Author: Craig
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Activism or Insight?
Someone once said that the only thing we learn from the past is that we don’t learn anything from the past. The wisdom inherent in this statement is that history (and historians) don’t have any particular power and the people that are in the driving seat are often people that are inimical to the past.…
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Hugh Martin on Blogs and Vlogs
Hugh Martin, former editor of theage.com.au and Age Journalist has written an interesting article in today’s Age about how ‘citizen reporters’ get the news out first. His thesis is based on the reporting of the Tsnami in the Indian Ocean. His article reminds me of the archive of ‘citizen reporting’ that was constructed at the…
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Fast Capitalism
Here is a timely new journal called Fast Capitalism that was introduced to me by Ben Agger of the University of Texas. “Recently, I and some others started an electronic journal, Fast Capitalism, in which people address the impact of rapid ICTs on self, society and culture in the 21st century. The first issue has…
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Digital Story Telling
Center for Digital Storytelling Last week I was involved in a Digital Story Telling workshop at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (at Federation Square here in Melbourne). Digital story-telling is a genre that seeks to record and preserve the individual stories that form the collective identity of a community. We recorded some of…
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He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot
(this is one of my favourite songs from the year. It is from the Northern Californian band ‘Grandaddy‘ from their CD called the ‘Sophtware Slump’…says it all really) adrift again 2000 man you lost your maps, you lost the plans did you hear them yell “Land Damn It Land!” you said you can’t, well I…
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar Google has a new service that searches for scholarly articles. Their motto is ‘Stand on the Shoulder of Giants”…just like Google I suppose.