Category: miscellaneous

Online Images/Text – Young People

I would like your opinions on a sensitive and questionable issue that i have come across in my research. As you know, I’m focusing on attention seeking behaviours online. These behaviours are often displayed through photographs of the self (“selfies”),…

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Social Media Stars

FYI Louise- ‘need for attention’ surely fits in somewhere when you consider this!!!! http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/social-media-reality-show-to-launch-next-year/story-fni0byb4-1226677520397  

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Plagiarism in the digital age

Jason, Andi Garing and I were having a brief discussion about the concept of plagiarism, and what it means in the digital age of Google, mashups, retweeting, copy+paste. In talking to students and looking at what they do, I get…

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Target Journals for DT&T

Jason asked me to start compiling a list of Journals that our group should aim to publish in (and keep an eye out for ‘Special Issue’ call for papers that might be relevant) – please add to the list! Computers…

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Digital Research Centers

Here are some digital research centers that i like to keep up to date with, i thought some of you might too! http://www.ccam-ascor.nl/index.php/en/ “Center for Children, Adolescents and the Media” is run by the University of Amsterdam. I came across…

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Themes and site layout

As the lab website evolves and more people start generating content, we can come to a consensus about how the site should be laid out. Although I prefer the visual layout of the theme we started with, I only just…

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Are Bert and Ernie gay?

Are Bert and Ernie gay? Back in 2007, Sesame Workshop addresses the issue, saying: “[Bert and Ernie] are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. They do not exist below the waist.” Who would have thunk it –…

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Digital Technologies and Training Group

This is the new blog for the Digital Technologies and Training research group at Swinburne University of Technology. Our research spans a range of different areas, focussing on digital technologies (digital devices, social media, simulators) and training (academic training and…

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