Now that I’ve recovered from last week, it seemed the right moment to do a round up of the live blogging project Pat Thomson and myself initiated at The Sociological Review’s Undisciplining conference. There were 43 posts from 13 live bloggers over four days. This is a pretty substantial outpouring of thought and reflection over a relatively short period of time:
- #Undisciplining Day Zero: Preparing From The Cat Cafe – Mark Carrigan
- Live From Breakfast – Pat Thomson
- The Hive Begins To Form at #Undisciplining – Mark Carrigan
- Landing – Kate Carruthers Thomas
- What does it mean to reflect in real time? – Mark Carrigan
- Trying to Say Something Clever – Michael Toze
- the person/al and the structural? – Pat Thomson
- un-mining, (under-mining?) disciplinarity – Anna Davidson
- I am NOT a sociologist, get me out of here! – Julia Molinari
- sociology of art as a powerful way to reveal the social – Janna Klostermann
- making a sociological board game – Pat Thomson
- Being alone at conferences – Mark Carrigan
- Structure and Undisciplining – Catherine Price
- Questions from the geographical edges – Rosemary Hancock
- The Missing Links – interdisciplinary in sociological inquiry – Donna Carmichael
- A sociological walk of contrasts – Julia Molinari
- The Future versus Bureaucracy – Michael Toze
- Live blogging and the cinema experience – Catherine Price
- Time to Write – Kate Carruthers Thomas
- The dreaded conference dinner – Julia Molinari
- When a conference has a meta-conference – Mark Carrigan
- Care and the conference – Michaela Benson
- Echoes from Beyond the Edges of #Undisciplining – Jill Jameson
- Conference as home – Pat Thomson
- Beyoncé Vs Bev Skeggs – Donna Carmichael
- Knowledge production outside the university at #undisciplining – Mark Carrigan
- Why should anyone get paid to do sociology? – Mark Carrigan
- The feminist walk of the city – Catherine Price
- Making friends and changing the world – Rosemary Hancock
- The Rising Emotions of Asking the Panel A Question – Julia Molinari
- Too Too – Pat Thomson
- Not Knowing Why We Do What We Do – Michael Toze
- Time Out – Pat Thomson
- Outside/In Place – Kate Carruthers Thomas
- Undisciplining like a moth to a flame – Janna Klostermann
- Re-Sounding Edges: #Undisciplining – Jill Jameson
- A Fireside Chat: Defending the Social – Julia Molinari
- How does the sociological speak to/with/from the earth? – Anna Davidson
- Going Live? – Katy Vigurs
- Art! – Janna Klostermann
- Beyond the conference – Michael Toze
- Reflections on Live Blogging – Catherine Price
- Ending Where I Began #Undisciplining – Mark Carrigan
To what extent does this constitute a meta-conference? It was an organised process of asynchronous dialogue with a remit as wide as the conference itself, with the choice of topics being left to live bloggers as they made their way through the conference. To the extent live bloggers were reading each other and in some cases responding to each other, either directly in a substantive way or indirectly through riffing off themes such as awkwardness or isolation, it is clear the above is more than the sum of its parts.
It wasn’t simply individuals responding individually, with the live blog being an aggregate of these individual responses. It wasn’t a collective either but rather something in between the two. What is this in between and what can it tell us about conference sociality and how it can be extended and deepened using social media?
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