Wilken, Rowan

Swinburne University of Technology
Australia
Rowan Wilken is an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) Fellow in the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His present research interests include locative and mobile media, digital technologies and culture, old and new media, domestic technology use, and theories and practices of everyday life. His is author of Teletechnologies, Place, and Community (2011), and co-editor (with Gerard Goggin) of Mobile Technology and Place (2012).

Contributions

  • The Everyday Work of Lists
    Articles
    IntroductionThis article explores the work of lists in mediating the materiality and complexity of everyday life. In contemporary cultural contexts the endless proliferation of listing forms and practices takes on a “self-reflexivity” that signals their functional and productive role in negotiating the everyday. Grocery lists, to do lists, and other...Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 15 No. 5 (2012): list
  • Café Space, Communication, Creativity, and Materialism
    Articles
    IntroductionCoffee, as a stimulant, and the spaces in which it is has been consumed, have long played a vital role in fostering communication, creativity, and sociality. This article explores the interrelationship of café space, communication, creativity, and materialism. In developing these themes, this article is structured in two parts. The first looks back to the coffee houses...Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 15 No. 2 (2012): coffee