Tag: internet
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What is technological determinism?
Technological determinism is circulated, maintained, and advanced within the pre-existing hierarchies in the world in which we live. Determinism has its own political agendas, its own rules, its own contexts and hierarchies and antagonisms to an imagined ‘other’. Determinism utilises a proprietary language and culture and although it cloaks itself in ideas of inter-disciplinary, deterministic…
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The Milkbar Manifesto
This is a manifesto that I wrote in 1999 to accompany my work Milkbar.com.au (as an angrier man… grrrr). I still believe in most of these things, especially the points that I have highlighted. Passive technological determinism is so engrained in the popular imagination that an entire professional class (many employed in universities ) manipulate…
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Report: Tools for Data-Driven Scholarship (or tools for value driven scholarship?)
(Google’s data centre) Another excellent report from some excellent US scholars. But I wish that I had more time to properly interrogate the ideas and claims I often read in these Digital Humanities documents ( but if I may be a bold and superficial blogger, there are some recurring themes in numerous of these documents).…