Author: Craig
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ICT Rights
apc.au ICT Rights Monitor Yes ICT (Internet and Communication Technologies) have rights too! Or at least, we as citizens have rights in relation to these technologies. Here is a web portal built by Andrew Garton and Justina Curtis for the Association for Progressive Communication (APC) that documents the politics of ICT.
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Phil Agre: Networking on the Network
Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students This article by the ‘socio-technical’ researcher Phil Agre has quickly become a classic of the Internet. http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/network.html
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Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Web Log
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/ Mathew Kirschenbaum completed one of the first online PhD’s anywhere in the world (at IATH at the University of Virginia) In general, his research focus is English and computer mediated text (more on his weblog). He is also centred within the field of Humanities Computing.
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Graduate Screenings for Animation and Interactive Media at RMIT
http://www.rmit.edu.au/aim/ The Centre for Animation and Interactive Media (AIM) at RMIT University had its graduate screenings on Thursday night. The centre is chiefly concerned with teaching Animation (and the screenings were for their postgraduate diplomas), but the centre also has a number of Masters and PhD students. The Masters and Ph.D students primarily focus upon…
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Fibreculture and Elections
The question of governance has come up recently on a list that I contribute to called fibreculture. There is (perhaps predictably) a reluctance by the present moderators (in which there are 14) to embrace a more representative democratic model. This is for a number of reasons; most notably because the list comes from the dot…
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Protest and Online Activism
M/C Reviews Here is a review by Guy Redden of a recent book about Cyberactivism. Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice, Martha McCaughey and Michael D. Ayers (eds.). Routledge, New York and London, 2003, 310 pp. inc. index. ISBN 0-415-94319-1 (hardback), ISBN 0-415-94320-5 (paperback). Trying to ascertain the social significance of new media is…