Advocating for Life Itself
Seminar
Crowdfunding in times of personal crisis – especially for medical expenses – has grown exponentially in recent years. How have public narrative appeals for life itself become normalized in hyper- competitive attention economies? In US settings – where crisis crowdfunding is most prevalent – long-…
Rhetorical strategies in F/OSS projects: justifying firm-project hybridising
Seminar
Volunteers in Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects such as Debian collaborate to produce common-pool resources. Debian is commonly defined as an ‘ethical’ project as participants are meant to be motivated by self-fulfilment, and to oppose restricted ownership and control. In recent years…
Conversations Across the Creek: A presentation on ‘Lactation After Infant Loss in Contemporary Motherhood and Health Service Delivery’
Seminar
Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the…
Defending your ideas and responding to critique
Advisory session
These sessions are designed for HDR students and will cover a range of topics that will assist them to develop as researchers.This session will offer some strategies on how to deal with critique and, specifically, how to use it to sharpen your perspective, your theoretical grounding and…
Renewing Sociology in the Digital Age
Seminar
It is now well-established that digital devices, techniques and new forms of data are deeply implicated in the re-working of social life, and this has only just begun. At the same time, these devices, techniques and data are shaping what we know about social life, fuelling stark questions about the…
Presentation and publication
Advisory session
These sessions are designed for HDR students and will cover a range of topics that will assist them to develop as researchers.This session will, firstly, provide an opportunity for students to discuss various strategies in the presentation of their work, considering how a spoken presentation…
Beyond Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear: Acquiescence, Value Calculus, and the Digital Practices of Affluent Surveillance Subjects
Seminar
A common response to digital surveillance is the ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ (NTHNTF) argument, which suggests only those with something to hide should fear surveillance. While often critiqued, there is little engagement with what this narrative might mean for individuals who adopt it.…