Category: digital humanities
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Review: Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology
One of the most productive things I have done during Melbourne’s lockdown is read Thomas Piketty’s latest work, Capital and Ideology (Harvard University Press, 2020). It is undoubtedly not the most leisurely book to read, at 1150 pages, dense with footnotes, appendices, and graphs, spanning a three-hundred-year period, multiple countries, and the fields of economics…
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Building a moral operating system for IT students: pedagogies and problems
(This is a paper I will co-present at an applied ethics conference in Melbourne in December. Ethics in IT has become a huge deal! Dr Craig Bellamy, Lecturer, CSU Study Centre Melbourne, Nectarios Costadopoulos, Lecturer, CSU Study Centre, Sydney 9th Annual Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN) Conference, Melbourne, 8-10 December 2019 In this paper, we…
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Black Cat Fitzroy
I’ve been visiting the Black Cat Fitzroy for as long as I can remember. The first time I came to this bohemian dive was sometime around 1988. It has managed to reinvent and reinvigorate itself, perhaps a little more than I have. It was one of the original cafes in the district that helped build…
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Digital Humanities Australasia Conference, Hobart 20-23 JUNE 2016
Registrations are now open for Digital Humanities Australasia, Hobart, 20-23 June 2016
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What are Open Educational Resources?
As the name suggests, Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available resources for learning and teaching, such as documents, videos, syllabi, software, and images. The advantage for educators is that these resources may be deposited, shared and re-used, thus saving time in creating new courses or updating existing methods (also, the promotion of the particular…
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Digital Humanities Melbourne in the Pub (7 May 2014)
Dear Melbourne DH folk, Following the DHA 2014 conference in Perth, a group of us are keen to start a regular Melbourne get-together for people working in and around the digital humanities, with the working title: “DH at the Pub”. Our first session is proposed for Wednesday 7 May from 5:30pm at the Prince Alfred…