Putting out podcasts can be a time-consuming and occasionally anxiety-generating business. And yet, here I am again, now with the 3rd Edition of my podcast series Media, Technology & Culture, hosted at my podcast channel Publicly Sited. This podcast has become a key (but not the only) medium through which I annually think through, revise … Continue Reading
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Media, Technology & Culture podcast: New episode on liveness
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
New podcast series: Media, Technology & Culture
Probably against my better judgment, I am putting out a new podcast series. I’m three episodes in, and only now have I found the time to write something announcing it properly. But here I am. So my new podcast series is titled Media, Technology & Culture, which is hosted at my (new) podcast channel Publicly … Continue Reading
Data Materiality Episode 2: Shannon Mattern on 5G, Media Materiality, Archaeology and Pedagogy
Although it’s technically been online for a week, I just took a short pause before publicising the second episode of Data Materiality. Data Materiality is a podcast series I co-host with Joel McKim, and is related to our three-year research project running under the same name, co-sponsored by Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media … Continue Reading
Platform Urbansim roundtable now available in full
In recent weeks I’ve shared, tweeted and retweeted ever so frequently about the ‘Platform Urbanism’ roundtable that Susan Moore and I edited in Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. So much so, that I thought a blog post would have been redundant. Yet with the dust now more or less settled, I thought I’d … 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
Ordinary digital humanities: Free event at Birkbeck, 15 May 2017
In a couple of weeks’ time I am happy to be hosting an event as part of Birkbeck Arts Week on the subject of ‘Ordinary Digital Humanities’, featuring a talk from Lesley Gourlay (UCL Institute of Education). The publicity blurb below has more than enough information, I suspect, for you to get the idea. The … 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
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
Video now available for Conditions of Mediation preconference
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