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…

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…

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…

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…

Seminar notes are coming, but for now here are the powerpoint slides from my own presentation, “Digital Storytelling as an Example of Vernacular Creativity and New Media”.

Things kicked into high gear on the second day of the OII doctoral programme. Those of us in the “internet and everyday life” subgroup had an enjoyable session mapping out our research projects and identifying common threads – there appear to be two very strong shared interests: firstly social (i.e. human) networks, and secondly non-…