@NickPrior4

Cultural sociologist @uoessps interested in sociology of popular music, Bourdieu / ANT, Japanese culture. Co-editor @CulSoc. 音楽社会学、特にデジタル音楽・初音ミクの研究者@エジンバラ大学です。

 Edinburgh, Scotland
sociology.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/prior_nick
Joined July 2013
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I'm giving a lecture and digital music performance at Geidai senju campus, Tokyo. Come along for general weirdness ga.geidai.ac.jp/en/2017/06/0…
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"Miku Miku what's it like to be you?" Good question @ #anamanaguchi and fantastic song to boot: ow.ly/eUZz30aBiYi xitter.cf/CulSoc/status/84956651…
Cultural Sociology@CulSoc5 Apr 2017
"Miku's voice is a multiply constituted object, a collaborative accomplishment, a merging of silicon and carbon" @NickPrior4 #britsoc17
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Digital ventriloquism, participatory networks and crowd-sourced celebrity in the case of #HatsuneMiku at #britsoc17. Bring your glowsticks. xitter.cf/CulSoc/status/84773459…
Cultural Sociology@CulSoc31 Mar 2017
Next week @ #britsoc17: @CulSoc editor @NickPrior4 uses assemblage thinking to consider the case of Japanese virtual idol #HatsuneMiku.
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Cultural Sociology@CulSoc30 Mar 2017
In age of the global 1% is it time to return to figures like EP Thompson? Nick Stevenson @CulSoc panel #britsoc17
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Cultural Sociology@CulSoc20 Mar 2017
"An academic journal is a lot like an artwork... the product of collective activity..." So editors' statement begins journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Editorial Statement: Tracing, Making and Locating Cultural Sociology - Nick Prior, Isabelle Darmon,...

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The CuS team's first editorial statement: a playful blend of worlds, fields, actor networks and diagonal ontologies journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Editorial Statement: Tracing, Making and Locating Cultural Sociology - Nick Prior, Isabelle Darmon,...

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Dr Lisa McCormick@llhmc5 Sep 2016
New article in Cultural Sociology by Sanjay Seth: Is thinking with 'Modernity' Eurocentric? ow.ly/ON8F303UB2L
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Dr Lisa McCormick@llhmc5 Sep 2016
New article by @zinemagubane in Cultural Sociology on American Sociology's racial ontology. ow.ly/tVpc303UAlP
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Excellent news from the Cultural Sociology journal front xitter.cf/llhmc/status/743027663…
Dr Lisa McCormick@llhmc15 Jun 2016
Cultural Sociology's 2015 IF is 0.909 (up from 0.431), which means it is ranked 70 (up from 109). Thanks for supporting the journal!
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New Editors of Cultural Sociology. Extremely excited to be taking this on with @llhmc and Isabelle Darmon
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Dr Lisa McCormick@llhmc19 Mar 2016
I get to chair a panel featuring @maddie_breeze, @fifimcq and @SamFriedmanSoc on Monday! Not to be missed! #socstars #ndsoc2016
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Startups as agit prop? theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Where have all the art punks gone?

Every generation of artists has defined itself by rebellion. So where are the Generation Y revolutionaries? Our writer enters a world of corporate hijacks, Instagram breakdowns and fake frat parties

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New Taiwan President Tsai quoting Max Weber. Interesting times for Taiwan bbc.in/1Nd0Myw

Taiwan's first female leader, shy but steely Tsai Ing-wen

The BBC's Cindy Sui looks at the life of Taiwan's first female leader, who has described herself as an "accidental" politician.

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Pitchfork
@pitchfork12 Jan 2016
Scott Walker remembers Bowie, "the most important artist this country has ever produced" p4k.co/WTijK
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Spend more, exercise harder, eat yourself fitter...Like a pig on antibiotics theatln.tc/1HaLBKn
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Fab wee app from @jar I've been on steering group for. Get yersef to SNGMA @NatGalleriesSco for the xp #artcasting bit.ly/1VJDBTi
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The Conversation@ConversationUK22 Dec 2015
#Japan's government is embracing militarism – and Japanese youth are furious bit.ly/1O5UGoP
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Sage Sociology@SageSociology22 Dec 2015
Online First CUS article: Reconsidering Berger & Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality after 50 Years ow.ly/Wcvcz
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bit.ly/1YlPILg The unstoppable AKB48 music machine bucks the trend for dwindling CD sales in Japan
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bit.ly/1mbQVmO The everyday horrors of turning HE into a fully-commoditised consumer experience.
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