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What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences? (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2014, April). What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences?. Paper presented at Studying Music: An International Conference in Honour of Simon Frith, University of Edinburgh

The sociology of popular music has tended to eschew conventional musicological approaches and instead to locate the listening experience as one rooted in social uses and pleasures. Where musicological analysis is employed, it tends to reinforce the... Read More about What can we learn from ‘unpopular’ music and its audiences?.

Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'. (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2013, October). Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'

Difficulty and complexity are values most often associated with a modernist avant-garde of ‘serious’ music. Their presence in popular music tends to attract the opprobrium of critics who seek to maintain a purity for popular music founded on values... Read More about Cultures of Listening: The popular aesthetics of 'difficult music'..

Alternative media, performance and power in cultures of technology. (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2013, May). Alternative media, performance and power in cultures of technology. Presented at Cyberspace, Alternative Media and Activism Symposium, University of Liverpool

If, as Michel de Certeau argued, space is a practiced place, then what social practices enable what we might term an activist geography of cyberspace? Alternative media have a key role to play in online activism, particularly when they are understoo... Read More about Alternative media, performance and power in cultures of technology..

Managing your part-time supervisor. (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2010, September). Managing your part-time supervisor. Presented at Vitae Part-time Researcher Conference, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh

A history of user-generated content: problems and positions. [presented in absentia] (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2010, June). A history of user-generated content: problems and positions. [presented in absentia]. Presented at User-Generated Content: Historical Perspectives on the Participation of Audiences in Social Communication, European Communication Research and Education Association, Potsdam/Berlin

Alternative media and professional journalism. (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2009, December). Alternative media and professional journalism. Presented at Trust, Truth and Performance: Diverse Journalisms in the 21st Century, Groningen

Media theory in practice: staff research in the undergraduate classroom. (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2009, November). Media theory in practice: staff research in the undergraduate classroom. Presented at QAA Enhancement Event: Research-Teaching Linkages to Enhance Graduate Attributes in Creative and Cultural Practice, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow