Category: internet
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Geert Lovink: A Pioneer in Internet Studies
Geert Lovink, a Dutch media theorist and internet critic, has been a significant figure in Internet Studies. Lovink is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, an organisation dedicated to exploring, documenting, and fostering the potential for socioeconomic change within the new media field. His work has been instrumental in shaping the critical understanding…
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Framing the NBN: Consumer Attitudes and Perceptions
The report I co-authored for the Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne is now available. “The Australian Government is building a National Broadband Network (NBN) to connect all Australians to high-speed broadband. Government and industry commentators have promoted the network as increasingly important for participation in the digital economy. Yet,…
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What Australian’s think of the NBN
The National Broadband Network (NBN), regardless of who steers the rest of the build, is a significant infrastructure project for Australia. And we all know its cost, technical configuration, corporate configuration, end-user value-proposition, economic benefit, social benefit and roll-out pace have all been subject to claims and counterclaims. But what do the people who will…
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Recovering an ephemeral life online
During the past two decades, the Internet and its applications have become among scholars’ wealthiest sources of bibliographical information. The traces of one’s life online can be rich and varied through email lists, web pages, blogs, video and sound recordings, and publications in various guises. At no other time in history has there been so…
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eResearch in an international information environment: developments, challenges and responses
Synopsis: The application of diverse eResearch infrastructures to support research has a long history. During the 1970s, the genesis of eResearch in the shape of the Internet was driven by the research community’s needs. In this latest stage of eResearch infrastructure development, also primarily driven by the needs of the research, we are witnessing large-scale investments…
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Tim Berners-Lee on Linked Data