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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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Therac-25: the killer of all case studies

By Craig | Published: April 22, 2009

Those involved in writing case studies or teaching ethics to ICT  students may find the Therac-25 case of great interest. Basically it is about a medical machine that delivered a lethal dosage of radiation. But rather than being the fault of an individual; it was an entire systems fault. In other words if you have [...]

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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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Report: Tools for Data-Driven Scholarship (or tools for value driven scholarship?)

By Craig | Published: April 10, 2009

(Google’s data centre) Another excellent report from some excellent US scholars. But I wish that I had more time to properly interrogate the ideas and claims I often read in these Digital Humanities documents ( but if I may be a bold and superficial blogger, there are some recurring themes in numerous of these documents). [...]

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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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The (Opensource) Economy of Regard

By Craig | Published: August 3, 2007

An excellent article about why the open source software movement works by Dalle, David, Ghosh, and Wolak and presented 2 years ago at the Oxford Internet Institute. http://siepr.stanford.edu/programs/OpenSoftware_David/Economy-of-Regard_8+_OWLS.pdf

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Australian Conservatives give MySpace a wide berth

By Craig | Published: July 18, 2007

From the Melbourne Age. And Ironic considering that MySpace is owned by the biggest Australian Conservative of them all. The Federal Liberal Party appears to be snubbing MySpace, after the social network publicly criticised the Liberals’ response to its new Impact political channel. The channel – which MySpace says facilitates direct communication between politicians, non-profit [...]

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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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