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roxio review
For the bit in my thesis about contemporary constructions of amateur creativity: review of Roxio’s Easy Media Creator
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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…
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Another PhD blog
cool! Marika’s PhD (in media and comm at the University of Oslo) on the interplay of personal media in the everyday lives of young people is right up my alley. And she has an excellent blog, which will go straight on my blogroll.
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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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OurMedia
Look at this: an idea whose time has come, to my mind. There’s a graphic depiction of how it will work here. It’s been a long time since I stumbled across some cool new web project that spoke to a niggling question raised by my research – and there are always a lot of niggling…
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Cultural Commons
Cultural Commons: the meeting place for culture and policy
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Real thesis thoughts
Late in the day, two readings from my own field helped me to place some bricks in the hole where my sanity and my conviction about the political importance of “ordinary” grassroots cultural production used to be: Jim McGuigan’s The Cultural Public Sphere (MS Word), and Chris Atton’s The Mundane and Its Reproduction in Alternative…
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resources on personal essay filmmaking
useful list of secondary resources on personal essay filmmaking from the center for social media.
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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…