Monthly Archives: August 2009

Faking on Twitter – Fake Andrew Bolt

This is the second of my faking interviews for my ongoing project working towards a paper on faking and parody on Twitter.
This one is with Fake Andrew Bolt. (I hasten to add that this was actually conducted before my recent little run-in with the real Andrew Bolt.) Bolt, for those outside Australia, is a [...]

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Faking on Twitter: Fake Penny Wong.

At the moment I’m working on a paper that considers the practice of “faking” on Twitter as a practice of vernacular parody. My interest come from a few different directions. Partly I’m an enthusiastic fan of this practice, and I get a laugh out of faking. Partly it’s because I would like to move past [...]

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ICR Interview – with Chris Christodoulou

Our fourth ICR interview, in old-school text format, is with Chris Christodoulou, who teaches at the University of Westminster in London. He got his PhD recently at London South Bank University, and was good enough to agree to a grilling about it. Below he talks about drum and bass culture, technology and the aesthetics of [...]

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