From holly.randell-moon at otago.ac.nz Mon Oct 23 09:32:45 2017 From: holly.randell-moon at otago.ac.nz (Holly Randell-Moon) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:02:45 +0000 Subject: [csaa-forum] CSAA Annual Conference 'Cultures of Capitalism' Registration Deadline November 6 Message-ID: <1508716965989.11055@otago.ac.nz> Kia ora koutou, Happy Labour Day in every sense of the word from Aotearoa. This email is a reminder that the registration deadline for the CSAA Annual Conference, 'Cultures of Capitalism', December 6-8, Wellington, will close on November 6. Here's the link to register: http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/index.cfm?CFID=44a01318-34de-4f40-bf0b-6d73ab03dac8&CFTOKEN=0&20E51223-201B-4560-9F28-38C641357C91 Ngaa mihi, Holly. Dr Holly Randell-Moon Department of Media, Film and Communication University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin 9054 New Zealand Tel 64 3 479 3724 http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/otago052356.html 'You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission' - Jyn Erso I SUPPORT HUMANITIES AT OTAGO Race and Whiteness Studies/ Religion Area Chair, Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality Religion After Secularization in Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20171023/7bf6e28f/attachment.html From A.Daniel at westernsydney.edu.au Mon Oct 23 14:09:04 2017 From: A.Daniel at westernsydney.edu.au (Adam Daniel) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 04:39:04 +0000 Subject: [csaa-forum] REMINDER: Sydney Screen Studies Network: "New Intimate Cinema Spaces" with Rebecca Lelli In-Reply-To: <874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472.bd521d017c.20171022205924.ccbeefa53a.5add805e@mail185.atl61.mcsv.net> References: <874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472.bd521d017c.20171022205924.ccbeefa53a.5add805e@mail185.atl61.mcsv.net> Message-ID: View this email in your browser [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472/images/1d4e43f0-fa0c-410d-a0af-c3b0fc01c60a.jpg] [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/874f88bf15b1c1cd4ee175472/images/0c3ae92e-518e-4163-9a8a-cd55d5288e12.jpg] New Intimate Cinema Spaces Tuesday 24th October, 5pm - 7.30pm ***Please note this seminar will be held at Maquarie Campus Room T3 (Theatre 3), E7B Building The majority of cinematic and television scholarship on alternative viewing platforms, and the viewers? experience or reception across alternate mediums and spatial contexts, has a tendency to elevate the traditional public cinema as the optimal way to be properly ?engaged? in a film. Alternative mediums are deemed to offer lower quality aesthetics as well as an environment of distractions that disturb the film experience. This tendency has lead to a dissonance between scholarship and contemporary viewing habits which has been exaggerated further in recent years due to the rapid rate of digital technological change. Audiences (or, more accurately, ?users?) today are engaging with audiovisual narratives in innumerable ways. They may choose to attend a blockbuster in IMAX 4K 3D in reclining-seats at the multiplex, binge-watch the latest Netflix series at home with friends, or stream YouTube videos on a smartphone on the train. My research argues for the recognition and scholarly validation of these new forms of ?cinema?, in relation to both their spaces and texts. I propose a new method of analysis, using Edward T. Hall?s Proxemic theory, that better reflects the vast array of new viewing spaces available and their implications on viewer reception. Rebecca Lelli is a Masters of Research candidate at Macquarie University. Her research interests are how new ?intimate cinemas? on personal-digital-devices are changing the ways LGBTQIA+ youth engage with queer narrative texts and how this is shaping contemporary queer politics and activism. rebecca.lelli at students.mq.edu.au Directions: This seminar will be held at Macquarie University. Room T3 (Theatre 3), E7B Building Due to extensive construction work on campus, there may be some confusion regarding directions - but do not fear, Macquarie is a small campus. The best place to park is in the South or East carparks. (The south is easier to access, near the library). If you are coming from Macquarie University Station - refer the directions on the map (http://www.mq.edu.au/about/contacts-and-maps/maps). If you have parked near the W or X building at the other end of campus, simply follow Wally's Walk through the campus and you will arrive at E7B. E7B is a large multi-story complex, which has recently undergone renovations. The theatre is Theatre 3 on the ground floor. Refreshments will be served during the seminar. All are welcome. For further details on the Sydney Screen Studies program, please visit sydneyscreenstudies.wordpress.com [http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-facebook-48.png] Facebook [http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-twitter-48.png] Twitter [http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-link-48.png] Website [http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-forwardtofriend-48.png] Email Copyright ? 2017 Sydney Screen Studies Network, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have joined the Sydney Screen Studies Network. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences [Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20171023/7967df69/attachment-0001.html From s.redmond at deakin.edu.au Mon Oct 23 10:53:32 2017 From: s.redmond at deakin.edu.au (Sean Redmond) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 01:23:32 +0000 Subject: [csaa-forum] Call for Papers: Sound-Tracking Melbourne Symposium, 15-16 June 2018 Message-ID: <34CB6B6E-9BB2-4CDA-8539-38FEAEC78385@deakin.edu.au> Call for Papers: Sound-Tracking Melbourne Symposium, 15-16 June 2018 [cid:image001.png at 01D34BF9.BC3116F0] Following the successful Screening Melbourne Symposium in February 2017, the Melbourne Screen Studies Group now seeks to solicit new abstracts for the Sound-Tracking Melbourne Symposium that will take place on 15-16 June 2018. While it is recognized that screen media form the connective tissue of Melbourne?s artistic and cultural life, the importance of sound to the way the moving image is brought to life, is relatively less well acknowledged. The Sound-Tracking Melbourne Symposium not only intends to give due critical and creative weight to the interlocking dimensions of sound design found in Melbourne screen culture, but to address the lack of sustained scholarship on the ways in which the city and its environs are imagined and brought to life on screen through particular ?tracking? soundscapes, from music videos to audiovisual art installations, and from film and TV to games and documentary. Sound-Tracking Melbourne is both a recognition of the importance of sound to moving image culture and an intervention ? asking delegates to hear and see sound in newly important ways. The symposium will do this through delegate presentations, panel discussions, industry events, and performance-screenings. We invite critical and/or creative abstracts, including non-traditional research presentations, for individual 20-minute papers, or pre-constituted panels of 3 x 20-minute papers, on any topic or theme related to the relationship between screen and sound in Melbourne. Industry and medium specific presentations are welcome, as well as those that adopt a broader view of Melbourne?s screen-sound cultures and which make comparisons with national and international case studies. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following areas: * The Melbourne sound-vernacular on screen ? accent, tone and pitch * ?Sound-tracking? gender, ethnicity, class, and sexuality ? hearing and (not) seeing identity * Melbourne?s music-image music scene * Documenting Melbourne life through the sound-image * Melbourne?s music video culture * Melbourne?s installation art and video work: sounding experimental * Sounding the everyday in documentary filmmaking * Locations and settings: the ?sound-track? of place and space * Melbourne film soundtracks * Indigenous soundings in Melbourne screen culture * Melbourne?s local news: ?sound-tracking? news in the cities and regions * Film and television genre soundings. Melbourne as an audio-visual genre. * Migration, home and exile: the sights and sounds of Melbourne?s populations * YouTube Melbourne * Historicising ?sound-tracking? or the ?sound-track? in Melbourne screen culture * Technologies and interfaces of ?sounding? Melbourne on screen: analogue, digital, post-human * Exhibiting sound in Melbourne screen culture ? exploring the acoustics of ?venue? * Composing scores for Melbourne-based film and television * The art of ?sound-tracking? Melbourne * Gaming sound in a Melbourne context * Games and cities: sounding Melbourne as an apocalypse * Starring the Melbourne sound Deadline for individual and panel abstracts: 5 February 2018 Individual Abstracts: 250 words, plus a 50-word biography. Please indicate if a postgraduate student. Pre-constituted Panels: 150-word overview, plus 3x 250 word abstracts, and 3x 50-word biography, plus name of lead contact. Delegates will be notified of decisions by: 5 March 2018 We will award a small bursary for the best PhD abstract submitted (also notified on 5 March) Please direct all abstracts and any enquiries to: screeningmelbourne at gmail.com On behalf of the organisation committee David Chesworth Toija Cinque Adrian Danks Glen Donnar Claire Perkins Sean Redmond Important Notice: The contents of this email are intended solely for the named addressee and are confidential; any unauthorised use, reproduction or storage of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and any attachments immediately and advise the sender by return email or telephone. Deakin University does not warrant that this email and any attachments are error or virus free. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Workshop Digital Life Research Program Institute for Culture and Society in collaboration with Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University 2-3 November 2017 https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/automated_knowledge_and_autonomous_publishing_infrastructures Venue: Parramatta City Campus, 1PSQ, Level 8, Room 12 Organizers: Liam Magee and Ned Rossiter Summary The prospect of cognition outsourced to machines is a worry for many. The automation of knowledge generation and AI-delivered modes of teaching particularly afflicts those working in the university. For many years academics have submitted to the political economy of publishing industries for the trade-offs on offer: esteem and prestige, job security, an outlet for intellectual expression, a basis for research grant applications, and perhaps some sense of community. The horizon of doom again raises questions of an existential kind, not least of which hangs off a sense of futurity without purpose. Purposelessness finds specific form with the rising spectre of machinic, semi-automatic and theory-less knowledge. Examples of the algorithmically-sourced journal article appear in numerous forms, from the apparently benign reference lists curated through Google Scholar?s indexing to machine learning-based inferencing that stretches from method and findings to analysis and conclusions. Increasingly research can meaningfully ask itself what parts of its canonical knowledge format can the algorithm compute effectively? Is its automaticity itself a sign of the journal article?s obsolescence? As one example, Kosinski and Wang, two social psychologists from Stanford, have applied machine learning, apparently with great success, to the identification of sexuality among photos extracted from dating websites. Quite aside from the obvious dangers its conclusions imply, the paper itself can be described as an ?augmented reality? ? one in which algorithms construct new links between the structure of faces and sexual preference, a new phantasm or simulation of the ?real,? minimally ?augmented? by contributions from human authors. It begs a return to Freudian and Derridean concepts of unconscious or automatic writing, with a terrifying new political spin. The algorithm identifies your sexuality, and partly writes up its own findings. For now, astute review can pick apart bias in its assumptions and interpretations. But the era of machinic knowledge production and review is also clearly underway. The cold sword of autonomous knowledge production devoid of the all-too-human qualities of curiosity and doubt, elation and despair adheres to the proliferation of machinic imaginaries. When facial recognition technologies get airplay for their supposed capacity to identify sexuality and our intellectual capabilities, it would seem we have well and truly entered the augmented reality of control society. If reality is determined by the fallacy of machine intelligence, then what implications does this hold for knowledge generated out of the academy? But might we also see this as an occasion to crystallize a politics of autonomy? For writers, designers, scholars and theorists, this two-day workshop explores how publishing infrastructures might reside at the core of knowledge production predicated on the logic of an autonomous commons. Indeed, how might we envisage something like an AI commons? What are the parameters through which wild theory, for instance, might be produced by the machine while we kick back with another glorious day at the beach? And, more seriously, how might an automated commons guard against data expropriation that increasingly defines extractivist economies of the tech sector and university alike? In pursuing the possibility of autonomous knowledge infrastructures, this workshop advances a politics of collaborative constitution. Program DAY 1 2 November 10.00?10.30am Welcome and Introduction 10.30?12.30pm Automating Knowledge and Invasive Apparatuses 12.30?1.30pm Lunch 1.30?3.30pm Open Knowledge Publishing 3.30?3.45pm Tea/coffee 3.45?4.30pm Summary panel DAY 2 3 November 10.30?12.30pm Implementing New Knowledge Environments 12.30?1.30pm Lunch 1.30?3.30pm Knowledge Production and Autonomous Infrastructures (Fibreculture Publications) 3.30?3.45pm Tea/coffee 3.45?4.30pm Closing panel and discussion No registration fee required. RSVP by 30 October: https://tinyurl.com/y9pfr3bl Panel Summaries: Automating Knowledge and Invasive Apparatuses Drawing on political traditions and practices of autonomy, this panel undertakes the work of translation to forge a connection with media of expression. We introduce the concept autonomous media as an analytical device and empirical condition that marks the arrival of computational systems able to exert a form of sovereign authority over the organization and management of society. Speakers Liam Magee, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Ned Rossiter, Institute for Culture and Society/School of Humanities and Communication Arts, WSU Open Knowledge and Publishing This panel looks at the evolving role of publishing in opening up the access to and creation of knowledge in various contexts. Through the examinations of digital publishing, open access, and literature translation, the presentations interrogate the dynamics of publishing in removing the socio-economic and intercultural barriers against the growth and exchange of knowledge, as well as the political economy of the initiatives. The panel further discusses what we mean by ?open knowledge? in the digital globalisation of publishing today. Speakers Xiang Ren, Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University Lucy Montgomery, Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT), Curtin University Ivor Indyk, Centre for Writing and Society, Western Sydney University Implementing New Knowledge Environments The Digital Humanities Research Group is a member of the ?Implementing New Knowledge Environments? consortium: a collaborative group of researchers based mainly in Canada focussed on networked open social scholarship (http://inke.ca/). The activities of INKE include an ?open scholarship policy observatory?. In this panel we discuss the implications of INKE for the digital humanities at large, and how Australia can contribute a unique perspective to Canadian and global discussions on new modes of scholarly knowledge production. Speakers Rachel Hendery, Digital Humanities Research Group, Western Sydney University Jason Ensor, Library, WSU Hart Cohen, School of Humanities and Communication Arts/Institute for Culture and Society, WSU Knowledge Production and Autonomous Infrastructures (Fibreculture Publishing) Open access, online publishing finds itself ?occupying? the ?publishing? of old. With this, it also challenges academic and more general research practice. It would be great to say that this resonates with the like of ?Occupy Wall Street?. Yet OA and online publishing are also caught up in what is literally a struggle over capital, institutions, and sovereign territories. In this session, we will give short presentations on the practical role of abstractions; the new research environment in which students face ?infinite knowledge?; and the politics of identity/identifiers in academic practice. Speakers Andrew Murphie, School of the Arts & Media, Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, UNSW Mat Wall-Smith, Director of Learning, Polygon Door, Wollongong Glen Fuller, Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra -- Ned Rossiter Professor of Communication Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts Western Sydney University Parramatta Campus Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751 Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20171024/b53a9184/attachment-0001.html From e.stephens at uq.edu.au Wed Oct 25 15:51:47 2017 From: e.stephens at uq.edu.au (Elizabeth Stephens) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 06:21:47 +0000 Subject: [csaa-forum] Future Affects: a Collaboratory on Art, Affect and Automation at UQ, Draft Programme Message-ID: <7DE75A64-42B5-447C-A7EF-208EC63A221F@uq.edu.au> The draft programme for Future Affects: A Collaboratory on Art, Affect and Automation is now available. Please note that this event is free, but very close to capacity. RSVPs essential via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/future-affects-a-collaboratory-on-art-affect-and-automation-tickets-37481020742. A flyer for the event is attached. Event Description Researchers and practitioners across a wide range of disciplines have increasingly recognized the importance of working collaboratively in order to tackle the complex challenges and cultural transformations produced by the emergence of a new data society driven by algorithms, automated technologies and artificial intelligence. What new ways of thinking are emerging in response to these transformations? What new bodies of knowledge will help us make sense of the affective and perceptive dimensions of post- and non-human assemblages, and the new temporal and affective networks to which these are beginning to give rise? How is the future already affecting the present? The aim of this collaboratory is to provide a discussion forum for the sharing of ideas and development of multi-disciplinary networks for those interested in these vital intersections of art, affect and automation. Presentations will take the form of 5-minute provocations, offering works-in-progress, ideas-in-formation and concepts-in-emergence. Our desire is to think future affects together. This event is supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of the Emotions and ARC Future Fellowship FT170100214. Future Affects: Draft Programme 10am-6pm, Monday November 6 2017 IASH Seminar Room Level 4, Forgan Smith Tower University of Queensland 10.00-10.15: Opening remarks 10.15-11.00: PANEL ONE: Algorithmic Cultures Peta Mitchell and Marcus Foth: Algorithmic futures and the future city Caroline Wilson-Barnao: The algorithmic museum and the automation of culture Kathryn Fox [Brimblecombe-Fox]: Militarised Imaginations 11.00-12.00: PANEL TWO: Automation and Affect Dr Laini Burton: Automating the senses: Cyborg Nest?s ?The North Sense? Guerrilla Knowledge Unit (Linda Knight & Jacinta Leong): ME/YOU/US + AI? Erika Kerruish: The expression of empathy by robots: feeling unlike you Lisa Bode: Towards a history of the synthespian 12.00-12.45: LUNCH 12.45-1.45: PANEL THREE: Medical, Legal and Historical Perspectives Dolly MacKinnon: Pulse Andrew Ventimiglia: The Angel in the Machine: Divining Legal Authorship in Channelled and Computer-Generated Works Paul Tyson: Techne and Telos Russell Smith: In the Automatic Factory 1.45-2.30: PANEL FOUR: Affective Aesthetics and Gender Susan Best: Performance art and the collective body Nike Sulway: Imagine me: a provocation Shamara Ransirini: Militant Corporealities: Gendering Affect and the Insurgent Body in Political Conflicts 2.30-3.00: AFTERNOON TEA 3.00-3.45: PANEL FIVE: Affective and Aesthetic Orientations Grayson Cooke: Remote sensing of the Earth: affective and aesthetic dimensions Indy Clark: The Future in the Past: Garden City Poetry, 1885?1936 Frederico Fialho Teixeira: Affects and Percepts in Autopoietic Synesthetic Design 3.45-4.45: PANEL SIX: Affect and Algorithms Anna Gibbs: Algorithmical, Atmospherical Michael Richardson: Affect and Algorithmic Politics Karin Sellberg: Prognostic Ontology Elizabeth Stephens: The Mechanical Turk: The Human(ities) in the Machine 4.45-5.00: Closing discussion 5.00-6.00: Reception (Level 3 of the Forgan Smith Tower) Elizabeth Stephens ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Cultural Studies Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities University of Queensland St Lucia Australia 4072 Webpage: http://uq.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20171025/dde5ab4c/attachment.html From Kelly.McWilliam at usq.edu.au Thu Oct 26 07:47:01 2017 From: Kelly.McWilliam at usq.edu.au (Kelly McWilliam) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 22:17:01 +0000 Subject: [csaa-forum] Reminder: Abstracts due 30/10 for 'Wentworth is the New Prisoner' TV conf (RMIT April 2018) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Interested in exploitation genres and women-in-prison dramas? Australian TV aficionado? Soap opera researcher? Is TV format trade and international versioning your thing? How do your rate prison dramas in the post-broadcast 'prestige TV' era? Interested in representations of diversity and queer sexuality behind bars? Perhaps you're a signed-up member of the Frankie Doyle club? Time to 'bust out' your abstract for the upcoming 'Wentworth is the New Prisoner' TV conference at RMIT in April 2018 Abstracts due this Monday 30 Oct! governorwentworth at gmail.com Wentworth is the New Prisoner a two-day international conference Thursday 5th and Friday 6th April 2018, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Confirmed keynote speakers and panellists: Professor Sue Turnbull (University of Wollongong, Australia); Kim Akass (University of Hertfordshire, UK); Kate Hood (actress, writer and director, aka Prisoner?s Kath Maxwell); Jan Russ (casting director, Prisoner, Neighbours, etc.) Wentworth (aka Wentworth Prison) is an award-winning Australian prison drama series now in its fifth season and recently renewed for a sixth season. It screens in Australia on Foxtel, in the UK on Channel 5 and in the USA on Netflix. The series was inspired by Prisoner (aka Cell Block H), a groundbreaking drama produced between 1979 and 1986, which was internationally successful and led to a cult following. Set in a women?s prison in contemporary Melbourne, Wentworth dramatises current cultural and political issues, and provides a rich example of creative and industrial screen practice that can often be read in the context of its predecessor, Prisoner. This conference will unite those who study and are fans of Wentworth and Prisoner, with those who are or who have been involved in making the series. We invite abstracts for papers (critical or creative, 20 minutes) from academics, practitioners or those who are both, including research degree candidates and early career researchers. All topics related to Wentworth and Prisoner will be considered, with the aim of generating a lively exchange of critical and creative ideas. Our intention is that selected papers from the conference will lead to a publication (most likely an edited collection). Conference organising committee:Associate Professor Craig Batty (RMIT University); Dr Tessa Dwyer (Monash University); Dr Radha O?Meara (University of Melbourne); Dr Stayci Taylor (RMIT University). Please email your 300-word paper abstract, along with a 100-word biography, to governorwentworth at gmail.com by Monday 30 October 2017. Potential paper and panel topics include, but are not limited to: ? Gender in Wentworth/Prisoner ? Sexuality and Queerness in Wentworth/Prisoner ? Class in Wentworth/Prisoner ? Prison industrial complex in Wentworth/Prisoner ? Race and ethnicity in Wentworth/Prisoner ? Diversity behind bars ? Nation in Wentworth/Prisoner ? Violence in Wentworth/Prisoner ? Substance abuse in Wentworth/Prisoner ? Mental health and mental illness in Wentworth/Prisoner ? Aesthetics of Wentworth/Prisoner ? Serial narrative and Wentworth/Prisoner ? Performance in Wentworth/Prisoner ? Wentworth as reboot or remake of Prisoner ? Television genre and the prison drama ? Prestige TV and prison dramas ? Reception of Wentworth/Prisoner ? Wentworth/Prisoner fans, fan practices and fandoms ? Distribution of Wentworth/Prisoner ? Creative practice in the development and production of Wentworth/Prisoner ? Industrial practice in the development and production of Wentworth/Prisoner ? Wentworth/Prisoner and transnational TV and format trade ? Activism, Social Change and Wentworth/Prisoner ? Music and lyrics in Wentworth/Prisoner -- Tessa Dwyer Lecturer, Film and Screen Studies School of Media, Film and Journalism Monash University, Caulfield Campus Building B, Level 4, Rm B4.28 Caulfield East, VIC 3145 Australia T +613 9903 4633 Tessa.Dwyer at monash.edu _____________________________________________________________ This email (including any attached files) is confidential and is for the intended recipient(s) only. 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With the rapid growth of digital technology, however, collecting data on audiences? opinions towards specific content, products, or services has eased the process through electronic Word-of-Mouth (WOM) communication. WOM data can provide valuable insights into understanding audiences? opinions, as audiences believe they are recommending and giving advice to their peers without the involvement of the organisation responsible for marketing the product or service in question. WOM conversations are therefore perceived as spontaneous responses that can offer relatively objective insights. This paper demonstrates the benefits of using WOM communication through collecting and analysing data from the Chinese social networking site Douban to understand Chinese audience opinions on the current highest grossing film in China ? The Mermaid (Chow 2016), a co-production between Hong Kong and China. This paper examines the factors behind the film?s success, the effects of transnationality in Chinese cinema, and the reception behind the fluidity of censorship in Chinese cinema. Kai Soh is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of the Arts, English, and Media at the University of Wollongong. Her research explores the transformation of the Chinese film industry through transnational collaborations since China joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001. Her thesis examines international film co-productions and collaborations with China by analysing Chinese audience opinions on the social networking site Douban. krs354 at uowmail.edu.au Refreshments will be served during the seminar. All are welcome. 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How can impact be measured in relation to research intentions and contribution? Supported by the peak body for screen production education and research in Australia - ASPERA - this one-day symposium connects the academy with industry to ask these very questions and ?explore possible strategies. As well as leading screen production and creative practice researchers, the symposium will benefit from the participation of key figures from the screen and affiliated industries, including Screen Australia, SBS and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. Although there is a screen production research focus to the day, the Symposium may also be relevant to other creative practice and cultural researchers who are similarly grappling with the implications of the Federal Government's National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA). To register go to http://bit.ly/spreis ________________________________ Schedule 11.15am - 11.30am - Acknowledgement of country and welcome 11.30 -12.30pm - Keynote Distinguished Professor Jen Webb, Director, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra 12.30 - 1.30pm - Panel 1: Academics Led by Associate Professor Philip McIntyre (University of Newcastle) With Dr Marsha Berry (RMIT University), Dr Bettina Frankham (UTS), Dr Susan Kerrigan (University of Newcastle) and Associate Professor James Verdon (Swinburne University of Technology). 1.30 - 2.15pm Lunch 2.15 - 3.00pm Panel 2: Industry Led by Professor Jock Given (Swinburne University of Technology) With Patrick May (Screen Australia), Dr John Hughes (Filmmaker), Saskia Ilott (SBS) and Matthew Connell (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences). 3.00 - 3.45pm Panel 3: Research Leaders Led by Associate Professor Craig Batty (RMIT) With Professor Alan McKee (UTS), Professor Paul Egglestone (University of Newcastle), Professor Heather Horst (University of Sydney) and Professor Ross Gibson (University of Canberra). 3.45 - 4.00 Short break 4.00 - 5.00pm Plenary and summary? 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The Fellow will have access to the Collection under the guidance of the AFIRC staff. The Fellowship will provide a stipend of up to $5000 (AUD). The Fellow will be required to make a presentation of their work in progress to the School of Media and Communication towards the conclusion of their Fellowship. ABOUT THE AFI RESEARCH COLLECTION The AFI Research Collection is a specialist film and television industry research library open to the public. The Collection houses unique materials not available for film scholarship elsewhere and a range of books, journals, scripts, directories, reports, posters, and festival catalogues. It is particularly strong in screen history, theory, and Australian cinema. 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Marshall presents "The New Word of Mouth Culture: Pandemic Fame / Persona / Rumour / Reputation and the Production of Information Instability? - Celebrity Chat interview on Freddie Mercury (Season 3 Episode 4) - LSE PhD candidate Winnie M Li wins The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize - CMCS Op-Ed, Essays, and Reviews - PhD Job Search Course (free) You may now access the newsletter for printing or review here*: **bit.ly/2y9v9uS * If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, sign up here . We look forward to conversations with you on our Twitter . Visit our website ( www.cmc-centre.com) for further announcements. 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. With this view, CMCS facilitates research, publications, creative productions, and media commentaries to restore artistic and ethical acts for social change. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20171027/287bedeb/attachment.html From robcover at gmail.com Sat Oct 28 03:34:50 2017 From: robcover at gmail.com (Rob Cover) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 02:04:50 +0800 Subject: [csaa-forum] CFP: Symposium (4-5 December, 2017) - Digital Stereotypes (Queer, Indigenous, Migrant, Refugee) [DEADLINE EXTENDED] Message-ID: Dear colleagues, some of us who work in areas of digital media, representation, queer studies, migration studies, sociology and Indigenous studies may be interested in the below small, intimate symposium being held in December in Perth. Short, informal proposals needed *Friday 3 November* (extended deadline); we're particularly interested in any areas of visual representation, minorities, media practices and anything from which 'stereotypes' provides an intersecting point-of-critique. We envisage a very relaxed, end-of-year event, an exchange of ideas, with some publication opportunities following. More info, see below or download the CFP as a PDF from: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q8txwcoie4cblbl/CFP%20-%20Digital%20Stereotypes%20Symposium%204-5%20December%20%28EXTENDED%29.pdf?dl=0 Cheers, Rob :) ============== *Symposium Invitation: * *Minority Stereotypes in Digital Culture* *The University of Western Australia; 4-5 December 2017.* *Stereotypes* have been?and continue to be?the most common and recognised form of visual representation of minorities (especially Indigenous, gender and sexually-diverse persons, and ethnic/migrant minorities) in film, television, advertising and online media. Stereotypes are a common ?byte? of visual communication that link a visual representation of an identity group with a set of?usually narrow and non-representative?attributes, behaviours, tastes and expectations into an easily-recognisable package. Although stereotypes develop and change over time, their restrictive identity information remain in circulation and are very difficult to get rid of; indeed, critiquing them often puts them into further circulation. *Vulnerability and Wellbeing: *Minorities in general are particularly vulnerable to stereotyping which can impact by affecting the ability of members of minority groups to participate as genuine, complex and diverse subjects in social, labour, community, neighbourhood of family relations; they create pressures on younger persons to conform to narrow stereotypes in order to participate as coherent subjects, adding stresses that have negative physiological and mental health consequences; and they reduce the capabilities of minority groups to seek positive inclusion and full acceptance. Stereotypes can also be a weapon of harassment and cyberbullying and are often deployed as an impediment to progressive political change. Indeed, the contemporary inequitable distribution of vulnerability rests significantly on the continued circulation and believability of minority visual stereotypes. *Digital stereotypes today: *Although since the 1990s digital, online, networked and mobile media has often been celebrated as a site of potential diversity in representation, much online activity arguably reproduces and re-circulates stereotypes. *Search engines* depend on algorithms which, in the case of minorities, can produce stereotyped *commonality* rather than *diversity of image*; *Public relations and marketing* rely on easily-recognisable images, often pulled from stock image databases using searchable tags which link an identity with a ?visual expectation?; *Minority media and health communication* rely on recognisability, which can sometimes be stereotypical rather than outreaching; *Self-representation* such as in social networking can sometimes also encourage the reliance on visual stereotypes to communicate quickly, rather than the slower activity of demonstrating complexity and diversity. *Symposium December 2017 **? The Digital Stereotypes Collaboration team invite proposals for presentations which address any aspect of Minorities, Media and Stereotypes. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary postgraduate and early-career research where questions around stereotypes, visual or digital images might intersect with that work in productive ways. Some intersections might include:* - Gender- and sexually-diverse representations, lgbtiq+ communities - Indigenous persons and communities - Migrants, temporary migrants, international students, refugees and asylum seekers - Political, social, health and educational implications of stereotypes - Digital practices, media practitioners - ?Any other areas that are of some relevant to stereotypes, visual images, vulnerabilities. *Media practitioners, service providers, public relations professionals, digital media experts and community advocates are very welcome to participate. * *About the symposium* - Will be held on the University of Western Australia campus, 4-5 December. - For those attending TASA in Perth, the symposium is held the week following the TASA conference. - Lunch will be provided at no cost on both days. - Selected papers may be invited for publication in an anthology or special issue. *How to submit a proposal* *P*lease send a 150-300 word abstract plus a short 20-50 word bio to the Digital Stereotypes Collaboration team at *digital.stereotypes at gmail.com* by *Friday 3 November*. (Rob or Kirsty will respond by Friday 10 November). ____________________________________________ Rob Cover Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences The University of Western Australia Crawley WA 6009 +61 8 6488 4305 <+61%208%206488%204305> wk 0437 902 967 sms r ob.cover at uwa.edu.au Profile: http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/rob.cover ____________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20171028/7c08b1e0/attachment-0001.html From rosslyn.prosser at adelaide.edu.au Sat Oct 28 14:50:25 2017 From: rosslyn.prosser at adelaide.edu.au (Rosslyn Prosser) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 05:20:25 +0000 Subject: [csaa-forum] Literary Event Adelaide 23rd November 2017 Message-ID: All welcome please register via Eventbrite link on attached pdf doc. 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Best, Sonja Dr. Sonja van Wichelen Senior Lecturer | ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Department of Sociology and Social Policy THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm 106, Lvl 1, RC Mills A26 | School of Social and Political Sciences Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | The University of Sydney | NSW 2006 Australia T +61 2 9114 1281 | F +61 2 9036 9380 | M +61 4 3022 0235 E sonja.vanwichelen at sydney.edu.au | W http://sydney.edu.au/arts/staff/profiles/sonja.vanwichelen.php Convenor ? Biopolitics of Science Research Network From: webmaster at 4sonline.org [mailto:webmaster at 4sonline.org] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 11:47 PM To: Sonja van Wichelen > Subject: 4S Sydney: Submit Open Panel proposals now! [https://4smembers.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/Images/email-hdr-gen.gif] [https://4smembers.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/images/sydney180.png] 4S Community, The deadline for submitting Open Panel proposals for the 4S Sydney meeting (August 29-Sept 1, 2018) is next week -- November 1. Please see the Call for Open Panels, and submit with this online form. We look forward to having a diverse array of open panels this year, bringing STS scholars from different regions and genealogies together in new ways -- helping realize the conference theme, TRANSnational STS (already translated into many languages)! Questions? Email us. And don?t forget to follow us on twitter! Kim Fortun, 4S President Society for Social Studies of Science 4sonline.org | 4smembers.org webmaster at 4sonline.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20171028/13a2a7e3/attachment.html