Monthly Archives: September 2007

Report: After the AHDS: the end of national support?

A panel discussion at the opening of the recent Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts conference at Dartington College of the Arts posed the question what happens after the end of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS); is this the end of national support? The Arts and Humanities Data Service is a national [...]

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Online Democratic Deliberation in a Time of Information Abundance

This article of mine recently appeared in the journal, Fast Capitalism. The intensified use of the Internet by civil society groups and governments for political purposes has left many questions unexplained—especially in terms of the Internet’s effects upon deliberative democratic processes. The Internet was first imagined as a means to revitalize deliberative processes. However, poor [...]

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Pollies embrace Google for the ‘e-election’

From the Melbourne Age John Howard says the internet is “not some sort of gimmick” and has invited voters to have a conversation with him on YouTube. Peter Garrett believes the web will play a “really really critical role” in the upcoming election, which Joe Hockey has dubbed the “e-election campaign”. The Prime Minister, opposition [...]

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