Matthew Arnold
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Arnold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnold |
| SIGNATURE | ARNOLD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5796-4578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1927 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The impact of generative AI on higher education learning and teaching
In recent months, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has had, and will continue to have, a dramatic impact on Higher Education (HE). A study conducted by researchers at a leading university in Australia surveyed 30 of their teaching staff, drawn predominantly from their teaching academy, and interviewed eight of them regarding the impact of AI on HE. Data were analyzed using the procedures of Inductive Thematic Analysis and revealed a lack of any homog…
Representing alkaline hydrolysis
Alkaline hydrolysis can lay claim to being a resource-efficient, effective, economical and environmentally sound method of final body disposition, relative to burial and cremation. On technical grounds it may have much to recommend it, however, like many other technical innovations, its take-up is hindered by the fact that it lacks a clear position in the public imagination. For this position to take shape, an understanding of just what it is and…
Reimagining memorial spaces through digital technologies
Digital technologies are creating new ways for visitors to engage with cemeteries.This article presents research into the development of digital cemetery technologies, or cemtech, to understand how they are reimagining memorial spaces.Through a systematic review of examples of cemtech in online records, academic literature, patents, and trade publications, we developed a typology of cemtech according to four characteristics: application type, tec…
Stood to rest’
Human bodies are typically buried underground, horizontally ‘in repose’. To the extent that this orientation has become the standard; it is a non-choice that is under-interrogated by scholars. In this paper, we discuss innovations which allow for the vertical orientation of the body within the earth and for the vertical stacking of remains above the earth in high-rise structures. Both of these boundary-pushing forms of disposition address imminen…
Media, mortality and necro-technologies
Working at the intersection of death studies and media studies, this article examines what we can learn from the death of media technologies designed for the deceased, what we refer to as necro-technologies. Media deaths illuminate a tension between the promise of persistence and realities of precariousness embodied in all media. This tension is, however, more visibly strained by the mortality of technologies designed to mediate and memorialise t…
Robot death care
Across the globe, human experiences of death, dying, and grief are now shaped by digital technologies and, increasingly, by robotic technologies. This article explores how practices of care for the dead are transformed by the participation of non-human, mechanised agents. We ask what makes a particular robot engagement with death a breach or an affirmation of care for the dead by examining recent entanglements between humans, death, and robotics.…
The internet as non-biomedical milieu
Digital Domesticity
This book, Digital Domesticity: Media, Materiality, and Home Life, is concerned with the home, but it is not bounded by the home. While the home provides a necessary anchor point for our empirical and theoretical work, we are well aware that the home is not self-contained but is a node in multiple commercial, cultural, and technical networks, all of which interact, and all of which have local implications and global reach. The home’s socio-techni…
Ludic Ethics
This study introduces the ludic ethics approach for understanding the moral deliberations of players of online multiplayer games. Informed by a constructivist paradigm that places players’ everyday ethical negotiations at the forefront of the analysis, this study utilises a novel set of game-related moral vignettes in a series of 20 in-depth interviews with players. Reflexive thematic analysis of these interviews produced four key themes by which…
Culture and Anarchy
Managing the consumption of death and digital media
A growing number of companies are offering digital products and services for use in funerals. Drawing on interdisciplinary research in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, we explore how funeral directors operate as intermediaries for these digital products and services. We critically examine the popular framing of the funeral industry as a “conservative” business and examine how funeral directors actively mediate between their cl…
Are Technologies Innocent
Presents an analysis of whether technologies can be considered innocent from their intended purpose. In a series of installments it has been argued that moral agents are not in principle limited to members of the human race, that non-humans and in particular technologies can be considered to act in the world, and that when they do so, they cannot be regarded as just tools or dumb instruments, that the actions of technologies are willful and occur…
Are Technologies Innocent
In Part One of the series it was suggested that technologies are not innocent, and should be held to moral account. In most interpretations of Western moral philosophy, moral judgement does not extend to nonhumans, and for non-humans to be included, a number of objections need to be overcome. The objections include: the arguments that morality is the exclusivity domain of humans (considered in Part Two), the argument that non-humans don't really …
Culture and Anarchy
Social Media in the Funeral Industry
This article explores how innovations in the funeral industry borrow from the technological affordances, commercial logics, cultural norms, and affective registers of social media platforms. Based on ethnographic research of funeral industry conventions, we analyze examples of funeral planning tools, funeral service mediation, and digital memorialization products. We consider how these products aim to capture forms of data, affect, and value as p…
Are Technologies Innocent
In Part One of this series it was suggested that in order to hold technologies to moral account a number of objections must be overcome: the argument that only humans are morally accountable, the “passive instrument” argument, the “dumb instrument” argument, the “free will” argument, and the “dilution of responsibility” argument. In Part Two, the “human exclusivity” argument was refuted, and here in Part Three the “passive instrument” objection i…
Are Technologies Innocent
In Part One of the series, it was suggested that technologies are not innocent, and should be held to moral account. In most interpretations of Western moral philosophy, moral judgement does not extend to non-humans, and for non-humans to be included, a number of objections need to be overcome. The objections include: the arguments that morality is the exclusivity domain of humans (considered in Part Two), the argument that nonhumans don't really…
Are Technologies Innocent
In Part One of the series it was suggested that technologies are not innocent, and should be held to moral account. In most interpretations of Western moral philosophy, moral judgement does not extend to non-humans, and for non-humans to be included, a number of objections need to be overcome. The objections include: the arguments that morality is the exclusively domain of humans (considered in Part Two), the argument that non-humans don't really…
Are Technologies Innocent
In Part One of this series it was suggested that in order to hold technologies to moral account a number of objections must be overcome: the argument that only humans are morally accountable, the “passive instrument” argument, the “dumb instrument” argument, the “free will” argument, and the “dilution of responsibility” argument. Here we take up Part Two, the “human exclusivity” argument, and we establish that humans do not have a monopoly on mor…
Algorithmic memorial videos
Web platforms such as Facebook and Google have recently developed features which algorithmically curate digital artefacts composed of posts taken from personal online archives. While these artefacts ask people to fondly remember their digital histories, they can cause controversy when they depict recently deceased loved ones. We explore these controversies by situating algorithmic curation within the media ethics of grief, mourning and commemorat…
Funeral and Instagram
This paper presents findings from a study of Instagram use and funerary practices that analysed photographs shared on public profiles tagged with #funeral. We found that the majority of images uploaded with the hashtag #funeral often communicated a person's emotional circumstances and affective context, and allowed them to reposition their funeral experience amongst wider networks of acquaintances, friends, and family. We argue that photo-sharing…
Are Technologies Innocent
This is the first of a series of seven short articles to be published in consecutive issues of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, and when taken collectively, argue that our technologies can and should be taken seriously
Gravesites and websites
For centuries, gravesites have been utilised for memorialisation, and in recent time, websites are also used as memorials, and in this article, we compare these two different groups of artefacts. Through a careful consideration of the form, composition and content of physical and online memorial sites for the dead, we suggest contrasting modes of relations across these two groups in terms of collectives, time and space and the relationships with …
Posthumous personhood and the affordances of digital media
This article identifies and outlines some of the more prominent ways that digital media can extend one’s personhood following death. We consider three examples: when the digital persona of the deceased continues to interact with the living through a human surrogate; the emergence of autonomous and semi-autonomous software enabling the dead to use social media to intervene in current events; and finally the operation of algorithmic presence servic…
Consumer Issues for Planning and Managing Digital Legacies [Leading Edge]
Growing use of software applications in the home, the workplace, and in public places has resulted in increased production and use of personal digital files. These digital files may take the form of emails sent to colleagues, photos of family and friends taken on a camera or smartphone, music downloaded from a number of different services, or videos taken at weddings or birthday parties. In this environment of increased data production and usage,…
What Futures for the People of the Tropical Forests
Domestic orchestration
The steady proliferation of media and connectivity reconstitutes domestic rhythms in ways that make them emergent, relational, negotiated, and multiple. In an attempt to capture some of the entangled dynamics characteristic of contemporary domestic chronometrics (time-measured), chronaesthetics (time-felt) and chronomanagement (time-ordered), we use the terms 'reticular rhythms' and 'technologies of reticulation'. In our analysis of interviews wi…
Dwelling with Media Stuff
Extending research into material, media, and cultural geographies of the home, our interest turns to the spatiotemporality of dwelling with information and communication technologies. We pose a number of questions: How do inhabitants and their media stuff adapt to the more rigid physical spaces of a building? How does the building respond to the more rapid changes to dwelling produced by this media stuff? And how are these differing times synchro…
Social Media in the Funeral Industry
This article explores how innovations in the funeral industry borrow from the technological affordances, commercial logics, cultural norms, and affective registers of social media platforms. Based on ethnographic research of funeral industry conventions, we analyze examples of funeral planning tools, funeral service mediation, and digital memorialization products. We consider how these products aim to capture forms of data, affect, and value as p…
Time, space and technology in the working-home
The research reported here draws upon four homes in Melbourne, Australia, where variable practices and strategies in the use of information and communication technologies are adopted in negotiating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the working-home. Informed by theories from Science and Technology Studies, we argue that these strategies arise in concernful relation with others—both human and non-human—that enable and constrain the possibilitie…
Media, mortality and necro-technologies
Working at the intersection of death studies and media studies, this article examines what we can learn from the death of media technologies designed for the deceased, what we refer to as necro-technologies. Media deaths illuminate a tension between the promise of persistence and realities of precariousness embodied in all media. This tension is, however, more visibly strained by the mortality of technologies designed to mediate and memorialise t…
Parenting in the Connected Home
New media technologies are a source of anxiety and concern for many parents. In this paper, we report on the parent-child relationships that surround children’s use of the Internet, television, video, DVD, and electronic games. We present three case-study vignettes drawn from an ongoing study of the contemporary Australian home as a node in dense local, regional, and global communication networks. Using these case studies, we identify and draw ou…
Domestic Information and Communication Technologies and Subject-Object Relations
This paper examines the place of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the contemporary Western home and the role these technologies play in the affective shaping and constitution of gender, identity, and intersubjective family relations. In particular, we focus on the subject-object relations between people and technological artefacts to analyse how these associations contribute to the construction of domestic identities, facilita…
Managing the consumption of death and digital media
A growing number of companies are offering digital products and services for use in funerals. Drawing on interdisciplinary research in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, we explore how funeral directors operate as intermediaries for these digital products and services. We critically examine the popular framing of the funeral industry as a “conservative” business and examine how funeral directors actively mediate between their cl…
Algorithmic memorial videos
Web platforms such as Facebook and Google have recently developed features which algorithmically curate digital artefacts composed of posts taken from personal online archives. While these artefacts ask people to fondly remember their digital histories, they can cause controversy when they depict recently deceased loved ones. We explore these controversies by situating algorithmic curation within the media ethics of grief, mourning and commemorat…
Entering the Graveyard Shift
This article analyzes the operation and subsequent failure of TiVo in Australia. Drawing on actor-network theory, we unpack the TiVo assemblage throughout our paper, and look at the various human, technical, and institutional interventions that constituted it and constrained its possible futures. This analysis will be conducted by tracing how TiVo attempted to establish itself as a viable social and technical assemblage and assessing its influenc…
Robot death care
Across the globe, human experiences of death, dying, and grief are now shaped by digital technologies and, increasingly, by robotic technologies. This article explores how practices of care for the dead are transformed by the participation of non-human, mechanised agents. We ask what makes a particular robot engagement with death a breach or an affirmation of care for the dead by examining recent entanglements between humans, death, and robotics.…
Remembering Things
In an attempt to listen to things, and to unpack the dynamics and particularities of the role of things in constituting memory (and the role of memory in constituting things), we argue four points: that relations between things are crucial; that things provide us with markers of time, place, purpose, and identity; that these markers are historically obdurate; and that things actin ways that transcend semiotics. Each of these four—relations, marke…
Ludic Ethics
This study introduces the ludic ethics approach for understanding the moral deliberations of players of online multiplayer games. Informed by a constructivist paradigm that places players’ everyday ethical negotiations at the forefront of the analysis, this study utilises a novel set of game-related moral vignettes in a series of 20 in-depth interviews with players. Reflexive thematic analysis of these interviews produced four key themes by which…
Digital Literacies and the National Broadband Network
This article reports on findings from an ethnographic study of fifteen participant households in North Hobart and Midway Point, Tasmania. Key themes emerging from this research have been gathered and presented here through the metaphor 'digital literacy'. The first half of the article is concerned with developing a critical understanding of what is at stake in the notion, or metaphor, of digital literacy. The second half tests these understanding…
The Sociology of Associations in Family Research and Practice
Readers of this edition of the Journal of Family Studies are referred to the companion piece entitled "Domestic Information and Communication Technologies and Subject-Object Relations: Gender, Identity, and Family Life" (Arnold, Shepherd, Gibbs, & Mecoles, 2006). In that paper, we attempted to trace the interplay of affect in sociotechnical relations in the home, particularly in the area of gender identity and the production of interpersonal soci…
Schools, Laptop Computers and Post-fordism
St. Peter’s Church, Salcombe Regis
The Climatic Conditions of the Tarim Basin
The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough
Culture and anarchy ; with, Friendship's garland, and some literary essays
"Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, and if it is really necessary. He contrasts culture, which he calls the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood of unrest and uncertainty that pervaded mid-Victorian England." "Thi…
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold and the Education of the New Order
The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, Vol. 25: The Vatican Council: January 1870 to December 1871
The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, Vol. 26: Aftermaths: January 1872 to December 1873
The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, Vol. 28: Fellow of Trinity: January 1876 to December 1878
Culture and Anarchy and other writings
Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture, and it has exercised a profound influence both on conceptions of the distinctive nature of British society, and on ideas about education and the teaching of literature more generally. This edition establishes the a…
Schools, Laptop Computers and Post-fordism
What Futures for the People of the Tropical Forests
The Glass Screen
This paper seeks to contribute to an ongoing discussion of those social relations that are mediated entirely through computer networks. It begins by pointing to the problems associated with the slippery binary of embodiment and disembodiment, and reminds the reader of the non-material relational and semiotic significance of the body. This non-material relational and semiotic mode of being is also available to us through electronic information and…
Systems Design Meets Habermas, Foucault and Latour
This chapter begins with a review of the theoretical foundations that are common in the systems design literature, before moving to draw upon the work of three prominent social theorists to analyse and critique a particular case of information systems design. It is argued that in different, but complimentary ways, each theorist offers systems designers compelling insights to guide their work. In particular, it is argued that Habermas’ understandi…
Intranets, Community, and Social Capital
Many people in the Western world are distressed about a perceived loss of community and community values, and it has been argued that the key difference between strong and weak community lies in social capital, that is, networks of civic engagement and norms of generalized reciprocity. In the context of social capital, the article introduces a research project that focuses on a community intranet installed in a new housing development in Melbourn…
Analysis of Risks and Attacks on Digital Audio Watermarks
This article presents a risks analysis of applying digital audio watermarks and a classification of corresponding attacks describing possible countermeasures where available. The categorization of attacks into the three major groups of removal, embedding and detection attacks is presented. The categorization is based on the effect the attack should produce during the detection of the audio watermark and the assumptions made about the attacker. Fo…
Domestic Information and Communication Technologies and Subject-Object Relations
This paper examines the place of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the contemporary Western home and the role these technologies play in the affective shaping and constitution of gender, identity, and intersubjective family relations. In particular, we focus on the subject-object relations between people and technological artefacts to analyse how these associations contribute to the construction of domestic identities, facilita…
The Sociology of Associations in Family Research and Practice
Readers of this edition of the Journal of Family Studies are referred to the companion piece entitled "Domestic Information and Communication Technologies and Subject-Object Relations: Gender, Identity, and Family Life" (Arnold, Shepherd, Gibbs, & Mecoles, 2006). In that paper, we attempted to trace the interplay of affect in sociotechnical relations in the home, particularly in the area of gender identity and the production of interpersonal soci…
Parenting in the Connected Home
New media technologies are a source of anxiety and concern for many parents. In this paper, we report on the parent-child relationships that surround children’s use of the Internet, television, video, DVD, and electronic games. We present three case-study vignettes drawn from an ongoing study of the contemporary Australian home as a node in dense local, regional, and global communication networks. Using these case studies, we identify and draw ou…
Is technology innocent? Holding technologies to moral account
Sophisticated technologies - in different times, this could be a stone axe, or a computer system - are important to humans in cultural, economic, and existential terms. The performance of these technologies requires careful assessment. Some forms of technology assessment are fine-grained and small-scale, attending to specific technologies in specific contexts (for example, HCI evaluations, usability studies, and user-centered design methods), whi…
Remembering Things
In an attempt to listen to things, and to unpack the dynamics and particularities of the role of things in constituting memory (and the role of memory in constituting things), we argue four points: that relations between things are crucial; that things provide us with markers of time, place, purpose, and identity; that these markers are historically obdurate; and that things actin ways that transcend semiotics. Each of these four—relations, marke…
Domestic orchestration
The steady proliferation of media and connectivity reconstitutes domestic rhythms in ways that make them emergent, relational, negotiated, and multiple. In an attempt to capture some of the entangled dynamics characteristic of contemporary domestic chronometrics (time-measured), chronaesthetics (time-felt) and chronomanagement (time-ordered), we use the terms 'reticular rhythms' and 'technologies of reticulation'. In our analysis of interviews wi…
Time, space and technology in the working-home
The research reported here draws upon four homes in Melbourne, Australia, where variable practices and strategies in the use of information and communication technologies are adopted in negotiating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the working-home. Informed by theories from Science and Technology Studies, we argue that these strategies arise in concernful relation with others—both human and non-human—that enable and constrain the possibilitie…
Militias and the challenges of post-conflict peace
“Militias have proven to be a consistent and enduring challenge to achieving peace in war zones around the world. Whether armed by embattled governments in defence of their territory or fostered by external actors in the interests of greed or grievance, these groups occupy an uncertain and deeply controversial position in the changing landscape of conflict. Linked variously to atrocities against civilians or international criminal elements, part …
Dwelling with Media Stuff
Extending research into material, media, and cultural geographies of the home, our interest turns to the spatiotemporality of dwelling with information and communication technologies. We pose a number of questions: How do inhabitants and their media stuff adapt to the more rigid physical spaces of a building? How does the building respond to the more rapid changes to dwelling produced by this media stuff? And how are these differing times synchro…
Sociology (36 works) · Computer Science (24 works) · Political science (22 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · Art (16 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Social science (16 works) · Aesthetics (13 works) · History (13 works)