Dr Mathieu O'Neil

Adjunct Research Fellow

T: +61 2 6125 2313
E: Mathieu.Oneil@anu.edu.au
Room 3216, Coombs Building

Mathieu is a Graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay / St-Cloud. Before joining the ACSPRI Centre for Social Research in 2005, Mathieu was Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for New Media Arts. He previously lectured in American Studies at the Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3, and has also worked as a magazine editor and designer and cultural events coordinator. From October 2009, Mathieu will be lecturing in American Studies at the Université Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV.

Research interests

Mathieu's research addresses the impact Information and Communication Technology is having on the production and reproduction of power within social groups. He initially worked on idiosyncratic personal media networks such as underground print publications (or "zines") and, at a later stage, online personal journals or "weblogs". Mathieu’s work at ACSR since 2005, and ADSRI since 2007 represents a continuation and expansion of this concern with questions of agency, justice and legitimate power in online communities.

He is currently interested in the emergence of new organisational forms in the online environment. Mathieu is also working on the relationship between the management of identities, the evolution of the notion of expertise, and personal creativity, in digital networks; on the means to facilitate the transition to "post-scarcity" societies; and on quantitative research methods into online organisational fields such as environmental and social movement activists.

Current projects

Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks

Publications

Books

O'Neil M (2009) Cyberchiefs. Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes, Pluto, London. Introduction Facebook page Wikipedia and research ethics

Chapters in books

O’Neil M (2008) "Radical tribes at warre: Primitivists on the net." In T L Adams and S A Smith (eds) Electronic Tribes, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX: 251-268. Download PDF

O’Neil M (2007) "Situation-remix? For a performative art practice." Forthcoming in K Cronin and K Robertson (eds) Image(ining) Resistance, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, ON. Download PDF

O’Neil M (2004) "Les paradoxes d’une dissidence californienne: les « zines » de la San Francisco Bay Area (1980-1995)" [The paradoxes of a Californian dissidence: the zines of the San Francisco Bay Area (1980-1995)] in A Foucrier and A Coppolani (eds) La Californie: périphérie ou laboratoire? [California: Periphery or Laboratory?], L’Harmattan, Paris: 47 - 59. Download PDF

Ledoux N and M O’Neil (2001) "Utopia, Inc -- Un contre-projet pour l’île Seguin: la cité des plaisirs" ["Utopia, Inc -- A counter-proposal for Seguin Island: the city of pleasure"], in L Lavoie (ed) Utopia. De quelques utopies à l’aube du 3eme millénaire [Utopia. A Few Utopias at the Dawn of the Third Millennium], Collection "Sociologie contemporaine", Presses Universitaires de Laval, Laval / Éditions Syllepses, Paris: 37 - 44.

Journal articles

Ackland R and M. O'Neil (2007), "Nanotechnology and Online Environmental Activism," under review. Download PDF

O’Neil M (2006) "Rebels for the system ? Virus writers, general intellect, cyberpunk and criminal capitalism." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 20(2): 225-241. Download PDF

Refereed conference proceedings

Ackland R, O’Neil M, Standish R and M Buchhorn (2006) "VOSON: A web services approach for facilitating research into online networks." Second International Conference on e-Social Science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom (28-30 June). Download PDF

O’Neil M (2005) "Blogs and authority." Blogtalk Downunder, University Technology Sydney, Australia (19-22 May). Download PDF

O’Neil M (2004) "Exclusion and inclusion in personal media networks." M Fine, N Smith and A Wise (eds), Mobile Boundaries/Rigid Worlds, Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference of the CRSI 2004. Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie university, Sydney, Australia (27-28 September). Download PDF

O’Neil M (2002) "Digital consumption and other conflicts within digital capitalism" (In response to Dan Schiller, "Hard times for digital capitalism"), Proceedings of the Conference on the Social Impact of Transnational Corporations, Centre for the Advanced Study of American Institutions and Social Movements, Université Stendhal - Grenoble III, France (11-12 January).

Other publications: articles

O'Neil M (2009) "Gladstone: industrial paradise or company town?" Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, October 2009, pp. 10-11.

O'Neil M (2009) "Wikipedia: experts are us." Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, May 2009, pp. 14-15.

Tan A, O’Neil M and L Davis (2007) "The network within: Singapore's Artscommunity e-group." FOCAS. Focus on Contemporary Art and Society 7: 278-297. Download PDF

O'Neil M (2003) "Housebreaking the househusband: Reflections on housework and art." houseWORK project exhibition catalogue, Singapore: 12 - 15.

O'Neil M (2002) "The happy people: the French presidential election and media democracy." Centre for the Advanced Study of American Institutions and Social Movements Bulletin (May).

O'Neil M (2001) "Parler sans permis à Singapour" ["Speaking without a permit in Singapore"]., Manière de voir 56 (March-April): 46 - 49.

O'Neil M (2000) "Mixage à Singapour." Parpaings 11 (March): 15-18.

O'Neil M (1998) "Internet ou la fin de la vie privée" ["Internet or the end of privacy"]. Le Monde diplomatique 534 (September): 23. Revised version appears in Manière de voir 56 (2001): 22 - 25.

O'Neil M (1997) "The lay of the land: portrait of the zinester as a social statistic." Factsheet Five 62 (Winter): 10 - 11.

O'Neil M (1997) "Le narcisisme des micro-journaux américains" ["The narcissism of American micro-publications"]. Le Monde diplomatique 519 (June): 24.

Other publications: books and magazines

O'Neil M (1999) Mixage. Singapore. 1999. 68 pages.

O'Neil M (1997-2000) Lien. Bi-monthly magazine. Alliance Française, Singapore.

Camps-Campins Y, Ledoux N and M O'Neil (1992) Out of Nowhere. Paris, France. 128 pages.