Contributors

Matthew Robinson

Tea and biscuits on Table Mountain.

Tea and biscuits on Table Mountain.

Education and training: Music, computer science, translation, Mandarin, Taiwanese culture and history, Chinese culture, Japanese language and culture, South African history and culture, TESOL.
Work history: Music tutoring, English tutoring, translation.
Current position: Self-employed English tutor, translator/proofreader, more-than-full-time student.

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"Tomnod is a team of volunteers (like you!) who work together to identify important objects and interesting places in satellite images. Use Tomnod to explore the Earth, solve real-world problems, ...
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From: REV,DR.JOHN H.WILLIAMS.(revdrjohnhwilliams@yahoo.com.tw) Sent: 15 October 2014 02:09:41 DEAR BENEFICIARY, I AM REV,DR.JOHN H.WILLIAMS,THE AUDITOR GENERAL OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND I WISH TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE ...
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A young opposition activist in Burma (also known as Myanmar) has recently been arrested and charged with "defamation" after she made a satirical post on Facebook mocking the country's new military ...
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"RFA is a private, nonprofit corporation that broadcasts news and information to listeners in Asian countries where full, accurate, and timely news reports are unavailable". Radio Free Asia (RFA) was ...
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British Conservative minister George Osborne's recent visit to the Xinjiang (or East Turkestan) region of China in a bid to boost economic ties between the two countries raises several questions ...
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Adriano Pedrana

Adriano PedranaEducation and training: Translation, journalism, tour guide.
Work history: Tourism marketing, video editing.
Current positions: translator and Comdev student!
Homepage: www.pedrana.it
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Would you like to 'virtually' meet and hear this blog's contributors? Join us live on our online presentation, today from 10:30am CET (9:30am UTC), on Malmo University Bambuser channel ...
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“0 (or 1, 2, 3 etc) and I am proud of it”. A few days ago, messages just like the one above started to pop up on Facebook. They all ...
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Palestine has come back to the headline news recently. To get an insider view from the Communication 4 Development point of view, you can follow live on Bambuser Malmoe Professor ...
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This piece of news may have gone unnoticed internationally: Italy's reform of the electoral law risks to be blocked by Roberto Calderoli, an MP from the opposition. At the beginning ...
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The report Blogs and Bullets, New Media in Contentious Politics focuses on the influence of new media over political movements. Its authors try to have a disenchanted look on the ...
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An image is worth a thousand words. This saying has proven dramatically true with the death of Aylan K.. You quite certainly know his story: at the beginning of September ...
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C Sharples

Education and training: Art, Design and Film History, Visual and Material Culture, Visual Media and Production, Teaching and Facilitation.
Work history: Visual Arts, Documentary Production, Cultural and Creative Coordination, Communications and Education.
Current position: Cultural and Creative Sector Development.

Recent posts:

'Do not mistake information for influence' Blogs and Bullets, Aday et al, 2010 Authority, irreverence and justice are all profoundly influential concepts and qualities. Equally important when considering influence and ...
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The rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) has taken advantage of the increasing ease with which digital technologies can be used to broadcast and interact, creating broad communities ...
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Historically, Theatre has been a tool for transmitting the moral and behavioural teachings of belief systems but also for expression, experimentation and challenging societal norms: Communicating human stories and experience ...
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The 10th annual No Boundaries conference linked Watershed, Bristol and HOME, Manchester, two UK multi-arts venues; with free online live streaming of the programme being broadcast between the two auditoriums ...
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