A requiem for academic blogging

I’m about to post an update in preparation for next week’s SOI conference, but it seemed fitting to mention separately that an article I wrote some time ago about labour politics and academic blogging has just been published in Convergence. Well, fitting in the sense that last week I was in NYC at a conference [...]

Privacy and work

Today’s class was about intimacy and privacy, and it drew on the work of Michael Warner and Michel Foucault to talk about publics, discourse, power and confession. We read Emily Nussbaum’s article, “Kids, the Internet and the end of Privacy” which argues that the generation gap between those who up with the internet and those [...]

Some binaries I still believe in

Now I’m in Leeds where there are slightly more clouds in the sky but fewer people in the streets and that’s probably a combination I prefer. Yesterday I tested out my new HK running shoes and added another introduction to the book chapter I’m working on, precipitated by a range of conversations I’ve been having [...]

Mobile work case study

Now I’m in London I’m trying to get back to writing. I’ve recently put a book proposal together for the Working From Home project and set myself a fairly strict writing regime to try to get it done with or without a publisher. Hotel rooms in expensive cities are good for these kinds of crazy [...]

Downturns

Don’t believe Dopplr, I’m actually in Brisbane this week. It’s a nice change to be back in the humidity and the neighbourhood without the obligation of going in to the office I feel able to relax a bit and enjoy looking at things with a slightly less local lens. This is the final year of [...]

The e-waste meme

Despite being paid to study “new media” technology I have an aversion to buying it very often. I’ve only read a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes in producing digital gadgets and even this much makes me worried. I don’t like contributing to the possibly corrupt and certainly dangerous conditions faced by [...]

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 [...]

Border as method

Notes from the “Precarious Employment, Differential Inclusion and the Proliferation of Borders” seminar featuring Brett Neilson, Sandro Mezzadra and Rutvica Andrijasevic at University of Western Sydney, November 13, 2008. People seem to like notes, and blogging them helps me remember some of the ideas I’ve been hearing lately. Below is a bunch of thoughts I [...]

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 [...]

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