The question of whether people who stutter are generally more anxious than people who do not stutter has not yet been resolved. One major methodological barrier to determining whether differences exist has been the type ...

The paper discusses a framework for the analysis of learning designs using new technologies. It takes a learner-centred view derived from literature in higher, professional and adult education. The process of developing ...

This paper examines two years of articles/texts located around the concepts of 'Arab' and 'Muslim' within Svdney 's two major daily newspapers. It finds peak issues which concentrate reporting of these concepts and it ...

This chapter examines emerging social networks as conduits for interfacing aUdiences, museums and "hot" topics in public culture. New online so~ial networks like Facebook and Twitter have been drawing a lot of attenlion ...

The paper describes a programme of research and practice in which the evaluation of interactive artworks in a public space is undertaken as part of the creative process. It explores the different perspectives involved in ...

This photo-essay explores artworks and technology that deploy touch, either literally or virtually, in order to interrogate the nature of contemporary being and meaning.

'Globalisation' and 'crisis'. The words chime throughout this book. And rightly so. My contribution adds some notions that are complementary but not identical, namely 'complex parochialism' and 'definitive instability'. The ...

After its landslide victory in the 2007 Australian Federal election which was widely described as ¿the YouTube election¿, the Rudd Labor government launched a series of trial public consultation blogs in 2008 as part of a ...

Prompted by a recent error in an Australian newspaper, by which voice-recognition technology inadvertently transformed 'average Australians' into 'average stray aliens', this paper appears as a conversation about Eurocentrism ...