Dr Caroline Bassett

Biography

Caroline Bassett has a first degree in English (UCL), a Master's from Sussex (in Media and Cultural Studies), and a Doctorate from Sussex in Digital Media. 

She teaches and researches at Sussex and has also has spent time researching in the US (George Mason University [Leverhulme-funded]) and, more recently, at McGill University as a visiting scholar fellowship to IGSF in 2010. 

Role

Caroline Bassett is Reader in Digital Media and Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of  Media, Film and Music, at the University of Sussex.

She is Co-Director of the Centre for Material Digital Culture [CMDC] and also has a University wide research role leading the Digital and Social Media Theme. 

Community and Business

Caroline Bassett is Co-Investigator for Communities and Cultures Network Plus project. (funded by the EPSRC). 

The Digital Economy ‘Communities and Culture’ Network+ (CCNetwork+) facilitates research, knowledge exchange and innovative connections in one of fourchallenge areas identified by the EPSRC. It looks forwards and backwards, firstly connecting up existing research, innovation and engagement and secondly planning and enabling future research through funding opportunities, placements, workshops and events.

http://www.communitiesandculture.org/

My research explores the relationship between networked communication technologies, cultures and societies. Recent writing includes work on digital transformation, mobile and pervasive media, gender and technology, medium theory, digital humanities, science fiction, imagination and innovation, sound - and silence. Current work is exploring anti-computing. 

I currently supervise doctoral students across a broad range of topics - including relations between precarious life and labour in Korea, histories of video blogging, social media - and critical approaches, social subjects of new media, medium and reception histories of reading and the end of the book, critical networks. I welcome suggestions for new projects. 

Some Research Projects and Networks: 

Co-Investigator for CCN+, a communities and cultures network exploring digital transformation. See http://www.communitiesandculture.org/

Steering committee for Susnet, a feminist network exploring sustainability. 

Editorial Board member for ReFrame: a digital publishing platform.

See http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/

Some Recent Publications: 

See our NESTA Working Paper on Science Fiction and Innovation

Download it here: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/mar/28/science-policy

or you can find it on the NESTA web site. 

See some recent work on silence, noise and social media:

http://www.firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4617/3420

and/or: 

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publication/unlike-us-reader-social-media-monopolies-and-their-alternatives/

Masters Level Teaching 

MA modules: New Developments in Digital Media

Theory and Practice versions.  This is a core module on various MAs, but is also an option for most MFM MA programmes - and is open to any MA - or MSc - student by arrangement. 

D.Phil (Doctoral) Supervisions: 

Currently Doctoral students are engaged in research topics including:

The end of the book and the continuation of reading. 

The information economy and the digital life: an ethnographic study of women in South Korea

Auditory Cultures

Feminism, sexuality and network politics

Chinese bloggers and the politics of metaphor

Memory and Digital Prosthesis

The re-invention of journalism (ethnographic study)

Video Gaming and Critical Theory

Applications for Supervision: 

Doctoral proposals for supervision in the field of digital media and critical theory welcomed. These might include proposals in the fields of mobility and media, gender and technology, narrative transformations, digital publics, digital humanities and digital research methods welcomed. 

Student Consultation

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Bassett, Caroline (2012) Canonicalism and the computational turn. In: Understanding digital humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke ; New York, pp. 105-126. ISBN 9780230292642

Bassett, Caroline (2011) Twittering machines: antinoise and other tricks of the ear. Differences, 22 (2-3). pp. 276-299. ISSN 1040-7391

Bassett, Caroline (2010) Digital media. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 18 (1). pp. 138-154. ISSN 1077-4254

Bassett, Caroline (2010) Shulamith Firestone: technology and utopia. In: Further adventures of the dialectic of sex. Palgrave, London. ISBN 9780230100299

Bassett, Caroline (2009) With a little help from her (new) friends. In: Proud to be flesh: A Mute magazine anthology of cultural politics after the net. MUTE, London, pp. 131-136. ISBN 9781906496289

Bassett, Caroline (2009) The media studies: a reader. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748637843

Bassett, Caroline (2009) To compute the meaning of words: the digital economy. In: Winchester School of Art research anthology: 26 responses to 5 essays. Unset, pp. 51-54. ISBN 9781873451618

Bassett, Caroline (2009) Up the garden path: or how to get smart in public. Second Nature, International Journal of Creative Media, 1 (2). pp. 42-63.

Bassett, Caroline (2008) New maps for old?: The cultural stakes of 2.0. Fibreculture Journal, 13. ISSN 1449-1443

Bassett, Caroline (2007) Of distance and closeness: the work of Roger Silverstone. New Media and Society, 9 (1). pp. 42-48. ISSN 1461-4448

Bassett, Caroline (2007) The arc and the machine: narrative and new media. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719073427

Bassett, Caroline (2006) Abcderius entries: yuck factor, remote sensing, identity theft. In: Sensorium: embodied experience, technology and contemporary art. MIT Press., Cambridge, Mass.. ISBN 9780262101172

Bassett, Caroline (2006) Cultural studies and new media. In: New cultural studies: adventures in theory. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 220-237. ISBN 9780748622092

Bassett, Caroline (2005) Anti-narrative: games, blogs and other non-linear forms. In: CP3 Film Education.

Bassett, Caroline (2005) Life; here, after meaning: review essay of 'Network culture, politics for an information age', by Tiziana Terranova. Soundings (5). ISSN 1362-6620

Bassett, Caroline (2005) 'Hoeveel bewegingen?' Mobiele telefonie en transformaties binnen de stedelijke ruimte. Open: cahier over kunst en het publieke domein (9). pp. 38-47. ISSN 1570-4181

Bassett, Caroline (2003) How many movements? In: Auditory culture reader. Berg, Oxford, pp. 343-354. ISBN 9781859736180

Bassett, Caroline (2002) Self, same, cyborg? In: Technics of cyber<>feminism <mode=message>. Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor, Bremen, Germany, pp. 45-64. ISBN 9783930924035

Bassett, Caroline (2002) Stretching before and after. Filozofski Vestnik, 23 (2). pp. 43-63. ISSN 0353-4510

Karl, I, Bassett, Caroline, Hartmann, M and Hills, M (2001) In the company of strangers: mobile phones and the conception of space. In: Technospaces: Inside the New Media. Critical Research in Material Culture . Continuum, pp. 205-223. ISBN 9780826450036

Bassett, Caroline (2000) Cyberspace and virtual reality. In: Routledge international encyclopedia of women. Routledge, New York, 283 - 286. ISBN 9780415920889

Bassett, Caroline and Wilbert, Chris (1999) Where you want to go today (like it or not): leisure practices in cyberspace. In: Leisure/tourism geographies: practices and geographical knowledge. Critical geographies (3). Routledge, 181 - 195. ISBN 9780415181099

Bassett, Caroline (1999) The sweet hereafter. In: New media culture in Europe. Uitgeverij de Balie and The Virtual Platform, Amsterdam, pp. 53-55. ISBN 9789066172289

Bassett, Caroline (1999) A manifesto against manifestos. In: Next Cyberfeminist International, March 8-13th 1999, Rotterdam .