Month: November 2004

  • Screen and Media Studies

    \\ Screen & Media Studies – Homepage // This school at the University of Waikato in New Zealand (where Sean Cubitt used to work) does some fine reseach within Media Studies (he is now moving to the Media and Communications program at the University of Melbourne). The media are a central fact of life in…

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  • Inter-Disciplinary Angst and ‘Distributed Authorship’.

    Inter-Disciplinary Angst and ‘Distributed Authorship’.

    (A list that I contribute to (called fibreculture) is entering the post-cyberspace age (or second-wave Internet research) and there are some interesting conversations. Here is my reply to a ‘Position Statement’ on distributed authorship). Dear Fibreculture, I wish to comment on a couple of the important themes that Mr Adrian Miles raised in this position…

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  • Energy Bulletin/ Peak oil

    EnergyBulletin.net | Newswire | Energy and Peak Oil News This site produced in Melbourne by the imfamous ‘Secret Adam’ gets an enormous amounts of hits per month (so I am told). Secret Adam is a legend of the Internet here in Melbourne as he has been involved in some of the city’s most famous political…

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  • ICT Rights

    apc.au ICT Rights Monitor Yes ICT (Internet and Communication Technologies) have rights too! Or at least, we as citizens have rights in relation to these technologies. Here is a web portal built by Andrew Garton and Justina Curtis for the Association for Progressive Communication (APC) that documents the politics of ICT.

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  • Phil Agre: Networking on the Network

    Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students This article by the ‘socio-technical’ researcher Phil Agre has quickly become a classic of the Internet. http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/network.html

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  • Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Web Log

    http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/ Mathew Kirschenbaum completed one of the first online PhD’s anywhere in the world (at IATH at the University of Virginia) In general, his research focus is English and computer mediated text (more on his weblog). He is also centred within the field of Humanities Computing.

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