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Professor Scott Lash
Professor of Sociology | BS, MA, PhD
Research Interests
Social and cultural theory, information society, multimedia and urban studies.
Scott is currently Principal Investigator and Project Manager on a major ESRC, DTI and EPSRC project, 'Broadband: Interactive Media in a Cross-Platform Environment'. He has also recently been the Principal Investigator on an ESRC project, 'Silicon Alleys: Networks of Virtual Objects'.Recent Publications
Books
- (2005) with C. Lury, Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things, Cambridge: Polity.
- (2002) edited with M. Featherstone, Recognition and Difference: Politics, Identity, Multiculture, London: Sage.
- (2002) Critique of Information, London: Sage.
- (1999) Another Modernity, A Different Rationality, Oxford: Blackwell.
Journal Articles
- (forthcoming) 'Lebenssoziologie: Georg Simmel in the Information Age', in Theory, Culture and Society.
- (2002) with A. Wittel, 'New Media: From Creativity to Consultancy', in Environment and Planning A, Vol. 22.
- (2001) 'Recognition or Difference', in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 18, No. 6.
- (2001) 'Technological Forms of Life', in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 18, No. 1.
- (2001) 'Informationkritik', in Revista Critique des Ciencias Sociales, Vol. 22, No,3.