Monthly Archives: August 2011

Registration extended

Posted on August 26, 2011 by cyTHATCamp

Registration will remain open for a while longer. (We’re really not very strict about deadlines!) Do be on time on the first day though, because that’s when we’ll be putting together the program. Many thanks to those of you who … Continue reading →

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E-books vs. Printed books: is reading changing and how we define it?

Posted on August 24, 2011 by snurfson

Essentially the two formats are quite similar; both allow you to do one thing: read. But the act of reading from a printed manuscript is essentially different if not more ‘authentic’ from reading the same hypertext from a device in … Continue reading →

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On museum upgrades

Posted on August 23, 2011 by chrystalleni

A while back I was talking with a museum professional about this sense that I have and I know others share, to do with Cypriot Museums (state museums especially) ‘not moving with the times’, and I was trying to understand … Continue reading →

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Cypriot Archives

Posted on August 23, 2011 by VSMSLab

Perhaps it would be useful to have a conversation about the difficulties faced by Archives today in Cyprus. It would be especially valuable for us at the Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab to share a few thoughts around how … Continue reading →

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Layered

Posted on August 11, 2011 by hadjichristos

My suggestion is let’s get layered! I would be interested to discuss layering as a theoretical concept, a feature in design-related and other software, and as a perceptual mechanism.

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Academia in the fore! Crowdsourcing and disaster management.

Posted on August 3, 2011 by alexapostolides

Hi all, This is my first time in a Thatcamp and I fully support new ways of looking at issues. There has been a growing concern on two aspects of academic discourse: 1) the delay between research and publication time … Continue reading →

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