Month: April 2008
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‘Google Generation’ is a myth, says new research
Press release ‘Google Generation’ is a myth, says new research New report reveals the information needs of the researchers and learners of the future 16th January, 2008. A new report, commissioned by JISC and the British Library, counters the common assumption that the ‘Google Generation’ – young people born or brought up in the Internet…
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Epistemic Networks and GRID + Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities
Epistemic Networks and GRID + Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities 30-31 January 2008, Imperial College Internet Centre, Imperial College London *Please note new registration information for this workshop* Data driven Science has emerged as a new model which enables researchers to move from experimental, theoretical and computational distributed networks to a new paradigm for…
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DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice’
The DRHA conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The conference theme this year is to promote discussion around new collaborative environments, collective knowledge and redefining disciplinary boundaries. The conference, hosted by Cambridge with its fantastic choice of conference venues will take place from Sunday14th September to Wednesday 17th September The…
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Obituary Pip Starr: Melbourne Activist
Pip Starr, a well-know Melbourne activist and film maker died in Melbourne today. I first met Pip around 1999 at the height of the anti-globalisation movement. Some of his documantaries can be found here: http://web.mac.com/pipstarr/starr.tv/starr.tv.html Also, here is an interview that I did with Pip some years ago about the effects of globalisation upon a…
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The Centre for the New Humanities
Here is a presentation to the Board of Governors at Rutgers University in the US about their proposal to build a centre for the ‘new humanities. The new humanities is imagined as a hypertextual and multimedia humanities.
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The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (http://www.webometrics.info/ ) has been updated with data collected during January 2008. The service aims to rank Universities according to their global visibility in the web-enabled world. Included in the metrics is a new service ranking the most visible 200 repositories in the world: http://www.webometrics.info/top4000.asp. The Arts and Humanities Data…