Monthly Archives: November 2006

Software tools from the Centre for History and New Media

By Craig | Published: November 26, 2006

The Centre for History and New Media at George Mason University in the United States have developed some fantastic tools for academics and historians. Check out their H-Bot system (developed by Daniel Cohen and Simon Kornblith). The H-Bot system allows you to ask factual historical questions like ‘when was Australia discovered’ and receive answers from [...]

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Morning Coffee with Craig: Do you have time to think?

By Craig | Published: November 25, 2006
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Information, Communication, and Society Webcasts

By Craig | Published: November 25, 2006

In collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, the editors of the academic peer-reviewed journal Information, Communication, and Society have been producing and archiving webcasts featuring the author(s) of the lead article of selected issues. (check them out…link)

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PoliticalMashups

By Craig | Published: November 25, 2006

Mashups are created when information is taken out of one or more database/s and then integrated into a web site. This is done through what’s called a public interface or ‘API’ (or by RSS feeds, or by JavaScript). Some well-known examples are the Chicago Crime Map, Weatherbonk, and mappr. I haven’t come across too many [...]

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THE AUGMENTED SOCIAL NETWORK

By Craig | Published: November 24, 2006

Abstract (by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster) Could the next generation of online communications strengthen civil society by better connecting people to others with whom they share affinities, so they can more effectively exchange information and self-organize? Could such a system help to revitalize democracy in the 21st century? When networked personal computing [...]

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The Sound of One Hand Clapping

By Craig | Published: November 24, 2006

Within the broader field of media, politics, and society there have been a number of outstanding contributions to the study of the Internet and politics in the past two years. These include The Internet and Politics; Citizens, Voters and Activists by Sarah Oates, Diana Owen and Rachel K Gibson (2006) and The Internet, Democracy and [...]

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Born Digital Within Media Studies

By Craig | Published: November 24, 2006

Most professions, academic disciplines, areas of government, and business have long realised the potential for software and other digital tools to assist them in their decision-making processes. Architects and engineers have used sophisticated Computer Aided Design (CAD) software since the early 1980s to help them design and build complex structures. Accountants and economists have availed [...]

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