Death and the Media

Rebecca Feasey and I presented research from our Celebrity, Risk and the Media project at the BSA 'Death and the Media' conference.

Creativity and Work

Nic Jeune and I presented at the Creativity and Work conference.

Feeling Professional

Annette Naudin discusses my 'Feeling professional' paper (originally given at MeCCSA 2010 and published in Networks 10)

Celebrity News? An Oxymoron

Presented paper (co-authored with Dr Rebecca Feasey) '"This is not how cancer looks": Public understandings of celebrity and risk in the news' at Celebrity News conference held at the University of Geneva 15-17th September 2010. See here

Keeping it Real

Keeping it Real: Narratives of Ordinary and Extraordinary People Across Media, 3 September 2010, Bournemouth University

Info here

Future of Cultural Work

Presented at the Future of Cultural Work

A hugely helpful event for my research on cultural work. I presented the paper, 'Freelancing, moonlighting, networking, volunteering: cultural workers
in-the-making'. This was a version of the MeCCSA paper (Available here and in Networks shortly)

Made quite a few interesting connections to follow up.

Affective Fabrics of Digital Culture

Attended Affective Fabrics of Digital Culture: feelings, technologies, politics. Info here

I presented the paper, 'From bedroom to beyond: Identifying (with) industry tools and technologies'

Fantastic event, saw some great research and had fun/interesting chats.

Some links:
CoDE
Tales of Things and Electronic Memories

Antisocial_notworking

antisocial notworking is a repository of projects that explore the pseudo-agency of online social platforms. It takes a number of recent software projects as its inspiration to reflect upon the fashion for 'participation' with the arts sector and culture in general. See more.

Links from Access All Areas

Links from the symposium:

http://www.interactivedocumentary.net/

Access all areas

Forthcoming symposium I'll be presenting at (paper title "Positioning Participatory Production). Info on site

Policies not personalities

Visit the site

Cultural Politics special edition on celebrity

Cultural Politics 6(1) with a section on celebrity.

The Cultural Politics of Celebrity
pp. 49-64(16)
Authors: Drake, Philip; Miah, Andy

News, Celebrity, and Vortextuality: A Study of the Media Coverage of the Michael Jackson Verdict
pp. 65-84(20)
Author: Whannel, Garry

Unsolicited Submission
pp. 85-91(7)
Author: Levine, David

The “Public Inquisitor” as Media Celebrity
pp. 93-109(17)
Author: Higgins, Michael

“As Seen on TV.” The Celebrity Expert: How Taste is Shaped by Lifestyle Media
pp. 111-124(14)
Authors: Powell, Helen; Prasad, Sylvie

Claiming creativity

Claiming Creativity conference at Colombia College Chicago a no-go because of volcanic ash.

Knowledge Spaces

Presented work on Artswork Media with Nic at Knowledge Spaces.
Mike Neary's keynote on 'Learning Landscapes in Higher Education' was very engaging.

Living in the Internet of Things, Twitter Debate

Living in the Internet of Things, Twitter Debate Friday 26th March 1-2pm

YouTube Bibliography

YouTube bibliography

DVDs and film history

Posting from Chuck Tyron on DVDs and film history.

Cultural borrowings

Scope: 10th Anniversary Special Issue and e-Book
Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation Edited by Iain Robert Smith