[csaa-forum] Uni of Qld Seminar: 14th Dec @ 2pm: A/Prof Vicki Mayer: Cultural Studies of Identity and Media Production in the new Television Economy

[Rebecca Ralph]

CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES

University of Qld, in conjunction with 

THE CULTURAL RESEARCH NETWORK, presents a public seminar

 


 


Tuesday 14th December 2.00-3.00pm


Associate Professor Vicki Mayer

 


CCCS Seminar Room, level 4 Forgan Smith Building (bldg 1)
St Lucia Campus  [See Map
<http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=&x=h.78&y=6.5&z=0&xc%5b%5d=h.
78&yc%5b%5d=6.5&id=27&facilityType=&backURL=&mx=0&my=0&mapcoord=?212,133
> ]


 


What's Identity Got to Do With It? Cultural Studies of Identity and
Media Production in the New Television Economy 


 In studies of television production, the value of invisible labour
still remains obscured by the narrow focus on what historically came to
be known as the "creative professional." In an attempt to understand the
role of invisible labour in the production of television specifically
and the reproduction of media power more generally, Dr Mayer will offer
a glimpse into the lives of four workers who contribute to the bottom
line for the television industry, even as most of their work is
undervalued, uncompensated, or ignored.  These workers, and the types of
labours they perform, illustrate the ways the new television economy has
distributed sponsorship and regulatory work to new categories of workers
while reserving definitions of creativity and professionalism for those
who fit in particular identity categories.  Workers' identity work, or
the production of themselves as a gendered, sexed, raced, classed, and
national workers, is key to understanding how and why people consent to
media power and labour exploitation on behalf of television industries.

                        

 

About the Presenter:


 Vicki Mayer <http://www.tulane.edu/~vmayer/index.html>  is the incoming
Editor of the journal Television and New Media and is an Associate
Professor in the Department of Communication
<http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/communication/faculty-staff.cfm>  at 
Tulane University <http://tulane.edu/> , New Orleans. Her new book Below
the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television
Economy will be published in 2011.

 

This seminar will be chaired by Professor Graeme Turner.  

Members of the university community and the general public are invited
to attend this free seminar with refreshments to follow.  For further
information please visit the website 
http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=144590&pid=16094 

 

Further information please contact: Rebecca Ralph ph. 3346 7407 or on
email: admin.cccs at uq.edu.au <mailto:admin.cccs at uq.edu.au> 

 

 

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