Exploring New Configurations of Network Politics

PhD research studentships in media, digital culture and cognate areas - deadline 11 July, more details here.

The call for papers for a special issue of Culture Machine on 'Platform Poltics' has been reseased. Full papers are requested by November 2012. Full details here 

 Joss Hands has writen some comment about about Earl and Kimport's new book 'Digitally Enabled Social Change' for a new blog 'Mobilizing Ideas' run out of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at Notre Dame University. The piece is here and the wider blog, which is well worth a look here

Jussi Parikka wrote a short piece for The Guardian on digital economy discourse, interdisciplinarity and the late German media theorist Friedrich Kittler.

ARCDigital is collaborating with CRASSH to host a roundtable on 24 November 2011 exploring the role of digital networks in recent revolutions and global insurrections, and a number of speakers from will be offering their perpective on the question of: what is the digital difference? More details here

ARC Digital has announced details of its autumn 'digital capital' reading group - all welcome details here  

A blog post on the riots and social media and public discourse here 

We have set up a page to collect responses to Platform Politics and link to other references or blogs coming out of a very well received and thought provoking event. See the page here

The short opening words to Platform Politics-conference are now online. This is the slightly longer version to the words spoken on Thursday 12th of May 2011 by Jussi.

The Platform Politics conference has now finished. Footage of a number of talks has been archived and can be viewed here