Oliver Carter takes questions from the floor One of the things that happens when you go more fully into research mode is that you end up going to a lot of research meetings and research presentations. And one of the upsides of the area of Media and Cultural Research is that you tend to get [...]
Categories: 365
Tagged: Photo, research, University
I’m now officially allowed to be your PhD supervisor. I did a three-day training course run by the university on Friday last week, Tuesday and Wednesday this week – and having come out the other side of that, we’re all systems go. What’s your theoretical framework? My first two doctoral students turn up in September, [...]
Categories: Birmingham,University
Tagged: University
One New Zealand Music Video a day for NZ Music Month.
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Video
Tagged: Music, New Zealand, Seminar, University, Video
One New Zealand Music Video a day for NZ Music Month.
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Video
Tagged: Music, New Zealand, Seminar, University, Video
I’ve had a bit of a cold over the weekend, and so of course everyone is claiming that I have swine flu. It’s possible, I guess – but it’s far more likely to be man flu. Swine flu, of course, has already claimed as many victims as Bird flu, the Millennium Bug and the Titanic [...]
Categories: Book
Tagged: Book, Personal, University
David McInerney, Tom Arnott, Adam Regan and me – after a spectacularly successful DJ gig at the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath I often do top 10 or 20 lists (and sometimes even top 100 lists) of music from the year gone by. I generally spend quite a bit of time over this, and then [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business,Music,New Zealand,Travel,Whisky
Tagged: 2008, Birmingham, Business, Internet, Music, New Zealand, Personal, research, review, Seminar, Travel, University, web, Whisky
I reflected yesterday afternoon that I’ve now been a university lecturer for 10 years. I started toward the end of 1998, filling in for my friend Bryce for a few weeks at AUT while he went and did something in the radio industry. He never came back. It also occurred to me that the first [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: Digital audio player, Internet, MP3, Music, University
Hard at work Professor Tim Wall and I quite often write together. Usually, I’ll go to his house – a good hour’s journey on two buses, plus waiting and walking. All up, 3 hours commuting, interspersed with cups of coffee, long and interesting chats about lofty-minded things, and short bursts of typing. Working that way, [...]
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Tagged: Internet, Office, Skype, University, Work
I’m using EndNote. It’s a piece of software for creating and organising bibliographies. You type in metadata such as Author, Title, ISBN, Publication Date, Publisher, City of Publication and so on. Lots of information – and it takes time to type it all in, so that you can automatically cite and build decent footnotes and [...]
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Tagged: CDDB, Endnote, International Standard Book Number, Internet, ISBN, Library and Information Science, Publication, University
I’ve just spent four days in Belfast hanging out with musicians, sleeping on their couches and spare beds, going to gigs, doing a spot of consultancy and speaking at a music industry seminar. As you’d expect in Ireland (and under those circumstances) there’s no shortage of stories to tell. I thought I’d start with one [...]
Tagged: Belfast, Farl, Ireland, Music, Seminar, Travel, University
