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 [...]

Crossroads 2010

I’ve just spent an amazing few days in Hong Kong with the ACS Chair, Ferda Keskin, meeting with the conference organisers for Crossroads 2010. Lingnan University will be the hosts and I have to admit being extremely excited after seeing the facilities, meeting with staff and hearing plans for the program. We’ll be able to [...]

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 [...]

Phew

That was close. Lots of deadlines to start the year, but now they’re mostly out of the way I can take a minute to catch up with myself. It’s probably obvious that since moving to the beach I’ve been quite reluctant to stay inside blogging after hours, with visitors and the magnificent Leonard Cohen entertaining [...]

Farewell 2008, AKA Facebook isn’t working

The next few days I’m sitting out the remainder of a month long stint in my home town, Hobart. Today I got back from Bruny Island, where I grew up, having spent the best part of a week there with my family sampling the delights of Cloudy Bay Lagoon. Thanks to William’s culinary skillz, fresh [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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