Author: Craig
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Local knowledges in global communication
InterMedia: Project: Local knowledges in global communication Local knowledges in global communication: The impact of information and communication technology on the diversity of human knowledge. Principal objective and sub-goals. The principle objective of this project is to investigate the likely impact of information and communication technology on the diversity of human knowledge. This objective will…
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The control of the Internet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1519539,00.html Bush administration to keep control of internet’s central computers Gary Younge in New York and agencies Saturday July 2, 2005 The Guardian The Bush administration has decided to retain control over the principal computers which control internet traffic in a move likely to prompt global opposition, it was claimed yesterday.The US had pledged to…
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The ‘e’ version of the Encyclopedia of Melbourne (Beta) version is now online
Encyclopedia of Melbourne This is really worth checking out. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne’s online version. A must for any online historian!
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Mobile Podcasting
mobilepodcast.org OK, lots of interesting thing happening in the RSS world. Podcasting is a way of subscribing to certain news stories and entertainment media, and then plugging your mobile device into your computer, then downloading the files, then listening to them.
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New media, New Politics?
I have to give a lecture on Monday in my class “Politics, Media, Communication on the politics of new media and how this impacts upon and alters the broader political-media landscape. It should be good, I look forward to it, but lectures are so much work to prepare. I gave one on the same subject…
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Barons to Bloggers
Two very interesting blog-power-brokers are in town at the moment (Melbourne); Lance Knobel from the UK and Jay Rosen of New York University. They spoke at last nights Alfred Deakin Lectures on Blogging. Their thesis was that blogging disrupts media power through giving unmediated power to the masses. Not such a bad thesis, but I…