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complexity, pragmatism, critique
According to Theory, Culture and Society we are having a complexity turn. From John Urry’s introduction to the special issue on the topic: Overall, complexity approaches both signify and enhance a new ‘structure of feeling’; one that combines system and process thinking…such an emergent structure involves a sense of contingent openness and multiple futures, of…
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CFP: Creativity, IAG/NSGS/IGU Brisbane 2006
CFP for a session on creativity at IGU 2006: Regional Responses to Global Changes: a view from the Antipodes: 3-7 July 2006 Brisbane, Australia Co-sponsored by the Cultural and Rural Studies Groups of the Institute of Australian Geographers Session description: The cultural turn in human geography has, inter alia, highlighted the complex ways in which…
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remembering the furniture that glows
Josh and I are off to Sydney at a truly ridiculous hour tomorrow morning for the Australian Television History Conference where John (Hartley) is presenting our co-authored paper, “Laughs and Legends, or the Furniture that Glows? Television as History”, which we are all a bit crazy and overexcited from writing and talking about. program abstracts…
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first person: international digital storytelling conference
I’m going to be presenting at this – should be an interesting collision of practitioners and researchers (and people who are both): First Person: International Digital Storytelling Conference Friday 3 February – Sunday 5 February 2006 The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia First Person will showcase Digital Storytelling as a new cinema…
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Call for Papers: IR 7.0
CALL FOR PAPERS IR 7.0: INTERNET CONVERGENCES International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Brisbane, Australia 28-30 September 2006 Pre-Conference Workshops: 27 September 2006 INTERNET CONVERGENCES The Internet works as an arena of convergence. Physically dispersed and marginalized people (re)find themselves online for the sake of sustaining and extending community. International and…
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exclamations
CafePress now has black t-shirts! My friend Marcus got an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship as part of an ARC Discovery Grant largely based around his PhD research!! (and Axel and Jo’s ARC grant got up too!!!) My UK fieldwork is looking all au-go-go for January!!!! On a less exclamatory note, the Digital Storytelling masterclass I’ve been…
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Daniel Meadows: Digital Storytelling Lecture
Daniel Meadows is a world leader in the Digital Storytelling movement and is here at QUT to offer a master-class workshop on new directions for digital storytelling. Come and join us… Public Lecture: Digital Storytelling: the journey from ‘doing media to people’ to ‘enabling people to do media’. When: Tuesday 1st November (THIS COMING TUESDAY)…
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Bringing Theory Home
Lilia Efimova has been thinking about the academic’s desire to explore and hunt down treasures deep in “theory land”, and how best to reconcile that with the ethics of research – by which both she and I mean something much more than the functional applied ethics that are represented by the hoop-jumping processes of getting…
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Activating the research ‘subject’
I’ve been aware of David Gauntlett’s ArtLab project at Bournemouth Media School’s Centre for Creative Media Research for a while, and keep meaning to post briefly on it. The ArtLab studies represent a new type of research in which media consumers’ own creativity, reflexivity and knowingness is harnessed, rather than ignored. In these studies, individuals…
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Public Space in the Media City
If you’re in Sydney next Wednesday and you’re interested in the history of new media technologies in relation to cities, space or place, try to get along to hear Scott McQuire talk about his current research: Public Space in the Media City University of New South Wales Media, Film and Theatre Seminars 5pm, Wednesday 26…