Category Archives: social media

New Group: Social Software in the Digital Humanities

By Craig | Published: June 1, 2009

(This new group on Arts-humanities.net may be of interest to punters.  It is primarily focussed upon ‘social software’ theory, techniques, and applications within the Digital Humanities.  As it is a new group, we are more than open about its skippering within the choppy Web 2 sea). The aim of this group is to critically discuss [...]

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How to improve your Twitter voice!

By Craig | Published: May 27, 2009

I have to admit that my twitter voice could be a lot better.  I have just started ‘twitting’ and sort of get it, but don’t quite understand how twitter fits into the social world (and who reads it?).  Still, it is comforting to know that so many of my Digital Humanities colleagues have found my [...]

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Manual Castells at London School of Economics 9 July

By Craig | Published: May 20, 2009

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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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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Digital Futures London 2009

By Craig | Published: April 21, 2009

This workshop is conduced periodically by my colleague at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), Simon Tanner. It is designed for those who manage or wish to undertake digitisation projects.  It is an extensive course and includes topics such as applying for funding, metadata and most importantly, the  sustainability of digital resources (link).

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Reclaiming the local…

By Craig | Published: April 13, 2009

(thanks to the NY Times) If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Perhaps a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer.   Minh Uong/The New York Times A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let [...]

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8) Morning coffee with Craig: the G20, the economy, and protest

By Craig | Published: April 11, 2009

OK, I have started my ‘morning coffee with Craig’ series again. Similar format and similar theme to the previous ones, but I promise something fresher soon. Here I talk about ‘globalism’ and the recent protests during the G20 meeting here in London. It is similar to another video diary; number 4 in this series when [...]

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