Author: Craig
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New Book: Digital Scholarship
A interesting new book on Digital Scholarship was released in December called ‘Digital Scholarship’; edited by Marta Mestrovic Deyrup. I haven’t ordered, read, and reviewed this book as yet (it doesn’t come cheap at 57 pounds). What I see as one of the grand challenges of digital resources and scholarship is developing an explicit understanding
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GRIT 02: Illusions of Homogeneity
Let’s hope that the grand dreams of eResearch aren’t about ‘research homogeneity’ as cultural homogeneity may have become the case in other areas of cultural activity (thanks to Andrew Garton, the performer, for the link). GRIT 02 examines the death of analogue broadcasting by way of readings from numerous sources describing the process of enclosure
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‘I believe in the genital organs of great men and women…’
The sad death of a great humanist. RIP JG Ballard. (Thanks to Gabriel B for the link)
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Twitter activism
(picture from the Independent) This story is from the Guardian, then to the Melbourne Age, then to this blog. I am not sure if this was truly ‘twitter activism’ as the story claims; but still the nativity in which many institutions approach Web 2.0 and its potential for political mobilisation astonished me. All technology is
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Look at this *ing hipster!
Ok, who says blogging has to be serious? (thanks to Mary-Anne Breeze (Mez), facebook).