Getting Desperate: Twitter on primetime

Last night’s episode of Desperate Housewives showed how far things have come: it included a scene that hinged on Tom’s lack of knowledge about Twitter, and hence his failure at a job interview. This shameful experience led to an extended subplot about whether or not Tom should get plastic surgery to disguise his age and [...]

Story of my life

Three hours in a Bloomsbury bookshop on the weekend and this is the result:

Rural broadband

At the end of last week I spent two days at the University of Wollongong listening to a range of stakeholders and researchers talk about broadband. The workshop was organised around the ideas of self, place and “making do” and was an effort to talk about the cultural reality of communications infrastructure in non-metro areas [...]

Glocalising sex and gender: Travel bursaries

The workshop I mentioned yesterday has just announced that there are 4 grants available for students wishing to attend the workshop, but who usually reside outside of the Sydney urban area. There is a draft of the program here for anyone who might be thinking of going. To apply for a grant, you will have [...]

Learning from Underbelly

In a couple of weeks the Television and the National conference is on at ACMI in Melbourne. I’m giving two papers. The first is the Work on TV paper I’ve mentioned here previously, and which I’ll post about separately as I add some more touches. I now have to mention Tina Fey’s Palin persona as [...]

Wired women

Another book I picked up last month in Yungaburra was Lynn Cherny and Elizabeth Reba Weise’s Wired Women collection from 1996. Subtitled “Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace”, it gives an insight into the imaginaries and experiences of women heading online when Usenet and IRC were at a peak. Having come to the internet — [...]

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 [...]

Quotes of the week

Hmm, I’d like to start a new Friday series for all of you who spend the week reading, largely on your own, for whatever work you’re doing. Wouldn’t it be nice to share with others the most interesting idea you encountered? Would it help mark the end of a long week to remember what you [...]

On not dating

Further to last week’s post (which, given that he quoted from the same article in his keynote address on Friday, made me wonder whether Sir Ken might have been reading this blog), some more thoughts on generational accounts of online culture. First up, Danah Boyd on the perils of archived romance: ‘While i’m all down [...]

Some workplace affects, 2007

1. 2. “Sure, networking is more focused in its intentions than merely hanging out with one’s friends, but that doesn’t make it crassly utilitarian. I may say to myself, “Self, you really need to increase your visibility in Sub-Subspeciality A.” But I don’t go and find all the Important People in that field and try [...]

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