Planning and padding
Posted on August 31st, 2006, under Research, Academia
After a quick trip home to Hobart last week, I’ve spent today trying to take stock of the many, many projects I seem to have on the boil. It looks as though I’ll be talking at this conference a couple of days before AoIR kicks off, so September is going to be a busy month. The first paper will be on the aestheticisation of flexible work in new media advertising - more of the theoretical background for my new media and work project. The AoIR paper I’ve mentioned here before, and having given a lecture on blogging this week, I’m even more convinced of the relevance of subcultural theory for what I’m trying to argue in that paper. I’m having a bit of a resurgence of interest in subcultural studies reading this book, and thinking about the review of cultural studies course offerings I’m currently involved in at work. But I’ll write about the paper more when I’ve got the headspace. For now, it’s back to the CV padding. I’m currently rewriting my APD proposal into two separate postdoctoral fellowship applications given the very small success rate for APDs. The word is that the success rate is lower this year, even though the number of APDs awarded is likely to increase. Academic life is full of lengthy drawn-out procedure, but seven months is a really long time to wait to find out about a job! At least it’s given me plenty of time to plan my paper on the affect of ARC applications. The working title - based on the password everyone gets as their first GAMS ID - is ‘Confessions of a Lucky First’.
On September 1st, 2006 at 7:54 am, glen said:
I really like the Geoff Stahl piece in the _After Subcultures_ book. That is where I derive the initial concept of the ’scene’ from, and then expand it with notions from enthusiast discourse of affect and different spatial and intensive scales/mappings. Then I set it up in opposition to ‘markets’ as another way to arrange the constellation of the heterogeneous elements of enthusiast assemblages… yep.
Besides the straight summary articles at the start or the stuff that largely appears elsewhere (goth stuff in his book) I found the rest to be a bit of a mixed bag, don’t you think? You’ve got different interests to me so some stuff I didn’t find useful you may have. Which bits did you find productive?
(btw, Stahl’s essay in the _post-Subcultures Reader_ is also a good summary, albeit a few years old now, of subcultural theory. the second ed of the subcultural theory reader (2006) didn’t strike me as worth $70 or whatever it was)
On September 1st, 2006 at 9:18 am, melgregg said:
Yeah, I liked the first two chapters because they were good summaries. The goth chapter was interesting too - although mostly because it reassured me about my methodology (or perceived lack thereof) in studying blogging. I’ve been worried about those kinds of issues lately. Haven’t been able to read all of it as I passed it on to someone else who needs it too!
Scenes and markets… hmm… necessarily opposing notions?