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Monthly Archives: August 2013
A review of Trebor Scholz’s Digital Labor
Andreas Wittel has reviewed Trebor Scholz’s collection Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory for Information, Communication & Society.
A review of Manuel Castells’ Networks of Outrage and Hope
Joss Hands has reviewed Manuel Castells Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age for Information, Communication & Society.
Posted in web cultures
Tagged book review, Manuel castells, networks of outrage and hope
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Videos of the talks from the event on ‘Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System’
There are now a series of videos available of the talks from the recent event on ‘Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System’. The event was organised by my colleagues Nick Gane and Clair Westall. It was an excellent event with … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, data and dataplay, infrastructures, metrics, university
Tagged crisis, event, jamie peck, Jodi dean, neoliberalism, videos, world system
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A review of Lisa Blackman’s Immaterial Bodies
Patricia MacCormack has reviewed Lisa Blackman’s Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation for Information, Communication & Society.
Lowry and the painting of modern life
John Barrell has a review on the LSE blog of a recent Tate exhibition entitled ‘Lowry and the painting of the modern life‘. It provides some reflections and reassessments of Lowry’s paintings of industrial spaces. It covers the popularity of … Continue reading
Posted in infrastructures, objects, space, visualisation
Tagged Lowry, LRB, modern life, painting
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Urban Cultural Studies audio podcasts
The Urban Cultural Studies blog, which is linked to the development of the new Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, is rapidly developing its series of audio podcasts. These are mostly linked to specific articles in the journal (which publishes its … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, infrastructures, space
Tagged audio, cultural studies, podcasts, urban
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New Live Sociology site
Goldsmiths sociology have launched a new ‘Live Sociology‘ web resource. It is still in its beta stages, so it is under development, but it already has links to lots of resources. The idea seems to be to provide a single … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, infrastructures, metrics, objects, software, visualisation, web cultures
Tagged blog, goldsmiths, Live sociology, resources, site, Sociology
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Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian…a two day conference
Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian a two day conference. Here is the conference website and here are the details: The ordinary and the everyday are intuitively self-evident, yet notoriously elusive. Efforts to define “ordinary language” or “everyday practice” have preoccupied thinkers across many disciplines: … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, space, Uncategorized
Tagged conference, event, everyday, ordinary, quotidian
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A review of Media Life by Mark Deuze
Camille Baker has reviewed Mark Deuze’s new book Media Life for Information, Communication & Society.