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William Merrin - Senior Lecturer

Specialist Subjects: Specialist subjects: media theory, digital media, cyberculture, history and philosophy of technology, media history. With particular interests in Jean Baudrillard, McLuhanism and 'medium theory', digital media theory, Media Studies 2.0 and the digital revolution, media ecology and media archaeology and history.

  1. Books

 

Merrin, W. and Hoskins, A. (forthcoming) Media Archaeologies / Ecologies, London: Routledge.

 

Clarke, D., Doel, M., Merrin, W. and Smith, R. (eds.) (2008) Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories, London: Routledge, isbn: 978-0-415-46442-0 (paperback 2012). 

 

Merrin, W. (2005) Baudrillard and the Media: A Critical Introduction, Cambridge: Polity Press. 224pp, isbn: 0745630731

 

 

 

2.    Full Papers in Refereed Journals

 

Merrin, W. (2012) ‘Still Fighting “The Beast”: Guerrilla Television, and the Limits of Youtube, in Cultural Politics, Vol. 8, No, 1, March (forthcoming)

 

Merrin, W. (2009) ‘Media Studies 2.0: Upgrading and Open-Sourcing the Discipline’, in Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, Vol 1. No. 1, pp. 17-34, ISCC .1.1.17/1 (special issue on Media Studies 2.0)

 

Merrin, W. (2008) ‘After the End: Baudrillard’s Future’, in French Cultural Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 255-71.

 

Merrin, W. (2007) ‘Speculating to the Death: Machinic Integration and Transformation Within a Virtualised Reality’, in International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, July, at: http://www.ubishops.ca/BaudrillardStudies/vol4_2/v4-2-merrin.html

 

Merrin, W. (2005) ‘Total Screen: 9/11 and the Gulf War: Reloaded’, in International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, July, at: http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol2_2/merrin.htm

 

Merrin, W. (2003) ‘“Did You Ever Eat Tasty Wheat? Baudrillard and The Matrix’, in Scope – An Online Journal of Film Studies, April, at: http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/article.php?issue=may2003&id=257&section=article

 

Merrin, W. (2002) ‘Implosion, Simulation and the Pseudo-Event: A Critique of McLuhan’, in Economy and Society, Vol. 31, No. 3, August, pp. 369-90.

 

Merrin, W. (2001) ‘To Play With Phantoms: Jean Baudrillard and the Evil Demon of the Simulacrum’, in Economy and Society, Vol. 30, No. 1, February, pp. 85-111.

 

Merrin, W. (1999) ‘Television is Killing the Art of Symbolic Exchange: Baudrillard’s Theory of Communication’, in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 16, No. 3, June, pp. 119-40.

 

Merrin, W. (1999) ‘Crash, Bang, Whallop, What a Picture! The Death of Diana and the Media’, in Mortality, Vol. 1, No. 4, March, pp. 41-62.

 

Merrin, W. (1994) ‘Uncritical Criticism? Norris, Baudrillard and the Gulf War’, in Economy and Society, Vol. 23, No. 4, November, pp. 433-58.

 

 

 

  1. Parts of Books

 

Merrin, W. (2012) ‘Desert Screen’, ‘The Gulf War’ and ‘Futurism’, in Armitage, J. (ed.) The Virilio Dictionary, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

 

Merrin, W. (2008) ‘Floral Tributes, Binge Drinking and the Ikea Riot as an Up-Hill Bicycle Race’, in Clarke, D., Doel, M., Merrin, W. and Smith, R. (eds.) Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theory, London: Routledge, pp. 61-82.

 

Merrin, W. (2007) ‘“Speculation to the Death”: Jean Baudrillard’s Theoretical Violence’, in Edwards, T. (ed.) Cultural Theory, London: Sage, pp. 159-80.

 

Merrin, W. (2007) ‘Jean Baudrillard’ in Scott, J. (ed.) Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Thinkers, London: Routledge, pp. 14-17.

 

Merrin, W. (2006) ‘“Buckle Your Seat belt Dorothy …”: Cause Cinema is Going Bye-Byes’, in Furby, J. and Randall, K. (eds.) Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies, London: Wallflower Press, pp. 167-74, isbn: 1904764347

 

Merrin, W. (2005) ‘Skylights Onto Infinity: The World in a Stereoscope’, in Popple, S. and Toulmin, V. (eds.) Visual Delights II, Luton: John Libby Press, pp. 161-74 , isbn: 0861966570

 

Merrin, W. (2004) ‘Implosion, Simulation and the Pseudo-Event: A Critique of McLuhan’, in Genosko, G. (ed.) Marshall McLuhan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. Volume Two, London: Routledge.

 

Merrin, W. (2000) ‘Television is Killing the Art of Symbolic Exchange: Baudrillard’s Theory of Communication’, in Gane, M. (ed.) Jean Baudrillard. Volume Four, London: Sage, pp. 85-107.

 

Merrin, W. (2000) ‘Uncritical Criticism? Norris, Baudrillard and the Gulf War’, in Gane, M. (ed.) Jean Baudrillard. Volume Two, London: Sage, pp. 378-403.

 

 

       4. Other Research

 

Merrin, W. (2008) ‘Media Studies 2.0’ at: http://twopointzeroforum.blogspot.com/

 

Merrin, W. (2006) ‘“The Horizon of a Programmed Reality”: Baudrillard and New Media’, invited contribution to Evatt Foundation, publications, at: http://evatt.labor.net.au/publications/papers/173.html , August.

 

Merrin, W. (2001) Review Article: Victoria Grace, Baudrillard’s Challenge. A Feminist Reading (London: Routledge, 2000), in Sociological Research Online, Vol. 6, No. 3, at: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/613/grace.html 

 

Merrin, W., Rowlingson, K., Black, P. and Harrington, A. (1999) A Balancing Act: Surviving the Risk Society, London: NACAB Report.

 

General Information

BA (Leicester), MA (Nottingham).

Political and Cultural Studies, College of Arts and Humanities
Swansea
TEL: +44 (0) 1792 603765
FAX: +44 (0) 1792 513453
E-MAIL: w.merrin@swansea.ac.uk

Courses Taught

HUA203 Digital War

MS219 New Media

MS353 Digital Philosophy

MSDM01 Thinking About Digital Media

MSDM03 The Digital Edge

 


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