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Notes on ‘doing theory’

By On 2 May, 2007 · Leave a Comment

When writing as a scholar one is always utilising theory. What is more, the collections and interrelations of ideas mobilised in the process is not a static or staid process – it is dynamic, not in a clichéd way but as a changeable movement of concepts at different speeds and across different durations, in short [...]

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Mobilising the Socio-technical

By On 19 April, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I have recently had to present the main themes of my project at a post-graduate conference. I have thus formed some notes towards defining my project, what follows is the abstract to my presentations, which I gave under the title: Mobilising the Socio-technical: The cultural politics of mobile communications technologies.

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Masters Research

By On 6 April, 2007 · 2 Comments

What follows is the Abstract to my Masters degree dissertation.

An End to Cyberspace? Metaphor, Affect and Socio-Technical Relations

Despite twenty-five years of the personal computer and a wealth of literature on all things ‘cyber-’ the discussion of computer-mediated communication largely remains pre-figured by (misguided) binaries, such as ‘material’-’electronic’ and ‘real’-’virtual’. This dissertation (re)examines the [...]

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