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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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
‘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
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