Professor Ned Rossiter
PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION,
Communications (SoHCA)
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD Edith Cowan University
- PGDip Design Curtin University of Technology
- BA Media Stud Edith Cowan University
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Communications (SoHCA)
Contact
| Email: | N.Rossiter@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 5196 |
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| Location: | BB.1.41 Penrith (Werrington South) |
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Biography
Professor Ned Rossiter is a media theorist who conducts research on the political dimensions of labour and life in informational economies. He is currently investigating global logistics industries and the intersections between labour regimes, IT infrastructures, electronic waste industries and questions of informational sovereignty.
Ned was based in Perth, Melbourne, Northern Ireland, Beijing, Shanghai and Ningbo before taking up an appointment as Professor of Communication in 2011 in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at UWS where he is also a member of the Institute for Culture and Society. Ned is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Creative Industries, Peking University. He is a researcher on Transit Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders, http://transitlabour.asia
He is the author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, Rotterdam: NAi Publications, 2006. (Translated into Italian by Manifestolibri in 2009.) Ned is currently working on two books entitled Logistical Nightmares: Infrastructure, Software, Labour, New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2014 and (with Geert Lovink) Urgent Aphorisms: The Politics of Network Cultures, London: Minor Compositions, forthcoming 2014.
This information has been contributed by Professor Rossiter.
Interests
- Cultural Theory
- Digital Media
- Global Logistics Industries
- Informational Labour
- Media Theory
- Political Theory
- Urban Studies
Teaching
Current Teaching Areas
- 101925 Mediated Mobilities
- 101926 Media Cultures and Industries
Publications
Books
- Rossiter, N. (2006), 'Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions', : NAi Publishers (Netherlands Architecture Institute) 9056625268.
Chapters in Books
- Rossiter, N. (2012), 'Acts of translation : organized networks as algorithmic technologies of the common', Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory, Routledge 9780415896948.
- Rossiter, N. (2012), 'Dirt research', Depletion Design: A Glossary of Network Ecologies, Institute of Network Cultures 9789081857512.
- Lovink, G. and Rossiter, N. (2011), 'Urgent Aphorisms: Notes on Organized Networks for the Connected Multitudes', Managing Media Work, Sage 9781412971249.
- Rossiter, N. (2011), 'Autonomous Education, New Institutions and the Experimental Economy of Network Cultures', Locating the Producers: Durational Approaches to Public Art, Valiz 9789078088516.
- Lovink, G. and Rossiter, N. (2011), '"Seriality for All: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory', Interoperabel Nederland, Forum Standaardisatie 9789079490035.
- Lovink, G. and Rossiter, N. (2011), 'Understanding Cartopolitics: The Logic of Networks, From Visualisation to Organisation?', Networks (cells & silos), Monash University Museum of Art 9780980645187.
- Neilson, B. and Rossiter, N. (2010), 'Still Waiting, Still Moving: On Migration, Logistics and Maritime Industries', Stillness in a Mobile World, Routledge 9780415572620.
- Rossiter, N. (2010), 'The Informational University, the Uneven Distribution of Expertise and the Racialization of Labour', Refengxueshu, 9787208094048.
- Rossiter, N., Coleman, G., Lovink, G. and Zehle, S. (2009), 'Winter Camp 09: From Weak Ties to Organized Networks - Ideas, Reports, Critiques', From Weak Ties to Organized Networks: Ideas, Reports, Critiques, Institute of Network Cultures 9789078146087.
- Rossiter, N. (2008), 'Una gerarchia di reti? ovvero, reti geo-culturalmente differenziate e i limiti della collaborazione', Universita Globale: Il Nuovo Mercato Del Sapere, manifestolibri 9788872855614.
- Rossiter, N. (2008), 'New Design Education Models are New Business Models', Masters of Rietveld: Dutch Design Education in the 21st Century by the Sandberg Institute, All Media Books 9789081165525.
- Lovink, G. and Rossiter, N. (2007), 'Proposals for Creative Research: Introduction to the MyCreativity Reader', MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, Institute of Network Cultures 9789078146049.
- Rossiter, N. (2006), 'Organized Networks and Nonrepresentative Democracy', Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Ltd ) 0415952980.
- Rossiter, N. (2006), 'WSIS and Organised Networks as New Civil Society Movements', Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Deconstructing WSIS, Intellect Books 1841501336.
- Rossiter, N. and Cooper, S. (2005), 'Processual Media Theory and the Study of New Media: Towards a New Research Approach', Topical Issues in Communications and Media Research, Nova Science Publishers Inc. 1594542791.
Journal Articles
- Lovink, G. and Rossiter, N. (2011), 'Understanding Cartopolitics: The Logic of Networks, From Visualisation to Organisation', Acoustic Space: Journal for Transdisciplinary Research of Art, Science, Technology and Society, 4.
- Rossiter, N. (2011), 'Logistics, Labour and New Regimes of Knowledge Production', Transeuropeenes: Inernational Journal of Critical Thought, .
- Rossiter, N. (2010), 'The Informational University, the Uneven Distribution of Expertise and the Racialization of Labour', Edu-Factory Journal, 12.
- Rossiter, N. (2010), 'The Informational University, the Uneven Distribution of Expertise and the Racialization of Labour', darkmatter, .
- Zehle, S. and Rossiter, N. (2009), 'Organizing Networks: Notes on Collaborative Constitution, Translation and the Work of Organization', Cultural Politics, 28.
- Rossiter, N. (2009), 'Networks, Institutions, Translation', Television & New Media, 3.
- Ippolita, I., Lovink, G. and Rossiter, N. (2009), 'The Digital Given: 10 Web 2.0 Theses', Fibreculture Journal, .
- Rossiter, N. (2009), 'Translating the Indifference of Communication: Electronic Waste, Migrant Labour and the Informational Sovereignty of Logistics in China', International Review of Information Ethics, 7.
- Neilson, B. and Rossiter, N. (2008), 'Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception', Theory, Culture & Society, 22.
- Neilson, B. and Rossiter, N. (2006), 'Towards a Political Anthropology of New Institutional Forms', Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 18.
- Rossiter, N. (2006), 'Creative Industries in Beijing: Initial Thoughts', Leonardo: Journal of International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, 4.
- Neilson, B. and Rossiter, N. (2005), 'From Precarity to Precariousness and Back Again: Life, Labour and Unstable Networks', Fibreculture Journal, .
- Neilson, B. and Rossiter, N. (2005), 'Action without Reaction: A Mongolian Border Intervention', Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 6.
- Rossiter, N. (2005), 'Virtuosity, Processual Democracy and Organised Networks', Cultural Studies Review, 19.
- Lovink, G. and Rossiter, N. (2005), 'Dawn of the Organised Networks', Fibreculture Journal, .
Conference Papers
- Rossiter, N. (2004), 'The World Summit on the Information Society and Organised Networks as New Civil Society Movements', Mobile Boundaries/Rigid Worlds: The Contemporary Paradox, Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Sydney.
Other Publications
- 2008, 'Style First', Published Work
- 2010, ''"Design criteria future, love it or leave it"', in Geert Lovink and Mieke Gerritzen (eds) Everyone is a Designer in the Age of Social Media', Published Work
- 2010, ''From IT Factory to Electronic Markets: Speculations on Circuits, Regions, Labour', in Transit-Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders', Published Work
- 2010, ''What is a Research Platform?', in Transit-Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders', Published Work
- 2010, ''From Flows of Culture to the Circuits of Logistics: Borders, Regions, Labour in Transit', Transit-Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders', Published Work
- 2010, ''The Portable Guide to Organized Networks', Networks and Sustainability', Published Work
- 2011, 'The Logistical City, in Transit Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders', Published Work
Research
Current Projects
| Title: | Logistics as Global Governance: Labour, Software and Infrastructure along the New Silk Road |
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| Years: | 2013-06-30 - 2016-06-29 |
| ID: | P00020849 |
| UWS Researchers: | Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter |
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Previous Projects
| Title: | COST Action IS1202: Dynamics of Virtual Work [no funding to UWS] |
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| Years: | 2013-05-13 - 2013-07-19 |
| ID: | P00021348 |
| UWS Researchers: | Ned Rossiter |
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| Title: | Culture in Transition: Creative Labour and Social Mobilities in the Asian Century |
| Years: | 2009-06-30 - 2012-09-30 |
| ID: | P0016038 |
| UWS Researchers: | Brett Neilson, Ien Ang and Ned Rossiter |
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Supervision
Current Supervision
| Title: | Young Chinese Knowledge Workers Employed by Transnational Companies |
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| Title: | State and the Working Class in the Making of the Global Metropolis of Delhi |
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| Title: | The Role of Social Networks, Facebook, Twitter in the Arab Spring Revolutions |
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