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Papers by Nicola Green

This thesis addresses how virtual reality technologies are being developed to shape a cultural po... more This thesis addresses how virtual reality technologies are being developed to shape a cultural politics of embodiment and subjectivity across local and global contexts. The research considers a number of approaches to understanding the techno-cultural ...

Reseaux, May 1, 2002

Ce texte propose quelques réflexions provisoires sur une question qui est devenue récemment un th... more Ce texte propose quelques réflexions provisoires sur une question qui est devenue récemment un thème du débat public: l'aptitude des technologies de téléphonie mobile, et plus particulièrement des services de pointe liés à la localisation à devenir des outils de « ...

Journal of Consumer Culture, 2001

ABSTRACT This article takes as its starting point the mundane work of constructing ‘virtual ident... more ABSTRACT This article takes as its starting point the mundane work of constructing ‘virtual identities’ and ‘virtual’ cultural practices in the course of ‘everyday’ participation in virtual reality technologies. The article explores how participation takes place, detailing in particular the work practices of staff and the interactions of staff with participants, which make ‘virtual reality’ possible. The article seeks to demonstrate the crucial role of staff as mediators translating technology into culture, and techno-culture into economics, in the distribution and institutionalization of virtual reality in everyday life. As such, the article argues that staffembody the juncture of technology production and consumption and perform key roles that embed new technologies of culture in ongoing social interaction.

Berg New Media Series ISSN 1753-724X Edited by Leslie Haddon, Department of Media and Communicati... more Berg New Media Series ISSN 1753-724X Edited by Leslie Haddon, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, and Nicola Green, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey The series aims to provide students with historically-...

Surveillance Society, Sep 22, 2009

Surveillance Studies needs Gender and Sexuality. That is why this issue came into being. Although... more Surveillance Studies needs Gender and Sexuality. That is why this issue came into being. Although this is a comparatively short issue of Surveillance and Society, perhaps representing the fact that the critique of surveillance through these lenses is still in its infancy, its contributions highlight some of the ways in which studies of gender and sexuality are fundamental to mounting a critique of surveillance.

Surveillance Society, Jan 7, 2015

This article argues for a wider and more nuanced understanding of ethnography's role in Surveilla... more This article argues for a wider and more nuanced understanding of ethnography's role in Surveillance Studies than has sometimes historically been the case. The article begins by (briefly) deconstructing some of the ways that the concepts of both 'surveillance' and 'ethnography' have been deployed in empirical surveillance research over time, in order to set the scene for a critical interrogation of the variety of ethnographic approaches so far used within Surveillance Studies. The paper then goes on to review Surveillance Studies approaches broadly, and a range of qualitative and ethnographically-informed approaches in particular, within interdisciplinary empirical research related to surveillance relations. The ensuing discussion identifies several points where the existing empirical evidence base would benefit from more extensive ethnographic studies, at multiple sites and scales, that methodologically recognize surveillance as situated and meaningful everyday life processes and practices, rather than surveillant activities and relationships in settings defined as 'surveillance' in an a priori fashion. The article concludes by suggesting that approaches oriented towards empirically understanding surveillance practices as 'everyday life' have a significant future contribution to make, particularly with respect to building and developing our theoretical understandings of surveillant assemblages in everyday life contexts.

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The current explosion in mobile computing and telecommunications technologies holds the potential... more The current explosion in mobile computing and telecommunications technologies holds the potential to transform "everyday" time and space, as well as changes to the rhythms of social institutions. Sociologists are only just beginning to explore what the notion of "mobility" might mean when mediated through computing and communications technologies, and so far, the sociological treatment has been largely theoretical. This article seeks instead to explore how a number of dimensions of time and space are being newly reconstructed through the use of mobile communications technologies in everyday life. The article draws on long-term ethnographic research entitled "The Socio-Technical Shaping of Mobile Multimedia Personal Communications," conducted at the University of Surrey. This research has involved ethnographic eldwork conducted in a variety of locales and with a number of groups. This research is used here as a resource to explore how mobile communications technologies mediate time in relation to mobile spaces. First the paper offers a review and critique of some of the major sociological approaches to understanding time and space. This review entails a discussion of how social practices and institutions are maintained and/or transformed via mobile technologies. Ethnographic data is used to explore emerging mobile temporalities. Three interconnected domains in mobile time are proposed: rhythms of mobile use, rhythms of mobile use in everyday life, and rhythms of mobility and institutional change. The article argues that while these mobile temporalities are emerging, and offer new ways of acting in and perceiving time and space, the practical construction of mobile time in everyday life remains rmly connected to well-established time-based social practices, whether these be ; web site: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk institutional (such as clock time, "work time") or subjective (such as "family time").

The Information Society, 2002

Réseaux, 2002

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2001

This article considers the role of the consumer in the diffusion of mobile telecommunications tec... more This article considers the role of the consumer in the diffusion of mobile telecommunications technologies. There is presently little research on the consumption and use of mobile technologies, and the aim of the present paper is to facilitate discussion about the way consumer behaviour is currently understood in industry and academia. The paper considers key themes in social science research on mobile ICTs, and understandings of the consumer held by those in the mobile industry. Bringing these understandings together, we reiterate the now well attested view that the diffusion and consumption of mobile telephony and computing cannot be understood without investigating the contexts and processes of their use in everyday life.

Information, Communication & Society, 1999

This article examines how gender is inscribed and reproduced in the consumption of Virtual Realit... more This article examines how gender is inscribed and reproduced in the consumption of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies. The focus is on how virtual reality systems become embedded in'everyday life'through leisure and consumption, and how the spectacles and disciplines ...

Environment and Planning A, 2012

Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2003

Surveillance Studies Network, UK, 2006

As 18-year-old Ben Jones and his fellow anti-war protestors walk through the centre of London, th... more As 18-year-old Ben Jones and his fellow anti-war protestors walk through the centre of London, they are monitored constantly. Small remote control UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) circle overhead2. These spy planes were introduced for the Olympics of 2012 ...