Author: Craig
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What is ICT Guides: Community?
Part of my job here at King’s is to develop ICT Guides into a sustainable community resource. The present version of ICT Guides is built on a MySql database with a JSTL (Java) interface. The new community component of ICT Guides will (initially) be built on a Joomla (or Drupal) CMS (partly because it has…
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The death of reality
Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and social theorist known for his provocative commentaries on consumerism, excess and what he said was the disappearance of reality, has died at the age of 77. Baudrillard died on Tuesday at his home in Paris after a long illness, said Michel Delorme, of the Galilee publishing house (from the…
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Humanities Research Institute: The University of Sheffield
The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, like the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London, is one of the leading centres in the UK in the digital humanities. Check out their range of projects.. As its history of successfully completed projects demonstrates, the HRI has to date concentrated on…