David Morley - Resume and Abstract

Name	David Morley
Title	Professor at Goldsmiths University of London
Brief Introduction	David Morley’s research spans both micro-practices of media consumption and macro questions such as the role of media technologies in constituting the ‘electronic landscapes’ within which we live. His research has addressed questions of media consumption, especially in relation to broadcast television and, more recently, the uses of a variety of ‘new’ communications technologies such as the mobile phone. His interests are focused on the role of these technologies in articulating the public and private spheres, and he has done extensive ethnographic work in this field addressing both the functional and symbolic dimensions of communications technologies. He has also works on questions of cultural theory and globalisation - and has focussed on how to develop a non-Eurocentric media studies, within a cultural studies framework. Given his interdisciplinary approach, his work spans the fields of cultural geography and media anthropology and has been concerned with the role of media technologies in the construction of communities at different scales, in the context of processes of de/re-territorialisation, and in the re-constitution of boundaries and techno-regions. Having explored questions of ‘newness’ in relation to a variety of media in his last book, his most recent research attempts to re-articulate the study of virtual communications with that of material forms of transportation, so as to better theorise the varieties of mobility (and stasis) which characterise the contemporary world.
Recent Publications	Books Morley. D. (forthcoming 2006). The Geography of the New: Media, Modernity and Technology, Routledge. Morley. D. (2005). (edited with James Curran) Media and Cultural Thery, Routledge. Morley. D. (2003). “Die Sogantannen Cultural Studies” in A Hepp and C Winter (eds.) Die Kultural Studies Kontroverse, zuKlampen, Hamburg . Morley. D. (2003). “Kuulumisin – aika, tila ja indeeti, mediotnessa maailmassa” in M Lehtonen and O Lohtty (eds.) Erailmmus, Vastapaino, Tampere ( Finland ) Morley. D. (2004). “Broadcasting and the construction of the national family” in R Allen and A Hill (eds.) New Media Theory, Routledge. Morley. D. (2004). “At home with television” in L Spigel and J Olsson (eds.) Television after TV, Duke University Press. Morley. D. (2006 forthcoming). “The domestication of the media and the dis-location of domesticity” in T Berker et al (eds.) The Domestication of Media and Technology,Open University Press. Morley. D. (2006 forthcoming) “Communication technologies and the re-configuration of Europe ” (with K Robins) in V Vitali and P Willemen (eds.) Theorising the National in Cinema, British Film Institute. Recent Journal Articles Morley. D. (2003). ‘What`s Home got to do with it? The domestication of the media and the dislocation of domesticity’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 6 (4). Morley. D. (2003). ‘Rodni orkir obitelskog televije’ in Hravatski Filmski LJETOPIS ( Zagreb , Croatia ) Vol 36.‘byc w Domu ur Mobilnym Swiece’, Kultura Popularna,3 (5), 2003 ( Warsaw ). Morley. D. (2006).‘Unaswered Questions in Audience Research’, The Communication Review ; to also appear, in French translation, in I Charpentier (ed) Actualites des Recherches en Sociologie de la Reception et des Publics Creaphis, Paris (forthcoming)

Paper:

The Geography of Theory and the Place of Knowledge : Pivots, Peripheries and Waiting-Rooms

David Morley

The paper will address a number of issues concerning the constitution of knowledges in particular locations. Its starting point will be with the inevitability of the mutual inscription of our conceptions of both geography and history, and it will address the difficulties involved in critiques of ethnocentrism in the production of knowledge. Consideration will also be given to the ways in which a variety of ‘centres’, or subjects of knowledge have been constructed, in relation to the differently defined ‘peripheries’ which they have constituted as their objects. The paper will also survey the strengths and weaknesses of different levels of abstraction (and generalisability) in social and cultural theory, as applied on different geographical scales, in relation to questions concerning the viability of area-based or ‘regional’ theories of the contemporary forms of globalisation.