Tag Archives: popular culture
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
The 50% discount on my book Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation is now (definitely) live
It turns out that I jumped the gun a bit when I posted about this a couple of weeks ago. But the 50% discount on my book is definitely now live for online (and postal) orders. The book price is … 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
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
Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data article is out (on online first)
The article ‘Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data‘, which I co-authored with Roger Burrows, has now been published in the online first section of the Theory, Culture & Society journal. The article will appear in … Continue reading
Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation…cover and publishers page
My book is now progressing through the various stages. The publication date is 19th July. I’ve got the above cover image, I’ve returned the copyedited pages and there is now a page on the publishers website (with information about the … Continue reading
A description of my forthcoming book…
I managed to submit my book to the publishers on Monday. The title of the book is going to be Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation – I posted before about the selection of the title. I … 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
A new audio: My talk on ‘Archiving and the organisation of popular culture’
I’ve just uploaded a talk I gave recently to the postgraduates in the Centre for Modern Studies at York on the topic of ‘Archiving and the organisation of popular culture’. The audio of the talk is available here and it’s … Continue reading
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