Articles

2011 ‘Anticipating ubiquitous computing: logics to forecast technological futures‘, Geoforum, 42 (2): 231-240.

2010 ‘Representing ‘things to come’: feeling the visions of future technologies‘, Environment and Planning A, 42 (11): pp. 2771-2790.

2007 ‘Anticipating futures: engineering expectations of ubiquitous computing‘, International Science Grid This Week [online], 21st November 2007.

I currently have three manuscripts and a co-edited special issue in preparation:

• Paying Attention: the politics of the attention economy (co-edited special issue, with Patrick Crogan)
• Technicity and the assemblages of anticipation for ubiquitous computing (under review as part of a themed issue of Environment and Planning A)
• The neuropolitics of the attention economy
• Mapping desired worlds? Affects, historicity and regimes of hope in technology development

and a working paper: Embracing entanglements – Problematising the cosmopolitics of mobile communications technologies.

Conference and workshop papers

The promise and problematic of pervasive media (with Jonathan Dovey) to be presented in the session: ‘Geographies of Media 4: New Media’  at the AAG Annual International Conference 2012.

Materiality, spatial media, and collective urban life (with Matthew Wilson, U. Kentucky) presented in the session: Collective Life and Urban Space (2): Exploring Materialities and Practices at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2011.

Futures of Pervasive Media in the making presented in the session: The promise and problematic of Pervasive Media at the MeCCSA Annual Conference 2011, Salford.

Futurity in the making: communities of practice in the anticipation of ‘ubiquitous computing’ presented in the session: Geography and the Future (3): The presence of the future at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2010.

Yesterday’s Tomorrows – Envisioning Ubiquitous Computing presented in the session: The promise and problematic of technology: (Re)thinking bodies, spaces and times session at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2008.

Laying claim to technological futures presented in the Governing Technologies(I) – Representation, participation and governance in the ‘digital age’ session of the AAG Annual Conference 2008, Boston.

Disciplinary edges and the Socio-technical presented at the Doing Theory workshop held in February in the School of Geographical Sciences.

Conferences & Workshops

Convened:

• The promise and problematic of Pervasive Media at the MeCCSA Annual Conference 2011, Salford
• The promise and problematic of technology: (Re)thinking bodies, spaces and times session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2008
• Self-Publishing & Participatory Media Workshop – Guest facilitator David Brake of Media@LSE.

Panel chair and online editor:

• Paying Attention: Digital Media and Generational Responsibility, Linköping, Sweden, September 2010
• Access All Areas, Watershed Media Centre Bristol, May 2010

Attended:

• RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011, London
• MeCCSA Annual Conference 2011, Salford
• RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010, London
• Paying Attention: Digital Media and Generational Responsibility, Linköping, Sweden, September 2010
• Access All Areas, a symposium on User Generated Content, Watershed Media Centre Bristol, May 2010
• Gesture, Play, Technology, Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, May 2010
• RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2009, Manchester
• RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2008, London
• AAG Annual Conference 2008, Boston
• RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2007, London
• Wessex Postgraduate Meeting 2007 at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
• Doing Theory (Workshop) at the University of Bristol
• Mobilities, Technologies and Topologies Workshop at the Open University
• Creativity: the Word, Concept and Practice (Workshop) at the University of Bristol