[csaa-forum] Introduction to The Asian Media and Cultural Studies Network

[Sean Redmond]

The Asian Media and Cultural Studies Network
is transdisciplinary, drawing on scholars from across the arts, social science and humanities disciplines and who work in both national and transnational Asian contexts. The network will explore Asian media and cultural studies from the ‘inside out’, reversing previous core-periphery binaries. It will undertake comparative and cross-cultural work, particularly in the areas of digital media production, youth cultures, national and regional identities, and cultures of fame. The Asian Media and Cultural Studies Network is an initiative of Deakin University with partners from Tsinghua and Wuhan Universities in China, Shanghai University, Hong Kong Baptist University, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Osaka City University in Japan, and the University of Hyderabad, India, amongst others.

Further details of the network can be found here<https://www.deakin.edu.au/communication-creative-arts/research/asian-media-and-cultural-studies-network> and here<https://www.facebook.com/groups/220341592560951/>

We would like to draw colleagues to two activities that the Network has been involved in:

The #MeToo Asia Thinking Aloud Series curated by Dr Monika Winarnita, Deakin University

The series explore the way that #MeToo Movement was translated and transformed in China, India, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

With audio pieces by:

Dr Qian Gong from Curtin University, powerfully explores the #MeToo movement in China in relation to sexual assault and female solidarity. Available here<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUijNP1iKhM&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1b8CsD8WLTmoUoBbJJCqRtdLQdz_L9i84JC1IlGNCOvv68D1TWeZrZSxc>

Dr Emerald King, Lecturer in Japanese from La Trobe University This episode includes the story of the Japanese flower demonstration in solidarity with victims of sexual violence and the message "with you". Available here<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXEXO8xkxSk&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3azS7uEDUFdocC7jxEF7W093rL8kvR3ZbGOFG7m6QU8Owui-zrjXvabXY>

Dr Gauri D. Chakraborty Associate Professor at the Amity School of Communication, India, on stories from India such as the social media movement '#memum' on how systemic sexual harassment have been silenced or 'mummed' in Bollywood and India's creative industries. Available here<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQfK5JcL568>

Joanne Byrne, PhD Scholar in Anthropology, Social Inquiry from La Trobe University. It features stories about the House of the Unsilenced art project #houseoftheunsilenced, #TalkAboutIt (#MulaiBicara) campaign, Jakarta Feminist Discussion Group, and Magdalene a bilingual online women focused publication with a feminist perspective. Available here<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0hKczLUCnE>

Dr Earvin Charles Cabalquinto, Lecturer in Communication at Deakin University Melbourne Australia, explores the Filipino women's movement in the digital sphere and beyond. #BabaeAko (I am Woman) story begins in 2018 as online posts together with the statement Lalaban ako! (I Will Fight) which then went beyond the digital sphere into street protests to end misogyny. The latest campaign #HijaAko was used to reclaim the term Hija (daughter, female teen) as girls who fight for their rights as human beings. This last presentation from our inaugural podcast series #MeToo Asia ends with a reflection on how #BabaeAko and #HijaAko are social media movements in the Philippines to fight back against sexism, exploitation and misogyny. Available here<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soSObZcsE1I&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3yJVXf53P3nfRKpDX32WNsqRpVGyNBFbku32TNw4aUqkBfuJ0wYljB3OI>


Asian Celebrity and the Pandemic: Misreading the Room?

In this this virtual roundtable discussion our panellists explore how celebrities in Asia responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. They draw on examples from China, India, Hong Kong and Singapore. They ask, was their input an example of democratisation, resistance, personal branding, or fan communion? Did some celebrities misread the room or provide affective responses for ordinary people to gather around? Did celebrities in Asia speak for or against the imagined nation state or offer new transnational relationships? Q&A follows the discussion.

Panellists:
Dr Crystal Abidin, Senior Research Fellow & ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University
Dr Bertha Chin, Lecturer (Social Media) , School of Design and Arts, Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak campus)
Dr Dorothy W. S. LAU, Assistant Professor, Programme Director, Film and Television Concentration, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr Nandana Bose, Ph.D. Film Studies, University of Nottingham, Author of Madhuri Dixit (BFI: 2019)

Available here<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN_l7YU4scGPQfPdFu6bgRg/featured>

For further details about the network please contact Jian Xu j.xu at deakin.edu.au<mailto:j.xu at deakin.edu.au> or Sean Redmond s.redmond at deakin.edu.au<mailto:s.redmond at deakin.edu.au>




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