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
Urban media studies: 2015 conference at University of Zagreb
An enticing conference will be taking place this September at the University of Zagreb, organised by Seija Ridell, Simone Tosoni and Zlatan Krajina. Rather sadly, I won’t be able to go as it directly coincides with our undergraduate induction day, which I can’t miss this year. Not only would it have been nice to present … Continue Reading
Technologies of sustainability PhD scholarship at Birkbeck
An interesting PhD opportunity has emerged out of some nascent cross-disciplinary partnerships being developed at Birkbeck around the theme of ‘sustainability’, understood in a very broad sense. That is, not just the ‘green’ meaning of sustainability associated with biological systems or ecological environments, but a much wider range of systems and environments (from societal health … Continue Reading
Media practices and urban politics: a conversation about slow theory
As Clive Barnett (here, and in more detail here) and Stuart Elden (here) have already posted, the Society and Space open site has now released a podcast conversation between myself, Clive Barnett and Allan Cochrane, hosted by Tim Markham, about our paper recently published in the journal. In conjunction with the podcast being published, the … Continue Reading
Event at The Hub: Open Data, Smart Citizens?
Along with Myria Georgiou and a whole gang of others, Joel McKim and I have been helping to establish a new (and as-yet unnamed) London research network on media and cities. Like quite a few things in which I’m involved, the network has been on a bit of a slow burn for the past several … Continue Reading