Guy Redden
I taught at universities in Thailand (Prince of Songkla), the UK (Lincoln) and Australia (Queensland) before joining Sydney.
My research interests primarily revolve around the intersections between culture and economy. Topics I've researched include alternative cultural markets (New Age), tourism, online gift/commercial economies, the mediation of consumption and labour (makeovers, lifestyle and talent TV), binge drinking (just theoretical ;-), and performance evaluation regimes.
Current projects concern the financialisation of everyday life (with Fiona Allon), and comedy and person value. I presented on both topics at Crossroads 2010 in Hong Kong www.crossroads2010.org/ I recently co-authored an article about Ladette to Lady with Rebecca Brown.
I am coordinator of postgraduate coursework for the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at Sydney. http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/postgraduate/
Address: School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
My research interests primarily revolve around the intersections between culture and economy. Topics I've researched include alternative cultural markets (New Age), tourism, online gift/commercial economies, the mediation of consumption and labour (makeovers, lifestyle and talent TV), binge drinking (just theoretical ;-), and performance evaluation regimes.
Current projects concern the financialisation of everyday life (with Fiona Allon), and comedy and person value. I presented on both topics at Crossroads 2010 in Hong Kong www.crossroads2010.org/ I recently co-authored an article about Ladette to Lady with Rebecca Brown.
I am coordinator of postgraduate coursework for the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at Sydney. http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/postgraduate/
Address: School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Books by Guy Redden
Taking a sociology of quantification perspective, this book traces the rise of performance measurement, questions its methods and objectivity, and examines the social significance of the flood of numbers through which value is represented and actors are held accountable.
News matters. It is still the main forum for discussion of issues of public importance. It is where we come together to inform, persuade, influence, endorse or reject one another in a collaborative process of making meaning from events. But the news is changing — content, distribution channels, geographical constraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches and cultural habits are all in flux, as new media technologies are adopted and adapted by users. However, despite having driven many of the changes themselves, established media organisations are in many cases struggling to adapt to this changed environment.
News Online: Transformations and Continuities is for everyone who wants to better understand the news media of the twenty-first century. With contributions from leading international scholars who question established understandings of news in the light of change, this book charts a course through recent upheavals and ranges over a broad terrain — from the BBC to experimental videogames, from Latin American newsrooms to Northeast Asian blogs, from the crisis in US newspapers to Twitter users in Iran. Each chapter provides an insightful analysis of how popular digital communications change relations of production and consumption, in addition to the effect on cultural and political participation. News Online considers the shifting boundaries between the popular and the professional made possible by the redistribution of news functions.
Contributors
Stuart Allan, Ian Bogost, Axel Bruns, Andrés Cañizález, Kate Crawford, Mark Deuze, Natalie Fenton, Simon Ferrari, Leopoldina Fortunati, Gerard Goggin, Jairo Lugo, Robert McChesney, Brian McNair, An Nguyen, Bobby Schweizer, Einar Thorsen, Tamara Witschge and Xin Xin
Papers by Guy Redden
Taking a sociology of quantification perspective, this book traces the rise of performance measurement, questions its methods and objectivity, and examines the social significance of the flood of numbers through which value is represented and actors are held accountable.
News matters. It is still the main forum for discussion of issues of public importance. It is where we come together to inform, persuade, influence, endorse or reject one another in a collaborative process of making meaning from events. But the news is changing — content, distribution channels, geographical constraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches and cultural habits are all in flux, as new media technologies are adopted and adapted by users. However, despite having driven many of the changes themselves, established media organisations are in many cases struggling to adapt to this changed environment.
News Online: Transformations and Continuities is for everyone who wants to better understand the news media of the twenty-first century. With contributions from leading international scholars who question established understandings of news in the light of change, this book charts a course through recent upheavals and ranges over a broad terrain — from the BBC to experimental videogames, from Latin American newsrooms to Northeast Asian blogs, from the crisis in US newspapers to Twitter users in Iran. Each chapter provides an insightful analysis of how popular digital communications change relations of production and consumption, in addition to the effect on cultural and political participation. News Online considers the shifting boundaries between the popular and the professional made possible by the redistribution of news functions.
Contributors
Stuart Allan, Ian Bogost, Axel Bruns, Andrés Cañizález, Kate Crawford, Mark Deuze, Natalie Fenton, Simon Ferrari, Leopoldina Fortunati, Gerard Goggin, Jairo Lugo, Robert McChesney, Brian McNair, An Nguyen, Bobby Schweizer, Einar Thorsen, Tamara Witschge and Xin Xin
with key figures in the scene, ethnographic observation and textual analysis, the article proposes that urban youths’
frustration with the poor state of conditions in the country is channelled into a passion to build an alternative space. Participants assert the distinction of their music from mainstream rock and pop. Translocal connections with other metal scenes existing elsewhere are emphasized in a local scene that remains tied to the activities of a largely middle-class, part-time, male population of artists who share particular social and economic resources.