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‘Cyber-safety’: what are we actually talking about?
By Glen Fuller, University of Canberra This article was written by Fibreculture editor Glen Fuller and originally published by The Conversation. It has some relevance to Issue 22:Trolls and the Negative Space of the Internet that Glen co-edited with Jason Wilson and Christain McCrea and is republished here with permission under a CC-BY-ND licence. Please see The Conversation for terms and conditions of republishing this article. The rise of social media tools and accessories has allowed us to be “always on” and “always connected”. The impact of this technological change is primarily social, and so far our communities have not come to terms with what these changes mean. The increased degree of contact poses a number of serious challenges for established social norms of civility. The federal government’s current discussion paper about cyber-safety is concerned with the “cyber-safety” of children. As Paul Fletcher, parliamentary secretary to communications minister Malcolm Turnbull,…
Why experiment? A critical analysis of the values behind digital scholarly publishing
This is the introduction to a paper published at the Open Reflections blog published by Janneke Adema who is completing a PhD at Coventry University. Janneke discusses our own Open Humanities Press amongst other examples in an account of digital publishing in the humanities as performing an experimental role rather than simply and instrumental one. Janneke Adema holds an MA in History, an MA in Philosophy (both University of Groningen) and, an MA in Book and Digital Media Studies (Leiden University). She has been conducting research for the OAPEN project from 2008 to 2010. Her research for this project focused on user needs and publishing models concerning Open Access books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her current research concentrates on the influence of online information transmission on research practices within the Humanities and on the way the monograph, as an important form of scholarly communication in this field, is being produced and…
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