Tag: web2.0
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NSW Migration Heritage Online Projects
The Migration Heritage Centre at the Powerhouse Museum is a New South Wales Government initiative supported by the Community Relations Commission. www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au They do some excellent online oral history work. See some of the sites that they launched last year (thanks to Annette Loudon Website Coordinator). Belongings http://www.belongings.com.au A Place For The Friendless Female: Sydney’s…
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History and Hypertext
(Mark Bernstein of Eastgate Systems was in Sydney this month talking about ‘History and Hypertext’…what I did my MA on in 1998). SOME THOUGHTS ON HYPERTEXT AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Mark Bernstein At times, hypertext has seemed incompatible with historical narrative, either because non-sequential writing is at odds with understanding cause and effect, or because hypertext…
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A Digital Humanities umbrella?
(via Chris Chester at the University of Sydney from October of last year. I don’t think that the proposal went anywhere). Is there any value in raising a Digital Humanities umbrella in Australia? Next Thursday 6-8pm, Arts Informatics and RIHSS at the University of Sydney are hosting a talk by Harold Short, and a public…
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Free Speech online ‘under threat’
Bloggers are being asked to show their support for freedom of expression by Amnesty International. The human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals. The organisation said fundamental rights such as free speech faced graver threats than ever before.…
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McKenzie Wark discusses new projects
Her is a (re-posted) article from Realtime abous McKenzie Wark and written by Darren Toffs. Wark is involved in a very interesting online book project (link). Search for ‘New Wark Vectors’. He was the young turk of Australian cultural studies in the 1980s and an architect of the emerging cyberscene of the 90s. He gave…
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4) Morning Coffee with Craig: What is Globalisation?
Today I give a very brief overview of that monumental term ‘globalisation’. As you probably know, there are protests against a certain type of globalisation (neo-liberalism) being planned in Melbourne for the meeting of the G20 group. Also, here is a site that I made way back in August, 2000 about globalisation. There are some…