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[Brendan Scott]

Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 18/08/2008, at 10:23 PM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> The open source software used (OJS) has provision for extra files  
>> along with the text of the presentation, so it is possible to  
>> include slides, audio and video. But the logistics for the people  
>> running the conferences around the world would be daunting.
>>
>> Just doing audio and video for one stream for one small 2020 Local  
>> Summit was difficult enough: <http://tomw.net.au/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=202 
>>> .
> 
> I guess so. I guess that my experience as an outside broadcast  
> producer (amongst other things) for ABC Radio means that my threshold  
> for something being "difficult is a little higher. ;)
> 
> 
>> Also the presenters don't get any extra academic points for  
>> presenting. They get their points for having a paper published. So  
>> there is no incentive for them to cooperate in providing a good  
>> presentation.
> 
> This is the killer. With no incentive, why bother?
> 
> Still, I reckon that in the 21st Century getting "points" only for  
> presenting work that's "written in words", as opposed to using high- 
> memetic-bandwidth channels which might better convey meaning, is as  
> obsolete as demanding that PhD theses be written in Latin.

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IMO:
Text walks all over audio/visual in so many ways.  These things are supplements to text.  In some cases they are a preferred format, but they are not the majority.

Brendan