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About Networks

I am associated with a group called 4Humanities that is a Digital Humanities advocacy group based in the US that is advocating for the Humanities. The economic reality of the recession in the US and Europe has put enormous pressures on Humanities schools and many are closing or losing staff. The group is doing a [...]

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Towards an ‘inconvenient’ Digital Humanities

Next year will be a reasonably big year on the Digital Humanities calendar in Australia. In March, we will hold THATCamp here at the University of Melbourne and also, we will establish our very own Digital Humanities Association in the first quarter of 2011. In the second half of the year, I will run a [...]

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Defend Assange and WikiLeaks on Human Rights Day in Melbourne

Julian Assange has just been arrested in London. JOIN THE PROTEST to Defend Assange and WikiLeaks on Human Rights Day in Melbourne, this Friday December 10, 4.30pm at the State Library. Spread the word… Also, read what the media theorist, Clay Shirky has to say about Wiki Leaks. “Like a lot of people, I am [...]

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IP Address for Wikileaks #wikileaks

If you are concerned that Wikileaks is no longer online and the Domain name has been de-registered, then you can still find the site through its IP Address. The IP address is as follows. http://213.251.145.96/ There are also a number of domains that are still working. Wikileaks.nl and Wikileaks.de

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I don’t agree with Architecture!

One of the more difficult areas that the more service focussed domain of the Digital Humanities traverses is between infrastructure development (ie. large computing systems that link various institutions together) and broader discipline-specific debates in the humanities. A tenured historian or linguist, with many years experience of the field, may be confronted by the decisions [...]

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Are Digital Humanists underprivileged?

I am increasingly confronted by many in the broader Digital Humanities field’s hackneyed claims that they are underprivileged. I see full Professors do this, Directors of Centres do this, lecturers and programmers do it. They claim that because they are Digital Humanists that they are misunderstood and unloved. They claim that they are discriminated against, [...]

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The ‘what is’ question?

The ‘what is’ question is a tough one. Researchers get it a lot. And it is probably more prevalent in Australia than any where else because of our excessively modern penchant for simplicity and speed. Australia’s want simple answers quickly and if they aren’t provided, then there must be something wrong with the search engine. [...]

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  • ...this blog is obsessively directed at profiling digital humanities developments in a cultural, social, and technical sense and in terms of books and applications...it is an aggregation or 'meta' style blog with the occasional commentary

    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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