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ICA Montreal: Quick Wrap-Up
A couple of days ago I got back from the International Communication Association conference in Montreal. I loved the city instantly, and the week I spent there was very productive — although similarly to Jon Gray’s experience, the most productive and inspiring moments occurred in between everything else — chats in the foyers in between…
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outputs!
I haven’t been blogging regularly, so this is a news dump. I’ll preface it with a bit of commentary, though… As a research fellow in an ARC-funded research centre I have had certain things drummed into me–not least by virtue of hanging out with actual ARC heavyweights from time to time. Especially in the lead-up…
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Job vacancy in Digital Storytelling at QUT
There’s a job going in the Creative Industries Faculty for someone to help with the co-ordination and further development of our applied research strengths in the area of digital storytelling and other co-creative media. If you know of anyone who might be good for this position, please forward this on to them, and please note…
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Two New Projects in Civic Media and Citizen Journalism
I’ve been meaning for a while to blog something about the YouDecide project and website, which is part of a major ARC Linkage project based here in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, in partnership with SBS, On Line Opinion, and the Brisbane Institute. In short, YouDecide2007 is a citizen journalism initiative, providing a forum…
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Australian Blogging Conference this Friday
On Friday I’m going to be at the Australian Blogging Conference, which is being held here at the Creative Industries Precinct, QUT Kelvin Grove. A bit of the blurb: The growth of the Australian blogging community has mirrored the expansion of the blogosphere elsewhere in the developed world. However, there have been only a few…
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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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‘an enhanced seriousness of mind’
The day after arriving back in Brisbane from MIT5 I hopped a plane to Adelaide for the CRN masterclass with John Urry on complexity theory and mobilities. As an ‘event’ it wasn’t exactly buzzing with dynamic engagement, but of course it improved once we got to dinner, and it was great to meet John in…
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more on conferencing twittering
In the ‘questions and comments’ section of the final plenary at MIT5, David Silver made two comments about how the conference might be improved next time. He presented us with two problems: 1. The incongruity of the conference theme and the conference format. That is, should a conference that was investigating collaborative forms of cultural…
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Brief MIT5 update
you know you’re at MIT when… I’m enjoying the MIT5 conference immensely, although it is very distributed – both temporally, with something like 11 parallel sessions – and spatially, with rooms dotted around a few different buildings with no common meeting area (but that’s just the layout of MIT). So catching up with people really…
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Collaboration 2.0: C3 symposium
After arriving in Boston very late on Thursday night, the first speaking engagement fellow cci postdoc John Banks and I had was the Convergence Culture Consortium one-day symposium at MIT. C3 is a research collaboration between Comparative Media Studies at MIT and a range of mostly media industry partners. The event was organised around the…