James Allen-Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 2744692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Allen-Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen-Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN-ROBERTSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1668-8140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Encrypting human rights
The Snowden revelations in 2013 redrew the lines of debate surrounding surveillance, exposing the extent of state surveillance across multiple nations and triggering legislative reform in many. In the UK, this was in the form of the Investigatory Powers Act (2016). As a contribution to understanding resistance to expanding state surveillance activities, this article reveals the intertwining of diverse interests and voices which speak in oppositio…
Big Data on BHR
Data limitations in the field of business and human rights (BHR) are a significant challenge to developing transparent and replicable scholarship. Difficulties stem from the proprietary nature of much BHR data; incomparability of information across firms, sectors or regions; and coding challenges of existing information. Together, issues like
Representations of environmental protest on the ground and in the cloud
This article advances knowledge on activist technosocial practice by studying the realities and representations of on-the-ground environmental resistance and their intersections with visual representations of protest on Twitter. It does so by focusing on the case of resistance to the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, commonly known as TAP, in southern Italy, and on mixed methods for data collection, including ethnographic observations, semi-structured int…
Critically assessing digital documents
As a contribution to the ongoing tradition of critically assessing documents for research, this paper aims to highlight materiality as a key factor in the co-shaping of knowledge derived from digital documents. The paper first builds upon prior debates in document studies with work from the fields of Science and Technology Studies, and Communication Studies, to establish the role of document materiality in the interpretative process. By first est…
Representing environmental harm and resistance on Twitter
This research explores a new methodological path for doing green cultural criminological research via social media. It provides original case-study data and aims to stimulate further empirical and theoretical debate. In particular, the study explores how Twitter users have represented the harms related to an ongoing pipeline project in Italy (referred to as TAP), and the resistance to those harms. To these ends, it offers a virtual and visual eth…
The materiality of digital media
Popular discourses surrounding contemporary digital media often misrepresent it as immaterial and ephemeral, overlooking the material devices that store and generate our media objects. This article materially ‘descends’ into a selection of prior media forms that make up the genealogy of the hard disk drive (HDD) to challenge our reliance on conceptual misrepresentations. This material analysis is used to situate digital media in a genealogy of pr…
The Music Industry
Patrik Wilkstrom, The Music Industry (Cambridge: Polity, 2009), 204 pp., ISBN 978-0-7456-4389-2 (pbk), £14.99. Recently books on the music industry have inevitably taken a position that is intrinsi
The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction
Nicola F. Johnson, The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction: The Misrecognition of Leisure and Learning (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009), 166 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-7496-2 (hbk), £50.00. With
Mobile Ideas
John Urry’s defining work on mobilities calls for research into the movement of people, ideas and information. This article identifies that as things stand the work of the ‘mobilities turn’ has tended to concentrate almost exclusively on the movement of people and information and has given far less attention to the mobility of ideas. In order to address this absence this article focuses upon one idea in particular, the Spime neologism, and attemp…
Representations of environmental protest on the ground and in the cloud
This article advances knowledge on activist technosocial practice by studying the realities and representations of on-the-ground environmental resistance and their intersections with visual representations of protest on Twitter. It does so by focusing on the case of resistance to the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, commonly known as TAP, in southern Italy, and on mixed methods for data collection, including ethnographic observations, semi-structured int…
Representing environmental harm and resistance on Twitter
This research explores a new methodological path for doing green cultural criminological research via social media. It provides original case-study data and aims to stimulate further empirical and theoretical debate. In particular, the study explores how Twitter users have represented the harms related to an ongoing pipeline project in Italy (referred to as TAP), and the resistance to those harms. To these ends, it offers a virtual and visual eth…
Mobile Ideas
John Urry’s defining work on mobilities calls for research into the movement of people, ideas and information. This article identifies that as things stand the work of the ‘mobilities turn’ has tended to concentrate almost exclusively on the movement of people and information and has given far less attention to the mobility of ideas. In order to address this absence this article focuses upon one idea in particular, the Spime neologism, and attemp…
The materiality of digital media
Popular discourses surrounding contemporary digital media often misrepresent it as immaterial and ephemeral, overlooking the material devices that store and generate our media objects. This article materially ‘descends’ into a selection of prior media forms that make up the genealogy of the hard disk drive (HDD) to challenge our reliance on conceptual misrepresentations. This material analysis is used to situate digital media in a genealogy of pr…
Encrypting human rights
The Snowden revelations in 2013 redrew the lines of debate surrounding surveillance, exposing the extent of state surveillance across multiple nations and triggering legislative reform in many. In the UK, this was in the form of the Investigatory Powers Act (2016). As a contribution to understanding resistance to expanding state surveillance activities, this article reveals the intertwining of diverse interests and voices which speak in oppositio…
The Music Industry
Patrik Wilkstrom, The Music Industry (Cambridge: Polity, 2009), 204 pp., ISBN 978-0-7456-4389-2 (pbk), £14.99. Recently books on the music industry have inevitably taken a position that is intrinsi
The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction
Nicola F. Johnson, The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction: The Misrecognition of Leisure and Learning (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009), 166 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-7496-2 (hbk), £50.00. With
Mobile Ideas
John Urry’s defining work on mobilities calls for research into the movement of people, ideas and information. This article identifies that as things stand the work of the ‘mobilities turn’ has tended to concentrate almost exclusively on the movement of people and information and has given far less attention to the mobility of ideas. In order to address this absence this article focuses upon one idea in particular, the Spime neologism, and attemp…
The materiality of digital media
Popular discourses surrounding contemporary digital media often misrepresent it as immaterial and ephemeral, overlooking the material devices that store and generate our media objects. This article materially ‘descends’ into a selection of prior media forms that make up the genealogy of the hard disk drive (HDD) to challenge our reliance on conceptual misrepresentations. This material analysis is used to situate digital media in a genealogy of pr…
Critically assessing digital documents
As a contribution to the ongoing tradition of critically assessing documents for research, this paper aims to highlight materiality as a key factor in the co-shaping of knowledge derived from digital documents. The paper first builds upon prior debates in document studies with work from the fields of Science and Technology Studies, and Communication Studies, to establish the role of document materiality in the interpretative process. By first est…
Representing environmental harm and resistance on Twitter
This research explores a new methodological path for doing green cultural criminological research via social media. It provides original case-study data and aims to stimulate further empirical and theoretical debate. In particular, the study explores how Twitter users have represented the harms related to an ongoing pipeline project in Italy (referred to as TAP), and the resistance to those harms. To these ends, it offers a virtual and visual eth…
Big Data on BHR
Data limitations in the field of business and human rights (BHR) are a significant challenge to developing transparent and replicable scholarship. Difficulties stem from the proprietary nature of much BHR data; incomparability of information across firms, sectors or regions; and coding challenges of existing information. Together, issues like
Representations of environmental protest on the ground and in the cloud
This article advances knowledge on activist technosocial practice by studying the realities and representations of on-the-ground environmental resistance and their intersections with visual representations of protest on Twitter. It does so by focusing on the case of resistance to the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, commonly known as TAP, in southern Italy, and on mixed methods for data collection, including ethnographic observations, semi-structured int…
Encrypting human rights
The Snowden revelations in 2013 redrew the lines of debate surrounding surveillance, exposing the extent of state surveillance across multiple nations and triggering legislative reform in many. In the UK, this was in the form of the Investigatory Powers Act (2016). As a contribution to understanding resistance to expanding state surveillance activities, this article reveals the intertwining of diverse interests and voices which speak in oppositio…
Computer Science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)