@raphahead.bsky.social
Sociologist of cultures and media. Lecturer at the University of York.
“Above all, it has long had Europe's biggest university campus. Everything comes back to this. The knowledge and the educated workforce are the essential raw ingredient upon which this growth has emerged.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is quite funny.
13.01.2026 13:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sociology graduation today. This time I got some blue on my gown. W. @drfuturity.bsky.social @deathandculture.bsky.social
09.01.2026 14:06 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Management team of @uoy-sociology.bsky.social (minus Sarah, Katie, Mary, Gareth, James) being super cold for the whole of its Away Day. @emmahcasey.bsky.social @deathandculture.bsky.social
08.01.2026 18:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good luck to everyone on a REF2029 panel
20.12.2025 17:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I submitted 3 articles this week with the last one just now before logging off. Fingers crossed I don't come back to 3 desk rejects in early January!
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Finally in my hands
11.12.2025 19:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
06.12.2025 11:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And a happy birthday to @rivalconsoles.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/6dtXF2...
10.11.2025 17:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh look, it’s @deathandculture.bsky.social on the telly!
03.11.2025 22:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Futurama season delivers
03.11.2025 19:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today I learned that saying that 'culture has positive effects' is a banality whereas saying that 'culture reproduces inequalities' is cutting-edge scientific knowledge. The things you learn... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Autumn vibes
25.10.2025 17:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨New publication alert (for those who speak French), a book on music tastes of French people 🚨
Les goûts musicaux des français
par Hervé Glevarec et Raphaël A. Nowak
I’m really looking forward to speaking at this event at LSE alongside Lois Shearing and chaired by Rachel O’Neill. All welcome! Link to register is below. @lsemedia.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social forms.office.com/pages/respon...
02.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Raphael Nowak ( @raphahead.bsky.social ) has co-authored and published a book titled “Music Tastes of French People: Preferences, Use Values, and Competence” with ‘Le Bord de l’Eau’.
#France #French #Music
Out of the office update
02.09.2025 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why would anyone need to watch Black Mirror since we are already living in it?
'French streamer dies live online after months of apparent mistreatment' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
🚨 new publication alert 🚨
New book chapter, co-authored with Jo Haynes, 'when is a music audience?', published in Mike Dines, Shara Rambarran, and Gareth Dylan Smith's edited collection Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies.
Getting there
08.08.2025 09:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Enjoy those last couple of months 😆
15.07.2025 11:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mehdi Hasan Breaks Down the Trump-Epstein Friendship, With All the Receipts www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAE4...
14.07.2025 21:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My knees squeak and my back hurts. You?
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Universities urged to hasten ‘quiet retreat’ from X after Grok outcry.
Fresh analysis shows increasing numbers of UK universities going silent on Elon Musk’s platform.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
What a terrible idea / tournament / bunch of people.
14.07.2025 09:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Same here.
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Remembering 1985 - The Year of Live Aid, EastEnders, Madonna, Whitney, Back to the Future, The Sinclair C5, and much more! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
12.07.2025 09:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers archive.md/UJIGh#select...
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