Biography

David is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media. He is interested in the methodological and theoretical challenges of studying digital media, particularly through an approach broadly conceived as cultural political economy. He also has strong research interests in the philosophical and theoretical implications of the work of Heidegger, Kittler, Arendt, Tarde, and Latour.  David's research covers a wide theoretical area including culture, political economy, media/medium theory, software studies, actor-network theory, the philosophy of technology, and The computational turn in Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences (Digital Humanities). He is also a member of the and the Callaghan Centre for Conflict, Power, and Empire. David blogs at Stunlaw.

Current research

• Creativity and the mediation of creativity through computational technology.
• Theories of digital code/software (software studies/digital humanities).
• Cultures of financialisation and the making of finance/markets in culture and the economy, particularly Iceland. 
• Data journalism/computational journalism.

Selected recent publications

               

• Berry, D. M. (current research, 2012) Critical Theory and the Digital, New York: Continuum.
• Berry, D. M. (forthcoming, 2012) Software Studies: Theory and Practice, Cupertino: Apple iBooks.
• Berry, D. M. (Ed.) (2012) Understanding Digital Humanities, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 350.
• Berry, D. M. (2011) The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 216. [Reviews:(i) Leonardo, (ii) Furtherfield]
• Berry, D M. (2008) Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source, London: Pluto Press, pp. 270. [Review: THE]
• Berry, D M. & Moss, G.  (eds.) (2008) Libre Culture, Canada: Pygmalion Books, pp. 186. [PDF]

Papers/Chapters

• Belfrage, C., Bergmann, E., and Berry, D. M. (2013) Imagined Recovery: Justificatory Regimes Following the Crash of Icelandic Viking Capitalism, Economy and Society.
• Berry, D. M. (2012) The Relevance of Understanding Code to International Political Economy, International Politics, Vol. 49, 2, 277–296.
• Berry, D. M. (2011) Mapping Real Time Credit: Counterparty Credit Risk and Computationality, Special Issue on Rethinking economic statistics, Re-public. [HTML]
• Geng, Z., Laramee, R. S., Cheesman, T., Rothwell, A., Berry, D. M., and Ehrmann, A. (2011) Visualizing Translation Variation: Othello : A Survey of Text Visualization and Tools, accessed 8/2/2011 http://goo.gl/3QCuq
• Berry, D. M. (2011) The Computational Turn: Thinking about the Digital Humanities. Culture Machine, vol 12.
• Berry, D. M. (2011) Open Source Creativity, In Burrough, X. (ed.) Net Works: Case Studies of Web Projects, London: Routledge. 
• Berry, D M. (2008) The Poverty of Networks. Theory, Culture and Society. Annual 2008. Vol. 25(7–8). pp. 364–372. [PDF]
• Berry, D M. (2008) A Contribution Towards a Grammar of Code. Fibreculture Journal. Issue 13.
• Berry, D M. (2007) A Contribution to a Political Economy of Open Source and Free Culture. In Macmillan, F. (Ed). New Directions in Copyright Law. Volume 4. London: Edward Elgar. pp. 193-223.
• Berry, D M. & Moss, G. (2006) The Politics of the Libre Commons. First Monday. Volume 11, Number 9, September 2006. [HTML]
• Berry, D M.& Moss, Giles (2006) Free and Open-Source Software: Opening and Democratising e-Government's Black Box. Information Polity. Volume 11 (1). pp 21-34. [PDF]

Selected research awards, fellowships, & prizes

• 2012 Research Council of Norway/Norges forskningsråd (104000 Kr/ £12,000), Yggdrasil fellowship - IS-MOBIL 2011-12: Digital Media: Software/Code and Social Media (PI).
• 2011 Visiting Researcher/Gjesteforsker, July 2011, Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway. 
• 2011 EPSRC Bridging the Gaps (£8452): Webscience at Swansea: Establishing Wales’ leading centre for Web Science, Co-Investigator with Dr. M. Wilson (PI). 
• 2011 Gjesteforskerstipend (38000 Kr/£4,176) Visiting Fellow Grant at Noragric, Universitetet for miljø- og biovitenskap (UMB), Oslo, Norway. 
• 2010 EPSRC Bridging the Gaps (£4000): Identity, Trust and Security in Cyberspace, Co-Investigator with Prof. T. Chen (PI), Prof. K. Haines (Co-I), Prof. J. Tucker (Co-I). and Dr. V. Wang (Co-I). 
• 2010 RIAH Research Initiatives Fund (£13,567): Visualizing Re-Translation Variation: Othello, Co-Investigator, with Dr T. Cheesman (PI), Dr R. S. Laramee (Co-I), Professor A. J. Rothwell (Co-I).
• 2010 Norwegian MFA Grant (£105,000): Somali Media and Conflict, Principal Investigator with Dr S. J. Hansen (PI).
• 2005 ESRC Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST) Research Fellow, UK Houses of Parliament.
• 2004 Oxford Full Studentship, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
• 2002 ESRC +3 Full Doctoral Studentship. 2002-2006, University of Sussex.

Professional memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
• The Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
• European Communication Research and Education Organization (ECREA)
• The British Philosophical Association (BPA)
• Performing Rights Society (PRS)

PhD supervision

• Dr. Berry currently supervises PhD students looking at Heidegger and Technology; Digital Craftsmanship; Authenticity and the Corporation in the Information Age; The Media in DR Congo; Persuasive Technology, and Online Video.