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Dear Family First: Academics Study Porn
…the Porn issue of M/C: Journal of Media and Culture is now available online. It was co-edited by Andrew King and me. EditorialThe history of public discourse (and in many cases, academic publishing) on pornography is, notoriously, largely polemical and polarised. There is perhaps no other media form that has been so relentlessly the centre […]
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Mark Poster Lecture
I’m going to this free public lecture presented by the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland (can’t keep away from that sandstone lately)… Professor Mark Poster “Identity Theft, or What’s the Use of Having an Identity?” Date: 5.30-6.30pm Time: Thursday 7 October 2004 Venue: The Mayne Centre This lecture examines […]
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Sonic Interventions
Call for Papers: Sonic Interventions: Pushing the Boundaries of Cultural Analysis (ASCA Conference, Amsterdam, March 2005).
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Discipline, Dissonance, Disconnection 1
A rant in two parts Part 1: Internet Studies, Cultural Studies The delightful Kris has just come back from AoIR, and reflects on the lack of connection he felt with the approaches of many people there; people with whom he shares a common subject of study (weblogs), but whose objects of study, and methodological frameworks, […]
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Communities & Technologies Conference
Call for Papers: The Second International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2005) Milan, Italy, 13-16 June, 2005. Deadline for full papers: 12 Nov 2004.
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Sour Grapes and Junket
Sour grapes: Everyone is at AoIR in Brighton except me. And Kylie. And, due to cyclone activity, Jeremy (I think). We have repeatedly told our OII summer doctoral program colleagues not to bond without us, but with all that Internet talk, beer and fish and chips (with mushy peas!) by the seaside, it’s not looking […]
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cool tool for library geeks
books1 Originally uploaded by jeangenie. This is indeed a flawless lifehack: John Udell’s Library Lookup bookmarklet. It’s so elegant: find a book on amazon, click the bookmarklet, and instantly display search results from *your* library for the ISBN of the book you are currently viewing. I have been playing with it for hours, charging through […]
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If you read this, I’ll kill you
Jen and Nancy at The Write Doctors are putting together an anthology of teen writings which includes old diary entries, passed notes, stories, essays, even yearbook entries. I’m interested in this in vernacular creativity terms, of course. And they are calling for submissions: If you?re anything like we were, as a teenager you kept a […]
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Splendid Isolation
Another very interesting-looking call for papers: Splendid Isolation: Urban and Rural Flows and Counterflows in Electronic Music and Related Media February 10-12. 2005 Berlin, Germany Held in conjunction with club transmediale.05 [BASICS] The relationship between communication technologies and the city has been a long and complicated one, where the density of communicative activity has often […]
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CFP: fan fiction, cinema technologies, academic blogging, and collage culture
For those who need to care about such things, here are some upcoming calls for papers in cognate fields (and yes, I am aware that this is a poor excuse for a blog entry): Theorizing Fan Fiction and Fan Communities (essay collection) Calling all academic bloggers: Lore: An E-journal for Teachers of Writing seeks submissions […]