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
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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
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
Bloomsbury’s Gordon Square: Workplace becomes media production space
[Note: this post has been edited to remove details of the specific production in question. I’m being cautious as a colleague reminded me of a non-disclosure agreement to which I am indirectly a party. However I have decided not to remove the entire post, since the rest pertains to observations made in outdoor public space, … Continue Reading
Tentative techlocalities: paper abstract for forthcoming GeoMedia Speaker Series
Exactly one month from today, I will be fortunate enough to give an invited paper to the GeoMedia Research Group at Karlstad University in Sweden, as part of their GeoMedia Speaker Series. Karlstad University is a quite special place for thinking and talking about the relationships of geography and media since, as far as I … 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
New Perspectives on Media Production Spaces: Call for Papers for GeoMedia 2015
Helen Morgan Parmett and I have recently advertised a Call for Papers, for a theme panel that we are proposing for the forthcoming conference GeoMedia 2015: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds. We’re keen to get a good range of submissions which think about and study media ‘production’ spaces through new perspectives, particularly those informed … Continue Reading
Repeat media tour of West End London on 19 June 2013
On 19 June 2013, Joel McKim and I will be leading a repeat of the media tour we led together for the first time in May (we’re both shown doing so in the photo above – though Joel’s looking away, at the Apple Store – credit to Joe Smith from the OU for taking it). … Continue Reading
Doreen Massey interview with Nigel Warburton
A number of peeps have already shared this: spatial theorist Doreen Massey speaks with Nigel Warburton, of Philosophy Bites fame, on spatial theory and why it matters (of course). It’s part of Social Science Bites, a new-ish series made in association with Sage. Two other interviews caught my attention: one with Toby Miller on what … Continue Reading
Alison Young seminar this week: Street art and the contemporary city
This week, as part of its Distinguished Visiting Speaker Seminar series, the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research will be hosting Professor Alison Young from the University of Melbourne, who will be speaking on ‘Street Art and the Contemporary City’. In the past I have assigned at least one of Young’s papers in my class The … Continue Reading