home cooked theory

Next project

Lots happening on the book front this week, which I’ll post about separately. For now, I just wanted to mention that I’ve updated my current research section to include a description of the project I hope to do next year while on sabbatical. ‘Work Smarter, Not Harder’ extends some of my previous work on technology [...]

Rethinking Convergence/Culture

Just doing some tidying up around here – and thought it worth mentioning that the new issue of Cultural Studies is out. This double issue, edited by Nick Couldry and James Hay, is a response to the “convergence culture” theory. It has some fantastic papers: RETHINKING CONVERGENCE/CULTURE An introduction James Hay & Nick Couldry MORE [...]

Sydney MACS

On Wednesday I am planning the launch of Sydney MACS – a cross-institutional network of media and cultural studies researchers. This is another branch of the network I first started in Brisbane back in 2004 (remember?!), and which my mates Ellie and Jinna have now extended to Melbourne. This blurb from the Facebook group explains [...]