I am beyond saddened to hear that my friend and former colleague Mark Saunders passed away suddenly on Saturday, 5 July 2025. I first encountered Mark indirectly, without meeting him, when I saw a screening of his film The Truth Lies In Rostock. The occasion was the 1998 INURA conference in Toronto, a network in … Continue Reading
Putting out podcasts can be a time-consuming and occasionally anxiety-generating business. And yet, here I am again, now with the 3rd Edition of my podcast series Media, Technology & Culture, hosted at my podcast channel Publicly Sited. This podcast has become a key (but not the only) medium through which I annually think through, revise … Continue Reading
Over at Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, I have taken on a new role as Audio Editor. My main responsibility in this new role is coordinating and producing content for the journal’s new podcast channel, Mediapolis Now. The channel is hosted on Podbean, and available for subscription through the most popular podcast distributors (e.g. … Continue Reading
I’m somewhat falling behind with the updates on the good ole blog here, but another couple of episodes have been published in my podcast series Media, Technology & Culture. Episode 6 explores infrastructure, focusing in particular on the internet as a vast, dispersed infrastructures on which various media technologies, including nonhuman objects, depend. Episode 7 explores … Continue Reading
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
I’ve added a new episode in my new podcast series Media, Technology & Culture exploring ‘liveness’ – from live TV to streaming social media – as experiences of mediated simultaneity. I wrote about this series in my last blog post. Below I have included the episode description, and a embedded a player link to the … 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
On 14 July 2020, 5pm, I will be chairing a webinar on Digital Extremism and the City with Bharath Ganesh and Robert Topinka, who will discuss the digitalised tropes, affects and infrastructures of the far right in, through and in relation to the city. This is part of a new ‘Urban Intersections’ series that I am organising with Mara … Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago I was included in a short series of ‘culture diaries’ during this year’s Birkbeck Arts Weeks – plural because for the first time it was more than a single week, in fact five, transpiring entirely online. I’d really enjoyed reading the contributions that preceded my own from Joanne Leal, Marina … Continue Reading