Geography’s digital turn?

Prompted by receiving – completely unsolicited I’d add – this month’s GIM International (the ‘global magazine for geomatics’), I thought I better get in a thought I had in the wake of this year’s Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting in Los Angeles; an event for which the sun has definitely set, and soon … Continue Reading

Big website update over at Conditions of Mediation

Today Tim Markham and I have comprehensively updated the website for the ICA preconference we are co-organizing, titled Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication. Amongst the new information added is: * A provisional conference programme, including abstracts * Biographical details of all presenters and keynote speakers * Complete instructions on how … Continue Reading

Good blog post on my BISR seminar

The great interns at BISR have written an excellent post on my seminar on ‘the networked academic’ which I think captures the event really well, in terms of content as well as the audience’s contributions (which I regret not allowing more time for at the end). One small correction – where I was referring to … Continue Reading

BISR seminar on ‘The networked academic’

This Thursday 2nd May from 12.30-2.00pm I will be giving a seminar for the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR) on ‘The networked academic: social media and your research identity’. It is part of BISR’s ‘Developing Your Research Career’ seminar series, and will comprise both a (partial) survey of various social media platforms currently being … Continue Reading

(Yet) another media city conference: Mediating Cityscapes

With forthcoming conferences in Leeds (Communication and the City) and Helsinki (The Spectacular/Contested/Ordinary Media City), not to mention the special Media and Urban Life (PDF) track in which I recently presented at the Urban Affairs Association conference, it’s been a very busy year for all things media and cities. Now, we can add yet another … Continue Reading