[csaa-forum] Goggin/'Fantasy of the iPhone'/UNSW Thurs 16/10, 4pm

[Gerard Goggin]

[apologies for x-posting]

 The Fantasy of the iPhone and Other Adventures in Mobile Media
 
Professor Gerard Goggin, JMRC
4-6pm,Thursday 16 October
Goodsell Building, Room 127
 
In this paper I look at the rise of the mobile phone, and other forms of
mobile and online media - and consider their implications for contemporary
media and culture, especially the dynamics, forms, and politics of
Australian culture. My starting point is the Apple iPhone, and the rapturous
reception it has received in North America, Europe, and now in Australia.
There is a widespread view that the iPhone represents the future of mobiles.
In this paper, I argue that this is actually better understood as a fantasy
- but that such a dream tells us some important things about mobile
platforms, what their possibilities are, and what we need to do urgently to
see such things come about.
 

All welcome -- refreshments served

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impact across the fields of journalism, communication, and media and makes a
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Forthcoming seminars ...
 
The SBS Story - the challenge of diversity.
Professor Gay Hawkins, Professor of Media and Social Theory, UNSW
4-6pm, Thursday 30 October
Goodsell Building, Room 127
 
This paper presents the main findings of a major study into the history and
impacts of SBS done by Ien Ang, Gay Hawkins and Lamia Dabboussy and to
published as the book 'The SBS Story - the challenge of diversity' in
November 2008. In contrast to much of the current critique of SBS, which
accuses SBS of selling out its multicultural charter and going more popular
and commercial, we investigate the history of these shifts and their complex
rationales. Detailed research on the challenges of diversity within SBS
shows that three different forms of multiculturalism are in play within the
organisation: ethno-multiculturalism, popular multiculturalism and
cosmopolitan multiculturalism. Each of these approaches involve different
programming and audience development strategies and each involve a distinct
politics of difference. Managing the relations between them as well as a
commitment to deepening and diversifying public culture remains the central
challenge at SBS.


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Gerard Goggin
Professor of Digital Communication 
& Deputy Director
Journalism and Media Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 NSW Australia
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