There are a few places available on a London-based tour I will be leading as part of Birkbeck Arts Week on 22 May 2019. We’ll be doing a tour of the emerging King’s Cross cultural quarter, just north of King’s Cross Station in London, and in the process thinking a little about the relationships of … Continue Reading
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‘After Word’ event next week
Thankfully – at least in the circles that I inhabit and traverse – it seems that it’s again okay to think and talk about medium specificity. In the not too recent past, thinking a bit too much, or talking a bit too loudly, about that sort of thing would earn you the label of ‘technological … Continue Reading
Re-locating media production: IJCS special issue now in print
Publishing with a print journal seemingly gives me permission and (slender) rationale to announce a publication a second time: ‘Re-locating media production’, a special issue published in the International Journal of Cultural Studies that I have co-edited with Helen Morgan Parmett, is now available in print (in Volume 21, Issue 1), meaning the online version … Continue Reading
Remembering Ed Soja (1940-2015)
It’s sad news to hear of the passing of Ed Soja after what appears to have been a long battle with illness. In just the last 15 hours or so, I have already read a number of personal reflections from academics who knew Ed as a teacher, collaborator and theoretical inspiration. Reading about these small … Continue Reading
Repeat media tour of West End London on 19 June 2013
On 19 June 2013, Joel McKim and I will be leading a repeat of the media tour we led together for the first time in May (we’re both shown doing so in the photo above – though Joel’s looking away, at the Apple Store – credit to Joe Smith from the OU for taking it). … Continue Reading
Geography’s digital turn?
Prompted by receiving – completely unsolicited I’d add – this month’s GIM International (the ‘global magazine for geomatics’), I thought I better get in a thought I had in the wake of this year’s Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting in Los Angeles; an event for which the sun has definitely set, and soon … Continue Reading
Academia in a digital/networked world: a Guardian HE Network ‘live chat’
Along with my colleagues Sophie Hope and Lorraine Lim – with whom I am co-organising a postgraduate workshop series – I have been invited to partake in a ‘Live Chat’ hosted by the Guardian Higher Education Network. That chat, which takes place on 3 June 2011, addresses the topic ‘Breaching the digital divide: How could … Continue Reading
Environmental change and digital scholarship
I recently wrote about the Doing research amongst technologies workshop series I am co-organising, and for which I co-convened the opening workshop session. I also had a pleasure of attending the second of the series, convened by a colleague from my Open University days, Joe Smith, a consummate public scholar, both in the broadcast and … Continue Reading
What is research amongst technologies?
A recent adventure in which I’ve been involved in organising (with Sophie Hope and Lorraine Lim) is a Summer Term 2011 postgraduate workshop series on Doing research amongst technologies. Aside from work going into convening the different sessions in the workshop series, I managed to talk myself into co-leading the opening workshop. Luckily, I had … Continue Reading
Making music with pong (and a mouse-guided theremin)
First of all, I know this is a terrible video. I only have myself and my mobile phone to blame. But I wanted to post this anyway. It’s from OpenNight #4, a night of FLOSS inspired electronic music and video from the people of OpenLab, which was held yesterday at the Fleapit in Hackney. The … Continue Reading