[csaa-forum] QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) SEMINAR: Lee Humphreys and Tim Highfield - Friday 8 May

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Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) Seminar Series


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The QUT Digital Media Research Centre welcomes you to the first seminar of 2015. The theme for this seminar is Technologies and Practices in Everyday Life and we are delighted to have two speakers to present on their work in this area. Lee Humphreys who is visiting from Cornell University will give a talk about 'The Qualified Self: Social media and the accounting of everyday life'. QUT researcher Tim Highfield will discuss his Vice Chancellor's Research Fellowship project on 'Visual Cultures of Social Media'.

Lee Humphreys, Cornell University
The Qualified Self: Social media and the accounting of everyday life
Many of the ways we use social media today have longstanding precedents in historical media like diaries, journals, and scrapbooks. What we think of as the 'social media revolution' is part of a much longer story about the use of media for connecting people through the documenting and sharing of everyday life. Placing social media into a longer historical context helps to reveal what is really new about these contemporary communication technologies, what future services might learn from historical communication practices, and what fundamental aspects of the human experience emerge through a variety of technological platforms.

Tim Highfield, Queensland University of Technology
Visual Cultures of Social Media
The visual is an increasingly important element of everyday social media practices and communication, from GIFs to selfies, image macros to emojis and mash-ups, encompassing still and dynamic image and video media. This presentation outlines the VCRF project 'Visual Cultures of Social Media', which explores how visual practices are ritualised and become part of the social mediation of everyday life. This includes the development of tropes, irreverence, and a social media fandom - that is, the fandom of social media and its practices - as well as intertextual expressions of fandom as part of a wider internet culture.





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Lee Humphreys is an Associate Professor in Communication at Cornell University. She studies the social uses and perceived effects of mobile and social media. She received her Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007.



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Tim Highfield is Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in Digital Media at Queensland University of Technology. His fellowship project is 'Visual Cultures of Social Media', building on his prior research into social media, politics, popular culture, and playful practices. His first book, Social Media and Everyday Politics, is due for publication in late 2015. For more details, see http://timhighfield.net or @timhighfield on Twitter.


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