M Gregg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 20694 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Gregg |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Gregg |
| FIRMA | GREGG M |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-8679-6833 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 146 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Banality in Egocentric AI
Computing After Carbon
Feeling Obsolescence
No abstract available
Carrying Capacity
No abstract available
Toward Reuser Experience
No abstract available
What Are You Reading
No abstract available
Getting beyond Net Zero dashboards in the information technology sector
This perspective is inspired by current affairs in corporate social responsibility reporting in large technology companies, specifically the deployment of new software services to track carbon emissions in pursuit of Net Zero commitments. Drawing on first-hand observation of this practice over several years of employment in a US multinational firm, we focus on the carbon emissions dashboard as a representative example of key problems with the dom…
Deskbound Cultures
This book presents new perspectives on changing ideals and practices surrounding desks and desk work in offices, homes, and in popular culture. The authors represent a broad range of interests and disciplines: business administration, cultural studies, library and information science, literary studies, media and communication studies, media history, and social work. They have all been encouraged to ask new questions about familiar contexts and to…
A Mundane Voice
This essay offers strategies of speaking and studying (the mundane’ as a means to inaugurate an interventionist politics in cultural studies. Using Meaghan Morris’s example of anecdotal and colloquial address, a mundane voice is shown to situate and contextualize our understanding of major concepts circulating in international theory, and broaden the audience for academic debate. Studies of‘everyday life’ have been hampered by a too-close affinit…
Virtually Absent
[No Abstract]
Counterproductive
The Effective Academic Executive
As Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland from 2000–2012, Graeme Turner led one of the longest running research investments in Cultural Studies' history. Holding these threads together, in conjunction with the sheer hard work of Centre affiliates and administrators, was an exemplary management style. Turner's brand of Cultural Studies is defined by an attention to the art and politics of managemen…
Obwody pracy
This paper questions the binary of material and immaterial labour in the information era. Instead, we propose a “circuits of labour” model, a holistic framework that helps connect various concepts and traditions in the study of labour and ICT (information and communication technology). Inspired by du Gay et al’s “circuit of culture”, we argue conventional frameworks need to be synthesized and updated to reflect fundamental changes and persisting …
Circuits of Labour
This paper questions the binary of material and immaterial labour in the information era. Instead, we propose a “circuits of labour” model, a holistic framework that helps connect various concepts and traditions in the study of labour and ICT (information and communication technology). Inspired by du Gay et al’s “circuit of culture”, we argue conventional frameworks need to be synthesized and updated to reflect fundamental changes and persisting …
Building belonging
Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. --- Christopher A. Le Dantec, Editor
Inside the Data Spectacle
This paper focuses first on the scopophilic aspects of large scale data visualization—the fantasy of command and control through seeing—and places these in relation to key sites and conventions inside the tech industry. John Caldwell’s notion of “industrial reflexivity” provides a framework to explain the charismatic power and performative effects that attend representations of data as a visual spectacle. Drawing on twelve months of personal expe…
Spouse-busting
This paper explores emerging practices of intimacy, publicity and privacy evident in online and mobile media applications. It focuses on platforms that facilitate, obscure or reveal adulterous behavior, to understand the surveillance logic underpinning these products. Spouse-busting websites and their accompanying devices are part of a booming industry that renders marital disloyalty open to both amateur and professional surveillance. Promotional…
Toolbox for Electric Fences
An affective dimension is often at work in constructions of political 'reality'. Such a recognition might be seen to reinforce the value of certain legacies in cultural studies, particularly the role of articulation in public debate, and the renewed importance of such work in framing responses to volatile issues like the mandatory detention of asylum seekers. Revisiting the work of Stuart Hall on Thatcherism, and taking note of Judith Brett's rec…
Where is the Law in 'Unlawful Combatant
The rhythms of war and popular culture intermingle, amplify each other and become expressive. At the leading edge of the US military's war machine assemblage, as the nation of Iraq is deterritorialised from the despotic signifier 'Saddam Hussein', the soldiers' music consolidates a milieu of the battlefield. It also consolidates a space-time of the here-now with something less horrific. The popular music refrain produces a home away from home. In…
The pedagogy of regret
This article introduces the idea of a pedagogy of regret to illustrate some of the inadequacies in recent government policy initiatives which target young women's drinking practices. In the Australian context, the National Binge Drinking Campaign warned young women: Don't turn a night out into a nightmare. A similar British campaign advised individualized drinkers to know their limits. The rhetorical appeal of these campaigns hinges on the notion…
History in the Making
The 2010 press release announcing the first-release sites for Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) identified five locations chosen for their contrasting 'housing density, housing type, geography, climate and local infrastructure'. On these measures, the South Australian town of Willunga was described as a 'small rural town' with 'dispersed housing'. It thus served as a model for the country constituencies crucial to securing support for …
The Return of Organisation Man
This article considers the significance of suburban commuter imagery in a selection of screen visions of mid-century modernity. A number of examples, including Mad Men, and the screen adaptations of The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956) and Revolutionary Road (2008), will be shown to echo key themes, symbols and scenes in their depictions of suburbia and the cultural impact of the corporation. Taken together, these narratives indicate the resil…
Convergence Culture and the Legacy of Feminist Cultural Studies
This essay elaborates upon some of the feminist legacies underwriting the work ofHenry Jenkins, particularly the 2006 book, Convergence Culture, to develop a setof priorities for media and Cultural Studies research following in its wake.Focusing on critical uses of the term 'subculture', and its convenient fit withInternet scholarship to date, and moving to an analysis of the notion of'participatory culture', we question how easily the practices …
Do Your Homework
At the height of Australia's employment boom in the past decade, Federal Treasurer Peter Costello (2006) urged the nation's women to take advantage of new communications technologies to combine wor
The Break-Up
Responding to a recent marketing campaign in Australia, this paper considers how the politics of love suggested in Hardt and Negri’s Commonwealth (2009) may have pragmatic application for media studies. The publicity strategies of a major bank in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis provide a rich illustration of the ways love’s genres and registers can be directly co-opted towards commercial interests - and the challenges this presents for cr…
The pedagogy of regret
This article introduces the idea of a pedagogy of regret to illustrate some of the inadequacies in recent government policy initiatives which target young women's drinking practices. In the Australian context, the National Binge Drinking Campaign warned young women: Don't turn a night out into a nightmare. A similar British campaign advised individualized drinkers to know their limits. The rhetorical appeal of these campaigns hinges on the notion…
The Normalisation of Flexible Female Labour in the Information Economy
For the professional middle class in information industries, "working from home" is an increasingly common feature of the employment landscape, resulting from the affordability and portability of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The phrase invokes a sense of freedom from the banality of the traditional office, offering flexibility in both working hours and location when other commitments prevail. In recent debates in Australian …
Inside the Data Spectacle
This paper focuses first on the scopophilic aspects of large scale data visualization—the fantasy of command and control through seeing—and places these in relation to key sites and conventions inside the tech industry. John Caldwell’s notion of “industrial reflexivity” provides a framework to explain the charismatic power and performative effects that attend representations of data as a visual spectacle. Drawing on twelve months of personal expe…
Learning to (Love) Labour
This paper provides a brief introduction to the concept of “affective labour” in media and cultural theory with a view to broadening the ethical horizon of current research into production cultures
A mundane voice
This essay offers strategies of speaking and studying ‘the mundane’ as a means to inaugurate an interventionist politics in cultural studies. Using Meaghan Morris’s example of anecdotal and colloquial address, a mundane voice is shown to situate and contextualize our understanding of major concepts circulating in international theory, and broaden the audience for academic debate. Studies of ‘everyday life’ have been hampered by a too-close affini…
Virtually Absent
[No Abstract]
Underbelly , true crime and the cultural economy of infamy
By putting the vocabulary of aspiration in the mouths of criminals, and by situating them in the suburbs, Underbelly suggests that ruthless, murderous competition may not be incompatible with the Australian Dream. Exposing a generation's denial of the criminal elements behind ecstasy's fetishized status, it problematizes celebratory accounts of club culture, and suggests dark externalities for the ‘night-time economy’ of our inner cities. As well…
Feeling Ordinary
This article marks the beginning of a series of investigations in which I hope to offer a sympathetic account of the opportunities new media technologies provide for intellectual practice. It argues that blogging can be understood as part of a history of recreational scholarly engagement accompanying professional writing genres but that is increasingly difficult to maintain in the neoliberal framework of the corporate university
Do Your Homework
At the height of Australia's employment boom in the past decade, Federal Treasurer Peter Costello (2006) urged the nation's women to take advantage of new communications technologies to combine wor
Spouse-busting
This paper explores emerging practices of intimacy, publicity and privacy evident in online and mobile media applications. It focuses on platforms that facilitate, obscure or reveal adulterous behavior, to understand the surveillance logic underpinning these products. Spouse-busting websites and their accompanying devices are part of a booming industry that renders marital disloyalty open to both amateur and professional surveillance. Promotional…
A neglected history
While a notoriously naval-gazing discipline, the history of cultural studies' development has been somewhat nebulous in describing the contribution of Richard Hoggart, author of The Uses of Literacy (1957) and inaugural director of the groundbreaking Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham. Typically recognized in association with postwar British counterparts Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson, given the similarly passionate style…
Getting beyond Net Zero dashboards in the information technology sector
This perspective is inspired by current affairs in corporate social responsibility reporting in large technology companies, specifically the deployment of new software services to track carbon emissions in pursuit of Net Zero commitments. Drawing on first-hand observation of this practice over several years of employment in a US multinational firm, we focus on the carbon emissions dashboard as a representative example of key problems with the dom…
Commentary and Criticism
Communicating Investment
In this article I aim to suggest that the current climate of academic publishing has allowed something fundamental to go missing from existing accounts of cultural studies, and that it has significant implications for the future of the field. I describe this 'something' as cultural studies' particular investment and commitment to scholarly practice, its sense of vocation, which is communicated through a contagious 'affect' in the forms of address…
The importance of being ordinary
This article identifies the significance of ‘the ordinary’ in Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy and notes its distinction from philosophies of ‘the everyday’ that have been ascendant in recent cultural studies theory. It does this in order to oppose the rhetorical use of ordinariness promoted by conservative politicians such as Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Such etymological specificity is argued to be necessary so that cultural stu…
The Break-Up
Responding to a recent marketing campaign in Australia, this paper considers how the politics of love suggested in Hardt and Negri’s Commonwealth (2009) may have pragmatic application for media studies. The publicity strategies of a major bank in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis provide a rich illustration of the ways love’s genres and registers can be directly co-opted towards commercial interests - and the challenges this presents for cr…
Message Me
In this article, we investigate the impact of online platforms on the everyday lives of users, including how the interests of those users affect the forms of emerging digital culture. In doing this, we stress temporality and location as crucial to digital literacies of various kinds and thus undo some of the clichés about freedom, constraint and opportunity associated with various web platforms. We also pay heed to the complex cultural literacies…
Available in Selected Metros Only
This article considers the benefits a cultural studies perspective can offer debates around rural and regional telecommunications provision. It begins with a critique of the metrocentrism dominant in recent scholarship of new media, arguing that academic, business and government discourses share progressivist assumptions in equating online connectivity with freedom. It highlights how the gap between the promotion of connectivity and actually exis…
Available in Selected Metros Only
This article considers the benefits a cultural studies perspective can offer debates around rural and regional telecommunications provision. It begins with a critique of the metrocentrism dominant in recent scholarship of new media, arguing that academic, business and government discourses share progressivist assumptions in equating online connectivity with freedom. It highlights how the gap between the promotion of connectivity and actually exis…
JAS review of books
David Burchell and Andrew Leigh (eds), The Prince's New Clothes: Why Do Australians Dislike Their Politicians?, University of New South Wales Press, 2002, pp 191, pb $34.95. ISBN 086840604X. Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: a portrait of Paul Keating, Random House, 2002, hb $45.00. ISBN 0091835178. Warwick Anders, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Radical Destiny in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 364…
JAS review of books
Brigid Hains, The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 218, pb S49.95. ISBN 0522850367. John Connor, The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788–1838, University of New South Wales Press, 2002, pp 176, pb $29.95. ISBN 0868407569 John Carroll, Terror: A meditation on the meaning of September 11, Scribe Publications, pp 106, pb $16.95. ISBN 0908011849. Helen Caldicott, The New Nuclear Danger: G…
Remnants of Humanism
There is a curiousness, as well as a timeliness, to Paul Gilroy’s recent suggestion that cultural politics should adjust its frame of vision to better capture a meaningful ‘planetary humanism’. The curiousness of the proposal is that it comes at a time when the distance between competing political allegiances seems to preclude the unanimity necessary for such a position. A tendency to polarize political practices into antagonistic camps (such as …
A neglected history
While a notoriously naval-gazing discipline, the history of cultural studies' development has been somewhat nebulous in describing the contribution of Richard Hoggart, author of The Uses of Literacy (1957) and inaugural director of the groundbreaking Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham. Typically recognized in association with postwar British counterparts Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson, given the similarly passionate style…
JAS review of books
Margo Kingston, Not Happy, John: Defending Our Democracy, Penguin, Camberwell, 2004, pp 446, pb $24.95, ISBN 0143002589. Duncan Graham, The People Next Door: Understanding Indonesia, UWA Press, Nedlands, 2004, pp 190, pb $38.95, ISBN 1920694099. Jock Given, America's Pie: Trade and Culture After 9/11, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2003, pp 112, pb $16.95, ISBN 0868404713. Geoffrey Barker, Sexing it Up: Iraq, Intelligence and Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, …
A mundane voice
This essay offers strategies of speaking and studying ‘the mundane’ as a means to inaugurate an interventionist politics in cultural studies. Using Meaghan Morris’s example of anecdotal and colloquial address, a mundane voice is shown to situate and contextualize our understanding of major concepts circulating in international theory, and broaden the audience for academic debate. Studies of ‘everyday life’ have been hampered by a too-close affini…
Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices
In a series of encounters with key figures in the field of cultural studies, this book draws together interest in affect theory and contemporary politics to describe the mobilising effects of individu
Cultural Studies' Affective Voices
Communicating Investment
Over the past decade, publishers’ catalogues have continued to showcase an apparently ceaseless supply of introductory readers, taxonomies and evaluations of cultural studies. Writing this book I have often worried about the need to add yet another title to this by now surely satiated field. My anxieties only heightened recently when two respected mentors remarked (in a cultural studies conference plenary no less): ‘Nothing is more boring than wh…
Feeling Ordinary
This article marks the beginning of a series of investigations in which I hope to offer a sympathetic account of the opportunities new media technologies provide for intellectual practice. It argues that blogging can be understood as part of a history of recreational scholarly engagement accompanying professional writing genres but that is increasingly difficult to maintain in the neoliberal framework of the corporate university
The importance of being ordinary
This article identifies the significance of ‘the ordinary’ in Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy and notes its distinction from philosophies of ‘the everyday’ that have been ascendant in recent cultural studies theory. It does this in order to oppose the rhetorical use of ordinariness promoted by conservative politicians such as Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Such etymological specificity is argued to be necessary so that cultural stu…
Freedom to Work
As the use of wireless communication technologies begins to settle into particular patterns, this essay considers the impact of such devices on workplace culture - particularly that of the professional middle class engaged in information work. While the study of workplace culture is usually the domain of sociology, management theory or organisational behaviour, media and cultural studies methods such as semiotic and discourse analysis, media cons…
Wireless Technologies and Cultures
Governments and big business tout the affordances of new technologies, but there is little research available that tells us why wireless connectivity should be or is desirable, or shows that its benefits have fully been established. In our minds, wireless technologies and cultures have not been given the sustained attention they deserve. Informed by these concerns, our hope is that this special issue, which follows on from a 2006 workshop sponsor…
Freedom to Work
As the use of wireless communication technologies begins to settle into particular patterns, this essay considers the impact of such devices on workplace culture - particularly that of the professional middle class engaged in information work. While the study of workplace culture is usually the domain of sociology, management theory or organisational behaviour, media and cultural studies methods such as semiotic and discourse analysis, media cons…
Commentary and Criticism
The Normalisation of Flexible Female Labour in the Information Economy
For the professional middle class in information industries, "working from home" is an increasingly common feature of the employment landscape, resulting from the affordability and portability of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The phrase invokes a sense of freedom from the banality of the traditional office, offering flexibility in both working hours and location when other commitments prevail. In recent debates in Australian …
Communicating Investment
In this article I aim to suggest that the current climate of academic publishing has allowed something fundamental to go missing from existing accounts of cultural studies, and that it has significant implications for the future of the field. I describe this 'something' as cultural studies' particular investment and commitment to scholarly practice, its sense of vocation, which is communicated through a contagious 'affect' in the forms of address…
Message Me
In this article, we investigate the impact of online platforms on the everyday lives of users, including how the interests of those users affect the forms of emerging digital culture. In doing this, we stress temporality and location as crucial to digital literacies of various kinds and thus undo some of the clichés about freedom, constraint and opportunity associated with various web platforms. We also pay heed to the complex cultural literacies…
Learning to (Love) Labour
This paper provides a brief introduction to the concept of “affective labour” in media and cultural theory with a view to broadening the ethical horizon of current research into production cultures
Affect’s Future
On Friday Night Drinks
Working with Affect in Feminist Readings
"'Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences' explores the place and function of affect in feminist knowledge production, investigating what it means to work with and through affect, as well as the kinds of ethical and methodological challenges that this involves."--Publisher's information
Underbelly , true crime and the cultural economy of infamy
By putting the vocabulary of aspiration in the mouths of criminals, and by situating them in the suburbs, Underbelly suggests that ruthless, murderous competition may not be incompatible with the Australian Dream. Exposing a generation's denial of the criminal elements behind ecstasy's fetishized status, it problematizes celebratory accounts of club culture, and suggests dark externalities for the ‘night-time economy’ of our inner cities. As well…
Convergence Culture and the Legacy of Feminist Cultural Studies
This essay elaborates upon some of the feminist legacies underwriting the work ofHenry Jenkins, particularly the 2006 book, Convergence Culture, to develop a setof priorities for media and Cultural Studies research following in its wake.Focusing on critical uses of the term 'subculture', and its convenient fit withInternet scholarship to date, and moving to an analysis of the notion of'participatory culture', we question how easily the practices …
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