Author: Craig
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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…
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Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle Sherry Turkle is one of my favorites from the ‘first wave’ of internet research. This is her homepage.
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Online Archiving: The PANIC project
PANIC This is a project produced by Jane Hunter et.al at DSTC. It is called PANIC or Preservation webservices Architecture for Newmedia and Interactive Collections.
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Significance and Archiving
Often I participate in a list called Fibreculture with the occasional ‘gadfly’. The list’s participants are mostly from the fields of cultural studies and media studies as well as from the broader media arts and activist community. Dear Fibreculture, A point that I should make is that the first Humanities Computing archiving project was in…
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Peter Conrad Boyer Lectures
Radio National – Boyer Lectures Peter Conrad is doing this year’s Boyer Lectures on Radio National. The 40 year old lecture series is a commentary by prominant Australians. Conrad is a Professor of Literature at Oxford at was born in Tasmania (he was a Rhodes Scholar like Richard Flanagan). His book ‘Down Home’is about returning…