Dr Adrian Mackenzie

PhD Supervision Interests

Technological and scientific cultures, social and cultural theory, media and cultural studies, especially in relation to new media, network cultures, critical design and post-genomic sciences.

Current and past PhD supervision:

Kingsley Dennis, 'New complexities: converging spaces of connectivity, communication, and collaboration' PhD, 2007 (co-supervised with J. Urry, Sociology)

Soren Mork Petersen, 'Common Banality: The Affective Character of Photo Sharing, Everyday Life and Produsage Cultures' PhD 2008 (co-supervised with T. L. Taylor, ITU Copenhagen)

Daniel Ashton, ' The industry of creativity: Economic frames, creative subjects and innovative technologies in process' PhD, 2009 (co-supervised with G. Gere, Institute for Cultural Research)

Kuo Wen-Ping, 'The production and consumption practices of online journalism in digital Taiwan' PhD 2009 (co-supervised with A. Cronin, Sociology)

Deidre Leahy, ' The epileptic as experimental subject'(co-supervised with P. Palladino, History)

Laura Houston, ' Inventive infrastructures - an exploration of mobile phone 'repair' cultures in Uganda' (co-supervised with L. Suchman, Sociology)

Charalampia Kerasidou, 'Ambient computing' (co-supervised with L. Suchman, Sociology)

Current Teaching

SOCL906 Science, Technology and Society

Research Interests

I'm very interested in the lives of data, especially in databases but also in data analysis, modelling and 'analytics.'  I'm looking at changes in the work, productivity and situation of programmers, life scientists, and focusing on the transformations in technique, knowledge and products associated data-related developments. The wider stakes here includes the nature of promise, design, value, speculation, subjectivity and imagination in knowledge economies.

Additional Information

• The Social Life of Digital Data Objects

  01/10/2012 → 30/09/2015
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• Data topography of NGS Genomes

  10/05/2012 → 31/08/2012
  While there is intense interest in the epistemic, economic, aesthetic, social and political values associated with ‘big data’, (Savage & Burrows, 2007; Latour et al., 2012; Halfpenny & Proctor, 20 ... Read more»

• Living Data: Making sense of health biosensors

  01/05/2011 →
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• Data Flows in Genomic and Environmental Science

  01/01/2011 → 31/07/2011
  The aim of the theme is to re-describe how data moves in NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) genomic sciences and in ENS (Embedded Networked Sensing) environmental sciences. In the life sciences, NGS and ... Read more»

• What is Bioart?

  01/10/2005 → 01/10/2008
  This collaborative project focused on the contemporary visibility and proliferation of bioart, 'bioart' being the label for the intersection of the creative arts and those much discussed, contemporary ... Read more»

• The Fibreculture Journal

  (Guest editor)
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• Theory, Culture and Society

  (Editor) 1/1/2012 → 1/1/2015
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• Computational Culture

  (Editor) 1/1/2011
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