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An Embarrassment of Riches
A busy few weeks here–on Friday we had a visit from Nick Couldry, who gave a seminar on the topics of citizenship, culture and the (im)possibility of connectedness to a ‘public sphere’. I’ve liked Nick’s quite particular approach to the key issues in cultural studies ever since I came across his provocative book Inside Culture,…
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On critical thinking
This week I have been trying to explain to my students how empowering (for themselves and others) critical thinking, rather than criticism can be. This has been made more than usually difficult because the course is about popular music, and the dominant mode of engagement with it in discourse is evaluative (who has or hasn’t…
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Everyday Transformations
Everyday Transformations: The Twenty-First Century Quotidian Annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Perth / Fremantle, 9-11 December 2004 Call for Papers New technologies, increasing work pressures, changing gender roles and family structures, increasing flows of refugees and asylum seekers, concerns about security, environmental risks, the escalating speed and complexity of social transactions…
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M/C: The “Porn” Issue
CALL FOR PAPERS M/C: THE “PORN” ISSUE: An upcoming issue of M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture Much media and cultural studies work on, and media coverage of, pornography focuses on the politics of sexual representation on the one hand, and arguments for or against censorship on the other. This issue of M/C aims…
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Another Aust PhD Blog
Found another Australian PhD weblog. it’s called emanations and it belongs to a melbourne uni philosophy student called Matt Carter who I’m pretty sure is the same Matt Carter (and this is so Brisbane) who was a buddy of mine in first year linguistics at the University of Queensland, and who actually lived across the…
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Blogging for credit?
Sebastien Paquet wonders, along with Andrew Chen, Jill Walker, and Professor Bainbridge about the benefits of research blogs as opposed to formal academic publication. I don’t quite see why it’s an either/or situation – for me, a research blog is a thinking, talking, networking tool and a shared interest magnet; academic publishing is a more…
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Charles Leadbeater: Users, Innovation, and the ProAm Economy
Hot off my notebad, here’s my version of what transpired at Charles Leadbeater’s seminar at QUT today. Just the main points on the role of users in innovation and the emerging category of the ProAm which Leadbeater thinks is a growing force in the cultural economy. His approach has significant similarities to the standard cultural…
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New Australian PhD Weblog
New Australian PhD weblog on Internet Genealogy Research by Kylie Veale. Welcome to research blogging!
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Fibreculture Journal Launched
Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. The journal encourages critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media…
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8 Days to Go
I haven’t been blogging as much as I’d like for the last few days, but I have a good reason – I’m officially submitting my Masters thesis on 20/01/04, which is only 8 days away. I’m sure this will seem very exciting once it is printed, bound and submitted (mmmm…beer), but at the moment I…