Simone Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3855593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Faculty of Media |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6213-2146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Picking Your Professor: Bridging Scholarly and Popular Bookish Publics in the Digital Age
The study of literature is currently imperiled by political attacks, defunding, and casualization within universities, yet simultaneously thrives beyond them in an online world of author-reader interaction, amateur reviewing, and social-media book talk. This article traces the relationship between literary studies and lay book-reading communities in the past, present, and future. How was the professional/amateur distinction a precondition for the…
Between Impressions and Data: Negotiating Literary Value at the Humanities/Social Sciences Frontier
iterary studies' chief intellectual challenge at the present moment is that its object of study, governing theories and analytic methods are premised on the printed book, yet the discipline manifestly exists in a world where the publishing, promotion, discussion, reviewing and documenting of reading occur via digital platforms.In short, under-acknowledged printculture assumptions underpin literary studies' academic project.In the late twentieth-c…
Dark Academia: Bookishness, Readerly Self-fashioning and the Digital Afterlife of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
Dark Academia (DA) is a vibrant online subculture centred upon readers’ performances of bookishness. Practitioners create audio-visual assemblages of leather-bound books, dusty libraries, (neo)gothic university quadrangles and various poetic accoutrements. The ur-text of the aesthetic is Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (1992), especially its idealisation of a retrograde version of Anglo-American university life. DA mimics The Secret History’s re…
Varieties of Digital Literary Studies: Micro, Macro, Meso
Digital literary studies constitutes a broad church. However, the field tends to divide into, at one pole, quantitative, macro-level studies of historical literary texts and, at the other pole, close-readings of individual born-digital literary works, typically hyper-avant-garde in conception. There is, in practice, little interplay between the two groupings. This article sketches a proposed meso space in between the two extant levels. Drawing on…
Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media
Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture examines the role of the book in the modern world. It considers the book’s deeply intertwined relationships with other media through ownership structures, copyright and adaptation, the constantly shifting roles of authors, publishers and readers in the digital ecosystem and the merging of print and digital technologies in contemporary understandings of the book object. Divided into three parts, the book …
Secret agents: Algorithmic culture, Goodreads and datafication of the contemporary book world
Goodreads, the Anglophone world’s dominant book-centric social networking platform, is a compelling example of algorithmic selection of cultural goods. By exploring in detail Goodreads’s corporate history, financing arrangements and commodification of user data, the article poses questions about the designed opacity of algorithmic selection processes, their self-perpetuating cultural effects, and potential privileging of the commercial interests …
The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era
The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era
Literary Studies
The relationship between literary studies and communication has been distant since cultural studies split off from literary studies in the mid‐twentieth century. Nevertheless, literary studies has left its mark on communications in both disciplines' preference for textual analysis, as well as in productive research fields that have sprung up between the two disciplines—such as book history, studies of reading, and adaptation studies. As digitizat…
The adaptation industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation
Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings. This has left almost completely unexamined crucial questions of how adaptations come to be made, what are the industries with the greatest stake in makin…
Servicing ‘self-scheduling consumers’: Public broadcasters and audio podcasting
Podcasting has moved rapidly from the underground and pirate radio fringe to the heart of public-service media, with the BBC, NPR, CBC and Australia’s ABC all early adopters of the technology. The public-service broadcasting (PSBing) ethos appears both compatible with, and challenged by, the podcasting phenomenon. Podcasting’s appeal lies in its capacity for time-shifting, portable consumption and global distribution of audio content. Moreover, p…
Brand loyalties: Rethinking content within global corporate media
Translating content from one media platform to another, a process here dubbed content streaming, is the leitmotif of contemporary globalized media. Yet widely divergent interpretations of the phenomenon have emerged. Academic political economy interprets content streaming as powerfully inimical to cultural diversity, media competition and freedom of speech. Mainstream business reporting, working from an opposing media economics schema, pillories …
Think Global, Act Global: Corporate Content Streaming and Australian Media Policy
Australia's media policy agenda has recently been dominated by debate over two key issues: media ownership reform, and the local content provisions of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement. Challenging the tendency to analyse these issues separately, the article considers them as interlinked indicators of fundamental shifts occurring in the digital media environment. Converged media corporations increasingly seek to achieve economies o…
Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics
Celebrating the story the way it is’: Cultural studies, corporate media and the contested utility of fandom
After this brief warm shower together, Harry [Knowles] and I return to our different sides of the line—us trying to maintain secrecy ... and he using his low‐life methods to publish it all on the net
The Cuala Press: Women, publishing, and the conflicted genealogies of ‘feminist publishing’
Mixed media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics
Deeds and Words: The Woman's Press and the Politics of Print
The political and constitutional impact of the early twentieth-century British women's suffrage movement has been the subject of extensive research since the advent of second-wave feminism, yet the broader cultural impact of the movement remains a developing scholarly area. Murray examines the role of the Woman's Press, the publishing house established in 1907 as a strategic component of the Pankhursts' influential Women's Social and Political Un…
Celebrating the story the way it is’: Cultural studies, corporate media and the contested utility of fandom
After this brief warm shower together, Harry [Knowles] and I return to our different sides of the line—us trying to maintain secrecy ... and he using his low‐life methods to publish it all on the net
Brand loyalties: Rethinking content within global corporate media
Translating content from one media platform to another, a process here dubbed content streaming, is the leitmotif of contemporary globalized media. Yet widely divergent interpretations of the phenomenon have emerged. Academic political economy interprets content streaming as powerfully inimical to cultural diversity, media competition and freedom of speech. Mainstream business reporting, working from an opposing media economics schema, pillories …
Servicing ‘self-scheduling consumers’: Public broadcasters and audio podcasting
Podcasting has moved rapidly from the underground and pirate radio fringe to the heart of public-service media, with the BBC, NPR, CBC and Australia’s ABC all early adopters of the technology. The public-service broadcasting (PSBing) ethos appears both compatible with, and challenged by, the podcasting phenomenon. Podcasting’s appeal lies in its capacity for time-shifting, portable consumption and global distribution of audio content. Moreover, p…
Secret agents: Algorithmic culture, Goodreads and datafication of the contemporary book world
Goodreads, the Anglophone world’s dominant book-centric social networking platform, is a compelling example of algorithmic selection of cultural goods. By exploring in detail Goodreads’s corporate history, financing arrangements and commodification of user data, the article poses questions about the designed opacity of algorithmic selection processes, their self-perpetuating cultural effects, and potential privileging of the commercial interests …
Deeds and Words: The Woman's Press and the Politics of Print
The political and constitutional impact of the early twentieth-century British women's suffrage movement has been the subject of extensive research since the advent of second-wave feminism, yet the broader cultural impact of the movement remains a developing scholarly area. Murray examines the role of the Woman's Press, the publishing house established in 1907 as a strategic component of the Pankhursts' influential Women's Social and Political Un…
Dark Academia: Bookishness, Readerly Self-fashioning and the Digital Afterlife of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
Dark Academia (DA) is a vibrant online subculture centred upon readers’ performances of bookishness. Practitioners create audio-visual assemblages of leather-bound books, dusty libraries, (neo)gothic university quadrangles and various poetic accoutrements. The ur-text of the aesthetic is Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (1992), especially its idealisation of a retrograde version of Anglo-American university life. DA mimics The Secret History’s re…
Between Impressions and Data: Negotiating Literary Value at the Humanities/Social Sciences Frontier
iterary studies' chief intellectual challenge at the present moment is that its object of study, governing theories and analytic methods are premised on the printed book, yet the discipline manifestly exists in a world where the publishing, promotion, discussion, reviewing and documenting of reading occur via digital platforms.In short, under-acknowledged printculture assumptions underpin literary studies' academic project.In the late twentieth-c…
The Cuala Press: Women, publishing, and the conflicted genealogies of ‘feminist publishing’
Deeds and Words: The Woman's Press and the Politics of Print
The political and constitutional impact of the early twentieth-century British women's suffrage movement has been the subject of extensive research since the advent of second-wave feminism, yet the broader cultural impact of the movement remains a developing scholarly area. Murray examines the role of the Woman's Press, the publishing house established in 1907 as a strategic component of the Pankhursts' influential Women's Social and Political Un…
Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics
Celebrating the story the way it is’: Cultural studies, corporate media and the contested utility of fandom
After this brief warm shower together, Harry [Knowles] and I return to our different sides of the line—us trying to maintain secrecy ... and he using his low‐life methods to publish it all on the net
The Cuala Press: Women, publishing, and the conflicted genealogies of ‘feminist publishing’
Mixed media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics
Brand loyalties: Rethinking content within global corporate media
Translating content from one media platform to another, a process here dubbed content streaming, is the leitmotif of contemporary globalized media. Yet widely divergent interpretations of the phenomenon have emerged. Academic political economy interprets content streaming as powerfully inimical to cultural diversity, media competition and freedom of speech. Mainstream business reporting, working from an opposing media economics schema, pillories …
Think Global, Act Global: Corporate Content Streaming and Australian Media Policy
Australia's media policy agenda has recently been dominated by debate over two key issues: media ownership reform, and the local content provisions of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement. Challenging the tendency to analyse these issues separately, the article considers them as interlinked indicators of fundamental shifts occurring in the digital media environment. Converged media corporations increasingly seek to achieve economies o…
Servicing ‘self-scheduling consumers’: Public broadcasters and audio podcasting
Podcasting has moved rapidly from the underground and pirate radio fringe to the heart of public-service media, with the BBC, NPR, CBC and Australia’s ABC all early adopters of the technology. The public-service broadcasting (PSBing) ethos appears both compatible with, and challenged by, the podcasting phenomenon. Podcasting’s appeal lies in its capacity for time-shifting, portable consumption and global distribution of audio content. Moreover, p…
The adaptation industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation
Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings. This has left almost completely unexamined crucial questions of how adaptations come to be made, what are the industries with the greatest stake in makin…
Literary Studies
The relationship between literary studies and communication has been distant since cultural studies split off from literary studies in the mid‐twentieth century. Nevertheless, literary studies has left its mark on communications in both disciplines' preference for textual analysis, as well as in productive research fields that have sprung up between the two disciplines—such as book history, studies of reading, and adaptation studies. As digitizat…
The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era
The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era
Secret agents: Algorithmic culture, Goodreads and datafication of the contemporary book world
Goodreads, the Anglophone world’s dominant book-centric social networking platform, is a compelling example of algorithmic selection of cultural goods. By exploring in detail Goodreads’s corporate history, financing arrangements and commodification of user data, the article poses questions about the designed opacity of algorithmic selection processes, their self-perpetuating cultural effects, and potential privileging of the commercial interests …
Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media
Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture examines the role of the book in the modern world. It considers the book’s deeply intertwined relationships with other media through ownership structures, copyright and adaptation, the constantly shifting roles of authors, publishers and readers in the digital ecosystem and the merging of print and digital technologies in contemporary understandings of the book object. Divided into three parts, the book …
Varieties of Digital Literary Studies: Micro, Macro, Meso
Digital literary studies constitutes a broad church. However, the field tends to divide into, at one pole, quantitative, macro-level studies of historical literary texts and, at the other pole, close-readings of individual born-digital literary works, typically hyper-avant-garde in conception. There is, in practice, little interplay between the two groupings. This article sketches a proposed meso space in between the two extant levels. Drawing on…
Between Impressions and Data: Negotiating Literary Value at the Humanities/Social Sciences Frontier
iterary studies' chief intellectual challenge at the present moment is that its object of study, governing theories and analytic methods are premised on the printed book, yet the discipline manifestly exists in a world where the publishing, promotion, discussion, reviewing and documenting of reading occur via digital platforms.In short, under-acknowledged printculture assumptions underpin literary studies' academic project.In the late twentieth-c…
Dark Academia: Bookishness, Readerly Self-fashioning and the Digital Afterlife of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
Dark Academia (DA) is a vibrant online subculture centred upon readers’ performances of bookishness. Practitioners create audio-visual assemblages of leather-bound books, dusty libraries, (neo)gothic university quadrangles and various poetic accoutrements. The ur-text of the aesthetic is Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (1992), especially its idealisation of a retrograde version of Anglo-American university life. DA mimics The Secret History’s re…
Picking Your Professor: Bridging Scholarly and Popular Bookish Publics in the Digital Age
The study of literature is currently imperiled by political attacks, defunding, and casualization within universities, yet simultaneously thrives beyond them in an online world of author-reader interaction, amateur reviewing, and social-media book talk. This article traces the relationship between literary studies and lay book-reading communities in the past, present, and future. How was the professional/amateur distinction a precondition for the…
Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Digital Games and Media (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works)