Monthly Archives: December 2012
John Harris on the comeback of vinyl records
John Harris has a piece in The Guardian on the apparent comeback of vinyl records. He links this into the sales of iPads, downloads etc. the underlying story is one of materiality in culture. There seem to be questions posed … Continue reading
Tanni Haas’ Making it in the political blogosphere reviewed by Franka Winter
Franka Winter reviews Tanni Haas’ Making it in the political blogosphere for Information, Communication & Society.
Jussi Parikka on Geert Lovink
Jussi Parikka reviews Geert Lovink’s Network without a cause: A critique of social media for Information, Communication & Society.
William Mitchell’s Me++: The cyborg self and the networked city reviewed by Mark Johnson
As part of my role as reviews editor at Information, Communication & Society i’ve been trying to develop a section that I’ve called ‘revisiting the classics’. the idea of the section is that it will provide a space to reflect … Continue reading
Another open access piece added: the sociological imagination as popular culture
Following my previous post on Mad Men and sociology, I’ve just added a link to the following chapter to the open access materials section: Beer, D. & Burrows, R. (2010) ‘The sociological imagination as popular culture’, in, Burnett, J., Jeffers, … Continue reading
Mad Men (and sociology)
I recently finished watching a DVD of Mad Men season 5. This year I’ve watched all of the seasons. Which is a good example of Scott Lash’s observation that DVD box sets are part of what he calls ‘intensive culture’. … Continue reading
Twitter offers users download with all their Tweets in a single file
An interesting development in how Twitter is archived. Users can now access a complete archive of their own Tweets. This could have an impact on how Twitter is used. This will make it less ephemeral. This new archiving could also … Continue reading
Graham Scambler on getting published in sociology
I just came across this really interesting post by Graham Scambler about getting published in sociology. Graham offers various tips about getting published but he sets this within the broader changing university context. Graham uses some biographical details to flesh … Continue reading
Material Participation book launch audio
The Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process at Goldsmiths has an audio of the book launch of Material Participation by the always fascinating Noortje Marres. Noortje speaks about the book and the file also contains some detailed … Continue reading
Another open access paper added…
I’ve uploaded the below open access piece to the Open Access and Audio Materials section of the blog: Beer, D. (2012) ‘Open Access and Academic Publishing: Some lessons from music culture‘, Political Geography 31(8): 479-480.
Thinking culture 