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The first issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is now open access
The first issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is now available open access. This includes my piece Unpicking the Musical City.
Posted in fiction, film, infrastructures, music, sport, TV
Tagged Journal urban cultural studies, open access
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First issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
I received a copy of the first issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies in the post today (its out in advance of its 2014 publication date). It’s really nicely produced and looks like its going to be a … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, fiction, film, Games and gaming, music, space
Tagged cultural studies, journal, urban
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A review of Teaching Politics Beyond the Book
Caroline Varin has reviewed Teaching Politics Beyond the Book: Film, Texts and New Media in the Classroom. Robert edited by W. Glober and Daniel Tagliarina for the LSE Impact blog. The book explores how alternative resources – from film, music, … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, film, Games and gaming, web cultures
Tagged review, teaching politics beyond the book
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Friday Unpolished Papers seminar series
My colleague Gareth Millington has put together a new seminar series. The Friday Unpolished Papers are intended to be works in progress, its a space for people to try out ideas or to have a practice at conference presentations etc. … Continue reading
Posted in film, sport, web cultures
Tagged Friday unpolished papers, seminars, Sociology, york
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Richard Hoggart: Virtue and Reward
Last week I read Fred Inglis’ new biography Richard Hoggart: Virtue and Reward. It’s a really revealing piece of work. Inglis has kept it short and punchy, the book is 250 pages and its focus on the key moments works … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, fiction, film
Tagged biography, book, Fred inglis, review, Richard hoggart, virtue and reward
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Will Self on Mark Kermode…and on the future of literature/film reviewing and criticism
Will Self has reviewed Mark Kermode’s recent book Hatchet Job. He uses his review of this book on film criticism to open up some questions about the future of cultural criticism. The problem being that the changing medium makes the … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, film, web cultures
Tagged book, criticism, film, mark Kermode, review, Will self
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Popular Culture, Media & Society (my undergraduate module)
This summer I’ve spent quite a bit of time reflecting on my undergraduate module ‘Popular Culture, Media & Society’. It’s a year-long second year module that I co-ordinate, I also do most of the teaching on it (I’m doing 15 … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, fiction, film, Games and gaming, music, TV, university, web cultures
Tagged media, module, popular culture, society, teaching, undergraduate
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Details and contents for the inaugural issue of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
The inaugural issue of the new Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is getting close. Above is the flyer with the details of the contents for issue 1.1. The flyer and the blog for the journal can be found here. Alongside … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, film, Games and gaming, music, space, sport, TV
Tagged contents, inaugural issue, Journal of urban cultural studies
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A comprehensive list of data sources and services
Via Rob Kitchin on Twitter, the Visualising Data blog has an entry that is described as ‘A big collection of sites and services for accessing data‘. The post contains a comprehensive list of the data sources, and analysis tools, that … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, film, infrastructures, metrics, music, objects, software, visualisation, web cultures
Tagged big data, data, data availability, data services, data sets, digital data
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A new book on Cultural Policy
A new book on Cultural Policy: Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries, by Dave O’Brien, has just been published by Routledge. It looks like a really detailed engagement with cultural policy in a range if settings. And there … Continue reading
Posted in film, infrastructures, metrics, music
Tagged book, Cultural policy, dave o'brien, modernity
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