Slides of my talk 'The Paradox of Digital Modernity', delivered at the ANU School of Sociology, Australian National University, 12 October, 2026.
Digital Modernities: Why We Need to Think Historically About the Digital Age
Slides of my talk 'Digital Modernities: Why We Need to Think Historically About the Digital Age', presented by The National School of Arts and Humanities at Australian Catholic University and Thesis Eleven Journal.
Digital Modernity: Continuity and Change in the History of Technology, 1993 – 2023
Abstract and slides for my Miegunyah Public Lecture, 'Digital Modernity: Continuity and Change in the History of Technology, 1993 – 2023', delivered at the University of Melbourne, August 17th, 2023.
Old Bailey Online research in New Zealand, and a full data source
With the approval of the Old Bailey Online team, I’m happy to report that the full dataset of the Old Bailey Online can be downloaded here: http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~r.sainudiin/datasets/public/OldBailey/. More sources for the data are expected to follow but this seems a nice way to build on the work underway in New Zealand.
Introduce data mining to your History course in 2 minutes
https://www.mashape.com/ offers Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that perform common text analysis tasks, including the one we’ll use for this tutorial: Named Entity Recognition (NER). Text analysis is a good way to introduce students to data mining. You can use text documents, or a URL.