Meet Kirsty Best

Education

• BA (Concordia), PhD (RMIT)

Grants

• Australia Research Council Discovery Grant, 2009-2011
  $236,000, 3 years
  Title of project: Isolation, illness and the Internet: Exploring the possibility of a second life for sufferers of ME

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005-2009
  $67, 604, 3 years
  Title of project: Information, Interfaces and Technological Consent-A critical analysis of the impact of digital screen technologies on information control and democratic debate

Publications

• Best, K. (2010). Redefining the technology of media: Actor, world, relation. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 14(2).

• Best, K. (2010). Concealing screens: Consent, control and the desiring user. Reconstruction, 10(2).

• Best, K. (2010). Living in the control society: Surveillance, users and digital screen technologies. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 13(1).

• Best, K. (2009). When mobiles go media: Relational affordances and present-to-hand digital devices. Canadian Journal of Communication, 34(3), 397-414.

• Best, K. (2009). Invalid command: Affordances, ICTs and user control. Information, Communication & Society, 12 (7).

• Best, K. (2008). The Effects of Mediation? Beyond the Construction of Consent in the War on Terror. In D. Grenfell & P. James (Eds.), Rethinking Insecurity and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization. London: Routledge.

• Lamey, A., & Best, K. (2008). Posner on the uselessness of moral theory: An empirical analysis. Teaching and Learning Forum 2008, Perth.

• Best, K. (2006). Visceral hacking or packet wanking? The ethics of digital code. Culture, Theory and Critique, 47(2), 213-235.

• Best, K. (2005). Celebrity.Com: Internet finance and frenzy at the millennium. Consumption, Markets & Culture, 8(4).

• Best, K. (2005). Rethinking the globalization movement: Toward a cultural theory of contemporary democracy and communication. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2(3).

• Lewis, J., & Best, K. (2005). Pure Filth: apocalyptic hedonism and the postmodern surfer. Scope, 2.

• Best, K. (2004). Interfacing the environment: Networked screens and the ethics of visual consumption. Ethics and the Environment, 9(2).

• Best, K,. (2004). Visual imaging technologies, embodied sympathy and control in the 9-11 wars, Global Insecurities, Melbourne.

• Best, K. (2003). Beating them at their own game: the cultural politics of the open software movement and the gift economy. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 6(4), 449-470.

• Best, K. (2003). The Hacker's Challenge: Active access to information, visceral democracy and discursive practice. Social Semiotics, 13(3), 263-282.

• Best, K. (2003). Revisiting the Y2K Bug: Language Wars over Networking the Global Order. Television and New Media, 4(3), 297-319.

• Lewis, J., & Best, K. (2003). The Electronic Polis: Media Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq. Reconstruction, 3(3).

• Lewis, J., & Best, K. (2002). After Y2K: Time, Andre the Giant and other Democratic Avatars. In F. Sudweeks & C. Ess (Eds.), Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication. Murdoch: Murdoch University, 107-127.

• Best, K., & Lewis, J. (2000). Hacking the Democratic Mainframe: The Melissa Virus and Transgressive Computing. Media International Australia (95, May), 207-226.