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 [...]

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 [...]

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 — [...]

Settling

2008 marks my fifth year in Brisbane, and by the end of February I will have been here longer than I lived in Sydney. Given how much I have struggled to embrace Brisbane as a long-term location, that’s quite a psychological turning point for me to wrestle with. A few things have conspired recently that [...]

An introduction to affect

With one project finally off my whiteboard for good, it’s getting to crunch time for The Affect Reader, as Greg and I try to get a full draft to Duke in time for peak commissioning season in the US. My most recent experience of academic presses in the States was frustrating, and as an Australian [...]

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