Melanie Swalwell
@melswal.bsky.social
Prof of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University. #AusEAASI Project Lead. 🖤💛❤️ ally, living and working on Wurundjeri and Dja Dja Wurrung lands.
Thanks to everyone who pledged to Region Locked today! We are doing this to have the Australian gaming community involved in the project and cannot wait to create it for you! We still have a long way to go - so please pledge, follow and share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...
Region Locked: A Documentary Series on Aussie Video Games
'Region Locked' tells the story of the Australian video game industry and the legends that formed it.
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The zero sum argument is so deceptive, and wrong on this issue of AI training: we currently have a licensing system that works nicely. But according to the ABC, “Supporters of reform claim…jobs and businesses move offshore and Australian creatives receive nothing”. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...?
A 60-year-old law could decide if Australia gets billions in AI investments
Tens of billions of dollars in investment, and Australia's ambition to become a global AI power, could hinge on a law written in 1968 for an era of black-and-white television, film and radio.
abc.net.au
🚨Australia's taxpayer-funded Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal remains a top executive of major pro-Israel lobby group ECAJ. Her ECAJ role was exposed last year - yet she still holds the position. And refuses to answer Senate... theklaxon.com.au/q4oi
Segal remains Israel lobby executive, two years into role - The Klaxon
Taxpayer-funded Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal remains a top executive of a major pro-Israel lobby group, more than two years into the role.
theklaxon.com.au
I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
The campaign against Labor's tax changes has all the hallmarks of the campaign against the mining tax under Gillard. Wealth is being redistributed and those affected are doing their best to prevent it, to the detriment of everyone else. #auspol
The @australiainstitute.org.au is doing a great job explaining the significance of the budget changes, at a time when false consciousness is the prevailing wind in #auspol.
The Australia Institute@australiainstitute.org.au · 2mo ago"Oh gosh, a government doing something to help home-owners rather than investors?!" writes Chief Economist Greg Jericho. "Yes, it is possible, and that’s why we keep pushing for changes that make the economy fairer and our society better." Read the full piece ➡️ https://theaus.in/4xv5w1B
while government/universities are getting research output for bottom-dollar, because of goodwill and sweat equity students/staff put in, it won’t change. also, isn’t it so weird the argument huge salaries are “essential to aTtrACt tOp tAlEnt” to university VC roles never applies to PhD students?! 🤔🤔
Very cool! Electric buses in Barcelona charge via an ultra-fast overhead 'pantograph'. Charge speed is up to 500kW, charging batteries to 80% in 5 to 8 minutes. www.endesa.com/en/projects/...
Next stop: ultrafast charging in Barcelona
The H16 line has the first ultra-fast charging point using a pantograph for electric buses installed in Spain and one of the first in Europe.
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.@GetUp.org.au are running a campaign petitioning the Federal government to regulate the building of new data centres. Sign here: getup.org.au/campaigns/big-tech/data-centres/stop-the-data-drain
Stop the Data Drain
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
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Calling artists with content on Floppies or CD-ROMs*!! The Digital Heritage Lab is sharing access to our specialist disk imaging equipment. We will show you how to preserve your obsolete disks* (CD-ROMs, Floppies, Zips). The #AusEAASI website has details: auseaasi.org/artist-outre...
Artist Outreach | The Australian Emulation Network
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A delightful read. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...
I touched a ZX Spectrum for the first time in decades – and I liked it | Dominik Diamond
Meeting ‘my people’ – video gamers with very long memories – took me back to an era of machine play that lacked megabytes but had far more tangible presence
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Anthony has done terrific journalism that #auspol desperately needs. Please support this fundraiser if you can, now.
Anthony Klan@anthonyklan.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨WE'RE LIVE! The doubling of donations has started. Please act now so we can secure as much of the bonus funding on offer as possible. Every single cent raised goes directly to funding our quality, truly independent Australian journalism. Thank you! 👉 theklaxon.presspatron.com
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I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).
IrishPhilosophy@irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 3mo agoDoes anyone know what's happened to the Irish Legislation Database? When I go to www.qub.ac.uk/ild/ I get a not found message and a search isn't yielding anything. @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Panicking just a little here...
The recording of my keynote from the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Videogame Preservation symposium in March 2026 is here: youtu.be/vuSH8QYlqUs?... #vgpres26
Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches - Introduction and Keynote
YouTube video by Digital Scholarship at Oxford
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Digital Scholarship at Oxford@discoxford.bsky.social · 3mo agoAfter our Games Preservation online event on the 12th March we have made the full day of recordings available on YouTube. You can find the full playlist of recordings here:
Hooray!! We have needed an orphan works provision in Australia for a long time.
Elliott Bledsoe@elliottbledsoe.bsky.social · 4mo agoWoah, the Copyright Amendment Bill 2026 passed the Senate today meaning Australia will very soon have a scheme limiting remedies available when users use orphan works. www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... #Copyright #OrphanWorks #CopyrightLawReform
THREAD Doomscroll THIS Hey we get it. It's dark out there. But there's so much good stuff going on too. Here's a timeline cleanse courtesy of the endless determination of the world's researchers. 1/18
Melanie Swalwell, Professor of Digital Media Heritage at Swinburne University in Melbourne, opens the conference with a talk on games preservation in Australia. I feel oddly patriotic for some reason seeing 1990s Aussie games in emulation & preservation. #vgpres26
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Calling artists with content on Floppies or CD-ROMs*!! The Digital Heritage Lab is sharing access to our specialist disk imaging equipment. We will show you how to preserve your obsolete disks* (CD-ROMs, Floppies, Zips). The #AusEAASI website has details: auseaasi.org/artist-outre...
Artist Outreach | The Australian Emulation Network
auseaasi.org
I'm delighted to be keynoting next Thursday at the Online Symposium "Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches" organised by the Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. I will present on "Play It Again" & the #AusEAASI network. @aarnet.edu.au www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...
Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches, an Online Symposium
digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk
Congrats to @brewster.kahle.org for being named to the Computer History Museum 2026 Fellows! "For pioneering roles in online search engines, and in digital preservation and open access to knowledge provided by the Internet Archive" More info ➡️ computerhistory.org/2026-fellow-...
Following on from the signing of Treaty last month, the Victorian state government today offered a formal apology to First Peoples, recognising past injustices. It's well worth watching. Allan has my respect. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Victorian government makes historic apology to Aboriginal people
The Victorian government makes a historic apology to Aboriginal Victorians, in one of the first public acts to follow the signing of the state's treaty agreement.
abc.net.au
Covert Action in Chile: The Significance of the Church Committee Report 50 Years Later nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Covert Action in Chile: The Significance of the Church Committee Report 50 Years Later
Washington D.C. December 4, 2025 - Fifty years ago today, Senator Frank Church convened the first public congressional hearing ever held on CIA covert operations to overthrow a foreign government, fo...
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This is why I mask, because I don’t want Long Covid (or worse).
World Health Network@thewhn.bsky.social · 8mo agoCOVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
DPC Blog: Call for comments on a new guide to help you copy those floppies https://www.dpconline.org/blog/call-for-comments-on-a-new-floppy-disk-guide thanks to #FutureNostalgia led by @makethecatwise #DigiPres
Call for comments on a new floppy disk guide - Digital Preservation Coalition
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We are delighted to team up with @europeana.bsky.social supporting a webinar on November 26, 2025, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. CET, on the significance of #computergames as and for #culturalheritage. The webinar is aimed at professionals in the #GLAMsector. Registration is free of charge.
Europeana@europeana.bsky.social · 9mo ago🎮🗓️ Video games are an engaging way to interact with cultural heritage. Join us and speakers from @efgamp.bsky.social on 26 November as we explore the video game as a cultural artefact in its own right. Sign up now 👉 bit.ly/4p9fYqF
The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken. “New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
rnz.co.nz
