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Asha Achuthan has an interesting series of posts over at the CIS website, a work in progress that she writes will: lay down the historical and geo-political contexts for the use of technology in India engage with existing concepts like context, postcoloniality,
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One of the conceptual issues that I explore in the first chapter of my thesis is the relationship between 'online' and 'offline' spaces. While a lot of valuable work has been done on the connections and overlaps between these spaces, I think there's still
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Subtitle: Dear UWA, please stop using proprietary software. Alternate subtitle: Why my decision not to use Endnote now gives me a smug sense of satisfaction. Liz has been extolling the virtues of Zotero for a while now. It's a free Firefox plugin that
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Last night I went to the first of three sessions on Biological Art that SymbioticA is running through UWA Extension . I've been writing a lot about science and technology (or, rather, 'technoscience', to use a rather muddy concept developed by Latour
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There are millions of children around the world that don't have access to the basic necessities of life - enough food, clean water, healthcare, education, security. So it seems a little crazy that the One Laptop Per Child Foundation is trying to not only
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I've been sick for the last week, and my head has been too full of cotton wool for any very productive time to be spent in front of my computer. I'm perfectly capable of sucking in information, like some kind of academic sea sponge, but when it comes
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I've started learning to use a dvorak layout keyboard, and I ended up ranting about it a bit. There's apparently a fairly interesting and persuasive zine about it around the place somewhere, but I wanted to say a bit about why I decided to learn. There's
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