Category Archives: objects
An audio interview about my book Popular Culture And New Media: The Politics Of Circulation
Dave O’Brien interviewed me for the critical theory section of the New Book Network. The interview is available in full here. The interview focused on my recently published book Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation, and we … Continue reading
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
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
The precarious double life of the recording engineer…published online first
My article ‘The precarious double life of the recording engineer‘ has been published on the online first (or latest articles) section of the Journal for Cultural Research. It will be published in the actual journal in early 2014. The piece … Continue reading
Trackable football boots…quantifying your football skills
I just discovered that football boots now come with the option of a sensor that gathers data about the wearer. The Adidas miCoach systems gather data about the user so that it can reviewed after they have played. These are … Continue reading
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
A discount flyer for my book Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation
I’ve posted previously about the recent publication of my book Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation. The publishers, Palgrave Macmillan, are providing a discount on the book for a short period of time. The discount … Continue reading
Another review of Code/Space by Rob Kitchin & Martin Dodge
Sam Kinsley has posted a really detailed review of Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge’s Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life on his blog. There have now been a few reviews of this important books, I’ve previously linked to a few of … Continue reading
The Social Life of Methods…a new special issue of Theory, Culture & Society
Theory, Culture & Society have just published a special issue on ‘The Social Life of Methods’. It has been edited by Evelyn Ruppert, John Law and Mike Savage. The issue covers a range of issues about the role of method … Continue reading
Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation…has now been published
My new book Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation has now been published. I’ve just received my copies in the post. The publishers site is here. Here is the blurb: Popular culture and new media are deeply … Continue reading
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