Caroline Bassett
Associate (Sussex Digital Humanities Lab)

Research

Research is centred on investigating, and critically analysing the relationship between communication technologies, cultures and societies.

Recent publications include work on digital transformation, mobile and pervasive media, gender and technology, medium theory, digital humanities, science fiction, imagination and innovation, sound and silence. Current work is exploring anti-computing. See e.g. 

recent work on silence, noise and social media:

http://www.firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4617/3420

and/or: 

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publication/unlike-us-reader-social-media-monopolies-and-their-alternatives/

Research Projects and Networks: 

Co-Investigator for CCN+, an EPSRC funded communities and cultures network exploring digital transformation. See http://www.communitiesandculture.org/

Steering committee for Susnet, a feminist network exploring sustainability. 

Editorial Board member for ReFrame: a digital publishing platform.

See http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/

Recently completed research projects: 

See our NESTA Working Paper on Science Fiction and Innovation

Download it here: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/mar/28/science-policy

or you can find it on the NESTA web site. 

See some