Social networks: The demise of gender?

Feminist Media Studies is asking for work in progress and short debate pieces inspired by researching Web 2.0. In particular, the editors ask: How do we theorize gender in the context of the rise of participatory, interactive internet interfaces, such as social networking sites, blogs and even e-governance? What implications does the rise of social [...]

On not being a public intellectual

What might appear as an in-joke on the previous post is alluding to one of the sessions at the Sustaining Cultural Research day last week in Adelaide. Unfortunately due to a series of conspiring factors there was quite a bit of repetition in the advice and the preoccupations of the speakers on the day, with [...]

Under the pump: PR poetry

Think outside the square A picture paints a thousand words You’re not getting any love You have to be your own self-promoter The man out front Taking one for the team What flies and what dies Piggy-backing Gate-crashing Presser Snapper Have to keep putting yourself out there!

Masterclass with Charlotte Brunsdon, Feb 08

Television in Transition: Crime and Cookery a Masterclass with Professor Charlotte Brunsdon When and where: Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane Monday 18 & Tuesday 19 February 2008 The ARC Cultural Research Network is seeking applications from postgraduates and early career researchers who wish to take part in one of a [...]

Masterclass with David Morley, Feb 08

Mediations: Demographies, Geographies and Technologies a Masterclass with Professor David Morley Department of Media and Communications Goldsmiths College, University of London When and where: Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta 13 & 14 February 2008 The ARC Cultural Research Network is seeking applications from postgraduates and early career researchers who wish to [...]

Sustaining Cultural Research

Below and here is the program for Wednesday’s professional development day – the pre-conference being held the day before CSAA. I am on last! So my thoughts on ‘the way forward’ for public intellectualism will probably be ‘in the direction of the pub’. I am still gathering my notes together and feel quite conscious that [...]

Hot off the press

The special issue of Media International Australia I edited with Gerard Goggin arrived this week. Admire the beautifully Australian backyard aesthetic captured here by Kat! We are so happy to have her work on the cover because we think it symbolises our aims for the issue: to begin a rigorous local discussion about wireless infrastructure [...]