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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 [...]

Checking in and checking out

In another instance of outsourcing labour and discharging accountability, Qantas now encourages customers to check in online the night before a flight to prevent the likelihood that your seat will be given to someone else. The company’s policy to routinely oversell flights is now taken to be our responsibility; merely showing up on time for [...]

Twitter whores and Facebook flakes

I wish I’d seen this before my “Always On” talk. Would have helped in question time.

Part Two is also pretty funny. I got this from a comment on Mark Deuze’s Facebook page – it was offered by one of his friends as an initiation present.
Mark’s blogpost this week makes me realise I’m not [...]

Work on TV

This time next week I’ll be in Melbourne speaking at Monash University’s Film and Television series, Under Construction. Loyal Home Cooked Theory reader and brilliant film scholar Adrian Martin has generously invited me to share some of the thinking behind one of my current projects, “Work on TV.”
This will be an early version of [...]

Always on: the take homes

Last week I gave a paper in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies’ regular Tuesday seminar series. It introduced a number of the themes emerging from two rounds of interviews for my research fellowship.
Presence bleed: Because a lot of previous studies of home-working focus on ‘teleworkers’ or ‘remote workers’ I introduced the term [...]

Day Three – Outreach

Guest post by Clif Evers. Clif is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. He is Co-Editor of Kurungabaa – A journal of literature, history and ideas for surfers, and Altitude – A journal for emerging humanities research in Australia. Clif co-convenes the ‘early [...]

Always on: the seminar

CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES
PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES for 2008
Tuesday 9th September 2.00-3.30pm
Dr Melissa Gregg
Always On: Coping with Constant Connectivity
Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room
Level 1 Duhig Building (Bldg 2) St Lucia Campus [See Map]
Abstract:
While expensive advertising campaigns continue to promote the benefits of new media technologies, particularly for time-poor executives [...]

Anticipatory affects in the workplace

There’s a separate symposium I’m speaking at in Melbourne called “Affect and the Human/ Machine Interface” which is being organised by Fiona Brideoake and the Minds, Bodies, Machines ARC Linkage Project. The event features Ian Horswill as plenary speaker on Tuesday afternoon, as well as a bunch of other very interesting looking sessions. I’m presenting [...]

Uncreative workplaces

Below is the text from my talk at last week’s cci conference, “Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons”. Thanks to the participants of my study for allowing me to publish this. Given the overall tone of the event, and the upbeat nature of many presentations in the Workplace Futures stream, I think it’s important for [...]

Facebook journalism, continued

The recent post about Rudd’s social networking strategy is now available over at Online Opinion. Since I wrote the piece there have been some pretty spectacular examples of Facebook journalism–the most notable being The Courier Mail’s massive headline last Saturday, June 7: “FACEBOOK MURDER”. The web version of the story includes a link to the [...]

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