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Book Review of Matthew K. Golds (2012) Debates in the digital humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Matthew K. Gold (ed.). (2012). Debates in the digital humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816677955.516 pages. USD 34.95. Matthew K. Gold has brought together several leading figures in Debates in the Digital Humanities in a broad-ranging collection of articles that outline the contested, eclectic, and progressing landscape of computing in the humanities. At…
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Gov Hack: What party am I?
This is a project in which I was involved over the weekend at GovHack (in Melbourne). It was a really good event. The two guys in the video did all the hard work; I was the story teller (and was at a wedding most of the weekend whilst they did all the coding). Also, check…
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Jed the Humanoid
Last night something pretty bad happened. We lost a friend, All shocked and broken, Shut down, exploded. JED-E3 is what we first called him. Then it was “Jed,” But Jed’s system’s dead. Therefore, so’s Jed. We assembled him in the Kitchen, Made out of this and Made out of that and Whatever was at hand.…
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Review: Seminar, Training, and Large Collaborative Projects, Lynne and Ray Siemens
I recently attended a seminar at UWS on Friday, 26 April 2013, led by Lynne and Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria in Canada. The event’s theme was collaboration in the humanities and, in particular, how digital humanities projects exemplify practical cooperation in broader societies. This is because digital humanities projects often cross disciplines,…
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Australian Wikileaks Party launch
The Australian Wikileaks Party Senate campaign was launched on Saturday (6 April 2013) in Fitzroy, Melbourne. The Campaign manager is Greg Barnes, and the party’s secretary is John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father. The party is a welcome entry into the Australian political landscape, bringing a whole new dimension of openness and a unique style of…
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Manifesto of the Digital Humanities
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Digital Humanities is not the humanities nor anti-humanities >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Examples of Digital Humanities Can look like the humanities but are not the humanities. We believe that the context of the works of digital humanities is already the humanities The context for the Digital Humanities is nothing but the humanities Pieces of Digital Humanities…
