals which are available through the Library Catalogue:
- Cites & insights [electronic resource]
- Full text available 2001 to present.
- Video systems [electronic resource]
- Magazine addressing the informational needs of professionals involved in video production activities at corporate, medical, government, and educational facilities as well as video production firms. Country of origin: United States.
Full text available November 1996 to Vol. 32, Issue 5 (April 2006).
Changed title with Vol.32, Issue 6 to Digital content producer.
- Digital content producer [electronic resource]
- Covers all aspects of production and post-production equipment and technology for entertainment, advertising, business and news markets, from digital cinema to digital signage, as well as emerging niche markets such as education and houses of worship.
Full text available from Vol. 32, Issue 5 (May 2006) to present.
Previous title was Video systems.
- EMediaweekly [electronic resource]
- "The newsweekly for digital media managers" but now only of historic interest, I suppose.
Full text available 1989 to 1999.
These titles are freely available on the web:
- Digital media
- Australasia's journal of the new media revolution. Articles on Mobility; Broadcast; Social Networks; Digital Marketing; Digital Technology. The site is searchable and has an archive of articles back to September 2007.
- Digital media world
- DMW Online is an Australian site that provides information on digital imaging, animation, filmmaking and editing, graphic design, publishing, interactive entertainment, web design, and simulation.
Associations
- Australian Interactive Media Industry Association
- Founded in 1992, AIMIA is the peak industry body for interactive content and digital media in Australia.
 This page was created and is maintained by Alan Keig
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