Interactive Media

General information

Overview – Web Design and Development
Overview – Interactive DVD
A Definition of the Interactive Media and Computer Games Industries
The Interactive Media Skill Set
Illumina Digital Case Study
Interactive Media in the UK
Working in Interactive Media
Issues for the Interactive Media and Computer Games Industries

Job descriptions and activities

Designer
Developer
Producer
Production Assistant
Studio Manager
Project Manager
Account Manager
New Business Developer
Content Strategist
Information Architect
Web Editor
Web Writer
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Specialist
Programmer
Usability Specialist

Training

Bradford College
City College Norwich
University of Gloucestershire
University of East London

Organisations and regulations

British Interactive and Multimedia Association
Association for Project Management
Usability Professionals’ Association
b.TWEEN
Chinwag
Digital Content Forum
International Visual Communications Association
NESTA

Websites

Zen Garden
Design Shack
Webmonkey
A List Apart
E-Consultancy
Design Talkboard
Boxes and Arrows
Digital Web Magazine
Search Marketing Association
New Media Knowledge
SEOmoz

Publications

Media Guardian
New Media Age Magazine

Blogs

Euan Semple
Matt Locke
Paul Walsh

4Talent Resources

Mobile

Mobile Games: Audio: The podcast from The London Games Festival delves into the future of mobile gaming.

TV Phone Home: Jemima Cattel explores the Worcestershire countryside in search of Grassroots Media, the company behind the soap on your phone, mob-rom-com, London Affair.

Awakin the Senses: Awakin – winner of the Best Mobile Technology at the 2007 BT Golden Eye Awards, is an innovative multimedia company based in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter.

The Smallest Screen: 360 degree commissioning is out and this year it’s all about multiplatform.

Takeover TV: The question is no longer whether the mating of internet and TV will produce viable offspring. Rather it’s when and what will it look like.

Byte-Size Comedy: Gags to Go is 4Talent’s search for comedy genius for web and mobile, produced with The Comedy Unit and Scottish Enterprise.

Game Girl: Two years ago and jobless after computing degrees at Dundee’s Abertay University, David Hamilton and Barry Petrie set up Digital Goldfish, a mobile gaming company with the female market in mind.

Online TV

What Happened Next? Baby Cow Productions launches online sitcom Where are the Joneses?

Webcasting

Truly Interactive: Live webcasting could be the next big internet phenomenon, argues Antonio Gould.

Live Wires: Nexuslive is the UK’s first new music webtv show, broadcasting live every fortnight from its home in the Bongo Club, Edinburgh.

Videos

Interactive TV – The Next Decade

Podcasting – The Basics

Podcasting – Planning and Content

Making the Podcast

The Future of Podcasts

Podcasting – General Advice

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