For years now I’ve been trying to understand the way my Supervisor works when it comes to my studies and my research. This might seem weird to the non-research student but trust me when I say that the relationship a research student has with a . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
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Watch this amazing TED talk from Ananda Shankar Jayant, a brilliant Indian classical dancer (by the way, classical in India does not mean ballet). You will hear extremely interesting concepts of metaphor that she used in her mental and corporeal fight against cancer, making her body re-learn the movement that she thought she . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
The March of the Guards to Finchley by William Hogarth on Wikipedia I’m watching a brilliant BBC Four series (I think BBC Four is the best of the bunch by the way) called Rude Britannia. You can also . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
Alas, being a PhD student does not mean you don’t have to take exams. Research Methods II exam coming up this Friday. Still, it could be worse. Since I completed the MSc in Innovation Management & Technology Policy I have already done all of the pre-requisites that . . . → Read the rest of this entry… Watch the lovely Jane McGonigal discussing how gamers learn things, how they cooperate and why they can make the world better. After this I am once more convinced that I love my PhD . . . → Read the rest of this entry… I gave my second presentation (see here for the first one) to the postgraduate students of the E-Business: Strategy and Policy (EBSP) course at Birkbeck, University of London. My supervisor who is the course convenor asked me to update some of my points from existing essays on digital narratives, online identity, community and how . . . → Read the rest of this entry… I have the pleasure of being invited by my Supervisor to present two sessions at the E-Business: Strategy and Policy (EBSP) course at Birkbeck, University of London this semester. I gave the first presentation today on some themes around Convergence, Connections & Social Media. Convergence, Connections and Social Media View more presentations from Sofia . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
Election night crowd, Wellington, 1931 Uploaded by National Library NZ on The Commons on 3 Mar 09, 10.38PM GMT. The French cyberspace theorist Pierre Lévy uses the term ‘collective intelligence’ to describe the large-scale information gathering and . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
Binoculars portrait (dscn4659_mod_vign_sm) Uploaded by gerlos on 19 Dec 08, 3.09PM GMT. It’s a bloody nightmare. And it happens to me ALL THE TIME. I’ll be working away on a presentation or essay or (horror) my dissertation. 3 months down the line (or . . . → Read the rest of this entry…
OK so years ago (about 3 and a half) I actually revealed to my now PhD supervisor that I like dance so we agreed on an essay at that time on Pina . . . → Read the rest of this entry… |
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I write about my academic pursuits. I am mainly into innovation in the creative industries and virtual worlds. Due to a humanities background I tend to go on about theory a lot.
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Pina Bausch Uploaded by terafoto on 3 Oct 07, 8.05AM GMT.