Monthly Archives: November 2006

‘Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse’ Public Lecture by Geert Lovink

By Craig | Published: November 30, 2006

(Dr Lovink is a co-founder of the Fibreculture Network; that is now well and truly dead. I can’t say that I miss it; it brought out my Nihlist instincts in me in a way that blogging never has. This is sure to be an excellent talk; bloggers in Sydney should attend). ‘Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse’ [...]

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Digital Humanities Podcasts

By Craig | Published: November 29, 2006

MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) is pleased to announce that we have begun regular Podcasting of our popular Digital Dialogues seminar series: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/programs/digitaldialogue/podcasts.php We have three Podcasts from recent Digital Dialogues already available, including talks by Rice University’s Chuck Henry on scholarly electronic publishing, Brown’s Vika Zafrin on collaboration in the digital [...]

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What is the ARC Cultural Research Network ?

By Craig | Published: November 29, 2006

The ARC Cultural Research Network is built on the outstanding reputation enjoyed by Australian researchers working on the production and consumption of culture. It responds to the centrality of culture as the focus of cutting edge humanities and social science research by developing research projects dealing with new media and cultural technologies, cultural histories, geographies [...]

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Your Rights at Work

By Craig | Published: November 29, 2006

(A reminder that this is on tomorrow) One of the most important aspects of Australia; that distinguishes us from every other country in the region (except New Zealand) is our highly developed industrial relations system. But the Conservatives want to make Australia a plutocracy; this is, they want to create a system where money is [...]

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What is CTheory.net ?

By Craig | Published: November 28, 2006

CTHEORY is an international peer-reviewed journal of theory, technology and culture. Articles, interviews, and key book reviews in contemporary discourse are published weekly as well as theorizations of major “event-scenes” in the mediascape. Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker Editorial Board: Jean Baudrillard (Paris), Paul Virilio (Paris), Bruce Sterling (Austin), Siegfried Zielinski (Koeln), Stelarc (Melbourne), DJ [...]

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Network Publics at the Annenburg Centre at USC

By Craig | Published: November 28, 2006

This is a good school that does good stuff.. netPublics explores the roles of audiences, activists, citizens, and producers in maturing networked media ecologies. These changes include but are not limited to the changing relationship between production and consumption, viral and peer-to-peer distribution, and networked lateral political mobilization. Although the Internet is clearly a central [...]

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Preparing Students for User-Led Content Production

By Craig | Published: November 27, 2006

Here is a recorded talk given by the prolific Axel Bruns of QUT at the ATOM Conference 2006 (link). Like most somewhat commercially-orientated researchers, this researcher works in a very crowded field and his most potent contribution seems to be in teaching rather that definable original research. I.e. too much process orientation, and not enough [...]

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