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OII Summer Doctoral Programme to be held in Brisbane in 2009
Back in 2004, along with my good friend and colleague Marcus Foth, I was a participant in the second annual Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program. It was one of the most intellectually stimulating experiences of my PhD candidature, and the friendships established there have remained both socially and academically rewarding ever since. It was […]
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Out and about in Boston
I have copious session notes to blog from the conference, but I can’t cope with rewriting them right now (Axel, you are the master of conference blogging – I will have to just sit at your feet and learn). Plus, this is not really a laptops-out-during-sessions type crowd, and having an iBook makes you look […]
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wanna go to beijing?
Just got back from the CSAA conference in Perth, and am now both knackered and leading a week-long Digital Storytelling workshop – I have about 20,000 words of blogging to do about both of those. But for now, one of my lame “announcement” posts. I had the _best_ time at the Oxford Internet Institute Summer […]
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Sour Grapes and Junket
Sour grapes: Everyone is at AoIR in Brighton except me. And Kylie. And, due to cyclone activity, Jeremy (I think). We have repeatedly told our OII summer doctoral program colleagues not to bond without us, but with all that Internet talk, beer and fish and chips (with mushy peas!) by the seaside, it’s not looking […]
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a picture of the inside of my head
As if anyone needed further proof that the pathway to a complete PhD is far from smooth… Here’s a mindmap of the current conceptual state of my thesis, made in a fit of OII-stimulated inspiration on the train to Brighton while sleep-deprived a couple of weeks ago. It’s been sitting crumpled at the bottom of […]
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place and placelessness
I’ve had a nice day doing a bit more exploring around Oxford, including the Natural History and Pitt Rivers museums, followed by a quest for good icecream and some shopping. But being (very) far from home the notion of place comes up again and again, both in conversation and in my head. As I sit […]
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Day One
Finally got online for the first time in three days today – a strangely unnerving and oddly liberating feeling being disconnected for that long. So after answering all the most urgent work-related emails, I steeled myself to overcome my fuzzy-headed jet lag long enough to write something about the first day of the OII summer […]
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Leavin’ (on a jet plane)
One more sleep until I take off for the UK to attend the Oxford Internet Institute Doctoral Summer Programme. The recently published schedule and participants’ bios [link removed on request] have built up a healthy level of excitement. I’m looking forward to the intense immersion in key questions around the internet, culture and society, working […]
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Affect and Cultural Participation
I meant to blog my notes from a seminar here at QUT the other day given by Stephen Coleman, visiting professor of e-democracy at the Oxford Internet Institute. Now, e-governance and e-voting aren’t exactly my bag, but cultural democracy (by which I mean a democratic cultural sphere) and the ways in which digital networks and […]
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The Sounds of Silence
I know I’ve been quiet here lately, but that is because life is so noisy everywhere else. Here are the headlines: teaching It was with great trepidation that I introduced my undergraduate music/media studies students to research blogging this week. I was dumbfounded in some cases when I realised the size of the conceptual leap […]