Apprehension. The sounds of the city are all around us, but here inside a brief reprieve. Darkness. Ears relax and open as the harsh streetscape fades. An assault to the nose. Urine. Glass crackles underfoot. Sitting here on my musical stool I begin to sense the city anew. In front, traffic, a busy rush between […] … Continue reading Cours de Poetique: More Than Just a Car Park by Charlotte Bates — Streetsigns
Selfbuild: ‘where the first occupants arrange for the building of their own dwelling and, in various ways, participate in its production’ (Duncan and Rowe 1993: 1331) Recently, I appeared on Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4’s flagship social science programme, talking about my research on selfbuild in an episode focussed on the sociology of housing. You […] … Continue reading What’s Sociological About Selfbuild? by Michaela Benson — Streetsigns
Daniel Neyland & Norma Möllers article ‘Algorithmic IF … THEN rules and the conditions and consequences of power‘, was recently published in the journal Information, Communication & Society. Continue reading Algorithmic IF … THEN rules and the conditions and consequences of power
Daniel Neyland, Goldsmiths, University of London
The online advertising industry has faced a considerable backlash recently as a greater understanding of how the practices of data scraping, aggregation, mining and user profiling are carried out behind the scenes. From Edward Snowden’s revelations of governments using social media to perform mass surveillance, to the often creepy presence of targeted adverts that slow mobile web browsing to a crawl, we’re now much more aware and concerned about who knows what about us.
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Follow the stor(if)y from ‘Space Invaders: Women Museum Leaders #MuseumAgender‘ conference featuring Nirmal Puwar. Continue reading Space Invaders: Women Museum Leaders #MuseumAgender
Sociology up 10 spaces to 35th in the WORLD in the latest QS World University Rankings 🎉 🎉 🎉 via Four global top 40 subjects for Goldsmiths in QS university league table, Goldsmiths, University of London. Continue reading Sociology 35th in new QS league table
Last week Vikki Bell gave the final talk entitled ‘Imagine This! Art as a Forum for Truth-telling’ at the University of Essex’s ‘Argentina 1976-2016’ week: Argentina 1976-2016: Activism, Memorialisation and Complicity. This was followed by a short film presentation of Buena memoria on the work of Marcelo Brodsky. The above shows Marcelo working on an image … Continue reading Imagine This! Art as a Forum for Truth-telling
Tomorrow (23 March), Michaela Benson will be discussing her project on self-building with Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’. Listen online from 4pm. Continue reading Michaela Benson on Thinking Allowed
Dan Neyland and Sveta Milyaeva’s recent article ‘Market innovation as framing, productive friction and bricolage: an exploration of the personal data market‘ has been published in the Journal of Cultural Economy Continue reading Market innovation as framing, productive friction and bricolage: an exploration of the personal data market
On Tuesday 22 March, actor, writer and TV presenter Lenny Henry will be taking part in our Question Time-style panel event examining how British television represents its population. Lenny Henry in The Comedy of Errors, 2011. Image by Johan Persson (Creative Commons) Part of the Future for Public Service Television Inquiry, the debate will cover … Continue reading Are you being heard? Lenny Henry joins Goldsmiths debate on TV and representation
