From cesar.albarrantorres at sydney.edu.au Mon Sep 22 09:03:04 2014 From: cesar.albarrantorres at sydney.edu.au (Cesar Albarran Torres) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:33:04 +0000 Subject: [csaa-forum] THIS FRIDAY: Media@Sydney and Social Media Week Sydney, SWARM: Online Community Management Meets Cultural Intermediation, Friday 26 September In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Media at Sydney and Social Media Week Sydney present Alison Michalk, CEO and Founder Quiip Consulting Vanessa Paech, Senior Manager, Community and Content (REA Group) Dr Jonathon Hutchinson Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney SWARM: Online Community Management Meets Cultural Intermediation As organisations embrace social media for strategic communications and media publishing, they are wrestling with ways of building and governing user communities. This special Media @Sydney panel explores new approaches to online community management and the larger field of cultural intermediation, which seek to resolve tensions between the hierarchical regulatory models of organisational communications and the meritocratic modes favoured by many online communities. When users align as a community of interest, as ThomasMalaby (2009) argues, they will often reject top down governance for heterarchical forms that give rise to meritocracy, where valued, well-recognised users play central governing roles. Historically organisations have employed community managers to facilitate the harmonious integration of user participation with corporate bureaucracy. However, as online communities, platforms and communication paradigms sophisticate, the community manager?s role is only one part of a larger internet governance regime and network of cultural intermediaries. The panel, which is a Social Media Week Sydney Community event, brings together the co-founders of SWARM one of the world?s first community management conferences [@SwarmConf ]. Alison Michalk, director of Australia?s Quiip Consulting joins Vanessa Paech (REA Group) to talk about their combined 22 years experience in this field ? from early days of managing Thorntree (Lonely Planet) forums and Fairfax?s Essential Baby, to their current roles heading up two of the nation?s leading social media management agencies. Michalk and Paech will be joined by Dr Jonathon Hutchinson, from the Dept Media and Communications, whose work investigates how cultural production online is facilitated by cultural intermediation. Date: Friday 26th September, 2014 Time: 15:30-17.00 Location: S226 Seminar Room, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, John Woolley Building (A20) level 2, entry off Manning Road. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/swarm-community-management-meets-cultural-intermediation-tickets-13112721503 Media at Sydney is presented by the Department of Media and Communications [cid:9A0C694D-D9AB-4BD2-86D1-A401E3AACF83]Sydney University is a venue sponsor of Social Media Week Sydney2014. For more information contact Dr Fiona Martin T: 0290365098 E: fiona.martin at sydney.edu.au M: 0428391122 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20140921/4cc0ebd3/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Where: Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, W6A, Room 708. *Please RSVP to eve.vincent at mq.edu.au * As to the 'What', read on... *** Art and Ethnography in the Post-Western Museum James Clifford There are two principal avenues through which the material creations of non-Western peoples have gained recognition and value in the cultural centers of Europe and North America. One avenue can be called ?culture,? the other ?art.? Much has been written to criticize this sorting mechanism, and in practice a variety of hybrid museum spaces are opening up. Yet despite the decentering pressures of decolonization and globalization, long-established categories change unevenly: the ?two museums? persist. This talk explores shifting institutional relations between art and ethnography in contemporary metropolitan contexts. The relative vitality and prestige of the two traditions is assessed with examples drawn from museological innovations in Vancouver, Berlin, and Paris. What is gained and lost in the increasing pressure to represent ?global arts and cultures?? What prospects for serious cross-cultural translation can be found in the emerging forms of collecting, programming, and marketing diversity? James Clifford is Emeritus Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. Clifford is the author of several widely cited and translated books, including *The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art* (1988), *Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late 20th Century*(1997), and *Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century* (2013). He was co-editor (with George Marcus) of the widely influential collection *Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography* (1986). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Digital media production involves the making of screen media texts, the study of the ways in which they construct and convey meaning, and of the social, cultural and political contexts of media production and reception. (At Massey Wellington we primarily teach this media production strand as part of undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in communication, so the students are generally interested in how this critical/creative specialism in media enhances/supports a communication or creative activism role.) Applications close on September 28, see more at http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/work/jobs-opportunities/digital-culture/145277-lecturer-media-studies Regards Elspeth Elspeth Tilley Associate Professor, School of English & Media Studies Massey University ? Private Box 756 ? Wellington 6140 ? New Zealand Email: e.tilley at massey.ac.nz? Phone: + 64 4 8015799 ? Extension: 63565 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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View online Public Seminar Invitation Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies [University of Queensland] [cid:part4.06010902.01040304 at uq.edu.au] [cid:part5.02050702.04070705 at uq.edu.au] Dr Kieran Connell - The Working Practices of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Tuesday 21 October, 2:30 - 3:30pm CCCS Seminar Room, Level 4, Forgan Smith Building (Building 1) [Map] [cid:part7.00020502.07020801 at uq.edu.au] ________________________________ ABSTRACT This paper provides a critical assessment of the working practices of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (BCCCS), the research unit established by Richard Hoggart in 1964 and widely seen as the institutional origin of what has become the global field of cultural studies. Drawing on an archive of Centre material set up to mark the 50th anniversary of its establishment, the paper will explore how a new generation of Leftist thinkers in Britain attempted to engage with a society increasingly dominated by affluence, new forms of mass media and the cultures of consumption. The Centre's remarkable productivity and place at the forefront of the field has led to an element of nostalgia and myth-making around the so-called 'Birmingham School', something that remains apparent more than a decade after its controversial closure. Read more ________________________________ [cid:part10.02090108.09070900 at uq.edu.au] BIO Kieran Connell is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and in 2015 will become a Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Queen's University Belfast. He will visit UQ in October as part of a Universitas 21 Fellowship, for which he is researching the history of the BCCCS and its global influence. Read more CCCS Public Events Promoting the dynamic research culture of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as foregrounding the work of local, national and international scholars by staging public lectures, seminars and symposia throughout the year. ________________________________ Related Event Screening: Stuart Hall in Conversation with Kieran Connell Thursday 23 October, 4:00 - 5:00pm, CCCS Seminar Room Conducted six months before Stuart Hall's death in February 2014, this film is of a conversation that took place between Hall and Kieran Connell as part of a project to mark the 50th anniversary of the BCCCS. Aware that his ill-health would render him unable to physically address the conference, this film is the product of Hall's commitment to engaging with the issues raised by the conference and the archive. ________________________________ Further Information RSVP / Enquiries Fergus Grealy Events Co-ordinator P: (07) 3346 9764 E: f.grealy at uq.edu.au CCCS Mailing List To be notified of all the Centre's upcoming events, subscribe to the mailing list here. [cid:part15.07040602.04040003 at uq.edu.au] [cid:part17.07050405.00080507 at uq.edu.au] Banner image detail courtesy of Dr Kieran Connell. [cid:part19.06060006.07040909 at uq.edu.au] Copyright ? 2014 The University of Queensland ABN 63 942 912 684 | Privacy policy Authorised by: Director - CCCS Maintained by: admin.cccs at uq.edu.au Unsubscribe [UQ Device] [cid:part25.00010608.03000903 at uq.edu.au] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our aim is to connect Humanities researchers and centres, both within the Australasian region and internationally, and to promote relationships with cultural institutions and sector representative bodies in the wider community. The 2014 annual meeting is scheduled for Monday 13 October and Tuesday 14 October at the University of Melbourne. We will host pre-meetings on the afternoon of Sunday 12 October for centre directors and for early career researchers. For the first time, we have programmed a regional roadshow for Wednesday 15 October, travelling up the highway to Ballarat for a day of discussing Humanities issues relevant to regional universities at Federation University Mount St Helen campus. Attached is the draft programme. Please circulate this information to those you think may be interested. For more information, please contact me. 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The conference will assess the shifting roles of knowledge, culture and economy in contemporary and historical scenarios of globalisation, production, consumption, expenditure, crisis, governance, technological change and reckonings with nature. It will bring together theorists and practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and knowledge institutions to debate these issues. Particular themes are: * Asia Pacific Cultural Economies * Cultures of Finance * Economic Diversity * Digital Life * Fragile Environments KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * Aihwa Ong, Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley * Timothy Mitchell, Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University * Chris Gibson, Professor of Human Geography, Director UOW Global Challenges Program, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong * Katherine Gibson, Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney REGISTRATION [http://gallery.mailchimp.com/2c6b3db5d53c38069ca16f941/images/89d6083e-c21a-4eca-bf59-707631cbb9fe.jpg]Registration is now open. Register using the online registration form. Registration Fee The registration fee includes Welcome Reception, 3 day registration, lunches, morning and afternoon teas. 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It begins by exploring the significance of ?the doll? for modernist figures of gendered embodiment. The ?girled? modern doll represents the entanglement of subject and object experience widely held to characterise modern subjectivity as very precisely gendered and as centrally an experience of technology. If this technology is both anthropological and instrumental (Heidegger), and is experienced as both familiar and strange (Freud, Benjamin), and thus lines up neatly with much contemporary theoretical emphasis on tools and things and objects in all these senses the modern doll foregrounds the importance of gender for understanding this experience (Beauvoir) and of technology for understanding gender. Finally, this paper offers some reflections on the girled doll?s significance as a nexus of style, gender, and technologised wonder. The Witchcraft of Cinema Lauren Bliss Correlating cinema to witchcraft, this paper will problematise Laura Mulvey?s thesis of the male gaze. It argues for a feminine gaze where cinema self-conceives through its imitative image. Despite its fantastic conceit, such imitative power forms the basis for the very real persecution of witches during the European witch-hunts in the early-modern era. Charges of witchcraft were typically related to a diabolical reproduction of the natural body and included possession of the penis, the dismemberment and devouring of infants and the unborn, the procuring of abortions and miscarriages, and the creation of demonic children. Socio-historical investigations of the witch-hunts have largely ignored the imagistic power of witchcraft and its relation to the archaic belief in the maternal imaginary to ?naturally? shape or mutate the foetus, or even to conceive without a father. 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Throughout this paper, I am interested in how disturbances to the constituting imagination of borders might correspond with the capacity to re-generate the vitality of the political bodies they serve to enclose, revealing an exposed, desirous and unstable national citizenry. In particular, the paper explores modes of creative political engagement with the desire 'illegal' others have - or are pictured as having - to attain economic and political benefits in their passage to wealthy nations. Theoretically, one task of the discussion is to examine how far the terms of Judith Butler's recent work on the politics and potential of co-habitation might take us in thinking here. The national border of wealthy nations is today most often figured as protecting a stable prosperity, an idealised state of national being that is in turn mapped onto the legal status of the citizen. Merging into one the figure of the 'asylum seeker' and the economic migrant, political discourse of recent times casts the desire to arrive at such a shore as deathly and threatening. At stake in this politics is an image of the state's power of self-determination, its self-protection as prosperous, and a corresponding refusal to seek terms of co-existence with those who press on borders, albeit often guised as humanitarian concern. Yet as relations of desire and possession are together negotiated, policed, confirmed or undermined, other possibilities of engagement might open. Reading Casablanca (1942) and Welcome (2009) as two films exploring just that territory, the first in the context of WWII, the second in the context of the 'open borders' of the EU, I examine how the articulation of desire in these two films permits the asylum-seeker to be a lover and idealist, one who revitalises the political terms on which borders might be negotiated by exposing the intimate relationships of the protagonists to the extra-legal dimensions of romance, divorce, and infidelity. What forms of co-existence become possible on such terms? And how might they damage the aspirations of today's sovereign borders to carry the force of law by enclosing an insular prosperity? 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Throughout this paper, I am interested in how disturbances to the constituting imagination of borders might correspond with the capacity to re-generate the vitality of the political bodies they serve to enclose, revealing an exposed, desirous and unstable national citizenry. In particular, the paper explores modes of creative political engagement with the desire 'illegal' others have - or are pictured as having - to attain economic and political benefits in their passage to wealthy nations. Theoretically, one task of the discussion is to examine how far the terms of Judith Butler's recent work on the politics and potential of co-habitation might take us in thinking here. The national border of wealthy nations is today most often figured as protecting a stable prosperity, an idealised state of national being that is in turn mapped onto the legal status of the citizen. Merging into one the figure of the 'asylum seeker' and the economic migrant, political discourse of recent times casts the desire to arrive at such a shore as deathly and threatening. At stake in this politics is an image of the state's power of self-determination, its self-protection as prosperous, and a corresponding refusal to seek terms of co-existence with those who press on borders, albeit often guised as humanitarian concern. Yet as relations of desire and possession are together negotiated, policed, confirmed or undermined, other possibilities of engagement might open. Reading Casablanca (1942) and Welcome (2009) as two films exploring just that territory, the first in the context of WWII, the second in the context of the 'open borders' of the EU, I examine how the articulation of desire in these two films permits the asylum-seeker to be a lover and idealist, one who revitalises the political terms on which borders might be negotiated by exposing the intimate relationships of the protagonists to the extra-legal dimensions of romance, divorce, and infidelity. What forms of co-existence become possible on such terms? And how might they damage the aspirations of today's sovereign borders to carry the force of law by enclosing an insular prosperity? 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URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20140924/3e67fe46/attachment.html From cesar.albarrantorres at sydney.edu.au Fri Sep 26 08:39:04 2014 From: cesar.albarrantorres at sydney.edu.au (Cesar Albarran Torres) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:09:04 +0000 Subject: [csaa-forum] Media@Sydney, Journalism culture in transformative times: A study of Australian journalists in a changing media environment, Folker Hanusch , Friday 10 October In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Media at Sydney presents Dr Folker Hanusch Queensland University of Technology Journalism culture in transformative times: A study of Australian journalists in a changing media environment Based on the first representative survey of Australian journalists in 20 years, this presentation will provide a snapshot of Australian journalism culture during tumultuous times. Journalism here, as in most Western societies, is undergoing an intensive period of transformation. Key social, technological and economic developments have affected the way news is produced and consumed, arguably leading to changes in journalistic cultures. Economic considerations have led to newsrooms becoming smaller, while often producing more news, on more platforms. Increased competition for audiences and advertisers is influencing journalistic decision-making, and ? according to critics ? a decrease in the quality of news. New media outlets, as well as so-called citizen journalists are further challenging journalists? status as society?s authorised storytellers. In this seminar Folker Hanusch will demonstrate and discuss some of the significant changes in the journalistic workforce, and provide an overview of journalists? professional and ethical concerns, ideas of job satisfaction, and perceptions of the changes that have occurred in the industry. Date: Friday 10th October, 2014 Time: 15:00-16:30 Location: S226 Seminar Room, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, John Woolley Building (A20) level 2, entry off Manning Road. Please register that you will attend at: http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/journalism-culture-in-transformative-times-a-study-of-australian-journalists-in-a-changing-media-tickets-13300128041 Folker Hanusch is a Vice-Chancellor?s Research Fellow in Journalism at Queensland University of Technology. His research focuses on journalism culture, comparative communication research, Indigenous journalism, lifestyle and travel journalism, as well as news media and suffering. He has authored more than 60 journal articles and conference papers on these topics, and authored or edited four books. Folker is heavily involved in cross-national collaborative research projects. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Worlds of Journalism Study, and co-leads the 30-country study Journalism Students Across the Globe. Media at Sydney is presented by the Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney For more information contact Dr Fiona Martin T: 0428391122 or 02 90365098 E: fiona.martin at sydney.edu.au M: 0428 391 122 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20140925/dbbd5982/attachment-0001.html From info at cmc-centre.com Sat Sep 27 21:39:13 2014 From: info at cmc-centre.com (Samita Nandy) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:09:13 -0400 Subject: [csaa-forum] Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies - Vol.3 2014 Message-ID: On behalf of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) board, I am pleased to announce that the Fall edition of our newsletter *Celebrity Culture and Social Inquiry *Vol. 4 has been published. Highlights include: - Dr Mira Moshe's anthology The* Emotions Industry* featured on Nova Publishers home page under the "What's Special for September" section. Relations between fame and emotions theorized in Chapter 12. - Dr Nandana Bose's latest contributions in celebrity studies and Bollywood stardom - Dr. Anita Krajnc raises $36,000 in 3 weeks for mass education and activism - Critical and inspirational talk on the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) - *CFP: From Robson Green to Sean Bean: Mapping Northern Stardom on Popular British Television* - *CFP: Be your selfie: identity, aesthetics and power in digital self-representation* - *CFP: Consuming/Culture: Women and Girls in Print and Pixels * - *Cary Grant Comes Home For the Weekend Festival | *11-12 October 2014* | Bristol, UK* - Stardom and Fandom panel - *Teaching with selfies: new Creative Commons syllabus* - Doctoral Survey - Kim Kardashian: Hollywood - *Industrial Approaches to Media: A Methodological Gateway to Industry Studies * You can now access the newsletter for printing or review here . If you would like to discuss a scholarly publication, production, or share research with our board and readers in our growing research network, contact us at info at cmc-centre.com . Visit our website and send us an e-mail for criteria and details Best wishes, Dr. Samita Nandy and Board * Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS)* The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) is an international organization and research network that helps coordinating academic research and media commentaries on celebrity culture. CMCS carries a pedagogical philosophy that inspires integration of research and media skills training in academic and public discourses of fame. The centre believes in intellectual, aesthetic, and ethical values of bridging gaps in higher education and media. 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