Monthly Archives: November 2004

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

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.

http://www.rmit.edu.au/aim/ The Centre for Animation and Interactive Media (AIM) at RMIT University had its graduate screenings on Thursday night. The centre is chiefly concerned with teaching Animation (and the screenings were for their postgraduate diplomas), but the centre also has a number of Masters and PhD students. The Masters and Ph.D students primarily focus upon [...]

School of Arts, Media and Culture staff pages Dr Ian Woodward does research into the local effects of Globalisation in the Australian context. He is presenting a paper on his preliminary findings (from focus group research) at the TASA conference (Sociology) this year. http://www.tasa.org.au/

creativity/machine Wow! This is about as good as they get in the weblog land. Here is a weblog by Jean Burgess of QUT who is a ‘culture and technology’ researcher.