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
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Event: Digital Us: Are We ‘Together’ in a Networked Culture?
At the very beginning of Birkbeck Arts Week 2016, on 16 May 2016, I will be taking part in an event which touches on familiar themes, but perhaps from new angles and through a juxtaposition of fairly different contributors. While I am going to draw upon some recent small-scale qualitative research I’ve undertaken on the … Continue Reading
Urban media tour: 18 May 2016
After a two-year hiatus, Joel McKim and I are pleased to again lead our (evidently) popular urban media tour of West End London, this year as part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2016. As always, we’ll be not only visiting a range of buildings and neighbourhoods associated with major media industries, but also we’ll be discussing … Continue Reading
Tentative techlocalities: paper abstract for forthcoming GeoMedia Speaker Series
Exactly one month from today, I will be fortunate enough to give an invited paper to the GeoMedia Research Group at Karlstad University in Sweden, as part of their GeoMedia Speaker Series. Karlstad University is a quite special place for thinking and talking about the relationships of geography and media since, as far as I … Continue Reading
Documentary London: now showing at Birkbeck
The London Screen Study Collection and Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) have recently announced a new 2016 series of documentary films related to London. I’ve posted the details below. I plan to at least partly reverse my lack of attendance at BIMI screenings by checking out some of these. London Screen Study Collection … Continue Reading
The identities and expressions of ‘academic Twitter’: presentation / live streaming
I just caught wind of a very interesting looking presentation taking place 3pm GMT today at the London School of Economics by Bonnie Stewart. Stewart will be discussing “the intersection of Twitter and higher education, and how ‘academic Twitter’ cultivates scholarly identities and forms of expression that differ from conventional institutional practices.” I have pasted … Continue Reading
Announcing Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture
It’s with great pleasure that I can announce the publication of the first issue of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. I’m fortunate enough to be on the Editorial Board of this new journal and – although my involvement in this first issue was very minor indeed – I look forward to helping bring … Continue Reading
New senior posts in history of architecture/photography/digital culture at Birkbeck
A couple of interesting new posts have been announced today in Birkbeck’s History of Art department (which has some important interactions with my own department, for instance through the Vasari Research Centre). These are senior posts, one in the History and Theory of Architecture and the other is in the History and Theory of Photography/Digital … 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
In the name of pedagogy: temporary reductions of media technology and culture
How the years pass. Tonight I begin my sixthfifth run of my module that is currently titled Media, Technology and Society. I realise sixfive(!) runs of a module might not sound like a lot particularly, but this is a module that has evolved significantly through the previous fivefour run throughs. I received it in 2010 … Continue Reading