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Sue Thomas: The Digital Life - 27/June/2005
Empowering others to take risks, to engage with their possible by Randy Adams
To Be or Not to Be Free - 31/January/2005
Setting up a payment system for online new media writing is a calculated risk by Edward Picot
Who is Jami Carelli? For a brief moment, spam became entertainment - 20/January/2005
Few things are as unbecoming as a worm-filled, virus-spreading, or spy-bot-launching message from a lady by Kate Baggott
Journalism that Clicks - 12/November/2004
Journalism teacher Thom Lieb discusses online news sites that fulfil the promise of the web
Are cell phones new media? - 29/October/2004
Adriana de Souza e Silva, winner of the New Media Article Writing Competition in the Opinion category, writes about hybrid communities and collective authorship
Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs - 25/June/2004
Kate Baggott writes that blogs are "the only sign of the new revolution, the new democracy, and the new nervous system" Winner of the New Media Article Writing Competition, Editor's Choice Award
Documentary Websites - 29/January/2004
Hyperliterature writer Edward Picot takes a look at documentary websites and investigates the effect of political bias and propaganda on online documentation
At Large in Cyberspace - 09/December/2003
At Large in Cyberspace: trAce's Associate Editor Randy Adams shares a day in the cyber office
Capitalism, Computers and the Class War on Your Desktop - 07/November/2003
Virtuality, and the weightless, frictionless, post-industrial information economy notwithstanding, there is a real world out there, and capitalism is trashing it - with our computers By Bob Hughes
Data and Narrative: Location Aware Fiction - 31/October/2003
New media artist Kate Armstrong investigates the possibilities and potential of location aware narrative
Women and the Aesthetics of New Media - 20/June/2003
A short history of the significance of women's involvement in new media
By Carol Gigliotti
Children’s Hypermedia on the Web - 30/April/2003
What sort of hypermedia is on the web for children? Is there a commercial market for it? Will hypermedia ever replace books?
By Karen King
Oh Google, how do I love thee? - 11/February/2003
At Large in Cyberspace - a declaration of love for Auntie Google
By Pauline Masurel.
At Large in Cyberspace - 14/January/2003
First in an occasional series
by Randy Adams
Interview with Mark Tribe of Rhizome - 03/December/2002
Membership fees - to be or not to be?
Reluctant Writers - 29/October/2002
Does ICT raise standards?
by Carrie McMillan
Flash Poetry - 01/October/2002
A favourite tool for generating and presenting animated poetry.
by Peter Howard
No Visible Means of Support - 21/August/2002
Is there any money in new media writing?
by Sue Thomas
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