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The ‘long white sigh’: some gen-x nostalgia
On the bus this morning, thanks to the magic of the iPod’s otherwise suspiciously un-random seeming shuffle mode: The Clouds’ song ‘Pocket’, from their 1991 album Penny Century. This is what it sounds like, and these are the lyrics: Spending all my long days Searching for a job to do Any two-bit job that pays […]
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Mediating Cultural Politics: A Dialogue with Georgina Born
It feels as though my first blog entry after a long and mysterious absence should be witty, engaging, or revelatory in some way, making my rudely unexplained absence all worthwhile, and giving the impression that my author function is emerging butterfly-like from a cocoon of silence. Sadly, this is not that blog entry, but who […]
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off to london
I’m off to London tonight to attend Cultural Studies Now, where I’ll be giving this paper on a panel with Mel Gregg, Kiley Gaffney and Nadia Mizner: Terms of Engagement: Doing Cultural Studies in the Enterprise University Simon During recently argued that the structure of research funding in Australia and the rise of the ‘enterprise […]
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further to the myspace/facebook class debate
Ah, the La Boite Theatre (which by the way has a kind of populist/grass-roots brand image but is situated in the hyper-modernist, rational and shiny Creative Industries Precinct here at QUT). Perhaps we should applaud them for doing their bit to keep MySpace bourgeios. But then again, first an iPod on the cover of their […]
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Community responses to changes at YouTube
In my last post, I discussed YouTube’s roll-out of language options and localization, and aired some concerns I have about its cultural implications. This morning I had a quick look to see how the YouTube community has responded to the move. I’m a bit surprised there isn’t more discussion, celebration, or protest than there is, […]
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Localisation, YouTube and Flickr
Via BigMouth Media – well, actually via late-night YouTube browsing, followed by the now-familiar exclamation “Oh, look, YouTube’s changed something (in the middle of the night) again!”: YouTube has released localised versions of its video sharing website in nine countries around the world. The countries that are getting the special treatment are Brazil, France, Ireland, […]
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YouTube Research Gazette
Many thanks to all the people who responded via email to my request for information about current YouTube research projects relevant to content and genre analysis. I still have a few more leads to chase up, but vaguely in the spirit of FLOSS (where the second “S” is for scholarship, not software), I thought I’d […]
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Conference: Art and the real
Some readers might be interested in this Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (NSW) Conference: Art and the real: Documentary, Ethnography, Enactment 12-14 July 2007 Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Australia Presented by AGNSW and Artspace Sydney With keynote speakers: Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art, The City University […]
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Help: Who is researching YouTube?
One of my current research projects is a collaboration with Joshua Green from the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. We’re designing a large-scale content analysis of YouTube, with the rather ambitious long-term aim of mapping the emergent genre system of the network. Part of the planning involves figuring out whether or not our intended […]
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New blog: Propagating Media
Propagating Media is a brand new collaborative blog that I’m a member of, along with my boss John Hartley and fellow postdoc John Banks. It’s going to be the outboard brain of the research program I’m employed on here at QUT, focusing mostly on the work we’re doing together around the idea of the ‘evolution […]