home cooked theory

Consuming drugs, books, tele

I’ve just uploaded our co-authored article, “Underbelly, true crime and the cultural economy of infamy” on the Other Writing page. We would welcome any feedback while it’s under peer review, especially since there will likely be more to this project than just one paper. Thanks to Tim Laurie for so much help with the background [...]

Mid-semester break

I have a little break from teaching now and will be a) catching up on a few ongoing projects b) having a birthday holiday!
Some of you would have heard the interview I did on Radio National yesterday about Facebook in the workplace, which drew on the material mentioned here a few weeks ago. Thanks [...]

Suggested reading: online friends and intimacies

Just in time for my course outline, a fantastic manifesto addressing the limits of online social networking on Geert Lovink’s blog. A taste:
Social networks register a ‘refusal of work’. But our net-time, after all, is another kind of labour. Herein lies the perversity of social networks: however radical they may be, they will always [...]

Story of my life

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

Grizzling about Facebook notes

These are my notes from Meaghan Morris’s talk earlier this month. They are very impressionistic, so please don’t take them to be accurate, i.e. quotable. If you were there please do amend and develop if you can and continue the conversation. I’ve left out a whole set of contextual references to William Gibson, Miranda Devine, [...]

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 [...]

Good trip

I haven’t yet had a chance to say thanks to Adrian and my other generous hosts at Monash last week… even though the Qantas debacle meant I was a little bit late and spent most of the day in transit everyone made me feel very welcome and not too much of a screen studies amateur. [...]

Publish

A couple of publishing things to share! I am so happy to see that ‘The Normalization of Flexible Female Labour in the Information Economy’ has just been published in the latest Feminist Media Studies. I haven’t been making a habit of on-blog spruiking lately, but right now, a little overwhelmed by a number of half-finished, [...]

A screen without a mouse: On TV bashing

**This post is also a response to the Passion Quilt Meme. I tag Supervalent Thought, Purse Lip Square Jaw, Unemployed at Last!, and tactical.**
Some people will have seen that one of UQ’s most respected television scholars made the editorial of Brisbane’s Courier Mail on Friday, after giving an address to The Sopranos conference at Fordham [...]

Writing vs. blogging vs. life

I have been in Tasmania for the past week hanging out with friends and family and drinking lots of local Pinot! At the moment I’m on Bruny Island where I grew up, and this morning I drove over a mountain to go to yoga in a place called Adventure Bay. I could hear the waves [...]

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