Is anyone thinking of going to this?

Call for Submissions Interdisciplinary Conference HDEA – TCS ICTs and Work: the United States at the Origin of the Dissemination of Digital Capitalism Université Paris Sorbonne, 29-30 May 2013 Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have revolutionized work practices: the acquisition, processing and storage of data thanks to hardware, software, and networks have changed the face [...]

The territory of the post-professional

Here is the start of a paper I’m working on for the ‘Data, Memory, Territory’ workshop at UWS in November. It is lonely writing in a foreign hotel room! So I post it here in case anyone has any feedback. Given the frame for the event I’m hoping to develop the relationship between time, mastery [...]

Work smarter – when you have a job at all

If you see an example of the phrase ‘work smarter, not harder’ anywhere in your travels, can you send me a pic? This one from The Mercury’s latest special feature got me thinking. According to the figures, Tasmania is in recession – so the local paper is publishing a series of opinion pieces to generate [...]

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 [...]

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