Terry Austrin
Biographic Data
| ID | 224892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terry Austrin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terry |
| FAMILY NAME | Austrin |
| SIGNATURE | AUSTRIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Media, Network(s) and
Networks have been described as one of the most significant features of the modern world. So central and pervasive are they that Manuel Castells (2009), for instance, has dubbed contemporary society the “network society.” Clearly, media are central to a network society. Yet this raises the question of which kinds of media? Traditionally, they have been broadcast or electronic media. However, these forms have been overtaken by the rise of digital …
The Performance of Power: Sam Watson a Miners' Leader on Many Stages
This paper draws on the biography of Sam Watson, a miners' leader in the North East of England, to examine the ways in which power relations operated within the British labour movement in the forties and fifties. At that time the Marshall Plan and the concern by the US government to control the spread of communism in Europe provided a critical backdrop with the CIA's labor attaché programme providing links between the AFL and the CIOand the Briti…
Celebrity, infamy, poker
The ethnography of new media worlds? Following the case of global poker
This article relates the current transformation of ethnographic practice to the emergence of new media technologies. It contrasts multi-sited ethnography with actor network theory’s method of following the construction of new media worlds through chains of mediators. The authors exemplify this through the extraordinary emergence of global poker and its shifting constitution across the entire spectrum of traditional and new media technologies. The…
Assembling Histories: J. G. A. Pocock, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the British World
J. G. A. Pocock’s work has made major contributions to the two fields of history and political science. In this article, we investigate the significance of his contributions to a wider field of social science and, in particular, to the discipline of sociology. Pocock’s attention to the question of sovereignty and its constant reconfiguration throughout the British world is brought together with the concerns of authors writing in an actor network …
Media, Network(s) and
Networks have been described as one of the most significant features of the modern world. So central and pervasive are they that Manuel Castells (2000), for instance, has dubbed contemporary society the “network society.” More than that, a network society is one in which the media play a preeminent role because of their capacity to distribute and disperse information, and their facility in traversing, and even reconfiguring, space and time zones.…
Markets and Politics: Public and Private Relations in the Case of Prostitution
Hybrid genres: Fieldwork, detection and the method of Bruno Latour
This article explores tensions in the study of innovation, the practice of fieldwork and the narratives these produce, particularly as represented in the work of Latour. It argues that Latour's ethnographic studies of science and technology parody a variety of sociological and literary genres, particularly detective fiction, and that he uses this literary device as a way of pinpointing unexpected links between fictional and sociological modes of …
Skills and surveillance in casino gaming: Work, Consumption and Regulation
With gambling now part of mainstream entertainment and popular leisure, casinos have become sites of legal work, combining the technical expertise and craft skills of the croupier (dealer) in table games with increasingly deskilled machine-minding in simulated video games.There are parallels with other service work, but the significance of casino gaming lies in the manipulation of things, such as cards and money, rather than in interpersonal rela…
From Work as Sex to Sex as Work: Networks, ‘Others’ and Occupations in the Analysis of Work
While once upon a time the social science of work and organization neglected or marginalized gender and sexuality, we have now lost sight of what people actually do, that is to say the activity of work. Gender and sexuality have been identified as crucial to organizational dynamics and, notwithstanding different theoretical emphases, this paradigm has become increasingly influential. We argue (contrary to most of its protagonists) that — within t…
Masters and Servants: Class and Patronage in the Making of a Labour Organization: The Durham Miners and the English Political Tradition
Flexibility, Surveillance and Hype in New Zealand Financial Retailing
The banking industry has been a major source of evidence for debates ranging from class analysis and proletarianization to deskilling and the feminization of work. The literature generated in these debates has, however, rarely touched upon the nature of the industry or of the work that characterizes it. Reference to the fact that banking is a major service industry has, therefore, been obscured by general references to white collar work or a non-…
The Iconography of the Durham Miners' Gala
The Durham Miners Gala has taken place annually for over a hundred years. In its heyday it was an immensely popular occasion. In the post-war period it became an established part of the British Labour calendar, being attended regularly by Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers and foreign ambassadors. The Gala can be understood as a ceremony which links twentieth century class politics with the more spontaneous and religious forms of political activi…
From Work as Sex to Sex as Work: Networks, ‘Others’ and Occupations in the Analysis of Work
While once upon a time the social science of work and organization neglected or marginalized gender and sexuality, we have now lost sight of what people actually do, that is to say the activity of work. Gender and sexuality have been identified as crucial to organizational dynamics and, notwithstanding different theoretical emphases, this paradigm has become increasingly influential. We argue (contrary to most of its protagonists) that — within t…
Skills and surveillance in casino gaming: Work, Consumption and Regulation
With gambling now part of mainstream entertainment and popular leisure, casinos have become sites of legal work, combining the technical expertise and craft skills of the croupier (dealer) in table games with increasingly deskilled machine-minding in simulated video games.There are parallels with other service work, but the significance of casino gaming lies in the manipulation of things, such as cards and money, rather than in interpersonal rela…
The ethnography of new media worlds? Following the case of global poker
This article relates the current transformation of ethnographic practice to the emergence of new media technologies. It contrasts multi-sited ethnography with actor network theory’s method of following the construction of new media worlds through chains of mediators. The authors exemplify this through the extraordinary emergence of global poker and its shifting constitution across the entire spectrum of traditional and new media technologies. The…
Flexibility, Surveillance and Hype in New Zealand Financial Retailing
The banking industry has been a major source of evidence for debates ranging from class analysis and proletarianization to deskilling and the feminization of work. The literature generated in these debates has, however, rarely touched upon the nature of the industry or of the work that characterizes it. Reference to the fact that banking is a major service industry has, therefore, been obscured by general references to white collar work or a non-…
The Performance of Power: Sam Watson a Miners' Leader on Many Stages
This paper draws on the biography of Sam Watson, a miners' leader in the North East of England, to examine the ways in which power relations operated within the British labour movement in the forties and fifties. At that time the Marshall Plan and the concern by the US government to control the spread of communism in Europe provided a critical backdrop with the CIA's labor attaché programme providing links between the AFL and the CIOand the Briti…
Hybrid genres: Fieldwork, detection and the method of Bruno Latour
This article explores tensions in the study of innovation, the practice of fieldwork and the narratives these produce, particularly as represented in the work of Latour. It argues that Latour's ethnographic studies of science and technology parody a variety of sociological and literary genres, particularly detective fiction, and that he uses this literary device as a way of pinpointing unexpected links between fictional and sociological modes of …
Markets and Politics: Public and Private Relations in the Case of Prostitution
The Iconography of the Durham Miners' Gala
The Durham Miners Gala has taken place annually for over a hundred years. In its heyday it was an immensely popular occasion. In the post-war period it became an established part of the British Labour calendar, being attended regularly by Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers and foreign ambassadors. The Gala can be understood as a ceremony which links twentieth century class politics with the more spontaneous and religious forms of political activi…
The Iconography of the Durham Miners' Gala
The Durham Miners Gala has taken place annually for over a hundred years. In its heyday it was an immensely popular occasion. In the post-war period it became an established part of the British Labour calendar, being attended regularly by Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers and foreign ambassadors. The Gala can be understood as a ceremony which links twentieth century class politics with the more spontaneous and religious forms of political activi…
Flexibility, Surveillance and Hype in New Zealand Financial Retailing
The banking industry has been a major source of evidence for debates ranging from class analysis and proletarianization to deskilling and the feminization of work. The literature generated in these debates has, however, rarely touched upon the nature of the industry or of the work that characterizes it. Reference to the fact that banking is a major service industry has, therefore, been obscured by general references to white collar work or a non-…
Masters and Servants: Class and Patronage in the Making of a Labour Organization: The Durham Miners and the English Political Tradition
From Work as Sex to Sex as Work: Networks, ‘Others’ and Occupations in the Analysis of Work
While once upon a time the social science of work and organization neglected or marginalized gender and sexuality, we have now lost sight of what people actually do, that is to say the activity of work. Gender and sexuality have been identified as crucial to organizational dynamics and, notwithstanding different theoretical emphases, this paradigm has become increasingly influential. We argue (contrary to most of its protagonists) that — within t…
Markets and Politics: Public and Private Relations in the Case of Prostitution
Hybrid genres: Fieldwork, detection and the method of Bruno Latour
This article explores tensions in the study of innovation, the practice of fieldwork and the narratives these produce, particularly as represented in the work of Latour. It argues that Latour's ethnographic studies of science and technology parody a variety of sociological and literary genres, particularly detective fiction, and that he uses this literary device as a way of pinpointing unexpected links between fictional and sociological modes of …
Skills and surveillance in casino gaming: Work, Consumption and Regulation
With gambling now part of mainstream entertainment and popular leisure, casinos have become sites of legal work, combining the technical expertise and craft skills of the croupier (dealer) in table games with increasingly deskilled machine-minding in simulated video games.There are parallels with other service work, but the significance of casino gaming lies in the manipulation of things, such as cards and money, rather than in interpersonal rela…
Media, Network(s) and
Networks have been described as one of the most significant features of the modern world. So central and pervasive are they that Manuel Castells (2000), for instance, has dubbed contemporary society the “network society.” More than that, a network society is one in which the media play a preeminent role because of their capacity to distribute and disperse information, and their facility in traversing, and even reconfiguring, space and time zones.…
Assembling Histories: J. G. A. Pocock, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the British World
J. G. A. Pocock’s work has made major contributions to the two fields of history and political science. In this article, we investigate the significance of his contributions to a wider field of social science and, in particular, to the discipline of sociology. Pocock’s attention to the question of sovereignty and its constant reconfiguration throughout the British world is brought together with the concerns of authors writing in an actor network …
The ethnography of new media worlds? Following the case of global poker
This article relates the current transformation of ethnographic practice to the emergence of new media technologies. It contrasts multi-sited ethnography with actor network theory’s method of following the construction of new media worlds through chains of mediators. The authors exemplify this through the extraordinary emergence of global poker and its shifting constitution across the entire spectrum of traditional and new media technologies. The…
Celebrity, infamy, poker
Media, Network(s) and
Networks have been described as one of the most significant features of the modern world. So central and pervasive are they that Manuel Castells (2009), for instance, has dubbed contemporary society the “network society.” Clearly, media are central to a network society. Yet this raises the question of which kinds of media? Traditionally, they have been broadcast or electronic media. However, these forms have been overtaken by the rise of digital …
The Performance of Power: Sam Watson a Miners' Leader on Many Stages
This paper draws on the biography of Sam Watson, a miners' leader in the North East of England, to examine the ways in which power relations operated within the British labour movement in the forties and fifties. At that time the Marshall Plan and the concern by the US government to control the spread of communism in Europe provided a critical backdrop with the CIA's labor attaché programme providing links between the AFL and the CIOand the Briti…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)