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
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Scott Rodgers
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
Dr Lorraine Lim: some memories
Last week, Lorraine Lim, a Birkbeck colleague and friend, passed away surrounded by her partner and family in Singapore. I can still hardly believe, or accept, that I’m writing these words. And I’m not sure my blog is where I should be writing them. But over the last few days, as I’ve debated this in … Continue Reading
New publication in MCS: Roots and fields: excursions through place, space, and local in hyperlocal media
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
CFP AAG 2018: Platform Urbanism
It’s hard to believe that AAG CFP season is starting already. Susan Moore and I have begun advertising a CFP for the 2018 AAG conference in New Orleans, USA. The set of paper and panel sessions will focus on the theme of ‘Platform Urbanism’, co-sponsored by the AAG’s Digital Geographies Specialty Group, Media and Communication … Continue Reading
Infrastructure, platform, locality: A response to Motta and Georgiou (IAMCR slides)
Tomorrow I depart London for my first ever visit to South America; specifically, to Cartagena, Colombia, for the 2017 IAMCR conference. I have the honour of being the respondent to Wallis Motta and Myria Georgiou’s ‘Deep mapping communication infrastructure in super diverse London’ which has won the 2016 IAMCR Urban Communication Grant. The paper is … Continue Reading
Ordinary Digital Humanities: Video of symposium with Lesley Gourlay, Grace Halden and Tim Markham
An edited video is now available for the ‘Ordinary Digital Humanities’ symposium that I organised during Birkbeck Arts Week in mid-May 2017. The event asked what might it mean to think about the digital humanities as ordinary, and focused on the implications of digitisation at the level of everyday academic life – beyond, or perhaps … Continue Reading
Re-locating media production: IJCS special issue now online
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
Louise Amoore talk at Birkbeck 7 June 2017: Cloud futures
On Wednesday 7 June 2017, Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture and the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology will be co-hosting a talk from Professor Louise Amoore on the subject of ‘Cloud Futures’. The event – details of which are pasted below – is free and open to all, but booking via … Continue Reading
Satellite research seminar: ‘openness’ in education
Next week I have the pleasure of hosting another very interesting research event – a presentation from my colleague Leo Havemann, a sharp Learning Technologist at Birkbeck. Leo will be speaking about just what we might mean when we invoke the idea of ‘open’ in higher education, and in particular how we tend to fall … Continue Reading