This commentary offers some lessons learned from recent attempts by the author to produce and fun... more This commentary offers some lessons learned from recent attempts by the author to produce and fund documentary films in the university setting. The article pays particular attention to how crowdfunding can be utilized by first-time media producers. RESUME Ce commentaire propose quelques leçons apprises par l'auteur à la suite de tentatives récentes de réaliser et de financer des documentaires dans un milieu universitaire. L'article porte une attention particulière à la manière dont les néophytes en matière de production audiovisuelle peuvent recourir au sociofinancement.
This article investigates the impact that the initial financialization of the Wireless Telegraph ... more This article investigates the impact that the initial financialization of the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company (Marconi) had upon its core business model, its relationship with its workers, government, and the bourgeoning investor class (1897–1905). Drawing upon primary sources from the Marconi corporate archives at the University of Oxford, the article investigates how the company used the new financial disclosure requirements of the day to deploy a compelling publicity campaign for wireless communications.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2002
As the mediated world becomes increasingly cluttered with commercial appeals, corporate America h... more As the mediated world becomes increasingly cluttered with commercial appeals, corporate America has responded with a wholesale downsizing of jingles, slogans, and logos. For example, where there was once Kentucky Fried Chicken, there is now only KFC. Where General Hospital and The Young and the Restless once graced our screens, there is now simply GH and Y&R. Similarly, from the more sublime, yet increasingly more pervasive sphere of advertising, we now find logos, trademarks and miniaturised symbols ...
The doctoral dissertation critically investigates the processes, sites and technologies of consum... more The doctoral dissertation critically investigates the processes, sites and technologies of consumer profiling. Technologically speaking, the dissertation focuses on the means by which individual consumption patterns and histories (demographic and psychographic data) are automatically solicited into computerized databases and networks. In addition to providing a historical perspective on consumer profiling or solicitation technologies (from product registration cards and mail-in coupons to point-of-sale ...
Abstract: Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conce... more Abstract: Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conceptualizes the deployment of issue publics (Lippmann, 1993; Marres, 2005) on Facebook. We argue that issue publics on Facebook come into being through a specific set of double articulations of code and politics that link and reshape informational processes, communicational constraints and possibilities, and political practices in different and sometimes contradictory ways. Using Maurizio Lazzarato's exploration of immaterial ...
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Jan 1, 2009
ABSTRACT This article builds upon current hyperlink mapping research to determine the degree of p... more ABSTRACT This article builds upon current hyperlink mapping research to determine the degree of party loyalty and partisanship in the Canadian political blogosphere. The article develops a hyperlink-based method of determining blogger endorsements as a means of tracking cross-party recommendations. The article concludes that bloggers affiliated with the governing Conservative Party of Canada exhibit the most cohesive ideological and party loyal set of blog recommendation links.
Journal of Critical Studies of Business & Society, Vol 4., Nov 2013
This paper investigates the accounting practices that gave rise to economic and communicative for... more This paper investigates the accounting practices that gave rise to economic and communicative forms of 'going public'. The paper turns to the early industrial capitalist conventions of accounting (late 19th century) to understand how individual workers, consumers, and owners required new rules and regulations to manage the separation of ownership from management. The paper focuses on the practices and language that governed such "impersonal" relationships to capital -- a concept which is then applied to the contemporary social network age where users are called upon to 'go public' and often on social media platforms like Facebook.
This commentary offers some lessons learned from recent attempts by the author to produce and fun... more This commentary offers some lessons learned from recent attempts by the author to produce and fund documentary films in the university setting. The article pays particular attention to how crowdfunding can be utilized by first-time media producers. RESUME Ce commentaire propose quelques leçons apprises par l'auteur à la suite de tentatives récentes de réaliser et de financer des documentaires dans un milieu universitaire. L'article porte une attention particulière à la manière dont les néophytes en matière de production audiovisuelle peuvent recourir au sociofinancement.
This article investigates the impact that the initial financialization of the Wireless Telegraph ... more This article investigates the impact that the initial financialization of the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company (Marconi) had upon its core business model, its relationship with its workers, government, and the bourgeoning investor class (1897–1905). Drawing upon primary sources from the Marconi corporate archives at the University of Oxford, the article investigates how the company used the new financial disclosure requirements of the day to deploy a compelling publicity campaign for wireless communications.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2002
As the mediated world becomes increasingly cluttered with commercial appeals, corporate America h... more As the mediated world becomes increasingly cluttered with commercial appeals, corporate America has responded with a wholesale downsizing of jingles, slogans, and logos. For example, where there was once Kentucky Fried Chicken, there is now only KFC. Where General Hospital and The Young and the Restless once graced our screens, there is now simply GH and Y&R. Similarly, from the more sublime, yet increasingly more pervasive sphere of advertising, we now find logos, trademarks and miniaturised symbols ...
The doctoral dissertation critically investigates the processes, sites and technologies of consum... more The doctoral dissertation critically investigates the processes, sites and technologies of consumer profiling. Technologically speaking, the dissertation focuses on the means by which individual consumption patterns and histories (demographic and psychographic data) are automatically solicited into computerized databases and networks. In addition to providing a historical perspective on consumer profiling or solicitation technologies (from product registration cards and mail-in coupons to point-of-sale ...
Abstract: Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conce... more Abstract: Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conceptualizes the deployment of issue publics (Lippmann, 1993; Marres, 2005) on Facebook. We argue that issue publics on Facebook come into being through a specific set of double articulations of code and politics that link and reshape informational processes, communicational constraints and possibilities, and political practices in different and sometimes contradictory ways. Using Maurizio Lazzarato's exploration of immaterial ...
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Jan 1, 2009
ABSTRACT This article builds upon current hyperlink mapping research to determine the degree of p... more ABSTRACT This article builds upon current hyperlink mapping research to determine the degree of party loyalty and partisanship in the Canadian political blogosphere. The article develops a hyperlink-based method of determining blogger endorsements as a means of tracking cross-party recommendations. The article concludes that bloggers affiliated with the governing Conservative Party of Canada exhibit the most cohesive ideological and party loyal set of blog recommendation links.
Journal of Critical Studies of Business & Society, Vol 4., Nov 2013
This paper investigates the accounting practices that gave rise to economic and communicative for... more This paper investigates the accounting practices that gave rise to economic and communicative forms of 'going public'. The paper turns to the early industrial capitalist conventions of accounting (late 19th century) to understand how individual workers, consumers, and owners required new rules and regulations to manage the separation of ownership from management. The paper focuses on the practices and language that governed such "impersonal" relationships to capital -- a concept which is then applied to the contemporary social network age where users are called upon to 'go public' and often on social media platforms like Facebook.
Abstract This paper argues that locative media studies offers much broader insights on the logic ... more Abstract This paper argues that locative media studies offers much broader insights on the logic of new media than is currently espoused. Media scholars have largely restricted the analysis of locative technologies to hand-held and immersive gadgets and experiences. I argue for an expanded theorization of the “locative”, one that develops a broader understanding of the conditions of networking of new media platforms, users, and content.
From the outset I wasn't sure if we were actually making a documentary film. In fact, as our thre... more From the outset I wasn't sure if we were actually making a documentary film. In fact, as our three-year Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded research-creation grant rolled into its second year, I proactively insisted on referring to our project as an experiment and not a film per se. This of course irritated my filmmaking colleague to no end.“We are making a film… right???” was his refrain during our team meetings, and in the minutes that preceded one of our joint conference presentations.
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