Dr Michael Arnold
Contact details
Room 117 Old Quad Building
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010 Australia
T: (03) 8344 7020
E: mvarnold@unimelb.edu.au
Academic Profile
Dr Michael Arnold completed a Ph.D in educational computing at Deakin University with a thesis entitled "Educational Cybernetics: Communication and Control With and of Logo." His on-going research activities and interests lie at the intersection of computer-based technologies and our society and culture. Michael was a secondary school teacher - at Caulfield High School and Thomastown Secondary College, and retains an interest in the use of technology in education.
In the years since leaving secondary teaching Michael lectured in Information Management and Information Systems Design at the Faculty of Education at Melbourne University. In the HPS programme he teaches and writes about a variety of subjects relating to digital technologies in the social context.
Michael is also a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technology at Cambridge University, a founding committee member of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (Australian Chapter), an Australian committee member of the Community Informatics Research Network, and a Research Associate with the Australian Centre for Science and Innovation in Society.
Michael's current research projects look at the appropriation of ICTs in a domestic environment, the implications of ICTs for communities of various kinds, medical applications of ICTs, educational applications of ICTs, and the cultural and social implications of mobile phones
Teaching
Michael will be teaching the following subjects in Semester 2, 2009:
Second and Third Year
Fourth Year
Publications & Conference presentations
Arnold, M. (forthcoming) “Screening social co-presence – both here and there”, paper to be presented at the 5th Prato Community Informatics & Development Informatics Conference ‘ICTs for Social Inclusion: What is the Reality?’, October 27-30, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy.
Christopher Pearce, Kathryn Dwan, Michael Arnold, Christine Phillips, Stephen Trumble, (forthcoming), “Doctor, Patient and Computer - A Framework for the New Consultation”, International Journal of Medical Informatics, (accepted 05/07/08)
Arnold M, Shepherd C. & Gibbs M. (2008). Remembering Things. The Information Society: An International Journal. 24 (1): pp.47-53
Arnold, M. and Gibbs, M. (2008) “Narratives Small and Grand”, paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) & the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), August 20-23, 2008, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Arnold, M.; Pearce, C. (2008) “Is technology innocent? Holding technologies to moral account”, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine; Volume 27, Issue 2, Summer 2008 Page(s):44 – 50. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MTS.2008.924868
Riddle, M., Arnold, M., and Howell, C. (2007) "Devices, demands, and desires: tracing technology use in the daily life of Cambridge students" Short Paper, ALT-C 2007 Conference, Nottingham, UK, September.
Arnold M. (2007). “A portal for you and me, and us, and others”. In Graham C & Rouncefield M(eds), Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies. 1 1-4. Lancaster, United Kingdom: Lancaster University .
Arnold M. (2007). “The concept of community and the character of networks”. Journal of Community Informatics. Vol.3 No.2: 1-16.
Arnold, M., Shepherd C., and Gibbs M. (2007) "Trouble at Kookaburra Hollow: how media mediate", Journal of Community Informatics, Vol 3. No 4.
Shepherd, C., Arnold, M., Bellamy, C. and Gibbs, M. (2007) " The material ecologies of domestic ICTs/Les écologies matérielles des ICT domestiques ", Electronic Journal of Communication/ La Review Elecronique de Communication: special issue on Communicative Ecologies/Les écologies communicatives ", Volume 17 Numbers 1& 2. On-line journal available at http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v17n12.htm
Pearce, C., Trumble, S., Dwan, K., Arnold, M. (2007), "Doctors Patients and Computers; the New Consultation", Poster Presentation, General Practice & Primary Health Care Research Conference, Sydney 2007
Pearce, C., Dwan, K., Arnold, M. and Phillips, C. (2007). "Analysing the Doctor-Patient-Computer relationship: The use of Video Data." Informatics in Primary Care 14(4): 221-226.
Arnold, M., Gibbs M. and Shepherd, C. (2006). " Domestic ICTs, Desire and Fetish", Fibreculture Journal, Issue 9.
Arnold, M., Shepherd C. and Gibbs M. (2006). "Listening to Things". In Graeme Johanson and Larry Stillman (Eds), Constructing and Sharing Memory: Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment: Proceedings 3rd Prato International Community Informatics Conference., Prato, Italy, 9 - 11 October 2006. Community Informatics research Network and Centre for Community Network Research.
Arnold, M., Shepherd, C. and Gibbs, M. (2006). "How media Mediate: the case of a local dispute". Panel Presentation, Association of Internet Researchers, AoIR 7.0: Internet Convergences, Brisbane, Australia (accepted 24/3/2006).
Shepherd, C., Arnold, M. and Gibbs, M. (2006) "Parenting in the Connected Home", Journal of Family Studies, Vol.12 No.2, pp 203-222.
Arnold, M., Shepherd, C., Gibbs, M., and Mecoles, K. (2006) "The Sociology of Associations in Family Research and Practice.", Journal of Family Studies, Vol.12 pp 10-12.
Arnold, M., Shepherd, C., Gibbs, M., and Mecoles, K. (2006) "Domestic Information and Communication Technologies and Subject-Object Relations: Gender, Identity and Family Life.", Journal of Family Studies, Vol.12 pp 95-112.
Gibbs, MR, Wright, P, and Arnold, M. (2005). "Critical Mass and Self-Sustaining Activity in an Australian Community Network". In The Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with ICT. Marshall, S, Taylor, W, and Yu, X (eds.,). Hershey, PA: Idea Group
Arnold, M . (2004) "The Connected Home: probing the effects and affects of domesticated ICTs" in Adrian Bond (ed.,) Artful Integration: Interweaving media, materials and practices (Vol. 2), proceedings of the Eighth Biennial Participatory Design Conference, July 27-31, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Health Informatics Research Group (2004), Online knowledge resources: differential use in rural and urban settings. Paper presented at the 17th World Conference of Family Doctors, October 13-17 2004, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Arnold, M. (2004) "Theorizing Community and Networks", to appear in the edited proceedings of the conference - Building & Bridging Community Networks: Knowledge, Innovation & Diversity through Communication, University of Brighton, UK.
Arnold, M, Carmody, K, and Gibbs, MR. (2004). "What's in it for the Natives?" The Commercial Articulation of STS. Presented at 4S-EASST Conference - Public Proofs: Science, Technology and Democracy , Paris. Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (eds.,) publisher: Ministere de la Recherche. p.438
Arnold, M. (2004) "Articulating a Sociotechnical System", in Keith Horton and Elizabeth Davenport (eds.,). Understanding Sociotechnical Action : Workshop Proceedings, Napier University, Edinburgh, June 3-4, 2004.
Health Informatics Research Group (2004) "An Evaluation of the Clinicians Health Channel Project (2000- 2003): Final Report", submitted to The Office of the Chief Clinical Advisor, Department of Human Services, Vic.
Arnold, M, Gibbs, M, and Wright, P. (2003) "Intranets and the Creation of Local Community: 'Yes, an intranet is all very well, but do we still get free beer and a barbeque?'", in Marleen Huysman, Etienne Wenger, Volker WulfKluwer (eds.,). Communities and Technologies, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Arnold, M. (2003), " On the Phenomenology of Technology: The 'Janus-Faces' of Mobile Phones", Information & Organization, Vol.13 pp 231-256 .
Arnold, M. (2003), " Intranets, Community and Social Capital: the case of Williams Bay", Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 23 No. 2, pp. 78-87.
Arnold, M. and Klugman, M. (2003), Mobile Phone Uptake: a review of the literature and a framework for research, Melbourne: Heidelberg Press.
Arnold, M. (2002) "Key4Building meets Habermas, Foucault and Latour", in S. A. Clarke (Ed.) Socio-Technical and Human Cognition Elements of Information Systems, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA.
Arnold, M. (2002) "The Glass Screen", Information, Communication and Society, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 225-236.
Arnold, M. (2002) " Urban Development and Social Capital: the case of Williams Bay", Keynote address, Annual Congress of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, Perth, March 2002.
Keppell, M, Arnold, M, et al (2001). "A collaborative inter-disciplinary approach to the evaluation of the Clinicians Health Channel." In G. Kennedy, M. Keppell, C. McNaught & T. Petrovic (eds.,), Meeting at the Crossroads. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. (pp. 335-344). Melbourne: Biomedical Multimedia Unit, The University of Melbourne.
Arnold, M. (1999) "Mainstreaming the Digital Revolution", Higher Education Quarterly, Vol. 53 No. 1, pp. 49-64.
Arnold, M. (1997) "Using the Web to Augment Teaching and Learning", in Rod Kevill; Ron Oliver and Rob Phillips (eds.,) "What Works and Why: Conference Proceedings of the fourteenth annual conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education, Curtin University, Perth: pp. 37-41
Arnold, M. (1997) "Implementing IT: Pedagogy as the Critical Success Factor", in Jon Mason; Michael Nott; Janie Fung; Graeme Hart and Peter McTigue (Eds.) "Doing IT at Melbourne: Papers, Case Studies and Resources", Symposium Proceedings, University of Melbourne: pp. 24-30.
Arnold, M. (1996), "The High-Tech Post-Fordist School", Interchange: a Quarterly Review of Education, Vol. 27 No 3 and 4, pp. 225-250.
Arnold, M. (1995), "The Semiotics of Logo", Journal of Educational Computing Research, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 229-242.
Arnold, M. and Gilding, T. (1994) "Schools, Laptop Computers and Post-Fordism", Discourse: The Australian Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 34-48.
Arnold, M. (1993) "Educational Research and the Natural Sciences: What can be Learned from Chaos Theory?", The Australian Educational Researcher, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 1-14.
