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MIT5 ahoy
Wonderful to see the tentative program for MIT5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age has now been posted – it looks jam-packed with very good stuff, actually. Our panel, Produsing Culture (not ‘producing’ as Axel was very, very quick to point out to the organisers!) has been scheduled for 9.00 Saturday morning…not usually…
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i am such a nerd…
I made this today with my built-in iSight, Gawker and iMovie. Weird to see how you spend your day! Plus, I need to find time to get my hair cut.
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Wealth of Networks Wiki
This Wiki is an invitation to collaborate on building a learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler’s book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, available under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Sharealike license. A good idea, and one that tests and amplifies the basic propositions of Benkler’s arguments. But…
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CFP: M/C Journal – ‘mobile’
M/C Journal Call for Papers: ‘mobile’ Edited by Larissa Hjorth & Olivia Khoo Convergence has become part of burgeoning mobile media. The mobile phone has come of age. As an integral component of visual media cultures, camera phone practices are arguably both extending and creating emerging ways of seeing and representing. In media footage of…
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Clifford Geertz 1926-2006
Via the AoIR list this morning, I heard that Clifford Geertz has died of heart surgery complications at the age of 80. I’ll never forget the epiphanic moment I had when I was introduced to ‘thick description’ as an undergraduate via Geertz’s essay Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, which opens like this: Early…
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post-conference highs
Last week was super-intense, what with presenting the paper on Everyday Creativity as Civic Engagement, which I co-authored with Marcus Foth and Helen Klaebe at the Communications Policy and Research Forum in Sydney, then zooming back to Brisbane to get my AoIR paper happening and throwing myself into conference mode for the rest of the…
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Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices: Out Now!
My friend and colleague Melissa Gregg’s book Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices is out now. Having already read it, I can tell you it’s a seriously significant contribution to cultural studies scholarship, and it’s got a beautiful cover to boot. Blurb: In a series of encounters with key figures in the field of cultural studies, this…
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uses of blogs hits the stands
Uses of Blogs, an anthology of scholarly essays (include one by me on higher ed classroom blogging) edited by Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs, is now officially available. Blurb: As the first edited collection of scholarly articles on blogging by experts and practitioners in a wide range of fields, Uses of Blogs offers a broad…
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sad news from the LSE
Via various email lists this morning: ROGER SILVERSTONE 15 JUNE 1945 – 16 JULY 2006 Convenor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE The faculty, staff and students mourn the sudden passing of Roger Silverstone, who died peacefully on 16 July surrounded by his family. Roger had undergone corrective surgery last week but died of complications…
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CSAA Abstract
Following the more timely examples of the two Mels (here is one, and here is the other) I (somewhat belatedly) have just submitted an abstract for this year’s CSAA conference, which will be held in sunny Canberra. I had the idea months ago but couldn’t wrangle it into a pithy enough form until now, plus…