home cooked theory

Other writing

Books

Work’s Intimacy, Polity. 2010.

The Affect Theory Reader (edited with Gregory J. Seigworth) Duke University Press. 2010.

Broadcast Yourself: Presence, Intimacy and Community Online (with Catherine Driscoll; in progress).

Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices, London: Palgrave. 2006.

Book Chapters

(with Gregory J. Seigworth) ” ‘An Inventory of Shimmers’: Affect, for Now” in The Affect Theory Reader, Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth (eds) Durham: Duke University Press. 2010.

“On Friday Night Drinks: Workplace affect in the age of the cubicle” in The Affect Theory Reader, Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth (eds) Durham: Duke University Press. 2010.

“Working with affect in the corporate university” in Disturbing Differences: Working with Affect in Feminist Readings, Marianne Liljeström & Susanna Paasonen (eds) London: Routledge. 2010.

“The Importance of Being Ordinary” in Sue Owen (ed) Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies, London: Palgrave. 2008.

(with Catherine Driscoll) “The YouTube Generation: Moral Panic, Youth Culture and Internet Studies” in Usha Rodrigues (ed) Youth and Media in the Asia-Pacific Region, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. 2008.

“Posting With Passion: Blogs and the Politics of Gender” in Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs (eds) Uses of Blogs, New York: Peter Lang. 2006.

Edited Journal Issues

(with Gerard Goggin) “Wireless Cultures and Technologies” Special issue of Media International Australia 125. 2007.

(with Jean Burgess) “Counter-Heroics and Counter-Professionalism in Cultural Studies” Special Issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 20 (2). 2006.

“Affect” M/C Journal 8 (6). 2005.

Journal Articles

2010 (with Jason Wilson) “Underbelly, true crime and the cultural economy of infamy” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (forthcoming)

2010 “Available in selected metros only: Rural melancholy and the promise of online connectivity” Cultural Studies Review, 16 (1) (March)

2010 (with Catherine Driscoll) “My Profile: The Ethics of Virtual Ethnography” Emotion, Society and Space (forthcoming)

2009 “Banal Bohemia: Blogging from the Ivory Tower Hot-Desk” Feature Report, Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 15 (4): 470-483

2009 “Learning to (Love) Labour: Production cultures and the affective turn” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 6 (2): 209-214

2008 “Testing the friendship: Feminism and the limits of online social networks” Feminist Media Studies 8 (2): 206-209

2008 (with Genevieve Bell) “Through Country Women: A Proposal for the CWA’s role in Rural Connectivity” Proceedings of the 2008 Communications Policy and Research Forum

2008 “The Normalisation of Flexible Female Labour in the Information Economy” Feminist Media Studies 8 (3): 285-299

2008 (with Catherine Driscoll) “Message Me: Temporality, Location and Everyday Technologies” Media International Australia Special Issue on Digital Literacy 128 (August): 128-136

2008 (with Fiona Nicoll) “Successful Resistance or Resisting Success? Surviving the Silent Social Order of the Theory Classroom” Social Epistemology 20 (2): 203-217

2008 “Communicating Investment: Cultural Studies, Affect and the Academy” Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 30 (1): 43-59

2007 “Freedom to Work: The Impact of Wireless on Labour Politics” in Media International Australia Special Issue on Wireless Technologies and Cultures 125 (November): 57-70

2007 “Normal Homes” Feature Article, M/C Journal ‘Home’ 10 (4) (August)

2007 “The Importance of Being Ordinary” International Journal of Cultural Studies Special Issue on The Uses of Richard Hoggart 10 (1): 95-104

2006 “Feeling Ordinary: Blogging as Conversational Scholarship” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 20 (2): 147-60

2005 (with Glen Fuller) “Where is the Law in ‘Unlawful Combatant’?” Cultural Studies Review 11 (2): 147-159

2004 “A Mundane Voice” Cultural Studies Special Double Issue on Everyday Life, 18 (2-3): 363-83

2004 “Toolbox for Electric Fences” Cultural Studies Review 10 (1): 149-60

2004 “Five Bonds T-Shirts From K-Mart: Intervening Against Indifference” Antithesis 14: 25-36

2003 “A Neglected History: Richard Hoggart’s Discourse of Empathy” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 7 (3): 285-306

2002 “Remnants of Humanism” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 16 (3): 273-84

Opinion (selected)

2009 “Why Academia Is No Longer A Smart Choice” New Matilda , 24 November

2009 “Damn the publishers” The Australian Higher Education, 27 May – republished in Online Opinion, 28 May

2008 (with Jason Wilson) “Thank John Howard for Underbelly” New Matilda, 28 December

2008 “Who saw the butler’s profile?” Online Opinion, 11 June

2007 “Thanks For The Ad(d): Neoliberalism’s Compulsory Friendship” Online Opinion, 21 September

2008 Review of Mark Nunes, Cyberspaces of Everyday Life, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Vol 14(1): 122-124

2007 Review of Meaghan Morris, Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture, Media International Australia 124, August

2006 “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”, Review of Simon During, Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction and Angela McRobbie, The Uses of Cultural Studies, New Formations 58, Summer

2004 “How to Avoid Being Paranoid”, Review of Eve Sedgwick, Touching Feeling, Electronic Book Review