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
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
Note: below you will find more specific links, through which you may advance to the remarks of specific speakers After much behind-the-scenes fidgeting and arranging, I’m happy to say we can finally make available an edited video recording of the two keynote symposiums from Conditions of Mediation, the ICA preconference I co-organized with Tim Markham, … Continue Reading
My Birkbeck colleague Joel McKim and I are going to be leading an ‘urban media tour’ of West End London in just over a week, on Wednesday 22 May, 2013. This tour is, in part, based on a tour I originally developed for my undergraduate module The Mediated City, though it’s now being re-purposed (with … Continue Reading
London-based travel and lifestyle magazine Monocle has published its annual ranking of what it describes as the top 25 liveable cities around the world. Coming out on top this year is Zurich, and no doubt happy to edge into the 25th spot of this top-flight group is its French Swiss cousin Geneva. If we regionally … Continue Reading
I was completely astounded earlier this year when I saw that the classic, old-school CBC logo had somehow become fodder for a beer advertisment, courtesy of global beer flagship Stella Artois. Recyclage de luxe indeed.
Came across an interesting forthcoming symposium at the University of Derby on Saturday 13th November entitled ‘Television explores the Hinterland’. The main themes of the conference (appended below) appear to focus primarily on those programs that explore Britain’s countryside – such as the excellent BBC/Open University program Coast (which will be discussed in the symposium) … Continue Reading
Earlier today, as I approached Euston Station in search of a bite to eat, I was approached by a woman politely offering a very small container of mixed fruit. She didn’t state a price, though I later learned it was on sale for a seemingly steep £2.50. I walked on … and in my fast-paced-negotiating-London-myopia, … Continue Reading
For some reason, I just find the whole idea of mining coal as a stable support for the uncertainties of television production hilarious. Also funny, of course, is the stark contrast implied between the grittiness of mining for coal (going down a mineshaft, the need for canaries as a warning system) and the superficiality of … Continue Reading