Professor Nick Prior

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。

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

I'm giving a lecture and digital music performance at Geidai senju campus, Tokyo. Come along for general weirdness https://t.co/7GPpqzdtEr

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

"Miku Miku what's it like to be you?" Good question @ #anamanaguchi and fantastic song to boot: https://t.co/1s5pw7C43B https://t.co/6FbGBvM9Zw

[Cultural Sociology @CulSoc]

"Miku's voice is a multiply constituted object, a collaborative accomplishment, a merging of silicon and carbon" @NickPrior4 #britsoc17

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

Digital ventriloquism, participatory networks and crowd-sourced celebrity in the case of #HatsuneMiku at #britsoc17. Bring your glowsticks. https://t.co/kj1dbyW60g

[Cultural Sociology @CulSoc]

Next week @ #britsoc17: @CulSoc editor @NickPrior4 uses assemblage thinking to consider the case of Japanese virtual idol #HatsuneMiku.

[Cultural Sociology @CulSoc]

In age of the global 1% is it time to return to figures like EP Thompson? Nick Stevenson @CulSoc panel #britsoc17

[Cultural Sociology @CulSoc]

"An academic journal is a lot like an artwork... the product of collective activity..." So editors' statement begins https://t.co/IvSkmnfjdn

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

The CuS team's first editorial statement: a playful blend of worlds, fields, actor networks and diagonal ontologies https://t.co/yBW65CuBVe

[Dr Lisa McCormick @llhmc]

New article in Cultural Sociology by Sanjay Seth: Is thinking with 'Modernity' Eurocentric? https://t.co/QGZ5JN2utY

[Dr Lisa McCormick @llhmc]

New article by @zinemagubane in Cultural Sociology on American Sociology's racial ontology. https://t.co/otvv4iZ997

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

Excellent news from the Cultural Sociology journal front https://t.co/9HwrEwurwm

[Dr Lisa McCormick @llhmc]

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!

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

New Editors of Cultural Sociology. Extremely excited to be taking this on with @llhmc and Isabelle Darmon

[Dr Lisa McCormick @llhmc]

I get to chair a panel featuring @maddie_breeze, @fifimcq and @SamFriedmanSoc on Monday! Not to be missed! #socstars #ndsoc2016

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

Startups as agit prop? https://t.co/mEMRQOpbCj

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

New Taiwan President Tsai quoting Max Weber. Interesting times for Taiwan https://t.co/WoBb8EviVr

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

Scott Walker remembers Bowie, "the most important artist this country has ever produced" https://t.co/r1YoXFsYPZ

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

Spend more, exercise harder, eat yourself fitter...Like a pig on antibiotics https://t.co/qpsEnDijYJ

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

Fab wee app from @jar I've been on steering group for. Get yersef to SNGMA @NatGalleriesSco for the xp #artcasting https://t.co/EdA7m5sZo9

[The Conversation @ConversationUK]

#Japan's government is embracing militarism – and Japanese youth are furious https://t.co/XfXtFS7Gzx

[Sage Sociology @SageSociology]

Online First CUS article: Reconsidering Berger & Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality after 50 Years https://t.co/6wFc56Q4DF

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

https://t.co/Veh4JbRDeI The unstoppable AKB48 music machine bucks the trend for dwindling CD sales in Japan

[Professor Nick Prior @NickPrior4]

https://t.co/nxynl0asAi The everyday horrors of turning HE into a fully-commoditised consumer experience.