Monthly Archives: May 2009

Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace: Jonathan Zittrain OII Event: London, 19th May 2009

On Tuesday evening I attended an Oxford Internet Institute sponsored lecture by Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Harvard Law School, Co-Founder and Faculty Director, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society (at the salubrious legal offices of Wragge and Co). Zittrain talked about regulation on-line by major Internet players such as Facebook and Apple and asserted that [...]

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Manual Castells at London School of Economics 9 July

The acclaimed author of the Rise of Network Society, Professor Manual Castells  will be speaking at LSE on 9th July and launching his new book ‘Communication Power’.  I can’t wait for this one; I have wanted to hear Castells speak for years.  As a PhD candidate in the late ’90s, Castells changed how I though [...]

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Open Tech 2009

For those of you in London, this will be an excellent event (and it is only cost 5 quid).  And this is one community that really understands how technology works in the public sphere (if that is your thing).  It is on at ULU. * Ticket reservations now open – Please Redistribute Freely * Open [...]

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New forms of doctorate

I attended an ESRC funded seminar today and organised by the Landsdown Centre for Electronic Arts on new forms of doctorates. This was the third seminar in the series. As someone who undertook a practice based PhD some years back (that admittedly was not altogether a totally a rewarding institutional experience), I found the seminar [...]

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Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2009

This years Digital Classics seminar is due to begin on June 5. The classics field is one of the most active in the Digital Humanities and this years seminar has attracted many international speakers discussing diverse topics from Herodotus, to Philology, to agent-based modelling. For those historians and academics who are not particularly strong in [...]

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A Digital Humanities Manifesto

(everyone should have a manifesto!) I am pleased that UCLA has discovered the Digital Humanities. Here is a manifesto that they published from the Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities (link). Also, check out UCLA’s  White Paper on the Promise of Digital Humanities Co-authored by Todd Presner (Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature) and Chris Johanson (Classics [...]

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The Digging into Data Challenge: What to do with one million books?

This is a opportune international development for those in the Digital Humanities. I am not aware of any involvement from King’s, but would be interested to hear from any other UK institutions who plan to compete! The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information [...]

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