[csaa-forum] marcus breen/'digital determinism'/USyd/3 Aug

[Gerard Goggin]

[apologies for x-posting]

The University of Sydney
Media and Communications Department

Media at Sydney Seminars Present

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‘Digital Determinism &
the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement’
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by
Associate Professor Marcus Breen, Dept. of Communication Studies,
Northeastern University

Friday August 3rd, 3pm
The Refectory, Main Quadrangle H113 (Nicholson Museum Quarter,  
Downstairs)


Marcus Breen has been involved in cultural industries and development
for 20 years including, advisory roles for Federal and State Government
agencies in Australia, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, and across Latin
America in the ICT and regulatory space. He received his education in
Australia, at the University of Queensland, the Australian National
University and Victoria University of Technology. His most recent book
is Rock Dogs: Politics and the Music Industry in Australia.

Marcus worked as a journalist specialising in popular music and film,
before moving into policy research. He was director of the cultural
industries program at the Centre for International Research on
Communication and Information Technologies in Melbourne, where he was
instrumental in researching and facilitating the State Government's
successful multimedia policy in the mid-1990s.

His consultancy work has involved local, national and international
efforts at cultural development linking ICTs with policy settings. He
has worked as a consultant for Austrade (The Australian Trade
Commission), The Victorian Government's Department of State Development.
As a researcher and academic, his focus is on critical ideas about the
use of ICTs in new contexts, such as the developing world.


Contact for further details:

Steven Maras: steven.maras at arts.usyd.edu.au
Gerard Goggin: gerard.goggin at arts.usyd.edu.au

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Dr Gerard Goggin
ARC Australian Research Fellow
Editor, 'Media International Australia'
Department of Media and Communications
The University of Sydney
e-mail: gerard.goggin at arts.usyd.edu.au OR
gg at gerardgoggin.net
p: +61 2 9036 6424  f: 61 2 9351 5444
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/media/?page=staff&id=gerard.goggin

 From 3 Sept 2007: Centre for Social Research in Journalism and  
Commmunication at University of New South Wales, Sydney.
New email address: g.goggin at unsw.edu.au





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