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

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

‘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