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Birkbeck Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture. Birkbeck, University of London.

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Toward a more perfect rip: Lessons learned in the digital history of "secure" digital audio extraction (DAE) from CD media Dr Eamonn Bell (Durham, UK) reflects on ripping, digital audio formats and the CD-ripping software ecosystem.

There's an art to creating the perfect CD rip. Join BIRMAC and Dr Eomann Bell (Durham, UK) to learn more about the digital auditory extraction community (aka cd-rippers) on 30 October, 18-21:00 in Bloomsbury. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

13.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some snaps from the @birmac.bsky.social / Media & Democracy / Qualitative Methods Group workshop 'Exploring Quali-Quantitative Approaches in Social Media Research', where me, @robtoes.bsky.social & participants explored methods for approaching the messy, contradictory phenomena that is social media

18.07.2025 14:38 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
Exploring Quali-Quantitative Approaches in Social Media Research Interested researchers and students are invited to this practical workshop on how to scrape and analyse data from social media platforms.

@scott-rodgers.bsky.social + @robtoes.bsky.social will be giving a 1/2 day BIRMAC workshop at Birkbeck for ECRs and students on methods in quali-quantitative approaches to social media research. More info & sign up here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

07.06.2025 11:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Honey, AI and Camping Out in The Cloud Forest What do honeybee-human relationships have in common with human-AI relationships? Artist, Kate Daudy & researcher, Rebekah Cupitt find out.

Excited for the first BIRMAC event for 2025 - a journey through the Bolivian Cloud forest in search of honey with artist Kate Daudy that provokes speculations on how we can think AI differently (w. Rebekah Cupitt) www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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10.01.2025 12:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A collage of images from the Dispatches event - Neil Wilson giving his talk about the Midget disc recorder; some buns on the snack table; a slide with a quote from Rabelais' Gargantua & Pantagruel with sound words like trr, trr, taack, bou, bou; a fluffy mic on a binaural recording device; and in the centre some wax cylinders, an Edison gramophone and a Midget disc recorder prototype, just visible in the background.

A collage of images from the Dispatches event - Neil Wilson giving his talk about the Midget disc recorder; some buns on the snack table; a slide with a quote from Rabelais' Gargantua & Pantagruel with sound words like trr, trr, taack, bou, bou; a fluffy mic on a binaural recording device; and in the centre some wax cylinders, an Edison gramophone and a Midget disc recorder prototype, just visible in the background.

Playing around with 360 degree sound recordings after the successful Bloomsbury launch of BIRMAC's Dispatches from the Air series on sound recording technologies & transmission last Monday. Big thanks to our guest speakers Neil Wilson (RadioMuseum, Watchet) & Emily Best, Birkbeck.

25.11.2024 21:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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