The Writing and Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney, has a special focus on writing in digital media. We are currently seeking applications from suitably qualified prospective PhD and DCA students in this area. Projects are welcome which focus on any aspect of new media writing from the perspectives of theory or practice. Writing [...]

Some of you may be interested in the book Practice-led research, Research-led practice in the Creative Arts edited by myself (Hazel Smith) and Roger Dean, Edinburgh University Press, 2009. About creative practice in the context of the university, and the relationship between creative practice and research, it includes several essays about new media work across [...]

When you have a moment look at soundsRite at http://soundsrite.uws.edu.au/ The journal is edited by Roger Dean and me  and was  established in 2009 at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. soundsRite publishes selected new media work which includes words or sound or both. The soundsRite site also archives an earlier multimedia journal, infLect, founded [...]

Hi everyone, great to be on netpoetic.com and thanks to Jason for setting it up. Just want to let you know about two recent book chapters by me in the new media poetry area. They are “Affect, Emotion and Sensation in New Media Writing: the work of John Cayley, M.D. Covereley and Jason Nelson” in [...]