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Day Three, Four, and Five…!
Seminar notes are coming, but for now here are the powerpoint slides from my own presentation, “Digital Storytelling as an Example of Vernacular Creativity and New Media”.
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Day Two
Things kicked into high gear on the second day of the OII doctoral programme. Those of us in the “internet and everyday life” subgroup had an enjoyable session mapping out our research projects and identifying common threads – there appear to be two very strong shared interests: firstly social (i.e. human) networks, and secondly non-…
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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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thesis
I’ve finally gotten around to submitting my Masters thesis for permanent binding. It’s now online for your reading pleasure. If you find typos, don’t tell me! But any other feedback or comments would be hugely appreciated. Here’s the abstract: High Culture as Subculture: Brisbane’s Contemporary Chamber Music Scene The aim of the dissertation is to…
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Speaking of Everyday Life…
update: fixed the links (they don’t make it easy at Taylor and Francis). Cultural Studies has a special double issue on everyday life, which has lots and lots of goodies in it, including an article called Intimations of everyday life: Ubiquitous computing and the city by one of my favourite research bloggers, Anne Galloway, and…
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Crazy Carnival Life
I’ve had an exciting and astonishingly busy week. I’ve finally managed to put together a diverse lineup for the music industry panel discussion that takes the place of a final lecture in the Music Subcultures and the Media course I’m coordinating. This week also winds up the experiment with blogs as a form of assessment…
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Cross-Disciplinary Communication
Fellow QUT Creative Industries doctoral candidate Paul Holland reflects on the challenge of finding a common language to communicate to people in other areas of the creative industries – a challenge that still frustrates more than stimulates me in academia – where there is a kind of anti-pidgin at work (can someone tell me “the”…
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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…
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ScholarBlogs and GoogleGuilt
I’ve just blogrolled Alex Halavais – for a couple of reasons. Firstly, he just went and whipped up a little script that scoops out the 8th-to-last sentences of blog posts, generating a collective stream of consciousness mimetic literature much like the wee bibliomancy craze of last week does. The results are intriguing and nifty. Secondly,…