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School of Media
Language & Music
University of the
West of Scotland
Ayr Campus
KA8 OSR
Scotland, UK

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Virtual Estate
I have been creating virtual research networks for around 10 years. I've been using Macromedia & Adobe products for 7 years and can operate in various online environment. If you need digital expertise for an academic association/project, please feel free to get in touch for some free advice/support. (Don't get ripped-off.)

     

Human Futures
Website for the FACT programme I'm working with to Edit the book.

Upstream Nano
Website for the jiscmail email list by the same name, since 2007 with Bettina Hoermann

Something Political
since 2007

Bioethics Port (since 2008)
Digital video footage of issues in bioethics, biolaw, bioart, biopolitics and biocultures.

Posthumanism Blog
since 2005

Medicalization of Cyberspace
since 2005 with Dr Emma Rich

Critical Olympiad
since 2005 with Dr Beatriz Garcia

 

  

SMCAHuman Futures
Website for the FACT programme I'm working with to Edit the book.

SMCACulture @ the Olympics: academic magazine,
since 2005.

celebrity conference Celebrity Culture
Conference website since 2004


Genetically Modified AthletesGenetically Modified Athletes
since 2004.

 

resarch interests

art&design // bioethics // china // cyberculture // ethics // law // medicine // olympics // outer space // politics // public engagement with science // science // sport // technology

just published

Miah, A. (2008, July 31) Inside the mind of a Marathon man, Nature, 454, in press.

Miah, A. (2008) Paralympics 2.0, Bioethics Forum, The Hastings Center.

Miah, A. (2008) Letter to Utopia: A Reply to Bostrom, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).

Miah, A. (2008) Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).

my next event

Glasgow, Scotland i (30 Sept, 2008)
Our Cultural & Moral Commitment to Discover, Create, and Support New Life Forms, for LESS REMOTE: The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium, International Astronautical Congress, SEC, Glasgow, Scotland [abstract]

Beijing, China c (Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics, International Symposium on Olympic Research, Beijing National University and University of Western Ontario [outline].

Olympia, Greece i (July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Academy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines].

in press

Miah, A. (2008) Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital. In: Wint, S. Ethical Futures. The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA), London.

Miah, A. (2008) Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence. Hale, B. (Ed) Philosophy Looks at Chess . Open Court Press.

Miah, A. (2008). Posthumanism: A Critical History. In Gordijn, B. & Chadwick, R. 'Medical Enhancements and Posthumanity. Springer.

Miah, A. (2008) 'Blessed are the Forgetful': The Ethics of Memory Modification in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In Shapshay, S. (Ed) Bioethics Through Film, Johns Hopkins University Press.
 

just published

Zwart, N. H. (2007). "Genomics and self-knowledge: implications for societal research and debate." New Genetics and Society 26(2): 181-202.

Mitchell, C. B., E. D. Pellegrino, et al. (2007). Biotechnology and the Human Good. Washington, DC., Georgetown University Press.

Peters, H. P., J. T. Lang, et al. (2007). "Culture and Technological Innovation: Impact of Institutional Trust and Appreciation of Nature on Attitudes towards Food Biotechnology in the USA and Germany." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 19(2): 191-220.

House of Commons Select Committee, Science And Technology (2007) Report on Human Enhancement Technologies in Sport.

Koolstra CM, Bos MJW, Vermeulen IE. Through which medium should science information professionals communicate with the public: television or the internet? Journal of Science Communication 2006;5(3):1-8.

   

interviews

May, 2008
The technological enhancement of man, Danish Broadcasting Corporation

April, 2008
Evening Standard
Beijing 2008 Olympics and Protest

March, 2008
The Sports Factor, ABC Radio, Blogging at the Beijing Olympics

Feb, 2008
ESPN Magazine

flashback

 
recent places
         
Brussels, Belgium i (May, 2008)
The ethical and philosophical aspects of enhancement medicine. 		  London, UK i (May, 2008)
New Media and the Olympics, Olympic legacy conference, University of Greenwich.		   Liverpool, UK i (April, 2008)
The Future of the Mind,
FACT Human Futures.
         
Oxford, UK a (Mar, 2008)
Olympic Legacies, St Anthony's College, Oxford University.		   London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, Lecture for Design Interactions, Emerging Cultures of Nanotechnology		   London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, AHRC Seminar on Art & Design in Human Enhancement [brief].
         
Liverpool, UK a (Feb, 2008)
SK-interfaces conference, FACT. 		  Liverpool, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Human Futures: What is the future of the body? Artists' seminar in advance of the SK-interfaces meet, @ FACT. 		  London, UK i (Jan, 2008)
London Metropolitan University, New Media @ the Olympics.
 
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