[csaa-forum] Public lect. :: Terry Flew on 'Sovereignty & Software' :: Melbourne, 7/6 @ 5.15-6.15pm

[Brian Morris]

As part of its Graduate Research Conference, the School of Applied Communication, RMIT University invites you to the following Keynote Public Lecture:

Associate Professor Terry Flew
‘SOVEREIGNTY AND SOFTWARE: NATIONAL MEDIA AND CULTURAL POLICIES IN AN
AGE OF MEDIA GLOBALISATION’

Thursday 7th June, 5.15-6.15pm
RMIT Council Chamber, Building 1 (La Trobe St, City)
Visit the map at http://www.rmit.edu.au/about/maps/city/location 

Abstract:
This presentation will provide an overview of trends in media
globalisation and consider what they may mean for national media and
cultural policies. it will argue for the ongoing significance of
governments and policies as being, along with cultural forces, major
filters of the media globalisation process. At the same time, by noting
the rise of sub-national (e.g. city-based or state-based) and
supra-national policy forums and decision-making processes, it will ask
whether we now need to draw a line between nationally-based media and
cultural policy formations as they developed in the 20th century, and
emergent forms whose significance may increase in the 21st century. 

About Terry Flew:
Associate Professor Terry Flew is the Head of Postgraduate Studies in
the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of
Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of New Media: An
Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2005, 2nd Edition) and
Understanding Global Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He is the author
of 26 book chapters, 35 refereed academic journal articles, and the
editor of five special issues of academic journals. He was part of the
research team for a recently completed an Australian Research Council
Discovery Project on Internationalising Creative Industries: China, the
WTO and the Knowledge-Based Economy, and heads the research team for an
Australian Research Council Linkage Project on Citizen Journalism
(2006-2009).



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Dr. Brian Morris
Senior Lecturer & Postgraduate Research Coordinator
School of Applied Communication
RMIT University (City), GPO Box 2476V
Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia

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