[csaa-forum] JMRC seminar series: 1st semester 2009

[Gerard Goggin]

[The JMRC/UNSW seminar series for 2009 kicks off tomorrow (Friday 20/3), 3pm - all welcome.]

I found my mojo: mobile journalism around the world

Dr Stephen Quinn, Associate Professor of Journalism, Deakin University

Date:  Friday  20 March,
Time:  3-5pm
Location: Webster Bldg, Room 327 (Theatrette)
Professor Quinn will talk about the spread of the mobile journalist, often called the mojo, around the world. Online sites sell advertising based on audience size. Video drives traffic to web sites. The mojo form of reporting has become popular because mojos stream live video to the web from a mobile phone. Dr Quinn has published a report about mojos around the world for the global newspaper group, Ifra. Last February, he presented a seminar about mojos at Ifra's  8th international newsroom summit in Prague. The mojo is also the subject of a book Dr Quinn will publish in 2010. Stephen Quinn was a journalist in five countries between 1975 and 1995, and worked for some of the world's premier news organisations. Since becoming a university academic in 1996 he has published 12 books.

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The Journalism and Media Research Centre is a new initiative of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales. It undertakes research of high quality and impact across the fields of journalism, communication, and media and makes a significant contribution to public debate and policy. It will offer rigorous, relevant and excellent education for postgraduate coursework and research students.

The Journalism and Media seminar series aims to showcase cutting edge thinkers in media and cultural studies. Registration for the series is not required. Drinks and snacks will follow each seminar.

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Future seminars:


Jazz Modernism and Film Art: Dudley Murphy and Ballet mécanique.

Professor James Donald, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW

Date:  Thursday 2 April,
Time:  3-5pm
Location: Webster Bldg, Room 327 (Theatrette)


In the first half of the 1920s, 'jazz' defined an ethos as much as a music.  For good or ill, in Europe at least, to embrace 'jazz' was to embrace modernity. Some modernist critics, like Clive Bell, denounced it as a symptom of what was wrong with modernity. But many artists sought to make use of its rhythmic energy and its cultural bricolage - not least T.S.Eliot's Waste Land.   The focus of this paper is on Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy's Ballet mécanique (1924) as a jazz film. Copies of the article on which it is based are available in advance. The presentation will summarise and contextualise the argument, and will include screenings of Ballet mécanique and other films discussed.


Beyond gatekeeping: J-blogging in China.

Dr Haiqing Yu, School of Languages and Linguistics, UNSW

Date:  Thursday, 30 April,
Time:  3-5pm
Location: Webster Bldg, Room 327 (Theatrette)

This seminar examines journalists who blog (j-bloggers), their relationships with the mainstream official media, and their impact on Chinese media culture. It provides a preliminary survey of j-blogging in China, and uses three case studies to illustrate three types of j-bloggers in Chinese blogosphere-gate-cracker "Antiwave", gate-modifier Sun Chunlong, and gate-mocker Wang Xiaofeng.  It argues that j-blogging (and podcasting) represents an experiment of "amateur journalism" by professional journalists in the virtual reality and that its interplay with traditional journalism associated with the mainstream media determines the viability of the 'public sphere' in China.


Playing By The Rules: ethics and erotics in sexual violence prevention
education for men.

Dr Kath Albury, Journalism and Media Research Centre, UNSW

Date:  Thursday, 14 May,
Time:  3-5pm
Location: Webster Bldg, Room 327 (Theatrette)

>From the 1990s onwards, both male and female activists and educators became concerned that while men were the primary perpetrators of sexual violence, they were not being addressed by existing violence prevention programs in a meaningful way. This paper explores some of the opportunities and challenges of men's sexual violence education, in the context of the 'Playing By the Rules' sexual ethics education workshops, adopted by the National Rugby League in 2004.
 Kath Albury is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Journalism and Media Research Centre, UNSW. She designed and co-facilitated the NRL's Playing by the Rules program, and is currently working on an ARC Linkage project, in collaboration with the National Rugby League and Rape Crisis NSW.


Shaping future science: the challenges of science-society engagement

Professor Judy Motion, School of English, Media and Performing Arts, UNSW

Date:  Thursday, 28 May,
Time:  3-5pm
Location: Webster Bldg, Room 327 (Theatrette)

The complex challenges in communicating across science-society boundaries and the seemingly incommensurable nature of societal ontological discourses and scientific epistemic discourses are not easily addressed. However, communicating across discourses is more likely to be effective when there is an in-depth understanding of the boundaries and differences that impact on such efforts. Society evaluates science drawing upon values, beliefs and emotions whereas media and science communication emphasizes assisting the public to understand scientific processes. Possibilities for communicating and engaging across the boundaries of science and society to shape future science will be explored.




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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
http://jmrc.arts.unsw.edu.au/
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