[csaa-forum] Media at Sydney presents: 'Locating Television' - Graeme Turner and Anna Cristina Pertierra

Fiona Martin fiona.martin at sydney.edu.au
Tue Jul 23 00:31:06 CST 2013


Media at Sydney presents

Anna Cristina Pertierra and Graeme Turner on
'Locating Television: Working between disciplines’


In this talk Anna and Graeme will discuss the ideas and projects that fed into, and emerged from, their recent bookLocating Television: Zones of Consumption<http://www.amazon.co.uk/books/dp/0415509793> Routledge, 2013.

Focused on understanding the socio-cultural functions 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 and a discussion of that collaboration will be central to the presentation.


Dr Anna Cristina Pertierra is a ARC Postdoctoral 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.

Time and Venue Details:
Friday , 26th July, 3-5pm
Room 100 New Law Annex
<http://sydney.edu.au/maps/campuses/?area=CAMDAR>
Camperdown Campus, Sydney University

Please RSVP to Madeleine King mkin5545 at uni.sydney.edu.au<mailto:mkin5545 at uni.sydney.edu.au>

Media at Sydney is hosted by the Department of Media and Communications
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