I thought it might be fun to open with a little blast from the past. Pictured below is the first page of my notebook from my first collegiate communication course. I was an eighteen year-old beginning my second semester at the University of New Hampshire, and I had the good fortune of enrolling in Professor […]
a dialogue between Gina Neff, Tim Jordan, and Joshua McVeigh-Schulz (This is the first of Culture Digitally’s “dialogues.” Spurred first by comments by Gina Neff at the March 2011 workshop, and then by one of her blogposts, I asked if we could use an excerpt of that post as the opening salvo in a dialogue about […]
I’m currently working on a book with my adviser, Serge Proulx (UQAM), and Lorna Heaton (UdeM) about social media, its challenge for ethics, research and communication. And the last thing on my ‘to do’ list before Christmas break is to write the introduction for the book. The funny thing is, I’ve been working on that […]
I’ll admit it, I have one. A pile of articles I’ve collected, and am really, really meaning to read. Not just that, but some of them I know are going to be useful, important to my work, even from the abstract. A few I’m nearly embarrassed that I haven’t read yet. One or two of […]
The Cultural Studies podcast, hosted by Toby Miller, has posted its latest interview, with our own Nick Couldry. Nick narrates his academic career and offers glimpses of his forthcoming book, Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity), which he calls: “An attempt to think about the implications for my earlier work on media […]