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darkmatter ‘Post-racial Imaginaries’ symposium and journal relaunch

Ash Sharma — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:37:10 +0000

Update (12/05/11): Registration now closed

darkmatter journal is pleased to invite you to its first annual symposium and journal relaunch.

Post-racial Imaginaries
The symposium will focus on the theme of ‘Post-race’. Increasing reference to the notion of ‘post-race’ is suggestive…

WordPress as Academic Journal Software?

Sanjay Sharma — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:58:51 +0000

I’ve previously written about using Wordpress (WP) as a CMS; the post was really about exploring WP as a software platform for operating an online academic Journal.

In this post, I’m going to examine WP in a little more depth.…

darkmatter Journal versus Wikipedia: race and the hierarchy of knowledge

Editors — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:52:36 +0000

Our recent publication of the The Wire Files special issue was followed up by the addition of a couple of references to Wikipedia's The Wire page...However, these references were removed by a Wikipedia editor, because darkmatter was not considered to be a "reliable source".

Newsletter – June 09

Editors — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:17:20 +0000

The Wire Files - Special Issue [4]
We are pleased to announce the publication of the special issue on the critically acclaimed TV series The Wire. The Wire Files brings together an innovative range of writings addressing, through the…

darkmatter upgrade

Sanjay Sharma — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:38:41 +0000

We undertook a major update for darkmatter journal. This involved upgrading wordpress software (which is used to run the journal), and installing a new look/theme Mimbo 2.

I used a live test site, to enable the other darkmatter editors to…

Site Upgrade

Editors — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:27:11 +0000

Hello Readers

If you have visited darkmatter before, you will have noticed a new look to the site. We hope the journal website is easier to navigate and aesthetically more pleasing. The old version of the site was a little…

Wordpress as a CMS?

Sanjay Sharma — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:34:46 +0000

As the co-editor and web-admin of darkmatter, the opensource blog software platform of WordPress (WP) is used to run the journal. I’m not a proper coder, but a bit of (php, html, css) knowledge really does go a long way…

Copyfight – Forget YouTube?

Sanjay Sharma — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:02:51 +0000

There are many ‘web2.0′ video sharing/hosting sites these days, though YouTube (YT) reigns supreme. Now owned by Google, YT is becoming the search site for video.

However, if you’re intending to upload your own video, there are some serious restrictions…

What’s darkmatter about?

Editors — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:12:43 +0000

You may be wondering why we’ve called our site darkmatter?

Well, not to be directly confused with the astrophysics term of dark matter energy. Nonetheless, given that this definition involves ‘not directly observed and of unknown composition’, it’s not…