Quotes I can’t fit in my review
The situation of cyberspace as a real space, mapped in relational terms, is perhaps clearest in instances where the networks of communication explicitly relate to the networks of everyday life. With a “buddy list” or AOL Instant Message, for example, the network of computers reinforces the idea that at the same moment that I am [...]
For Ethnography
I’m heading to Sydney this morning to speak at this conference at UTS tomorrow. It’s a chance to hear some of the work Catherine and I have been doing on our book if you have time to come along - we’d appreciate some feedback during these early stages. We’re also on in the last session [...]
On not dating
Further to last week’s post (which, given that he quoted from the same article in his keynote address on Friday, made me wonder whether Sir Ken might have been reading this blog), some more thoughts on generational accounts of online culture. First up, Danah Boyd on the perils of archived romance:
‘While i’m all down for [...]
Online intimacy: On crushes and stalkers
From Daniel Miller and Don Slater, The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach
As in the transient family, one finds with Internet relationships that larger appeal to sentiment or obligation on the basis of nearness or proximity often have little authority. Rather, there is a large pool of potential contacts that can be realized for either or both [...]
5 things you don’t know about me
(Well, a couple you may know, especially if you’re Jean)
1. (i) I quite often think about, and am ashamed by, how politically incorrect my childhood games were. Particularly the game my brother and I invented - “Ethiopes” - which we played in the sandy area of the farmhouse near the dog kennels. It consisted of [...]
Summer addictions
Via MySpace’s newest addict, who, like me, is very grumpy about Fran Kelly’s summer replacement. On the bright side, an hour of Mary Louise Parker a week may be enough to withstand such tedium.
Extreme conference week
I’ve been at three conferences this week, and we’re just over half way through AoIR now. I’ve met some cool new people and reconnected with some old friends from interstate and overseas, tho organising duties, change of season sleeping patterns and tendonitis are keeping me from seeing many papers. Yes, tendonitis: I’ve been ordered off [...]
MySpace, boys in jackets
Social Networking with Demetri Martin (link changed due to copyright issues).
Last week I used an older clip from The Daily Show to introduce students to the idea of blogging as a subculture. It was good timing on the back of the Emmy Awards, and the ongoing success of Stewart and Colbert’s respective empires. But I [...]
New homes for other theory cookers
Kat Jungnickel has started a new blog for her PhD project on wireless use. It’s looking great already. Also, it looks like Clif is back at Blown Glass. Keep it up people!
Academics’ blogs
For the upcoming AoIR conference, I’m expanding the project I began in ‘Feeling Ordinary: Blogging as Conversational Scholarship’ to look at blogs that talk explicitly about academic life - the day to day banalities of teaching, doing research, getting ahead and getting along with colleagues. You can read the abstract for the paper here.
Some [...]