Dr Beverly Geesin
Senior
Lecturer (PhD York, MA Goldsmiths, BA Cum Laude
University of Maryland)
Contact details
E: b.geesin@yorksj.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1904 876976
Books
Goddard, A. and Geesin, B. (2011) Language and
Technology. Abingdon: Routledge.
Book chapters
Beer, D. and Geesin, B. (2008) 'Rockin' with
the avatars: 'live' music and the virtual spaces of Second Life',
in, Heider, D. (ed.) Living Virtually: Researching New
Worlds, New York: Peter Lang.
Book reviews
Geesin, B. (2008). Review of Critical
Cyberculture Studies, David Silver and Adrienne Massanari
(eds). Information, Communication, and Society,
11(3).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Linguistic strategies and implications of
interactive adverts on social networking sites” with Helen Gilroy,
Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media, Washington, DC, USA, March
2011
“Ludic Spaces for Living Post-Privacy”,
Networking Democracy? New Media Innovations in Participatory
Politics, Cluj-Napoça, Romania, June 2010
“Archival Education: Data trails and the
Culture of Learning” with Helen Gilroy, Transforming Culture in the
Digital Age, Tartu, Estonia, April 2010
“Rhythmanalysis of Baltimore: surveillance,
resistance and technology in the Wire”, The Wire
as Social Science Fiction? Conference, Leeds, UK, November 2009
“Evasive Participation”, Futuresonic: Urban
Festival of Art, Music, and Ideas, Manchester, UK, May 2008
“Policing mobilities – surveillance and the
taxicab industry,” CRESC Re-thinking Cultural Economy Conference,
Manchester, UK September 2007
“Keeping eyes on the road and the drivers: the
debate over GPS in Philadelphia taxicabs”
British Sociological Association Annual
Conference, London, UK April 2007
INVITED TALKS
“Exploring the cultural impact and practical
uses of online social networking in higher education”, Faculty of
Foreign Languages and Literature, Universita degli Studi di
Catania, Ragusa, Italy, March 2009
“Teaching 2.0: Considerations for Integrating
New Technologies in Teaching English’, New Technologies and English
Language Teaching Conference, Universita degli Studi di Catania,
Ragusa, Italy, March 2009
“Scripted reality from Andy Warhol to the
Hills”, Linguists Anonymous Colloquium Series, York St. John
University, York, UK, December 2008
“Art and Tactics of Resistance”, Department of
Art History, University of York, UK, July 2008
“Resistance and the Dérive”, Science and
Technology Studies Unit, University of York, UK, July 2008
“Mobilities”, Department of Sociology,
University of York, UK, June 2008
“Post-hegemonic resistance”, New Cultural City
Conference, York St. John University, York, UK, April 2008
“Unintended consequences of the use of new
surveillance technologies in the workplace”
Centre for the History of Science, Technology
and Medicine, Manchester, UK May 2007
MEDIA APPEARANCES:
“Taxis and GPS Surveillance” Interviewed by
Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed,
18 April, 2007