[csaa-forum] asiapacific at rmit september

[Catherine Gomes]

The Graduate School of Business and Law (GSBL),  the School of Media and Communication and the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (GUSS) invite you to attend the AsiaPacific at RMIT seminar.



Date: Thursday, 12 September 2019
Time: 12:30 pm – 1.30 pm

Venue: The Boardroom (Level 4), Building 13 (Emily McPherson College)<https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/our-heritage/historical-buildings/building-13-emily-mcpherson-college>, 405 Russell St (corner Russell and Victoria Sts). See here <https://www.google.com/maps/place/405+Russell+St,+Melbourne+VIC+3000/@-37.8072528,144.962973,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x6ad642cc40e38ed7:0x8b16bac3b66a6e2!8m2!3d-37.8072528!4d144.9651617> for map.

Presenter: Dr Usha Manchanda Rodrigues (Deakin University)

Title: What impact social media had on the 2019 Indian elections?



Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again won the Indian general elections with a landslide victory by largely ignoring the mainstream media and embracing direct communication with his followers on social media and public broadcasting channels.  This strategy of direct communication was also adopted by opposition parties, with a significant proportion of Indian voters, enjoying the war of words/memes on various social media networks.  However, in the post-truth era, the menace of misinformation on encrypted services such as WhatsApp during the 2019 Indian elections also seriously eroded the public’s trust in the information they consumed online.  The erosion of trust ironically had similar impact on the credibility of journalism, which has been already struggling to be heard in the cacophony of media messages coming from hundreds of television channels, thousands of news sites and various social networking platforms.  This paper argues that there is a structural shift in the Indian public sphere, which might prove to be the greatest challenge for the Indian Fourth Estate.


Bio

Dr Usha M. Rodrigues is a senior academic in Journalism and Communication at Deakin University, Australia.  Her research examines changing contemporary journalism practices including media in India and Australia.  Dr Rodrigues has published three co-authored books and several peer reviewed journal articles on research that crosses national boundaries.  She has secured external funding to carry out her industry-and-community collaborative research projects on cultural diversity in Australian media; citizen and community media in Australia and India; and social media and political communication in India.  Dr Rodrigues has also taught undergraduate and postgraduate subjects across the full spectrum of news media platforms.

It’s a brown bag lunch event. Please RSVP  catherine.gomes at rmit.edu.au<mailto:supriya.singh at rmit.edu.au> by Friday 6 September.



Best wishes,

Cat Gomes, Supriya Singh and Paul Battersby



AsiaPacific at RMIT 2019 seminar lineup


12 September

Deakin University


9 October

Looking Outward, Looking Inward: Conveying Japan’s popular music as cultural heritage through the song contest 'Kouhaku Utagassen'

Dr Shelley Brunt

RMIT University


13 November

Asia Pacific aged care workforce in Australia: gender, race, class and the feminization of labour migration


Dr Monika Winarnita


La Trobe University




Assoc. Professor Catherine Gomes
School of Media and Communication
RMIT University
tel: 61-3-9925 5068
Email: catherine.gomes at rmit.edu.au
Staff website<https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/g/gomes-associate-professor-catherine>

Latest Publications (journals, book chapters)
Transience as Method: A conceptual lens to understanding evolving trends in migration, mobility and diversity, in the transnational space<https://academic.oup.com/migration/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/migration/mnz027/5531249?redirectedFrom=fulltext>
Identity as a strategy for negotiating everyday life in transience: A study of Asian foreign talent in Singapore<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0011392118792929>

Latest books
Siloed Diversity: Transnational Migration, Digital Media and Social Networks<https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9789811303319>
Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific: Transformative Experiences in the Age of Digital Media <https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/transnational_migrations_in_the_asiapacific/3-156-3ad7333d-8296-45dc-91de-c70c9714fe65>
Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity: Media and Migration in Australia and Singapore<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811016387>
Quality Assurance in Asia-Pacific Universities Implementing Massification in Higher Education <https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319834436#otherversion=9783319461083>
The Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility: The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/asiapacific-in-the-age-of-transnational-mobility/F0B9E608EED53C2CDA546311B158F383>

Project website: http://translatingimpermanence.org/

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