Although it’s technically been online for a week, I just took a short pause before publicising the second episode of Data Materiality. Data Materiality is a podcast series I co-host with Joel McKim, and is related to our three-year research project running under the same name, co-sponsored by Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media … Continue Reading
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Data Materiality Episode 1: Vicki Mayer on Data Centres, Media Aura and Jobs
At very long last, the first episode of Data Materiality is out. Data Materiality is a podcast series I co-host with Joel McKim, and is related to our three-year research project running under the same name, co-sponsored by Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture and the Vasari Centre for Art and Technology. … Continue Reading
CFP AAG 2020: Building Platform Urbanism
Susan Moore and I have begun advertising a CFP for the 2020 AAG conference in Denver, USA. The paper session we are proposing focuses on the theme of ‘Building Platform Urbanism’: the ways in which digital platform companies, or agents anticipating their interests, are increasingly involved in designing and constructing particular built forms and new … Continue Reading
Places available on City Maps PhD workshop with Benjamin Fraser
Okay, so this really will be my final blog post in a while that begins with the words ‘places available’. 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 Friday 28 June … Continue Reading
Places available on City Maps PhD workshop with Shannon Mattern and Rebecca Ross
This is my third blog post in a row beginning with the words ‘places available’. But in any event… and with apologies to those not in London / the Southeast of England, I’m pleased to advertise that some places are available on the next City Maps doctoral training workshop, funded by CHASE, which will take … Continue Reading
Places available: Platform KX: A Tour of the New King’s Cross
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
Places available on City Maps PhD workshop with Clancy Wilmott
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
Platform Urbansim roundtable now available in full
In recent weeks I’ve shared, tweeted and retweeted ever so frequently about the ‘Platform Urbanism’ roundtable that Susan Moore and I edited in Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. So much so, that I thought a blog post would have been redundant. Yet with the dust now more or less settled, I thought I’d … Continue Reading
Now in print: ‘Roots and fields: excursions through place, space, and local in hyperlocal media’
My article ‘Roots and fields: excursions through place, space, and local in hyperlocal media‘ is now available in print Volume 40, Issue 6, pp. 856 – 874 of Media, Culture & Society (subscription required – green open access is available on BIROn). I include the article abstract below. Roots and fields: excursions through place, space, … Continue Reading
Data Materiality: collaborative BIRMAC/Vasari project
I’m pleased to announce that Joel McKim and I will together be convening a three-year collaborative project on Data Materiality, co-sponsored by the Birkbeck Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture, and the Vasari Centre for Art and Technology. The websites of both research centres will each shortly host a page dedicated to the … Continue Reading