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Mick Winter 1 - Memes For Beginners
Mick Winter talks with Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead about his PhD. This is his first meeting where he explores the nature of memes and his interest in this topic.
Mick Winter 2 - How does a film line become memorable?
Mick Winter talks with Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead to discuss his PhD. There is attention on how a film line becomes memorable and moves through space and time.
Mick Winter 3 - But is resistance conscious?
Mick, Steve and Tara explore the role of Dick Hebdige's "Subculture" in the memes project. Particularly Mick asks about the level of consciousness in and through bricolage.
Mick Winter 4 Hacking Through The Doctoral Jungle
Mick, Steve and Tara talk through that difficult stage of the doctorate when there is so much to read - and so little time!
Mick Winter 5 - Liquid Mick
A very special day for Mick, Tara and Steve. While we started reviewing meme theories, Zygmunt Bauman's liquid metaphors flowed into the discussion. Are meme's sticky?
Mick Winter 6 The Small Doctorate Is The Best Doctorate
Mick and Tara are without Steve this week's meeting. Mick, Tara and Steve have been wrestling with the limitations and boundaries of Mick's thesis. This podcast captures a moment of decision and resolution.
Mick Winter 7 - From Cultural Intermediary To Fetish
Mick, Steve and Tara are together once more. Steve and Mick explore the use of the phrase 'cultural intermediaries' to the meme research. Tara goes straight to a discussion of fetish. (No not that fetish)...
Mick Winter 8 - Carnival time
Mick Winter, Steve Redhead and Tara celebrate Mick's achievement: producing a 100 page agenda for his PhD. This document has revealed and new theory and opportunity for Mick's work on the meme: the carnivalesque.
Mick Winter 9 Hanging With Mikhail (Bakhtin!)
Tara and Mick talk about the new theorist that Mick may engage with or - as usual (!!!) - discard! This week, Mikhail Bakhtin is proving more significant for Mick and his work on memes. Mick's interest with 'voice' and 'resistance' may be finding some resonance in and with Russian Formalism...
Mick Winter 10 - Staying away from the brown acid
How do we choose the correct pathway for our PhD? Tara and Steve talk with Mick about the formulation of his PhD proposal. They discuss how to create a focus and trajectory for the remainder of a research project.
Mick Winter 11 - Mocking the meme
Now is the moment. Steve and Tara conduct Mick Winter's 'mock': a practice run for his confirmation of doctoral candidature.
Mick Winter 12 - Mythic Mick speaks
Steve, Tara and Mick review Mick's endorsement of candidature event. They explore why it was so successful, offering strategies for other doctoral students who follow him.
Mick Winter 13 - Let's get Mick out of the jungle
What happens when a PhD student goes deeply into a research literature and needs to get out of it again? Mick and Tara talk about the morphic fields literature and how to hook this research back into his doctoral thesis.
Mick Winter 14 - Consciousness (man)
Tara and Mick continue to hack through morphic fields. They explore how theorists of morphic fields define and apply consciousness. Yes, this is another hippy-inflected podcast.
Mick Winter 15 - Writing through the intellectual hangover
Steve, Mick and Tara are back together to acknowledge Mick's great work with morphic fields, but to prepare him for writing of the next long chapter. They discuss the challenges in writing a new doctoral chapter after completing a large and intense chapter. How to handle an intellectual hangover? Steve, Mick and Tara talk through some strategies.
Mick Winter 16 - Mick, Steve, Tara and Oxford
Mick asks about the role of definitions - particularly dictionary definitions - in doctoral research. Steve and Tara provide some unexpected answers. And for once - they agree.
Mick Winter 17 - The Purge
Why was there a riot in Baltimore? Were memes involved? Mick, Tara and Steve continue the discussion about Mick's PhD thinking about the political relationships between film, memes and digitization.
Mick Winter 18 - Louis and Slavoj and Mick (and a bus)
Do we have agency? Once more, Mick and Tara are having another 'conversation' (discussion / argument) about human agency. Steve is the voice of reason summoning Althusser and Zizek. Who will he convince in this argument without end?
Mick Winter 19 - Beware the tea towel
Mick, Steve and Tara are back together working through Mick's meme chapter. He has been on an Althusserian journey. They discussed the relationship between ISAs, RSAs, statism and anti-statism. But the fear of the tea towel overshadowed much of the meeting. Wives of theorists have to be cautious in the kitchen...
Mick Winter 20 - Yes size does matter
Mick, Tara and Steve probe the key problem for doctoral students: when is enough reading actually enough? When should a PhD student stop reading on a particular topic?
Mick Winter 21 - What Mick did on his holidays
Tara, Steve and Mick talk about the value of taking a break - taking a holiday - in the midst of a doctorate.
Mick Winter 22 - Doctoral Tourettes (standards standards standards)
Mick, Steve and Tara celebrate the arrival of 107 pages of research on memes. Steve and Tara acknowledge the achievement, but also push Mick to complete this large and remarkable section of his work.
Mick Winter 23 - Bring me diamonds bro (sorting out the literature review)
Tara, Steve and Mick explore and express the challenges in constructing a literature review in a PhD. We talk about how to transcend the banal and boring and create a spicy and enlivening discussion of academic literature that is productive, powerful, passionate and imaginative.
Mick Winter 24 - Writing a fieldwork diary (without the field)
Tara, Steve and Mick talks about the next stage of his research. He is now studying how and why particular moving lines are memorable. But can we learn some tips and tricks from sociological research?
Mick Winter 25 - Different academic styles of writing
Mick and Steve talk about the relationship between journalistic and academic modes of writing. What is the relationship, and how can journalism become more academic - and academic writing reveal the accessibility of journalism?
Mick Winter 26 - Play it again, Mick
Mick, Tara and Steve entered Mick's meme research - in detail. We started with Casablanca and probed why it is famous - and why it remains famous.
Mick Winter 27 - Behind the curtain with the Wizard of Oz (and children's media)
Why has the Wizard of Oz moved so successfully through literature and film - and through time? Mick, Tara and Steve probe the power of the Wizard of Oz and what it reveals about children's media.
Mick Winter 28 - Memes and the big three
Mick and Tara talk about 'the big three' films: Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. Why have these three films dominated the most famous movie quotations of all time?
Mick Winter 29 - Content analysis is the crystal meth of methods
Mick, Steve and Tara work through Mick's analysis of famous moments of filmic dialogue. At the moment, Mick is finding some patterning, but nothing definitive. Meanwhile, Steve and Tara attempt to preserve Mick's sanity as he applies the crystal meth of methods: content analysis.
Mick Winter 30 - Forging that original contribution to knowledge
Tara, Steve and Mick talk about the challenges of doctoral research, particularly encircling the phrase 'an original contribution to knowledge.'
Mick Winter 31 - Size matters girlfriend
Steve, Tara and Mick explore the role and challenges of big chapters in a PhD. Should a big chapter be split? Should it be submitted as a coherent whole? We explore why size does matter in PhD chapters.
Mick Winter 32 - Organizing the final doctoral year
Tara, Steve and Mick introduce the final year of his PhD. Steve and Tara talk through with Mick the specific challenges of the final year, including the importance of timelines and the selection of examiners.
Mick Winter 33 - Flowing with the magpie
Steve, Tara and Mick explore how to manage the theoretical fragmentation of chapters in a doctoral thesis.
Mick Winter 34 - How to publish many books from a single doctorate
Steve, Tara and Mick discuss Mick's post-PhD publishing options. They talk through scholarly monographs, trade books and short, specialist e-books. For the traditional thesis, many publishing options are available, creating new audiences for new research.
Mick Winter 35 - Return of the Frame
Tara, Steve and Mick probe the 'frame' in his meme research. Is a meme a frame? Is the meme the carrier for content?
Mick Winter 36 - How to reflect on your thesis - while doing it
Mick, Steve and Tara are entering the final drafting stages of Mick's thesis. They have decided to work on two book proposals - one academic and one trade - while the drafting is taking place. The unexpected benefit of this scheme is that Mick is not only producing two books for his post-thesis future, but also reflecting on the entire thesis, while still enrolled as a candidate.
Mick Winter 37 - A sad announcement
Tara and Steve have a sad announcement for podcast listeners. Mick Winter - our remarkable PhD student - has died. Steve and Tara talk about 'what's next' and what will happen to his thesis now.
Mick Winter 38 - Preparing a posthumous thesis for examination
Steve and Tara talk about the challenges, opportunities and surprises when preparing Mick Winter's PhD thesis for examination. They offer models for other supervisors when managing - emotionally and intellectually - the death of a student.
Mick Winter 39 - The result
Tara and Steve offer the final instalment in the Mick Winter PhD story. We talk about the successful PhD that has now been examined and tips for colleagues around the world when confronted by this incredibly sad situation. Our love and respects to the memory of Dr. Mick Winter.
Helping graduate students to publish their research
Tara talks with Mick Winter, her former graduate student, to explore the challenges and provide tips for publishing research in academic journals.
Mick and Tara talk about writing up a research project
Once the research is completed, students may feel that the difficult slog is finally over and they can quickly and accurately write up their project and submit it with ease. Yet such an assumption is mistaken. Tara talks with Mick Winter about the writing phase of research projects. What are the distinctions between journalistic and academic writing? What is the best mode of expression? Can we ever edit too much? Mick answers these questions from his experiences in both graduate education and journalism.
Mick Winter and Tara Barbazon talk about his PhD
Tara talks with Mick Winter about his doctoral programme, his topic (memes) and what brought him back to study.
Podcasting for professional communication
Tara talks with Mick Winter about the role of podcasting in professional communication. Mick explores the potential of podcasting for beginners and more advanced users, with advice for best use.
How do I construct an artefact and an exegesis?
One of the great challenges of practice-led and creative-led research is how to both construct and align an artefact and exegesis. Too often, students neglect one element and do not integrate the distinct modes of their research. In this podcast, Tara talks with her former postgraduates about the challenges, benefits and mechanics of creating an artefact and exegesis. Besides Tara, this podcast features the voices of Nadine Caouette, Matt Homer, Mick Winter and Maggie Wouapi.
Mick Winter and Scan Me: Everybody's guide to the magical world of QR codes
Tara Brabazon talks with Mick Winter about his new book, Scan Me: Everybody's guide to the magical world of QR codes. They talk about the potential of local content delivered via mobile phones in an appropriate time and place. As part of geosocial networking, QR codes have found their historical moment. For further information, please refer to http://scanmebook.com.
Mick and Tara review the MA Creative Media dissertation process
Mick Winter talks with Tara Brabazon for the last time in the context of the MA Creative Media. Mick and Tara review ihis dissertation process and the entire programme, connecting 'learning' with 'doing.'
Mick and Tara talk about the presentation of his MA thesis
In this sixth session for his MA Creative Media dissertation, Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon discuss how his research is to be presented. Once the artefacts are finished, how does it link with the exegesis?
Mick Winter presents his sonic interventions
Mick and Tara talk through his complete sonic pieces that aim to create defamiliarization in patterns of thinking about politics and social change.
Mick and Tara think about social semiotics
Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon explore Gunther Kress and Robert Hodge's Social Semiotics. They ponder the nature of resistance and social change. Most importantly, they explore the function of sound and sonic social semiotics.
Mick Winter, sonic media and the politics of sound
This podcast is the second in the series where Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon talk about his dissertation. In this week's podcast, Mick and Tara discuss the politics of sound and the role of sound in Mick's research.
Dissertation Orientation Session
Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon conduct an orientation session on how to commence a dissertation for a Masters-level programme.
Mick Winter selects the topic of his MA dissertation
Mick Winter explores possible dissertation topics in the MA Creative Media programme. He also offer comments about the motivations for learning and returning to learning.
Part two of a distance education orientation with Mick Winter
Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon present an orientation for distance education students. This is the second part of the orientation, where Mick asks his key questions about how to manage a distance education MA degree.
A distance education orientation with Mick Winter
Tara Brabazon talks with Mick Winter about his experience and advice for distance education students enrolled in a graduate degree.
Mick Winter talks with Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead about his PhD. This is his first meeting where he explores the nature of memes and his interest in this topic.
Mick Winter 2 - How does a film line become memorable?
Mick Winter talks with Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead to discuss his PhD. There is attention on how a film line becomes memorable and moves through space and time.
Mick Winter 3 - But is resistance conscious?
Mick, Steve and Tara explore the role of Dick Hebdige's "Subculture" in the memes project. Particularly Mick asks about the level of consciousness in and through bricolage.
Mick Winter 4 Hacking Through The Doctoral Jungle
Mick, Steve and Tara talk through that difficult stage of the doctorate when there is so much to read - and so little time!
Mick Winter 5 - Liquid Mick
A very special day for Mick, Tara and Steve. While we started reviewing meme theories, Zygmunt Bauman's liquid metaphors flowed into the discussion. Are meme's sticky?
Mick Winter 6 The Small Doctorate Is The Best Doctorate
Mick and Tara are without Steve this week's meeting. Mick, Tara and Steve have been wrestling with the limitations and boundaries of Mick's thesis. This podcast captures a moment of decision and resolution.
Mick Winter 7 - From Cultural Intermediary To Fetish
Mick, Steve and Tara are together once more. Steve and Mick explore the use of the phrase 'cultural intermediaries' to the meme research. Tara goes straight to a discussion of fetish. (No not that fetish)...
Mick Winter 8 - Carnival time
Mick Winter, Steve Redhead and Tara celebrate Mick's achievement: producing a 100 page agenda for his PhD. This document has revealed and new theory and opportunity for Mick's work on the meme: the carnivalesque.
Mick Winter 9 Hanging With Mikhail (Bakhtin!)
Tara and Mick talk about the new theorist that Mick may engage with or - as usual (!!!) - discard! This week, Mikhail Bakhtin is proving more significant for Mick and his work on memes. Mick's interest with 'voice' and 'resistance' may be finding some resonance in and with Russian Formalism...
Mick Winter 10 - Staying away from the brown acid
How do we choose the correct pathway for our PhD? Tara and Steve talk with Mick about the formulation of his PhD proposal. They discuss how to create a focus and trajectory for the remainder of a research project.
Mick Winter 11 - Mocking the meme
Now is the moment. Steve and Tara conduct Mick Winter's 'mock': a practice run for his confirmation of doctoral candidature.
Mick Winter 12 - Mythic Mick speaks
Steve, Tara and Mick review Mick's endorsement of candidature event. They explore why it was so successful, offering strategies for other doctoral students who follow him.
Mick Winter 13 - Let's get Mick out of the jungle
What happens when a PhD student goes deeply into a research literature and needs to get out of it again? Mick and Tara talk about the morphic fields literature and how to hook this research back into his doctoral thesis.
Mick Winter 14 - Consciousness (man)
Tara and Mick continue to hack through morphic fields. They explore how theorists of morphic fields define and apply consciousness. Yes, this is another hippy-inflected podcast.
Mick Winter 15 - Writing through the intellectual hangover
Steve, Mick and Tara are back together to acknowledge Mick's great work with morphic fields, but to prepare him for writing of the next long chapter. They discuss the challenges in writing a new doctoral chapter after completing a large and intense chapter. How to handle an intellectual hangover? Steve, Mick and Tara talk through some strategies.
Mick Winter 16 - Mick, Steve, Tara and Oxford
Mick asks about the role of definitions - particularly dictionary definitions - in doctoral research. Steve and Tara provide some unexpected answers. And for once - they agree.
Mick Winter 17 - The Purge
Why was there a riot in Baltimore? Were memes involved? Mick, Tara and Steve continue the discussion about Mick's PhD thinking about the political relationships between film, memes and digitization.
Mick Winter 18 - Louis and Slavoj and Mick (and a bus)
Do we have agency? Once more, Mick and Tara are having another 'conversation' (discussion / argument) about human agency. Steve is the voice of reason summoning Althusser and Zizek. Who will he convince in this argument without end?
Mick Winter 19 - Beware the tea towel
Mick, Steve and Tara are back together working through Mick's meme chapter. He has been on an Althusserian journey. They discussed the relationship between ISAs, RSAs, statism and anti-statism. But the fear of the tea towel overshadowed much of the meeting. Wives of theorists have to be cautious in the kitchen...
Mick Winter 20 - Yes size does matter
Mick, Tara and Steve probe the key problem for doctoral students: when is enough reading actually enough? When should a PhD student stop reading on a particular topic?
Mick Winter 21 - What Mick did on his holidays
Tara, Steve and Mick talk about the value of taking a break - taking a holiday - in the midst of a doctorate.
Mick Winter 22 - Doctoral Tourettes (standards standards standards)
Mick, Steve and Tara celebrate the arrival of 107 pages of research on memes. Steve and Tara acknowledge the achievement, but also push Mick to complete this large and remarkable section of his work.
Mick Winter 23 - Bring me diamonds bro (sorting out the literature review)
Tara, Steve and Mick explore and express the challenges in constructing a literature review in a PhD. We talk about how to transcend the banal and boring and create a spicy and enlivening discussion of academic literature that is productive, powerful, passionate and imaginative.
Mick Winter 24 - Writing a fieldwork diary (without the field)
Tara, Steve and Mick talks about the next stage of his research. He is now studying how and why particular moving lines are memorable. But can we learn some tips and tricks from sociological research?
Mick Winter 25 - Different academic styles of writing
Mick and Steve talk about the relationship between journalistic and academic modes of writing. What is the relationship, and how can journalism become more academic - and academic writing reveal the accessibility of journalism?
Mick Winter 26 - Play it again, Mick
Mick, Tara and Steve entered Mick's meme research - in detail. We started with Casablanca and probed why it is famous - and why it remains famous.
Mick Winter 27 - Behind the curtain with the Wizard of Oz (and children's media)
Why has the Wizard of Oz moved so successfully through literature and film - and through time? Mick, Tara and Steve probe the power of the Wizard of Oz and what it reveals about children's media.
Mick Winter 28 - Memes and the big three
Mick and Tara talk about 'the big three' films: Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. Why have these three films dominated the most famous movie quotations of all time?
Mick Winter 29 - Content analysis is the crystal meth of methods
Mick, Steve and Tara work through Mick's analysis of famous moments of filmic dialogue. At the moment, Mick is finding some patterning, but nothing definitive. Meanwhile, Steve and Tara attempt to preserve Mick's sanity as he applies the crystal meth of methods: content analysis.
Mick Winter 30 - Forging that original contribution to knowledge
Tara, Steve and Mick talk about the challenges of doctoral research, particularly encircling the phrase 'an original contribution to knowledge.'
Mick Winter 31 - Size matters girlfriend
Steve, Tara and Mick explore the role and challenges of big chapters in a PhD. Should a big chapter be split? Should it be submitted as a coherent whole? We explore why size does matter in PhD chapters.
Mick Winter 32 - Organizing the final doctoral year
Tara, Steve and Mick introduce the final year of his PhD. Steve and Tara talk through with Mick the specific challenges of the final year, including the importance of timelines and the selection of examiners.
Mick Winter 33 - Flowing with the magpie
Steve, Tara and Mick explore how to manage the theoretical fragmentation of chapters in a doctoral thesis.
Mick Winter 34 - How to publish many books from a single doctorate
Steve, Tara and Mick discuss Mick's post-PhD publishing options. They talk through scholarly monographs, trade books and short, specialist e-books. For the traditional thesis, many publishing options are available, creating new audiences for new research.
Mick Winter 35 - Return of the Frame
Tara, Steve and Mick probe the 'frame' in his meme research. Is a meme a frame? Is the meme the carrier for content?
Mick Winter 36 - How to reflect on your thesis - while doing it
Mick, Steve and Tara are entering the final drafting stages of Mick's thesis. They have decided to work on two book proposals - one academic and one trade - while the drafting is taking place. The unexpected benefit of this scheme is that Mick is not only producing two books for his post-thesis future, but also reflecting on the entire thesis, while still enrolled as a candidate.
Mick Winter 37 - A sad announcement
Tara and Steve have a sad announcement for podcast listeners. Mick Winter - our remarkable PhD student - has died. Steve and Tara talk about 'what's next' and what will happen to his thesis now.
Mick Winter 38 - Preparing a posthumous thesis for examination
Steve and Tara talk about the challenges, opportunities and surprises when preparing Mick Winter's PhD thesis for examination. They offer models for other supervisors when managing - emotionally and intellectually - the death of a student.
Mick Winter 39 - The result
Tara and Steve offer the final instalment in the Mick Winter PhD story. We talk about the successful PhD that has now been examined and tips for colleagues around the world when confronted by this incredibly sad situation. Our love and respects to the memory of Dr. Mick Winter.
Helping graduate students to publish their research
Tara talks with Mick Winter, her former graduate student, to explore the challenges and provide tips for publishing research in academic journals.
Mick and Tara talk about writing up a research project
Once the research is completed, students may feel that the difficult slog is finally over and they can quickly and accurately write up their project and submit it with ease. Yet such an assumption is mistaken. Tara talks with Mick Winter about the writing phase of research projects. What are the distinctions between journalistic and academic writing? What is the best mode of expression? Can we ever edit too much? Mick answers these questions from his experiences in both graduate education and journalism.
Mick Winter and Tara Barbazon talk about his PhD
Tara talks with Mick Winter about his doctoral programme, his topic (memes) and what brought him back to study.
Podcasting for professional communication
Tara talks with Mick Winter about the role of podcasting in professional communication. Mick explores the potential of podcasting for beginners and more advanced users, with advice for best use.
How do I construct an artefact and an exegesis?
One of the great challenges of practice-led and creative-led research is how to both construct and align an artefact and exegesis. Too often, students neglect one element and do not integrate the distinct modes of their research. In this podcast, Tara talks with her former postgraduates about the challenges, benefits and mechanics of creating an artefact and exegesis. Besides Tara, this podcast features the voices of Nadine Caouette, Matt Homer, Mick Winter and Maggie Wouapi.
Mick Winter and Scan Me: Everybody's guide to the magical world of QR codes
Tara Brabazon talks with Mick Winter about his new book, Scan Me: Everybody's guide to the magical world of QR codes. They talk about the potential of local content delivered via mobile phones in an appropriate time and place. As part of geosocial networking, QR codes have found their historical moment. For further information, please refer to http://scanmebook.com.
Mick and Tara review the MA Creative Media dissertation process
Mick Winter talks with Tara Brabazon for the last time in the context of the MA Creative Media. Mick and Tara review ihis dissertation process and the entire programme, connecting 'learning' with 'doing.'
Mick and Tara talk about the presentation of his MA thesis
In this sixth session for his MA Creative Media dissertation, Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon discuss how his research is to be presented. Once the artefacts are finished, how does it link with the exegesis?
Mick Winter presents his sonic interventions
Mick and Tara talk through his complete sonic pieces that aim to create defamiliarization in patterns of thinking about politics and social change.
Mick and Tara think about social semiotics
Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon explore Gunther Kress and Robert Hodge's Social Semiotics. They ponder the nature of resistance and social change. Most importantly, they explore the function of sound and sonic social semiotics.
Mick Winter, sonic media and the politics of sound
This podcast is the second in the series where Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon talk about his dissertation. In this week's podcast, Mick and Tara discuss the politics of sound and the role of sound in Mick's research.
Dissertation Orientation Session
Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon conduct an orientation session on how to commence a dissertation for a Masters-level programme.
Mick Winter selects the topic of his MA dissertation
Mick Winter explores possible dissertation topics in the MA Creative Media programme. He also offer comments about the motivations for learning and returning to learning.
Part two of a distance education orientation with Mick Winter
Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon present an orientation for distance education students. This is the second part of the orientation, where Mick asks his key questions about how to manage a distance education MA degree.
A distance education orientation with Mick Winter
Tara Brabazon talks with Mick Winter about his experience and advice for distance education students enrolled in a graduate degree.
