Author: Craig
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Free Speech online ‘under threat’
Bloggers are being asked to show their support for freedom of expression by Amnesty International. The human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals. The organisation said fundamental rights such as free speech faced graver threats than ever before.…
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McKenzie Wark discusses new projects
Her is a (re-posted) article from Realtime abous McKenzie Wark and written by Darren Toffs. Wark is involved in a very interesting online book project (link). Search for ‘New Wark Vectors’. He was the young turk of Australian cultural studies in the 1980s and an architect of the emerging cyberscene of the 90s. He gave…
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4) Morning Coffee with Craig: What is Globalisation?
Today I give a very brief overview of that monumental term ‘globalisation’. As you probably know, there are protests against a certain type of globalisation (neo-liberalism) being planned in Melbourne for the meeting of the G20 group. Also, here is a site that I made way back in August, 2000 about globalisation. There are some…
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New media and cultural form: narrative versus database
New media and cultural form: narrative versus database Ilana Snyder Monash University To appear in 2004 in: A. Adams & S. Brindley (eds), Teaching English with ICT. London: Open University Press & McGraw Hill. Why narrative and database Stories define how we think, how we play, even how we dream: they represent a basic way…
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Darwin’s Missing Notes Go Online
A MISSING notebook clutched by British naturalist Charles Darwin, who circumnavigated the globe, returned to Britain and demolished the Victorian hubris that humans stood alone as the pinnacle of creation, was published for the first time yesterday.The original notebook, which documents Darwin’s observations throughout his five-year voyage to the Amazon, Patagonia and the Pacific aboard…
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