Category Archives: communuity informatics

Open Tech 2009

By Craig | Published: May 20, 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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Web 2.0 in higher education

By Craig | Published: May 7, 2009

There is a belief in some circles that Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Joomla and Drupal are labour saving devices and that their very presence online will spontaneously invoke a community of highly-skilled individuals that will submit content and build the system in a coherent and meaningful way. This idea is a myth as [...]

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“SOCIAL COMPUTING IN 2020″ BLUESKY INNOVATION COMPETITION

By Craig | Published: December 1, 2008

The University of California Transliteracies Project and UC Santa Barbara Social Computing Group announce the “Social Computing in 2020″ Bluesky Innovation Competition.” What will social computing technologies and practices be like in the year 2020? ELIGIBLE: Undergraduate or graduate students anywhere in the world. AWARDS: 1st prize, $3000 USD; 2nd prize, $1000, 3rd prize, $500. [...]

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Job: Engage media Melbourne

By Craig | Published: October 6, 2008

Finance and Administration Officer http://engagemedia.org/jobs/finance-admin-officer/ Summary EngageMedia is a burgeoning online video, networking, training and technology project focussed on social justice and environmental issues in the Asia-Pacific region. We run the online video sharing site <http://engagemedia.org>, produce a free and open source video sharing platform <http://plumi.org>, initiated an international network of social justice online video [...]

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Online Democratic Deliberation in a Time of Information Abundance

By Craig | Published: September 14, 2007

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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What is HASTAC?

By Craig | Published: August 15, 2007

A consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, social scientists, and engineers from universities across the country, HASTAC (“Haystack”) is committed to new forms of collaboration across institutions, disciplines, and communities to promote creative uses of technology. Since 2003, we have been developing tools for multimedia archiving and social interaction, gaming environments for teaching, innovative educational programs [...]

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What is Mashable.net?

By Craig | Published: August 15, 2007

Mashable is a news site for the social networking movement (link).

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    Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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