PhD, Popular Music Studies: The Harkive Project: popular music, data, and digital technologies, Birmingham City University
MA Music Industries (Distinction), The Harkive Project, Birmingham City University
BA (Hons), English Literature & Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University
Publications
Hamilton, C., (2020) The Harkive Project: Computational analyses and popular music reception, in Laing, D. and Middleton, R., Eds. The Uses and Abuses of Statistics in the Music Industry, Intellect.
Hamilton, C., and Raine, S., (2020) Popular Music Reception: Tools of Future-Making, Spaces, and Possibilities of Being, in Markham, A., and Tiidenberg, K., Eds. Metaphors of the internet: ways of being in the age of ubiquity, Peter Lang Press.
Hamilton, C. (2019). Popular music, digital technologies and data analysis: New methods and questions. Convergence, 25(2), 225–240.
Hamilton, C., (2019) The Harkive Project: Popular music, data, and digital technologies, in Barlow, H. and Rowland, D., Eds. Conference proceedings: The experience of listening to music: methodologies, identities, histories, Open University Press.
Rozbicka P., Hamilton C., Behr A., Correa P., Davies L.J. (2019) Birmingham Live Music and Brexit. Report. Birmingham Live Music Project, Aston University and Birmingham City University
Hamilton, C., (2016). The Harkive Project: Rethinking Music Consumption. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, 9(5).
Conference Presentations
Gathering the Data – Means, Methods and Mapping, IASPM UK & EIRE - London Calling, June 2020, Online
Mobilising festival audiences, Groove the City 2020 – Constructing and Deconstructing Urban Spaces through Music, February 2020, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
Building the Zines? Institute of Czech History at Univerzita Karlova, February 2019, Prague, Czech Republic
Mobilising festival audiences, European Jazz Network, ‘Feed Your Soul: European Jazz Conference’, September 2019, Novara, Italy.
Data and the moral compass, Association of Independent Festivals Annual Congress, November 2019, Sheffield, UK.
The Harkive Project: popular music, data, and digital technologies. University of Gloucestershire Media Festival 2018 - #UOGMFest18. 2nd May 2018, University of Gloucestershire
The Harkive Project: popular music, data, and digital technologies. The Listening Experience Database Conference 2018, 6-7th March 2018, Open University, Milton Keynes.
Riffs – IASPM Special Issue, IASPM Crosstown Traffic UK and Ireland conference, September 2018, University of Huddersfield, UK
Abstracted music reception: moving The Harkive Project forward. Sociology and Social Media: Problems and Prospects, 2nd December 2017, Goldsmiths University
The social and the computational: researching popular music experiences. ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Section Conference: Digital Culture meets Data – Critical Approaches, 6th and 7th November 2017, University of Brighton
Communities and the computational: researching popular music experiences. Digital Communities: Interdisciplinary perspectives, Cardiff University, 3rd July 2017
Doctoral Colloquuim, The Association of Internet Researchers conference, University of Berlin, Germany, 4th October 2016
The Harkive Project: Research, Multimedia Theses and ‘Non-Text’ Outputs. Digital Conversations, The British Library, EThOS & Multimedia PhD Theses. 29th September 2016
Can Algorithms Make You Cry? Popular Music & Data-Driven Experiences. DataBeers LDN, City University, London, Thursday 23rd June 2016
Can Algorithms Make You Cry?: Popular Music and Machine-Derived Curation, Streams of Consciousness conference, Warwick University, 21-22nd April 2016