Connor Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Connor Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Connor |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2414-1863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Capitalising urban futures
Digital Twin Cities (DTCs) are promoted as the next frontier of urban governance, promising real-time simulation, predictive modelling, and frictionless management of urban futures. This paper argues that DTCs exemplify a profound simplification of urban prototyping. Rather than expanding experimentation and participation, they transpose the messy, material, and political work of city-making into closed systems of computation and control. Buildin…
Preparing Future Healthcare Professionals to Respond to Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change
Future health professionals need to be trained to respond to the health impacts of climate change. The mental health impacts of climate change (MHICC) remain relatively under‐considered in health professional education and there are few published curricular resources available. The current studies review the current scientific evidence base relating to MHICC and audits existing educational accreditation standards and professional registration doc…
Price of Nitazenes for Sale on Cryptomarkets and Surface Web Shops
Inscribing place in Singapore
In this article we examine the construction and circulation of images of a purportedly haunted house in Singapore’s folklore, Istana Woodneuk, through Instagram. Analyzing a corpus of 960 Instagram images, we first identify 14 tropes and then two overarching themes – haunted-place making and subversive imaging. We make three main points in this article. Firstly, we argue that the creation of Istana Woodneuk Instagram posts can be understood only …
Introduction to the special issue “Digital mortality
Prior internet studies research has examined dying, death, and disposal from the perspectives of material practices, new persistences, visibilities, and identities, but less so through the lens of platforms and algorithms. This special issue examines how digital infrastructures, manifested as platforms and algorithms, function to transform experiences of mortality and mortal existences. It opens up discussion about the ways in which intersections…
The Imagination of Singapore’s Smart Nation as Digital Infrastructure
This article aims to understand contemporary forms of “digital work” and how this is imagined in visionary documents in the context of smart urbanism. Specifically, we argue for an infrastructural perspective on smart urbanism to highlight (1) how such visionary documents organize society in specific ways and (2) how this organization is rooted in work that is imagined as being mainly informational and disembodied. Through an analysis of Singapor…
Networked Human, Network’s Human
This special issue explores the conceptions of the human that emerge out of the form and the design of information and communications technologies (ICTs). Geographically, our focus compares two countries with a relatively high level of ICT penetration—South Korea and Singapore—and two countries with a relatively low level—India and Vietnam. In each country we see how different forms of the human emerge, in part out of the ways in which technologi…
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 …
The photograph reaches out
This paper addresses the photograph’s ‘transmission’ – from camera to wall, to book, to hand, to screen – and its ‘transition’ from ‘that-ness’ to ‘this-ness’, from mnemonic to amnesic. Specifically, it examines the role of photographs of the dead through a field study of two elderly women, Madam Wang and Madam Sun, living in Chengdu city, Sichuan, China. The paper deploys Barthes’ 1982 book Camera Lucida to interrogate their use of mostly physic…
Death, after-death and the human in the Internet era
Today, humans have remains that are other than physical, generated within and supported by new information communications technologies (ICTs). As with human remains of the past, these are variously attended to or ignored. In this article, which serves as the introduction to this special issue, we examine the reality, meaning and use of enduring digital remains of humans. We are specifically interested in the evolving practices of remembering and …
Crafted assemblage
Blogs categorised in the genres of fashion and lifestyle are often overlooked in discussions of blogging, politics and citizenship. This article examines lifestyle blogs with rich media content, authored by young Singaporean women. It argues through a content analysis and an analysis of the blogs' aesthetic as assemblage that there is a significant relationship between women's consumerism in Singapore and expressions of citizenship. These blogs h…
Asian Biopoleis
10.1215/18752160-2074812
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Death, Afterlife, and Immortality of Bodies and Data
This special issue poses questions concerning death, afterlife and immortality in the age of the Internet. It extends previous work by examining current and emerging practices of grieving and memorializing supported by new media. It suggests that people's lives today are extended, prolonged, and ultimately transformed through the new circulations, repetitions, and recontextualizations on the Internet and other platforms. It also shows that public…
The Lab, the Clinic, and the Image
Since the turn of the millennium, Singapore has made significant investments in its biomedical research sector, with in recent years an increasing emphasis on efforts to ‘translate’ the fruits of research into clinical applications. In this paper, we investigate how translational research trajectories are built in present-day Singapore, through a case study pertaining to the use of retinal photography for disease screening. The circulation of suc…
New visual technologies
New Visual Mobilities 5. Ron Herrema: The experience of photologging: global mechanisms and local interactions 6. Andrea Capstick: Travels with a Flipcam: bringing the community to people with dementia in a day
Living Avatars Network
This paper presents a study of new technologies potentially enabling access to a sensory feast of places by 'wired up' flaněurs, real-time as well as remote 'native' description and interactions and situated oral histories excavated through 'being in a place'. We describe an inter-disciplinary research project examining the cultural heritage of Singapore and the use of geo-location technologies incorporating social networking platforms as a mediu…
Acknowledging Differences for Design
This paper explores links between ethnographic approaches, technology design and use and values and beliefs. We document recent empirical work on the use of photographs amongst Chinese families; pointing to some differences with previous empirical studies from predominantly Western cultures and tentatively linking Chinese photo work to rather broader cultural values that may develop some 'sensitivities' for design. For some time ethnography has b…
Developing Digital Records
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Death, Afterlife, and Immortality of Bodies and Data
This special issue poses questions concerning death, afterlife and immortality in the age of the Internet. It extends previous work by examining current and emerging practices of grieving and memorializing supported by new media. It suggests that people's lives today are extended, prolonged, and ultimately transformed through the new circulations, repetitions, and recontextualizations on the Internet and other platforms. It also shows that public…
Inscribing place in Singapore
In this article we examine the construction and circulation of images of a purportedly haunted house in Singapore’s folklore, Istana Woodneuk, through Instagram. Analyzing a corpus of 960 Instagram images, we first identify 14 tropes and then two overarching themes – haunted-place making and subversive imaging. We make three main points in this article. Firstly, we argue that the creation of Istana Woodneuk Instagram posts can be understood only …
Acknowledging Differences for Design
This paper explores links between ethnographic approaches, technology design and use and values and beliefs. We document recent empirical work on the use of photographs amongst Chinese families; pointing to some differences with previous empirical studies from predominantly Western cultures and tentatively linking Chinese photo work to rather broader cultural values that may develop some 'sensitivities' for design. For some time ethnography has b…
Developing Digital Records
Living Avatars Network
This paper presents a study of new technologies potentially enabling access to a sensory feast of places by 'wired up' flaněurs, real-time as well as remote 'native' description and interactions and situated oral histories excavated through 'being in a place'. We describe an inter-disciplinary research project examining the cultural heritage of Singapore and the use of geo-location technologies incorporating social networking platforms as a mediu…
Acknowledging Differences for Design
This paper explores links between ethnographic approaches, technology design and use and values and beliefs. We document recent empirical work on the use of photographs amongst Chinese families; pointing to some differences with previous empirical studies from predominantly Western cultures and tentatively linking Chinese photo work to rather broader cultural values that may develop some 'sensitivities' for design. For some time ethnography has b…
New visual technologies
New Visual Mobilities 5. Ron Herrema: The experience of photologging: global mechanisms and local interactions 6. Andrea Capstick: Travels with a Flipcam: bringing the community to people with dementia in a day
The Lab, the Clinic, and the Image
Since the turn of the millennium, Singapore has made significant investments in its biomedical research sector, with in recent years an increasing emphasis on efforts to ‘translate’ the fruits of research into clinical applications. In this paper, we investigate how translational research trajectories are built in present-day Singapore, through a case study pertaining to the use of retinal photography for disease screening. The circulation of suc…
Asian Biopoleis
10.1215/18752160-2074812
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Death, Afterlife, and Immortality of Bodies and Data
This special issue poses questions concerning death, afterlife and immortality in the age of the Internet. It extends previous work by examining current and emerging practices of grieving and memorializing supported by new media. It suggests that people's lives today are extended, prolonged, and ultimately transformed through the new circulations, repetitions, and recontextualizations on the Internet and other platforms. It also shows that public…
Crafted assemblage
Blogs categorised in the genres of fashion and lifestyle are often overlooked in discussions of blogging, politics and citizenship. This article examines lifestyle blogs with rich media content, authored by young Singaporean women. It argues through a content analysis and an analysis of the blogs' aesthetic as assemblage that there is a significant relationship between women's consumerism in Singapore and expressions of citizenship. These blogs h…
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 …
The photograph reaches out
This paper addresses the photograph’s ‘transmission’ – from camera to wall, to book, to hand, to screen – and its ‘transition’ from ‘that-ness’ to ‘this-ness’, from mnemonic to amnesic. Specifically, it examines the role of photographs of the dead through a field study of two elderly women, Madam Wang and Madam Sun, living in Chengdu city, Sichuan, China. The paper deploys Barthes’ 1982 book Camera Lucida to interrogate their use of mostly physic…
Death, after-death and the human in the Internet era
Today, humans have remains that are other than physical, generated within and supported by new information communications technologies (ICTs). As with human remains of the past, these are variously attended to or ignored. In this article, which serves as the introduction to this special issue, we examine the reality, meaning and use of enduring digital remains of humans. We are specifically interested in the evolving practices of remembering and …
Networked Human, Network’s Human
This special issue explores the conceptions of the human that emerge out of the form and the design of information and communications technologies (ICTs). Geographically, our focus compares two countries with a relatively high level of ICT penetration—South Korea and Singapore—and two countries with a relatively low level—India and Vietnam. In each country we see how different forms of the human emerge, in part out of the ways in which technologi…
The Imagination of Singapore’s Smart Nation as Digital Infrastructure
This article aims to understand contemporary forms of “digital work” and how this is imagined in visionary documents in the context of smart urbanism. Specifically, we argue for an infrastructural perspective on smart urbanism to highlight (1) how such visionary documents organize society in specific ways and (2) how this organization is rooted in work that is imagined as being mainly informational and disembodied. Through an analysis of Singapor…
Inscribing place in Singapore
In this article we examine the construction and circulation of images of a purportedly haunted house in Singapore’s folklore, Istana Woodneuk, through Instagram. Analyzing a corpus of 960 Instagram images, we first identify 14 tropes and then two overarching themes – haunted-place making and subversive imaging. We make three main points in this article. Firstly, we argue that the creation of Istana Woodneuk Instagram posts can be understood only …
Introduction to the special issue “Digital mortality
Prior internet studies research has examined dying, death, and disposal from the perspectives of material practices, new persistences, visibilities, and identities, but less so through the lens of platforms and algorithms. This special issue examines how digital infrastructures, manifested as platforms and algorithms, function to transform experiences of mortality and mortal existences. It opens up discussion about the ways in which intersections…
Capitalising urban futures
Digital Twin Cities (DTCs) are promoted as the next frontier of urban governance, promising real-time simulation, predictive modelling, and frictionless management of urban futures. This paper argues that DTCs exemplify a profound simplification of urban prototyping. Rather than expanding experimentation and participation, they transpose the messy, material, and political work of city-making into closed systems of computation and control. Buildin…
Preparing Future Healthcare Professionals to Respond to Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change
Future health professionals need to be trained to respond to the health impacts of climate change. The mental health impacts of climate change (MHICC) remain relatively under‐considered in health professional education and there are few published curricular resources available. The current studies review the current scientific evidence base relating to MHICC and audits existing educational accreditation standards and professional registration doc…
Price of Nitazenes for Sale on Cryptomarkets and Surface Web Shops
Sociology (13 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geography (4 works)