Category: social media
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New Group: Social Software in the Digital Humanities
(This new group on Arts-humanities.net may be of interest to punters. It is primarily focussed upon ‘social software’ theory, techniques, and applications within the Digital Humanities. As it is a new group, we are more than open about its skippering within the choppy Web 2 sea). The aim of this group is to critically discuss…
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How to improve your Twitter voice!
I have to admit that my twitter voice could be a lot better. I have just started ‘twitting’ and sort of get it, but don’t quite understand how twitter fits into the social world (and who reads it?). Still, it is comforting to know that so many of my Digital Humanities colleagues have found my…
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Manual Castells at London School of Economics 9 July
The acclaimed author of the Rise of Network Society, Professor Manual Castells will be speaking at LSE on 9th July and launching his new book ‘Communication Power’. I can’t wait for this one; I have wanted to hear Castells speak for years. As a PhD candidate in the late ’90s, Castells changed how I though…
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Web 2.0 in higher education
There is a belief in some circles that Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Joomla and Drupal are labour saving devices and that their very presence online will spontaneously invoke a community of highly-skilled individuals that will submit content and build the system in a coherent and meaningful way. This idea is a myth as…
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Digital Futures London 2009
This workshop is conduced periodically by my colleague at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), Simon Tanner. It is designed for those who manage or wish to undertake digitisation projects. It is an extensive course and includes topics such as applying for funding, metadata and most importantly, the sustainability of digital resources (link).
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Reclaiming the local…
(thanks to the NY Times) If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Perhaps a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer. Â Minh Uong/The New York Times A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let…