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Happy Birthday C/M
It barely seems possible that a whole year ago I started gathering together ideas and resources for a possible PhD project on amateur content production. But here we are. Happy Birthday, blog.
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a picture of the inside of my head
As if anyone needed further proof that the pathway to a complete PhD is far from smooth… Here’s a mindmap of the current conceptual state of my thesis, made in a fit of OII-stimulated inspiration on the train to Brighton while sleep-deprived a couple of weeks ago. It’s been sitting crumpled at the bottom of…
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What do you mean August started without me?
Contrary to appearances, I am a. still alive b. still thinking, and c. still a blogger Just trying to reorient myself to the world outside the white walls, leafy spaces, and idea-and-smoke filled pubs of Oxford. And trying to climb out from under a backlog of *stuff* that has to be done. I still have…
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place and placelessness
I’ve had a nice day doing a bit more exploring around Oxford, including the Natural History and Pitt Rivers museums, followed by a quest for good icecream and some shopping. But being (very) far from home the notion of place comes up again and again, both in conversation and in my head. As I sit…
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somuchtodo
fellow panel members snapping at my heels for an abstract, a journal issue to put to bed, and two days of notes to blog…bear with me people, I’ll get there in the end. Or maybe I should try Anne’s trick – seems to work for her. Hey look, I’ve just done it anyway.
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Day One
Finally got online for the first time in three days today – a strangely unnerving and oddly liberating feeling being disconnected for that long. So after answering all the most urgent work-related emails, I steeled myself to overcome my fuzzy-headed jet lag long enough to write something about the first day of the OII summer…
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Leavin’ (on a jet plane)
One more sleep until I take off for the UK to attend the Oxford Internet Institute Doctoral Summer Programme. The recently published schedule and participants’ bios [link removed on request] have built up a healthy level of excitement. I’m looking forward to the intense immersion in key questions around the internet, culture and society, working…
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urban nostalgia and wonton soup
I’ve been having a great time working as a digital storytelling trainer at Visible Ink (see below) and have been inspired by the creativity of the young participants, and the diversity of their approaches to what a digital story can be about and for. So while I’m on the show and tell kick, and to…
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A sad day
This morning we received the sad news that three QUT Creative Industries students lost their lives in a tragic car accident over the weekend. Among them was Gerard Cutcheon. I only met him once or twice, but I am touched to see that the comments section of Gerard’s photography website has become the focus of…
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De/institutionalization
While logging into the QUT server just now, I suddenly realized that my new student number is easier to remember than my old one. Are these the moments that let us know we have finally passed over to the other side?