Monograph
Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised
Singh G (2025) Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised. Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315268088
Professor Greg Singh
Professor
Communications, Media and Culture University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
About me
I have taught and conducted research at a number of institutions in various capacities across the UK for over two decades. I started at Stirling in 2013, as a Lecturer in Media and Communications, and I am now Professor in Media and Society, based in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. I have held the position of Deputy Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Research, in the Faculty, and I am currently Programme Director for Digital Media, leading all undergraduate provision in the subject area across our programmes based at the University of Stirling, as well as partnership programmes with Singapore Institute of Management, and Chengdu University Stirling College (China).
I teach in the fields of media and cultural studies, film studies, and digital media. Specific modules include Screening Science Fiction; Digital Media & Culture; Media Futures; and Applied Digital Media. As may be evident from this, my experience covers a wide remit of subjects and reflects an interdisciplinary interest in the study of cultural production and consumption in general.
More specifically, my role within the Faculty has been, and continues to be, to strengthen the links between the various disciplinary fields, to support interdisciplinary research culture, and to develop collaborative links between colleagues researching in different fields across the University.
As a long-standing author and reviewer for the Routledge Mental Health imprint, I have developed research interests in mental health and wellbeing in media and communications contexts. These have mostly looked at the relationships between people and technologies, but in my recent turn to environmental humanities subject matter, I have developed projects that investigate the relationships between media, mental health, and the natural world. I have published in a number of related fields, including a monograph on depth psychology and film theory ((Film After Jung: Post-Jungian Approaches to Film Theory (Hove: Routledge, 2009)) and another on the emotional work of cinema (Feeling Film: Affect and Authenticity in Popular Cinema (Hove: Routledge, 2014). More recently I published The Death of Web 2.0: Ethics, Connectivity and Recognition in the Twenty-First Century (Hove: Routledge, 2019). I am also currently finishing a short-form monograph for Routledge In Focus, on the Netflix drama, Black Mirror.
I was Co-Director of the RSE Research Network, Life in Data 2017-2019. I was PI on the EPSRC-funded project Data Commons Scotland 2019-2022 (EP/S027521/1), and I was Co-I on the Leverhulme-funded project Waste Stories (2021-2024) led by Anna Wilson at University of Glasgow School of Education.
This recent turn in my research activity led to an interest in ecocritical studies. This includes both representations of, and applied social research in, permaculture, STS and the ecology of affordance, waste and reuse, solastalgia, and the Anthropocene; as well as the links between climate change, social technology, and mental health. I am currently developing work examining Slow Television and the salutogenic benefits of greenspace on screen.
I welcome ideas for potential doctoral projects in any of these areas.
-Ethics of connectivity -Data Literacy and Open Data -Community, identity and personhood in a connected world -Cultural memory and intangible cultural heritage -Science and Technology Studies Approaches to Screen Media -Cinephilia and science fiction on-screen -Jungian Studies, relational and depth psychology -Film-philosophy, with a particular emphasis on existential phenomenology
Research projects (2)
Waste Stories
PI:
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust
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Participatory Design and Open Data Platforms for a Data Commons in Scotland: case study – waste management
PI: Professor Greg Singh
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Outputs (29)
Book Chapter
Open is Not Enough: Designing for a Networked Data Commons
Singh G, Wilson A, Hamilton H & Lockley P (2023) Open is Not Enough: Designing for a Networked Data Commons. In: Sustainable Networked Learning.. Research in Networked Learning ((RINL)). New York: Springer, pp. 49-66. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-42718-3_4
Edited Proceedings
Open is not enough: design considerations for a networked data commons
Jaldemark J, Hakansson Lindqvist M, Mozelius P, Oberg LM, De Laat M, Dohn NB & Ryberg Y (eds.) (2022) Open is not enough: design considerations for a networked data commons. NETWORKED LEARNING CONFERENCE 2022, Aalborg University, Sweden, 16.05.2022-18.05.2022.
Technical Report
Building linked open data about carbon savings
Singh G, Wilson, Hamilton & & M (2021) Building linked open data about carbon savings. Singh (Project Leader) EPSRC. http://wastemattersscotland.org/carbon-savings/doc/building-lod-about-carbon-savings/building-lod-about-carbon-savings.pdf
Book Chapter
Social Media as a false-self system
Singh G (2019) Social Media as a false-self system. In: The Death of Web 2.0: Ethics, Connectivity and Recognition in the Twenty-First Century. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 139-158. https://www.routledge.com/The-Death-of-Web-20-Ethics-Connectivity-and-Recognition-in-the-Twenty-First/Singh/p/book/9780415703802
Monograph
The Death of Web 2.0: Ethics, Connectivity and Recognition in the Twenty-First Century
Singh G (2019) The Death of Web 2.0: Ethics, Connectivity and Recognition in the Twenty-First Century. Abingdon: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Death-of-Web-20-Ethics-Connectivity-and-Recognition-in-the-Twenty-First/Singh/p/book/9780415703802
Book Chapter
Beyond the Second Screen: Enantiodromia and the Running-Together of Connected Viewing
Singh G (2018) Beyond the Second Screen: Enantiodromia and the Running-Together of Connected Viewing. In: Hockley L (ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies. Routledge International Handbooks. Hove: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Jungian-Film-Studies/Hockley/p/book/9781138666962
Article
YouTubers, Online Selves and the Performance Principle: Notes from a Post-Jungian Perspective
Singh G (2017) YouTubers, Online Selves and the Performance Principle: Notes from a Post-Jungian Perspective. CM: Communication and Media, 11 (38), pp. 167-194. https://doi.org/10.5937/comman11-11414
Book Chapter
The myth of authentic self-actualisation: happiness, transformation and reality TV
Singh G (2015) The myth of authentic self-actualisation: happiness, transformation and reality TV. In: Hockley L & Fadina N (eds.) The Happiness Illusion: How the media sold us a fairytale. Hove: Routledge, pp. 162-180. https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415728706
Newspaper Article
People should have the 'right to wipe' youthful online indiscretions
Singh G (2015) People should have the 'right to wipe' youthful online indiscretions. The Conversation. 03.08.2015.
Article
Singh G (2014) Recognition and the image of mastery as themes in Black Mirror (Channel 4, 2011–present): an eco-Jungian approach to 'always-on' culture. International Journal of Jungian Studies, 6 (2), pp. 120-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/19409052.2014.905968
Authored Book
Feeling Film: Affect and Authenticity in Popular Cinema
Singh G (2014) Feeling Film: Affect and Authenticity in Popular Cinema. London: Routledge. http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/books/details/9780415496360/
Book Chapter
Singh G (2013) This Film Is Not Yet Rated. In: Berra J (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 2. Directory of World Cinema, 16. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 144-146. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4945/
Book Chapter
Singh G (2013) Che Part One/Che Part Two. In: Berra J (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 2. Directory of World Cinema, 16. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 359-361. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4945/
Book Chapter
Singh G (2013) Into the Wild. In: Berra J (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 2. Directory of World Cinema, 16. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 317-318. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4945/
Book Chapter
Singh G (2013) Summer of Sam. In: Berra J (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 2. Directory of World Cinema, 16. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 256-257. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4945/
Book Chapter
The Kitsch Affect; or, Simulation, Nostalgia and the Authenticity of the Contemporary CGI Film
Singh G (2012) The Kitsch Affect; or, Simulation, Nostalgia and the Authenticity of the Contemporary CGI Film. In: Balcerzak S & Sperb J (eds.) Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure, and Digital Culture, Volume 2. London: Wallflower, p. 22.
Book Chapter
Cinephilia; Or, Looking for Meaningfulness in Encounters with Cinema
Singh G (2011) Cinephilia; Or, Looking for Meaningfulness in Encounters with Cinema. In: Hauke C & Hockley L (eds.) Jung and Film II: The Return: Further Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 163-184. http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/books/details/9780415488976/
Book Review
Imagining our selves: another step for sf film-philosophy
Singh G (2011) Imagining our selves: another step for sf film-philosophy. Review of: Steven M. Sanders, ed., The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film. Lexington: The UP of Kentucky, 2008. 232 pp. ISBN 9780813172811. Science Fiction Film and Television, 4 (1), pp. 101-106. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2011.6
Book Chapter
Singh G (2010) Sin City. In: Berra J (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Independent. Directory of World Cinema, 2. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 123-125. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4712/
Book Chapter
Singh G (2010) Easy Rider. In: Berra J (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Independent. Directory of World Cinema, 2. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 208-209. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4712/
Book Chapter
Singh G (2010) Sideways. In: Berra J (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Independent. Directory of World Cinema, 2. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 211-212. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4712/
Book Chapter
Singh G (2010) The Royal Tenenbaums. In: Berra J (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Independent. Directory of World Cinema, 2. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 174-176. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4712/
Book Chapter
Singh G (2010) DiG!. In: Berra J (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Independent. Directory of World Cinema, 2. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 131-132. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4712/
Book Chapter
Singh G (2010) The Trip. In: Berra J (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Independent. Directory of World Cinema, 2. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 101-102. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4712/
Authored Book
Film After Jung: post-Jungian approaches to film theory
Singh G (2009) Film After Jung: post-Jungian approaches to film theory. London: Routledge. http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/books/details/9780415430906/
Book Chapter
Singh G (2009) From Lonely Streets to Lonely Rooms: Prefiguration, Affective Response and the Max Payne Single-Player. In: Bould M, Glitre K & Tuck G (eds.) Neo-Noir. London: Wallflower Press, pp. 90-102. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-1-906660-18-5/neonoir
Book Chapter
Remote Control: Exposure and the Limits of Sound Design in Tsukamoto Shinya’s A Snake of June
Singh G (2007) Remote Control: Exposure and the Limits of Sound Design in Tsukamoto Shinya’s A Snake of June. In: Wells E & Jeffers MT (eds.) Realities and Remediations: The Limits of Representation in Film. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, p. 18. http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Realities-and-Remediations.htm
Article
CGI: A Future History of Assimilation in Mainstream Science Fiction Film
Singh G (2007) CGI: A Future History of Assimilation in Mainstream Science Fiction Film. Extrapolation, 48 (3), pp. 543-557. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2007.48.3.11
Teaching
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.