Dr Ned Rossiter

Dr Ned Rossiter is an Adjunct Research Fellow at CCR. He researches in the inter-related areas of organised networks, international creative industries and digital media. In particular, his work explores the political dimensions of labour and life in informational times, including the exploitation of labour in creative industries and the aesthetics of global finance capital.

He is the author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, NAi Publications, Rotterdam (2006).  

Qualifications

PhD, 2005, (Media Studies), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

Grad. Dip., 1992, (Design), Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

BA, 1992, (Media Studies), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

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Honours and Awards

1995-1997, Edith Cowan University Postgraduate Research Scholarship

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Selected Publications

Books

Rossiter, N. 2006, Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, Rotterdam: NAi Publications.

Chun, A., Rossiter, N. & Shoesmith, B. (eds) 2004, Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries, ConsumAsiaN Book Series, London & New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Rossiter, N. 2008, ‘Una gerarchia di reti? ovvero, reti geo-culturalmente differenziate e i limiti della collaborazione’, in, Edufactory Collective (ed.), Universita Globale: Il Nuovo Mercato Del Sapere, manifestolibri: Roma, Italy, pp 143-146.

Rossiter, N. 2008, ‘Processual Media Theory’, in, French, B. (ed.), Michael Goldberg: Strong Language, Some Violence, Adult Themes, Sydney: Artspace Visual Arts Centre.

Rossiter, N. 2008, ‘New Design Education Models are New Business Models’, in, Gerritzen, M. (ed.), Masters of Rietveld: Dutch Design Education in the 21^st Century, Amsterdam: Sandberg Institute of Design, pp 40-43.

Rossiter, N. 2008, ‘The Contagion of Style’, in, Gerritzen, M. and Lovink, G. (eds) Style First, Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhauser Publishers, pp 33-4, 82-82, 135. English, German and French translations.

Lovink G. & Rossiter, N. 2007, ‘Proposals for Creative Research: Introduction to the MyCreativity Reader’ in, Lovink G. & Rossiter, N. (eds), MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cutlures, pp 9-16.

Rossiter, N. 2006, 'Organized Networks and Non-Representative Democracy', in, Dean, J., Anderson, J. & Lovink, G. (eds), Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society, London & New York: Routledge, pp 19-34.

Rossiter, N. 2006, 'WSIS and Organised Networks as New Civil Society Movements', in, Servaes, J. & Carpentier, N. (eds), Beyond the WSIS: Towards a Sustainable Agenda for the Future Information Society, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, pp 99-119.

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N. 2006, 'From Precarity to Precariousness and Back Again: Labour, Life and Unstable Networks', in, Vishmidt, M., with Francis, M., Walsh, J. & Sykes, L. (eds), Media Mutandis: a NODE.London Reader, London: NODE.London, pp 10-29.

Rossiter, N. & Cooper, S. 2005, 'Processual Media Theory and the Study of New Media: Towards a New Research Approach', in, Kwansah-Aidoo, K. (ed.), Topical Issues in Communications and Media Research, New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp 99-119.

Journal Articles

Rossiter, N., Carriço, M. & de Muynck, B. (guest eds) 2008, Urban China 33 [Special Issue: ‘Creative China: Counter-Mapping Creative Industries’].

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N. 2008, ‘Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception’, Theory, Culture & Society, 25(7-8): 51-72.

Rossiter, N. 2006, 'Creative Industries in Beijing: Initial Impressions', Leonardo: Journal for the International Arts, Sciences and Technology, 39(4): 367-370.

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N. (eds) 2006, 'Experience, Movement and the Creation of New Political Forms', ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 6(4): Special Issue.

Rossiter, N. 2005, 'Virtuosity, Processual Democracy and Organised Networks', Cultural Studies Review, 11(2): 110-128.

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N., with Giorgi, B. & Grace, H. 2005, 'Action without Reaction: A Mongolian Border Intervention', ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 5(X): 144-149.

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N. (eds) 2005, 'Multitudes, Creative Organisation and the Precarious Condition of New Media Labour', Fibreculture Journal, 5: Special Issue.

Neilson, B. & Rossiter, N. 2005, 'From Precarity to Precariousness and Back Again: Labour, Life and Unstable Networks', Fibreculture Journal, 5: Special Issue.

Lovink, G. & Rossiter, N. 2005, 'Dawn of the Organised Networks', Fibreculture Journal, 5: Special Issue.

Rossiter, N. 2004, 'Creative Industries, Comparative Media Theory, and the Limits of Critique from Within', Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 11(Spring): 21-48.

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