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Doctoral training event on 'evidence-based policy' - 30th May
On the 30th May, is organising a day-long event, , for PhD students to discuss the interface of social scientific research and public policy. Drawing on critical and ethnographic investigations of the policy-making process, together with presentations from academics who have worked in government, the event will be valuable for any doctoral students thinking about the policy uses and influence of academic research, critically or practically, or considering a future career in the world of public policy. The day is open to all PhD students in the UK.
Digital / Moving Image and Networked Performance: on Cultural Transformations
Summer school / conference 8-12 July, 果冻传媒
Will Davies article published: 'When is a market not a market?'
A new article, , written by of CIM, has been published in Theory Culture and Society.
In this paper, I outline one strand in a genealogy of ‘liveness’, exploring the role of media in its emergence as a privileged spatio-temporal organization of experience. In order to consider the opportunities afforded by current developments in ‘live methods’ I then explore some of the implications for sociology of not simply studying practices of mediation but of inhabiting media, of in medias res. Here I propose an amphibious sociology, for the potential it offers sociology to deploy methods reflexively in more than one medium, contrasting the methods of making middles to the methods of establishing measures of representativeness, and exploring the opportuni- ties and pitfalls of participation, or being in the middle.