Book Chapter: From Social Butterly to Engaged Citizen (MIT 2011)
A new book on urban informatics hit the bookstores last December: From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen (MIT 2011) edited by Marcus Foth, Laura Forlano, Christine Satchell and Martin Gibbs. Congratulations to everyone involved in the creation of this impressive collection of case studies, reflections and stories from the front lines of the ever-expanding set...
James Gleick on the Future of the Book
A little contribution to the reams of type currently circling the skies, relating to the future of the book. Written for creativeinnovation.net.au
Street Haunting: Sounding the Invisible City
Sneak preview of a book chapter featuring in the upcoming Digital Cities publication From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen, to be published by MIT in Dec 2011. Street Haunting SBarns Final-1 The title for the chapter was inspired by reading Virginia Woolf’s Street Haunting, in which she takes her readers on a walk through London...
The Death and Life of the Real-Time City
My PhD dissertation is now complete, and can be downloaded from this site.
Diversions or Diversity?
I used to worry a lot about media diversity. I don’t so much any more. But I do still worry about diversions. This piece was published some years ago (2006) for Metro Magazine. Metro Article
Jaywalking Sydney article
This essay was written in August 2007. It outlines some of the possibilities of working with archives in site-specific ways using digital platforms, following on from my residency at the National Film and Sound Archives. Barns, S. Jaywalking Sydney: Here and Then, or how to locate film and sound archives on a street near you...