Social networks: The demise of gender?

Feminist Media Studies is asking for work in progress and short debate pieces inspired by researching Web 2.0. In particular, the editors ask: How do we theorize gender in the context of the rise of participatory, interactive internet interfaces, such as social networking sites, blogs and even e-governance? What implications does the rise of social [...]

Rates of writing

There’s been quite a bit of discussion going on in the comments of this post, which I’d urge people to take a look at if they haven’t for a while. I can’t help but read the various responses as themselves symptomatic of the difficulties junior scholars have at getting mobilised for a big cause. Lots [...]

Self-branding

Some thoughts leading in to tomorrow’s MACS session, in light of the last few days of reading and worrying (and subsequent spring cleaning… you can tell there’s something going on in my life when I start moving furniture). A key aspect of my online identity that I’ve been made aware of this week is the [...]

Rolling with the punches

Just as I was thinking about formalising a paper I’ve been working on about research blogging, I read a pretty personal if pseudonymous attack on a colleague’s blog. It’s not only made me quite angry but has me thinking more about what’s at stake in having an online presence. I won’t link to the post [...]

On things maturing… maybe

You may have noticed that my response to the blogging conference was to avoid my blog for a while! This has as much to do with pressing projects than my experience on the day. Greg and I have been busy sending feedback to our contributors for The Affect Reader, and I had a birthday to [...]

Zero Comments: Selections so far

Geert Lovink’s latest book is entertaining preparation for the blogging conference. I don’t often follow all of Geert’s writing because I’m not sufficiently attached to the same anarcho- artist- activist scenes, but when he does cover topics that cross over with mine I find his voice an incredibly refreshing mixture of gross generalisation, useful new [...]

Archiving, blogging and research

On Friday Home Cooked Theory was approached by the State Library of Queensland to be included as part of the National Library’s Pandora archive. This means the blog will now be available for the public to access in years to come. I feel incredibly humbled by this, and even more motivated to keep blogging in [...]

$55 000 to study social networking online

I’ve been keeping a big secret and now I’m finally able to spread the news. Last night my online intimacy project was given a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award! You can read all about the study here, but if you are a regular reader you’ll already know that this is the spin-off project from my [...]

Affective labour on social networking sites

The discussion currently taking place on the cultstud list about self-branding on social networking sites bears interesting relation to the similar spate of posts on fibreculture recently. Both developed out of efforts on the part of some members to develop relevant discussion groups on Facebook, and my initial response has been to wonder why lists [...]

What I am and am not doing

For the past week I’ve been doing the revisions for my paper ‘Freedom to Work: The impact of wireless on labour politics’ for the MIA issue I’m editing with Gerard Goggin. The process has led to some deep introspection about my own work habits, particularly the amount of time I spend “online” and why (hence [...]

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