by Jason Ng | Sep 13, 2021 | 📝 Blog
RTÉ to film Hip Hop premiere on UCC Campus World Premiere of UBUNTU: Local is Global Live Hip Hop Performances Featured on upcoming RTÉ ‘Change Makers’ Series Features Young People from Cork Migrant Centre and The Kabin Studio Free, Outdoors, and Open to the Public 19...
by Steve Gamble | Jul 2, 2021 | 📝 Blog
PANTHEON: Hip-Hop’s Global Pathways to Cultural “Legitimacy” Paris, France, 26–27 January 2022 About this Meeting The fourth meeting of the European Hiphop Studies Network is organized in collaboration with La Place: Centre for Hip-Hop Culture, and La...
by Maria Fitzgerald Houlihan | May 31, 2021 | 📝 Blog
We’re looking for talented computer scientists! Here’s the formal job ad: University College Cork invites applications for two Research Support Officers in the areas of Data Science, Web Engineering, and User Experience Design to co-lead the...
by Steve Gamble | May 7, 2021 | 📝 Blog
Hip-hop artists get a bad rap for writing about the same old things. Often, criticism is levelled at lyrics associated with materialism, consumerism, misogyny, drugs, and violence. Although these themes – and the racial, gendered, and class-based judgements involved...
by Steve Gamble | Jan 11, 2021 | 📝 Blog
There’s a two-part blog post now up at our associated project Digital Flows, looking at online hip-hop. In these posts Steve uses a comment scraping method to analyse how lo-fi commentary has changed – and how it hasn’t – during the quarantine/lockdown...
by Steve Gamble | Feb 4, 2020 | 📝 Blog
Here’s an early report on the CIPHER project conducted by Ireland’s public broadcast service RTÉ News. Griff and Cork artist Spekulativ Fiktion briefly describe how CIPHER got off the ground and plans for the...
