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BlogTalk Downunder abstract
Remember, abstracts for BlogTalk Downunder are due on Monday 31 Jan. This is mine, fingers crossed… Blogging Technologies and the Social Construction of Genre The web is rife with over-generalised and underexamined discursive constructions of particular blogging platforms, blogging genres, and their users: we are led to believe that LiveJournal users are all teenage girls…
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Creative Commons Loot and Conference Schmoozing
The first day of the OCL conference (see previous entry) went not too badly, so here’s some extremely random highlights. In our conference packs we got copies of the Creative Commons copy me/remix me CD (but I really wanted the Wired one), CC buttons and stickers, and a v. nice QUT pen…Larry Lessig gave his…
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Play! Contemporary Composition, Technology and Listening
Call for Papers Symposium ” Play!: Contemporary Composition, Technology and Listening” As part of Extensible Toy Piano Project It has been almost 50 years since John Cage defined experimental music in terms of the contemplation of sound and the use of technology. All sound–and even silence– could and should be the stuff of music for…
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wanna go to beijing?
Just got back from the CSAA conference in Perth, and am now both knackered and leading a week-long Digital Storytelling workshop – I have about 20,000 words of blogging to do about both of those. But for now, one of my lame “announcement” posts. I had the _best_ time at the Oxford Internet Institute Summer…
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Fields of Uncool Panel
What with all the nerves on the day, I didn’t notice this photo being taken and can’t recall whether it shows us gearing up for the panel or gearing up for the pub afterwards…in any case, this is us at the csaa conference – for us, the culmination of nine months of emails and some…
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The ProAm Revolution
I’ve been waiting for this for a while: “The ProAm Revolution: How enthusiasts are changing our economy and society”, Charlie Leadbeater’s full-length report for Demos (with Paul Miller), is now available for purchase or free download. From astronomy to activism, from surfing to saving lives, Pro-Ams – people pursuing amateur activities to professional standards –…
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Google scholar
I’ve been playing with google scholar. I’m pleasantly surprised that even some of my more vague and/or obscure search strings yield largely meaningful results; at least, far more so than the databases our library subscribes to. And, if people take it up as part of their overall research strategies, google scholar clearly has positive implications…
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DiGRA 2005: Call for Papers
Call for papers for the Digital Games Research Association?s 2nd International Conference Changing Views: Worlds in Play, June 16-20, 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Why Pamper Life’s Complexities? A Symposium on the Smiths
How I wish I could find an excuse to go to this…but I haven’t got one. I guess I’ll be left behind and sour…I wonder if they have a vacancy for a back scrubber? Manchester Institute of Popular Culture Manchester Metropolitan University April 8th and 9th 2005 The Smiths have had a singular impact on…
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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…