Colin Salter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3920629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Salter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Salter |
| SIGNATURE | SALTER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6222-3777 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inquiring into Animal Enhancement
Animals and War
Intersections of the colonial and postcolonial
The local community at Sandon Point, located in the northern suburbs of Wollongong, has engaged in a decade-long campaign to save and protect the area. In challenging a proposed residential estate, the broader community have struggled in parallel and alongside the Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy (SPATE), established in December 2000. This paper engages with the actions of the broader community in opposing the residential proposal, and how th…
Sharing music files
The sharing of music files has been the focus of a massive struggle between representatives of major record companies and artists in the music industry, on one side, and peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing services and their users, on the other. This struggle can be analysed in terms of tactics used by the two sides, which can be classified into five categories: cover-up versus exposure, devaluation versus validation, interpretation versus alternativ…
Bridging the Gap
The political context of the conversion of the Historic Tramway Bridge, adjacent to Sandon Point in Bulli (NSW, Australia), and how this was exploited to serve predetermined ends, illustrates that technologies can be designed to have particular social (and political) effects. Through reflection on this relatively small engineering project, this paper provides a concrete example of what Langdon Winner (1986) attempted to expose in his (in)famous a…
Bridging the Gap
The political context of the conversion of the Historic Tramway Bridge, adjacent to Sandon Point in Bulli (NSW, Australia), and how this was exploited to serve predetermined ends, illustrates that technologies can be designed to have particular social (and political) effects. Through reflection on this relatively small engineering project, this paper provides a concrete example of what Langdon Winner (1986) attempted to expose in his (in)famous a…
Sharing music files
The sharing of music files has been the focus of a massive struggle between representatives of major record companies and artists in the music industry, on one side, and peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing services and their users, on the other. This struggle can be analysed in terms of tactics used by the two sides, which can be classified into five categories: cover-up versus exposure, devaluation versus validation, interpretation versus alternativ…
Intersections of the colonial and postcolonial
The local community at Sandon Point, located in the northern suburbs of Wollongong, has engaged in a decade-long campaign to save and protect the area. In challenging a proposed residential estate, the broader community have struggled in parallel and alongside the Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy (SPATE), established in December 2000. This paper engages with the actions of the broader community in opposing the residential proposal, and how th…
Animals and War
Inquiring into Animal Enhancement
Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)