Another episode is ready in my new podcast series Media, Technology & Culture exploring computation. I discuss Lev Manovich’s work and the notion of remediation (as well as critiques of both), while also connecting (selectively) to themes in the history of computing. I wrote about this series in my last blog post. Below I have … Continue Reading
Probably against my better judgment, I am putting out a new podcast series. I’m three episodes in, and only now have I found the time to write something announcing it properly. But here I am. So my new podcast series is titled Media, Technology & Culture, which is hosted at my (new) podcast channel Publicly … Continue Reading
Over at Mediapolis Journal, I have published a new essay on what I think might some emergent interdependences between platforms (specifically social media) and local care during the COVID-19 pandemic. One possible reaction to this news might be, “Not another take on Covid!” As the below passage I’ve excepted from the essay indicates, I’m well … Continue Reading
In Workshop 3 of the CHASE City Maps series, Clancy Wilmott from the University of Manchester (now at University of California Berkeley) began with an outline of her own work on mobile mapping, and the emerging relationships between space, cartography and digital technologies. These themes were connected with the research projects of workshop participants, who … Continue Reading
With apologies to those not in London / the Southeast of England, some places are available on the next City Maps doctoral training workshop, funded by CHASE, which will take place on Thursday 28 March 2019 at Birkbeck’s University Square Stratford campus. This workshop is part of a series I am co-organising with my Birkbeck … Continue Reading
I have a new journal article published today in Media, Culture and Society, titled ‘Roots and fields: excursions through place, space, and local in hyperlocal media’. I’m really pleased to have something appear in MCS. Before I became more immersed in media and cultural studies, it was the one journal I really looked to as … Continue Reading
After a slightly confusing spate of digital publishing and then re-publishing, I can finally announce that ‘Re-locating media production’, a special issue in the International Journal of Cultural Studies that I have co-edited with Helen Morgan Parmett, is now available online. I list all the abstracts below, and include links to the OnlineFirst page at … Continue Reading
My second essay within the special Mediapolis roundtable on ‘small-gauge’ scholarship, which has been running over the past few weeks, has now been published. It’s been a really interesting exchange which tries to confront and tease out the emergent notion of small-gauge scholarship, a term contained in the founding mission statement of the journal. If … Continue Reading
Very unfortunately I won’t be able to attend this seminar at Birkbeck (though, fortunately, it’s because I will be talking in my first visit to Japan). Looks like an excellent discussion will be had. Full details are below. Yuk Hui – For a Realism of Relations: The Case of Digital Objects The Vasari Research Centre … Continue Reading
Next week, on Friday 27 May, Güneş Tavmen and Hannah Barton are organising what looks to be an interesting interdisciplinary seminar titled ‘What things are, what things do’. The event – sponsored by Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture – will host a set of debates around the ‘structuring structures’ of media culture: in … Continue Reading