Caroline Bassett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Bassett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Bassett |
| SIGNATURE | BASSETT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stacks and Intersections: Feminist Thinking in Digital Humanities, a view from these islands
Intersectional feminist work around digital archiving can productively develop stack models to address questions concerning the location, site, and materiality of possible and effective feminist intervention. Developing this proposition, we draw on two DH research projects undertaken between the UK and Ireland (2020 and on-going) focussing on work around community archives at a moment of their radical transformation. Asking what feminist DH can b…
Anti-Computing: Dissent and the Machine
The computational therapeutic: Exploring Weizenbaum’s Eliza as a history of the present
This paper explores the history of ELIZA, a computer programme approximating a Rogerian therapist, developed by Jospeh Weizenbaum at MIT in the 1970s, as an early AI experiment. ELIZA’s reception provoked Weizenbaum to re-appraise the relationship between ‘computer power and human reason’ and to attack the ‘powerful delusional thinking’ about computers and their intelligence that he understood to be widespread in the general public and also among…
Plenty as a response to austerity? Big Data expertise, cultures and communities
Big Data promises informational abundance – something that might be useful to cultures and communities in times of austerity. However many local organizations lack the skills to develop expertise in new forms of computation or the desire to develop them; Big Data is often viewed as the terrain of Big Business and Big Government. Drawing on issues arising from action research into Big Data and community in Brighton, England, this article explores …
Silence, delirium, lies
One way to undermine social media monopolies is to refuse to contribute to the communicational economy they are based upon: don’t generate exploitable signals, stay quiet — and ask how this might be developed as a common response. Given the naturalized assumption that ‘more communication’ will automatically produce ‘more freedom’, suggestions, like this one, that are based on doing less of it might provoke hostility. However, in the case of the s…
Digital Media
This chapter is divided into three sections: 1. Resonance (Sinister or Otherwise); 2. Biopolitics (Arachnophilia and Spit); 3. Blogging (and Not Being Dead). It begins with a study of listening and with a mode of exploration that invites rethinking the sonic in ecological terms—and that might lead to a medium-theoretically informed mode of sonic politics. Moving from a discussion of sense perception—and the sonic as a force operating not on indiv…
Digital Media
This chapter is divided into six sections: 1 . Introduction; 2 . Vastness, Scale and Narrative; 3 . New Media Sounds; 4 . Blink; 5 . Communicative Capitalism; 6 . Tactical Responses? It begins by recognizing that the field of new media is dissolving; the term itself advertises the inevitability of its exhaustion as an appropriate label for what it contingently describes.
Twittering Machines: Antinoise and Other Tricks of the Ear
Antinoise is a technical term for various noise-canceling technologies and a label applied to human antinoise campaigners. But antinoise connects rather than divides human and machines; antinoise techniques are completed in the ear, while human-initiated antinoise actions and classifications require and enroll sonic technology of various kinds. Modes of hearing are thus embodied and exteriorized in new ways, and the automated ear and the suppleme…
Impossible, Admirable, Androgyne: Firestone, Technology, and Utopia
As I write this chapter confirmation drifts in from the radio; forty years on Shulamith Firestone’s hopes for new forms of automated reproduction have not been realized—but neither have they been abandoned. Despite many developments in reproductive technology, they remain, as they were in her time, “almost possible.” On closer listening it turns out that humans would not be the first of the vertebrates to get their act (un)together: Komodo dragon…
Digital Media
This review of digital media is divided into five sections: 1 . The Expanded Matter of New Media; 2 . Miraculous Convergence: Digital Narrative; 3 . Electronic Literature and Cognitive Work; 4 . Software Studies: Code’s Work; 5 . Cyberculture’s Histories. Focusing on the ‘computational’ turn the review opens by briefly considering claims for the new inherent in the label new media, asking how these claims contrast with what is identified as a mom…
Media Studies: A Reader
Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued, and understood. The Reader reaches back to essential statements from writers such as Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Marshall McLuhan, Jürgen Habermas, Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault, whose work was central to forming the field. It also includes wide ranging work on contemporary media formations from a ste…
The Arc and the Machine: Narrative and the New Media
This is a defence of narrative in an age of information. It convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and …
The Arc and the Machine: Narrative and New Media
"The Arc and the Machine" published on by Manchester University Press.
Of distance and closeness: The work of Roger Silverstone
Forms of Reconciliation: On Contemporary Surveillance
Post 9/11, surveillance systems of all kinds have been extended, powered by the security logic of the war on terror, which tends to transform even the convenience discourses of consumer surveillance into discourses of consumer protection. This process continues, so that, in the UK at least, the expectation of visibility/data-visibility is already the norm in many public places, as responses to CCTV coverage of the London bombings show. This chapt…
Cultural Studies and New Media
This article explores the relationship between new media and various traditions within cultural studies through an exploration of forms of theoretical and critical forgetfulness which characterize moments of technological innovation. Finally it asks if tactical and art-practice approaches based on speculative software might be deployed as a means of 'doing' cultural studies.
New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory
What should or could cultural studies look like in the 21st Century? New Cultural Studies is both an introductory reference work and an original study which explores some of the most exciting new directions currently being opened up in cultural studies. A new generation has begun to emerge from the shadow of the Birmingham School: a generation who have turned to theory as a means to think through some of the crucial problems and issues in contemp…
New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory
What should or could cultural studies look like in the 21st Century? New Cultural Studies is both an introductory reference work and an original study which explores some of the most exciting new directions currently being opened up in cultural studies. A new generation has begun to emerge from the shadow of the Birmingham School: a generation who have turned to theory as a means to think through some of the crucial problems and issues in contemp…
Plenty as a response to austerity? Big Data expertise, cultures and communities
Big Data promises informational abundance – something that might be useful to cultures and communities in times of austerity. However many local organizations lack the skills to develop expertise in new forms of computation or the desire to develop them; Big Data is often viewed as the terrain of Big Business and Big Government. Drawing on issues arising from action research into Big Data and community in Brighton, England, this article explores …
Twittering Machines: Antinoise and Other Tricks of the Ear
Antinoise is a technical term for various noise-canceling technologies and a label applied to human antinoise campaigners. But antinoise connects rather than divides human and machines; antinoise techniques are completed in the ear, while human-initiated antinoise actions and classifications require and enroll sonic technology of various kinds. Modes of hearing are thus embodied and exteriorized in new ways, and the automated ear and the suppleme…
Cultural Studies and New Media
This article explores the relationship between new media and various traditions within cultural studies through an exploration of forms of theoretical and critical forgetfulness which characterize moments of technological innovation. Finally it asks if tactical and art-practice approaches based on speculative software might be deployed as a means of 'doing' cultural studies.
New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory
What should or could cultural studies look like in the 21st Century? New Cultural Studies is both an introductory reference work and an original study which explores some of the most exciting new directions currently being opened up in cultural studies. A new generation has begun to emerge from the shadow of the Birmingham School: a generation who have turned to theory as a means to think through some of the crucial problems and issues in contemp…
The Arc and the Machine: Narrative and New Media
"The Arc and the Machine" published on by Manchester University Press.
Of distance and closeness: The work of Roger Silverstone
Forms of Reconciliation: On Contemporary Surveillance
Post 9/11, surveillance systems of all kinds have been extended, powered by the security logic of the war on terror, which tends to transform even the convenience discourses of consumer surveillance into discourses of consumer protection. This process continues, so that, in the UK at least, the expectation of visibility/data-visibility is already the norm in many public places, as responses to CCTV coverage of the London bombings show. This chapt…
The Arc and the Machine: Narrative and the New Media
This is a defence of narrative in an age of information. It convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and …
Media Studies: A Reader
Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued, and understood. The Reader reaches back to essential statements from writers such as Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Marshall McLuhan, Jürgen Habermas, Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault, whose work was central to forming the field. It also includes wide ranging work on contemporary media formations from a ste…
Impossible, Admirable, Androgyne: Firestone, Technology, and Utopia
As I write this chapter confirmation drifts in from the radio; forty years on Shulamith Firestone’s hopes for new forms of automated reproduction have not been realized—but neither have they been abandoned. Despite many developments in reproductive technology, they remain, as they were in her time, “almost possible.” On closer listening it turns out that humans would not be the first of the vertebrates to get their act (un)together: Komodo dragon…
Digital Media
This review of digital media is divided into five sections: 1 . The Expanded Matter of New Media; 2 . Miraculous Convergence: Digital Narrative; 3 . Electronic Literature and Cognitive Work; 4 . Software Studies: Code’s Work; 5 . Cyberculture’s Histories. Focusing on the ‘computational’ turn the review opens by briefly considering claims for the new inherent in the label new media, asking how these claims contrast with what is identified as a mom…
Digital Media
This chapter is divided into six sections: 1 . Introduction; 2 . Vastness, Scale and Narrative; 3 . New Media Sounds; 4 . Blink; 5 . Communicative Capitalism; 6 . Tactical Responses? It begins by recognizing that the field of new media is dissolving; the term itself advertises the inevitability of its exhaustion as an appropriate label for what it contingently describes.
Twittering Machines: Antinoise and Other Tricks of the Ear
Antinoise is a technical term for various noise-canceling technologies and a label applied to human antinoise campaigners. But antinoise connects rather than divides human and machines; antinoise techniques are completed in the ear, while human-initiated antinoise actions and classifications require and enroll sonic technology of various kinds. Modes of hearing are thus embodied and exteriorized in new ways, and the automated ear and the suppleme…
Digital Media
This chapter is divided into three sections: 1. Resonance (Sinister or Otherwise); 2. Biopolitics (Arachnophilia and Spit); 3. Blogging (and Not Being Dead). It begins with a study of listening and with a mode of exploration that invites rethinking the sonic in ecological terms—and that might lead to a medium-theoretically informed mode of sonic politics. Moving from a discussion of sense perception—and the sonic as a force operating not on indiv…
Silence, delirium, lies
One way to undermine social media monopolies is to refuse to contribute to the communicational economy they are based upon: don’t generate exploitable signals, stay quiet — and ask how this might be developed as a common response. Given the naturalized assumption that ‘more communication’ will automatically produce ‘more freedom’, suggestions, like this one, that are based on doing less of it might provoke hostility. However, in the case of the s…
Plenty as a response to austerity? Big Data expertise, cultures and communities
Big Data promises informational abundance – something that might be useful to cultures and communities in times of austerity. However many local organizations lack the skills to develop expertise in new forms of computation or the desire to develop them; Big Data is often viewed as the terrain of Big Business and Big Government. Drawing on issues arising from action research into Big Data and community in Brighton, England, this article explores …
The computational therapeutic: Exploring Weizenbaum’s Eliza as a history of the present
This paper explores the history of ELIZA, a computer programme approximating a Rogerian therapist, developed by Jospeh Weizenbaum at MIT in the 1970s, as an early AI experiment. ELIZA’s reception provoked Weizenbaum to re-appraise the relationship between ‘computer power and human reason’ and to attack the ‘powerful delusional thinking’ about computers and their intelligence that he understood to be widespread in the general public and also among…
Anti-Computing: Dissent and the Machine
Stacks and Intersections: Feminist Thinking in Digital Humanities, a view from these islands
Intersectional feminist work around digital archiving can productively develop stack models to address questions concerning the location, site, and materiality of possible and effective feminist intervention. Developing this proposition, we draw on two DH research projects undertaken between the UK and Ireland (2020 and on-going) focussing on work around community archives at a moment of their radical transformation. Asking what feminist DH can b…
Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works)