home cooked theory

Seminar on the music industry tomorrow

At the last minute I’ve been asked to chair this seminar tomorrow which might interest some of you locals. Professor Richard Peterson, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, will speak on “The Changing Structure of the Popular Music Industry”:
Thursday 27th September 2.00-3.30pm
Room 302, East Wing Level 3 Forgan Smith Building, St Lucia Campus, UQ
The [...]

Zero Comments: Selections so far

Geert Lovink’s latest book is entertaining preparation for the blogging conference. I don’t often follow all of Geert’s writing because I’m not sufficiently attached to the same anarcho- artist- activist scenes, but when he does cover topics that cross over with mine I find his voice an incredibly refreshing mixture of gross generalisation, useful new [...]

Archiving, blogging and research

On Friday Home Cooked Theory was approached by the State Library of Queensland to be included as part of the National Library’s Pandora archive. This means the blog will now be available for the public to access in years to come. I feel incredibly humbled by this, and even more motivated to keep blogging in [...]

$55 000 to study social networking online

I’ve been keeping a big secret and now I’m finally able to spread the news. Last night my online intimacy project was given a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award! You can read all about the study here, but if you are a regular reader you’ll already know that this is the spin-off project from my [...]

You Decide

It’s the Brisbane Writers Festival and the Valley Fiesta this weekend – just as the weather looks like warming up for good this time. I actually can’t find much I’d like to go to at either, but I’ll be heading to the Crikey session this afternoon to support discussion of alternative publishing. I noticed last [...]

Affective labour on social networking sites

The discussion currently taking place on the cultstud list about self-branding on social networking sites bears interesting relation to the similar spate of posts on fibreculture recently. Both developed out of efforts on the part of some members to develop relevant discussion groups on Facebook, and my initial response has been to wonder why lists [...]

What I am and am not doing

For the past week I’ve been doing the revisions for my paper ‘Freedom to Work: The impact of wireless on labour politics’ for the MIA issue I’m editing with Gerard Goggin. The process has led to some deep introspection about my own work habits, particularly the amount of time I spend “online” and why (hence [...]