Biography

Nicola Green is a Senior Lecturer in the sociology of new media and new technologies. She joined the department as a Lecturer in 2001 after undertaking postdoctoral research on a DTI/ESRC project with the Digital World Research Centre that examined the social life of multimedia mobile and personal communications. Her previous doctoral research was conducted at the University of Canterbury, and the University of California at Berkeley (on a Fulbright fellowship), and examined the social production and consumption of virtual reality technologies.

Research Interests

Nicola holds enduring research interests in how new/media, technology, culture, gender and embodiment intersect in social life. She is particularly interested in the development of methodological approaches aligned to feminist, poststructuralist and actor-network theory, including ethnographic, visual and textual methods. Since coming to Surrey she has worked on a number of research projects, including: an ESRC funded project on multimedia mobile communications; a British Telecom University Research Fellowship on mobile media and technology design; an Intel-funded project on mobile data, privacy and trust (RIS:OME); two ESRC funded seminar series on ‘Feminist Technoscience' and ‘Digiplay: Technologies of Leisure and Pleasure'; an international collaboration on the ‘Globalization of Personal Data' with the Surveillance Project; and, most recently, collaboration on an ESRC funded project on ‘Lifestyles, Values and the Environment'.

RESOLVE – Research on Lifestyles, Values and the Environment
GPD – Globalization of Personal Data and the Surveillance Project
RIS:OME – Regulation, Information and the Self: Ownership in Mobile Environments
Digiplay – Technologies of Leisure and Pleasure
STEMPEC – Socio-Technical Shaping of Multimedia Personal Communications

She is a member of the Department's ReMICS Research Centre.

Publications

Books

Haddon, L and Green, N. (forthcoming, 2008) Mobile Communications London: Berg.
Brown, B, Green, N and Harper, R. (eds) (2002) Wireless World: Social, Cultural and Interactional Issues in Mobile Communications and Computing London: Springer-Verlag.

Journal Articles

Green, N. (2004) 'A spy in your pocket? Monitoring and regulation in mobile technologies', Surveillance and Society , Vol. 1, No. 4: 573-587.
Green, N. (2002) 'On the Move: technology, mobility, and the mediation of social time and space' The Information Society Vol 18, No. 4, pp. 281-292.
Green, N. (2001) 'How Everyday Life came Virtual: mundane work at the juncture of production and consumption' in Journal of Consumer Culture Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 73-92.
Green, N, Harper, R, and Murtagh, G. (2000) ‘Configuring the Mobile User: sociological and industry views' in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Vol. 5, No. 2: pp. 97-107.
Green, N. (1999) 'Strange Yet Stylish Headgear: VR Consumption and the Construction of Gender' Information, Communication and Society , Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 454 - 475.
Green. N. (1999) 'Disrupting The Field: Virtual Reality Technologies and 'Multi-Sited' Ethnographic Methods' in American Behavioural Scientist Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 409 - 421.

Book Chapters

Green, N. (2008, in press) ‘Mobility, Memory and Identity' in Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth, L. (eds) Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media New York: Routledge.
Green, N. (2008) ‘Formulating and Refining a Research Question' in Nigel Gilbert (ed) Researching Social Life 3 rd Edition. London: Sage.
Green, N. (2007) ‘The Telephone' in Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology London: Blackwell.
Green, N. (2006) ‘On the Move: technology, mobility, and the mediation of social time and space' in Hassan, R. (ed) The New Media Theory Reader Milton Keynes: Open University Press. [extract reprint]
Green, N. (2003) ‘Community Redefined: Privacy and Accountability' in Mobile Communications in the 21 st Century Vienna: Passagen Verlag. [English, German and Hungarian Translations].
Green, N. (2003) 'Outwardly Mobile: Young People and Mobile Technologies' in James Katz (ed) Machines that become us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.
Green, N. (2002) 'Who's Watching Whom? Surveillance, Regulation and Accountability in Mobile Relations' in Barry Brown, Nicola Green, and Richard Harper. (eds) Wireless World: Social, Cultural and Interactional Issues in Mobile Communications and Computing London: Springer-Verlag.
Cooper, G, Green, N, Harper, R, and Murtagh, G. (2002) ‘Mobile Society? Technology, Distance and Presence' in Steve Woolgar (ed) Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality Oxford: Oxford University Press: pp. 286-301.

Teaching

Programme Director, BSc Sociology and BSc Sociology and Social Research

Current Teaching:
UG Year 1: Media, Communication and Society
UG Year 2: Media, Power and Culture
UG Year 3: Sociological Analysis
MSc: New Media and New Technology

Previous Teaching:
UG Year 1: Contemporary Societies
UG Year 1: Youth Culture and New Technology
UG Year 2: Social Research Methods
UG Year 3: Technoscience and Cyberculture
MSc: Documentary Analysis

Departmental Duties

Doctoral Supervision

Nicola is currently supervising doctoral projects on new media and democracy, a cross cultural comparative study of gaming, massive multiplayer online games and identity , emotions and mobile phones , digital DIY , masculinity and the media, and the Transition Town movement . She would welcome applications from research students in any areas related to her research interests.

Student Research Projects

Nicola has supervised both undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in areas such as young people and new media technologies, social networking websites, internet intimacy, older people's uses of internet technologies, crime and the media, and related research.

Examining

Nicola has acted as External Validation Reviewer for Undergraduate Programmes in Media, Information and Communication at the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London . She is currently acting as External Examiner for the MA in Digital Media at London Metropolitan University .

Professional Activities

Nicola is currently acting as Co-Editor for the New Media Series with Berg Publishers . She has acted as both Reviews Editor and Co-Editor for Sociological Research Online . She is on the editorial boards of Sociological Research Online , Surveillance and Society , and the Mobile Communications Research Annual . She has acted as reviewer for such diverse journals as Information Communication and Society , New Media and Society , Convergence , The Information Society , Theory Culture and Society , Journal of Consumer Culture , Body and Society , Environment and Planning A, B, and D , Globalizations , Ethnos , Current Anthropology , and Social Research Update , as well as reviewing proposals and manuscripts for the Open University Press , Berg Publishers , Polity Press , and Sociology Compass .

She is a member of the British Sociological Association (BSA) , the Society for the Social Study of Science (4S) , the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) , the Higher Education Academy , and the Surveillance Studies Network . She has been active as a reviewer and rapporteur for the ESRC , and has acted as consultant to a number of public and private organisations including Demos , Sapient , Intel , the Royal Society as part of their Cybertrust consultation , and the Information Commissioner via an expert commentary for the Surveillance Society Report . She has contributed to media on current issues in the Financial Times, BBC Breakfast Television, BBC Radio, BBC World Service, Spiked Magazine, and Korean International Broadcast.