• Announcing DH Awards 2012 open for voting!

    Announcing DH Awards 2012 open for voting!

    It our pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2012 is open for voting! Digital Humanities Awards are a new set of annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH…

  • Fitzroy, Melbourne, November, 2001: oral history archive

    Fitzroy, Melbourne, November, 2001: oral history archive

    Milkbar: The Everyday City and Globalisation was a project that sought to uncover some of the stories and concerns of some of the residents of Fitzroy, an inner-city Australian community. The videos assembled here are part of a larger project completed in October 2002 (more details below). Forty four people within the suburb were interviewed…

  • Berlin Wall, 1990

    This is a picture of me at the Berlin Wall, August 1990. I am presently updating my personal archive and in the process digitising my analogue travel pictures and putting them on Flikr. Hardwork! Many of these I have placed on the Flikr stream on the bottom of the side-bar on this blog, but I…

  • Digital Humanties & Learning environments

    I wrote about this some time ago; about the connection between eLearning (blended learning etc.) and the Digital Humanities.  The problem is that the connection is a weak one and should be further developed. I know of very few Digital Humanities modules or plugins etc. that are be used in existing learning environments such as…

  • Envisioning the Digital Humanities (DHQ Article, Patrik Svensson)

    This is the last of a series of articles on DHQ exploring debates within and about the digital humanities Over the last couple of years, it has become increasingly clear that the digital humanities is associated with a visionary and forward-looking sentiment, and that the field has come to constitute a site for far-reaching discussions…

  • The Future of the Internet: Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace Jonathan Zittrain

    I was lucky enough to see this presentation in London a couple of years back. I am re-visiting it as I am doing some work on the governance of death and dying online that includes social software.