[csaa-forum] Media at Sydney Seminar Series - Semester 2

[Madeleine King]

Media at Sydney: Seminar Series Semester 2



*26th July: **‘Locating Television: Working Between Disciplines’*

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*Em. Professor Graeme Turner and Dr. Anna Pertierra (Centre for Critical
and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland)
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In this talk, Anna Cristina Pertierra and Graeme Turner will discuss the
series of projects that fed into, and emerged from, their recent book *Locating
Television: Zones of Consumption *(Routledge, 2013).  Focused upon
understanding the socio-cultural function of television and new media in a
number of national locations, the comparative dimension of these projects
has  directly informed the development of the notion of ‘zones of
consumption’ as an alternative way of conceptualising how media are
located. Importantly, the book is also the product of a collaboration
between cultural studies and cultural anthropology; a discussion of that
collaboration will be a central focus of the presentation.



*Dr Anna Cristina Pertierra is an ARC Posdoctoral Research Fellow in the
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland,
and an anthropologist whose central research interests are in media,
especially television, and the role of consumption in everyday life. Her
current ARC funded project is a comparative study of the social function of
television in Cuba, Mexico and the Philippines. She is the author of* Cuba:
The Struggle for Consumption* *(2011), * the co-author* *(with Graeme
Turner) of *Locating Television: Zones of Consumption (2013), *and the
co-editor (with John Sinclair) of* Consumer Culture in Latin America (2013).



  *Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner also works in the Centre for Critical
and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, and he is one of the
leading figures in media and cultural studies. His most recent publications
include (with Anna Cristina Pertierra)* Locating Television: Zones of
Consumption(2013), What’s Become of Cultural Studies? (2012), *and *Ordinary
People and the Media: The Demotic Turn (2010). *He is currently co-editing
(with Jinna Tay and Koichi Iwabuchi) the collection* Television Histories
in Asia* **and a revised edition of his* Understanding Celebrity *will be
published in October.*

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*22nd August: **‘Reviving the art of listening: Can we use online methods
for true community consultation?’*


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*Victoria Parr, Australian Association of Social Marketing*

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When online qualitative research is viewed as a replacement for the well
known face-to-face research methodologies, that have comprised our research
toolkit for the past decade, one of the key criticisms leveraged is of
representativeness of our research sample. This seminar asks whether online
qualitative research allows for the inclusion of a different style of
representativeness in government decision-making; that of a democratically
elected government making decisions based on true consultation with its
citizenry. Could online qualitative research provide us with the
opportunity for a resurgence of the true consultative methodologies - the
deliberative pollings, deliberative democracies, the citizens’ juries -
that have slipped by the wayside? Could online qualitative methods actually
provide us with an opportunity to gain the representation in government
decision-making that is critical to addressing the perceived democratic
deficit in the current system of government?



*As a social and government research specialist for over thirteen years,
currently working for Latitude Insights, Victoria Parr has extensive
experience with federal and state government departments.  She specialises
in strategic communications and segmentation studies and has conducted many
large scale campaigns for federal and state government agencies.
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*Victoria’s research looks at how the growth of social media is changing
the way people communicate, interact and conduct relationships. As a
qualitative specialist, Victoria identifies online qualitative research is
now an essential methodological tool for the research practitioner to have
at their disposal along with the tried and tested face-to-face
methodologies. She holds a Qualified Practicising Market Researcher
accreditation and has a B Soc Sci from Macquarie University.*

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*12th September: **‘Affective Mattering and the Felt Materiality of the
Screen’*


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*Assoc. Professor Misha Karva (University of Auckland)*


Affective mattering is the way in which affect has a material bearing that
causes things to matter. What is often lost in desubjectivised accounts of
affect is the lived material body, individuated by the affective relations
which cause other bodies to matter to it. Popular media screens mobilise
this interpersonal affect, by making us care about ‘real‘ bodies and beings
despite their appearance on platforms of mediation. In this configuration,
where the affective mattering of the body meets the affective permeability
of the screen, the screen brings its own materiality to bear as a conduit
for felt relations. The seminar will investigate these relations of
mediated affect with reference to three exemplary screens: the intimate
screen of television, the tactile screen of the touchpad, and the
prosthetic screen of Google’s Project Glass.

*Dr Misha Kavka teaches film, television, and media studies at the
University of Auckland. She is the author of two books on reality
television (Palgrave 2008 and Edinburgh UP 2012), and has published
extensively on gothic cinema, New Zealand film and gender studies. She is
currently working on a project about screen affects.*



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*20th September: Civil Society Engagement – UN Food and Agriculture
Organisation*

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*Dr. Alana Mann (University of Sydney)*

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In 2008 the escalation of the world's hungry to 870 million led to
proclamations of a new 'global food crisis'. This seminar explores how
civil society actors including NGOs and social movements are establishing
new understandings of issues related to rural poverty and hunger and
communicating these in formal policy arenas. Based on interviews with
policy-makers at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome
and civil society groups in Geneva and Vienna, this research reveals
patterns of action in political arenas where non-state actors aim not only
to foster reconsideration of chronic problems in light of new frameworks
and ideologies, but to change the very culture of global governing
institutions. The study assesses the dynamics of change occurring in
transnational food policy arenas as a result of increased interaction
between civil society actors and the UN. It seeks to explain how this
interaction occurs and to assess whether or not it has contributed to
institutional change that better accommodates the views of non-state actors
on food and agriculture policy.



 *Dr Alana Mann joined the Department of Media and Communications as a
full-time lecturer and researcher in July 2007. In her previous career she
was a marketing communications manager at organisations including Fairfax
Media and The Smith Family. In 2013 her first book* Power Shift: Global
Activism in Food Politics* **will be published by Palgrave Macmillian.***

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*October (TBA): **Eyetracking Mobile Media and Multiscreen Use*


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*Dr. Lars Holmgaard Christensen (Head New Media research, Danish School of
Media Journalism)*

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* *Our mobile media and multiple screen use affects the way we attend to
media messages and the ways we relate, including the conversations we have
with people in our immediate environment. This seminar reports on the
Danish School of Media and Journalism’s Eye-Pad project, which set out to
explore the social and cultural aspects of multi-screen news consumption in
the home. Using mobile eye-tracking, video observation and
usability-centred media ethnography, the EyePad project aimed to find out
what people attend to on their hand-held devices and to better understand
the subtle and seamless shifts between media technologies and people.
Project partners included Danish news company Berlingske Media, software
companies CCIEurope and Visiolink, which produce platforms for media
management and publishing, and the Eyetracking Research Group at the
Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida.



*Dr Lars Holmgaard Christensen is the former Head of New Media Research at
the Danish School of Media and Journalism, and current strategic director
of research and development, in Media and Communications at Aalborg
University College.*



 *Please note: additional seminars will be added to the schedule once
details have been confirmed
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*For more information please contact Madeleine King -
mkin5545 at uni.sydney.edu.au*
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