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Digital Culture lecture series

The Library’s Information Technology Division regularly hosts lectures on a variety of topics relating to digital culture. Below are podcasts of some of the most popular sessions.

deBroglio

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Dr Strangelove or: how I learnt to stop worrying and love the gov

Contributor: National LibraryPublications
Date published: Tue, 28 Sep 2009
Duration: 1:01:00
Format: mp3 audio Flash video 158.2 Mb

Bernard de Broglio, Internet Coordinator at Mosman Council, presents some of his stories of internet life at the local level. Bernard works at the Library within Mosman Council and is doing some amazing things using the web for community engagement.

oates

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Human traffic, general public

Contributor: National Library Information Technology
Date published: Friday, 4 Dec 2008
Duration: 1:01:00
Format: mp3 audio

George Oates gives an insightful overview of the Commons on Flickr and the opportunities it presents for users to interact with the world's public photography archives.

baldwin

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Information access in technical and scientific literature:  search and you may possibly find

Contributor: National Library Information Technology
Date published: Friday, 27 Jun 2008
Duration: 55:24
Format: mp3 audio

Timothy Baldwin presents a frank and accessible account of text-mining techniques developed to enhance information access.

rimmer

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Back to the future: copyright law, Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine

Source: National Library Information Technology
Date published: Friday, 3 Apr 2008
Duration: 59:61
Format: mp3 audio

Dr Matthew Rimmer talks about the need to reform digital copyright laws so that digital libraries, such as Internet Archive, can flourish without fear of disruption from copyright owners.

mayne

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Online journalism and its impact on traditional media

Source: National Library Information Technology
Date published: Friday, 29 Aug 2007
Duration: 1:03:00
Format: mp3 audio

Crikey.com founder Stephen Mayne assesses how online journalism is fundamentally changing traditional media and whether any of the so-called 'user-generated content' of Web 2.0 should even be called journalism.

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