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Videos to introduce lectures on geographies of popular culture

I give seven lectures on geographies of popular culture at the end of a 28-lecture torrent of social and cultural geography that is our first-year, first-term module “Geographies of Place, Identity & Culture‘.

We are asked to commence the actual lecture five minutes after the beginning of the session and end five minutes before, thus giving us 50 minutes of time to engage the students.

I have found that it can be rather awkward setting up and just waiting and watching the students pile in, while many of them sort of stare at you… so, I’m going to give them something else to look at!

I did this for one lecture last year and have now found a video for the first five minutes (-ish) of all seven. Here they are:

Introduction to Geographies of Popular Culture, begins with:

Lecture 2, geographies of music, begins with:

Lecture 3, geographies of life online, begins with:

Lecture 4, geographies of books & reading, begins with:

Lecture 5, geographies of cinema and TV, begins with:

Lecture 6, spaces of games and play, begins with:

Lecture 7, geographies of consumption, begins with:

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Interesting job: 5 year(!) RF in Urban Processes, Resilient Infrastructures and Sustainable Environments

Saw this job advertised at the University of Salford, it looks like a fantastic opportunity for someone – and of interest to geographers I’m sure:

5-year Research Fellowship within School of the Built Environment/UPRISE, University of Salford

The School of the Built Environment is seeking to appoint an exceptional candidate for a 5 year Research Fellowship within the newly formed UPRISE Research Centre. UPRISE brings together the expertise and research strengths of three existing groupings: the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF), the Centre for Disaster Resilience (CDR) and SURFACE – Inclusive Design. UPRISE develops critical and engaged research and practice around the themes of Urban Processes, Resilient Infrastructures and Sustainable Environments.  The distinctiveness of the Centre is in exploring and excavating the boundaries and inter-relationships between these issues, with an emphasis on championing inclusive, resilient and sustainable spaces and places and a commitment to people and communities.

For more information and to apply, please see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ALT619/research-fellow-uprise/

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Normal service now resumed

historical picture of a man leaning so his nose touches a grindstone

Hello to anyone that actually reads this blog! I’ve been on a ‘stay-cation’ en famille and I’m now back ‘at’ work… for the various values of location that implies for an academic that commutes and makes an office wherever is practical.

So, ‘nose [back] to the grindstone’…

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JOB> 0.5 Research Fellow, The Automation of Everyday Life (UWE Bristol)

The Digital Cultures Research Centre is advertising for a part-time (0.5) Research Fellow to support a project led by Dr Patrick Crogan on ‘The Automation of Everyday Life’:

The Digital Cultures Research Centre is seeking a Research Fellow in Digital Cultures: The Automation of Everyday Life on a part time (50%) and fixed term basis until 31 August 2016.

From software agents, predictive systems and recommendation services, to robotics, drones, and artificial companions, automated text and design experiments, and on to the internet of things, the automation of choices, actions and production is already a crucial theme in the emergence of 21st century digital culture.

In this role you will play a key part in developing the DCRC’s research and knowledge exchange programme in the area of the automation of cultural production and practices.

You will engage with a significant expansion of DCRC activities in this rapidly emerging area. Working across the DCRC’s local community, through regional, national and international connections, the post holder will develop interdisciplinary dialogues and partnerships with researchers and digital producers on projects that address and/or experiment with critical or creative responses to the automation of everyday life. You will help to grow the DCRC network of media, arts, robotics and software researchers and practitioners around this area, supporting and initiating the development of proposals to a variety of external funding bodies.

You will assist on increased DCRC initiatives across this theme, taking a lead in co-ordination and organisational support of externally facing research and knowledge exchange activities with a view to maximising impact. In addition to developing and extending your own specific programme of research, you will be expected to publish at an international level. Acting as a member of the editorial team for the DCRC website, you will play an important part in the promotion and external communication of DCRC research.

As a candidate (I’m guessing) you should probably be theoretically informed and take a look at some of Bernard Stiegler’s recent work on automation (this is probably the impetus for the project). You should probably also take a look at the Pervasive Media Studio to get a sense of where the DCRC operates…

Here’s the full advert with the necessary instructions for application…