Welcome homotectonic and thoughts on academic blogging

At the risk of aggravating my loyal spambots still further, I wanted to share the great news that my colleague Kane Race has started a blog, homotectonic. It’s partly to document work that’s emerging from his new ARC Discovery project, ‘Changing Spaces of HIV Prevention: a cultural analysis of transformations in sexual sociability among gay [...]

Facebook, binge drinking, young women

I’ve just uploaded a revised version of “The Pedagogy of Regret: Facebook, binge drinking and young women” a paper co-authored with one of our GCS graduate students, Rebecca Brown. I’m so grateful to Rebecca for her work on this and the experience of collaborating together. It’s taught me a lot about the difficulty of writing [...]

Lost in The Suburbs

So the paper I am currently writing is about Mad Men, commuter narratives, the suburbs and this website (for some reason I seem to be on a run of articles analysing viral marketing campaigns. Not sure why that’s the case…) The paper is called “The Return of Organization Man” and I’m just trying to figure [...]

Notes from Geert Lovink’s Sydney talk

Last week’s lecture by Geert Lovink at UTS covered a lot of territory that I didn’t record, including an overview of the research initiatives taking place at the Institute of Network Cultures. This is nothing like a summary, then; I just wanted to note some of the projects and websites he mentioned in the spirit [...]

Blogging and PhD

Any tips about blogging and using blogging as a part of your PhD?

Telephutures

Thanks to Andrew Davies and Antony Funnell for inviting me to be on Future Tense today. You can hear the program, “Ditching the Landline”, on the ABC website. It was a nice coincidence to arrive at work to a copy of Genevieve Bell’s final report for the Adelaide Thinkers in Residence Program, Getting Connected, Staying [...]

Thinking culture now updating

Just to cross-promote to readers who may be interested, the GCS blog, Thinking Culture, is now up and running again. I’m hoping some of you will be keen to subscribe to that feed in addition to this one. As well as offering a space for students and staff in our Department to write, I’m trying [...]

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 [...]

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