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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney invites you to attend a public presentation by
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">PROFESSOR JAMES CURRAN</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> (Goldsmiths, University of London)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">‘The Internet: Prophecy and Reality’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This public presentation will examine what experts have said would happen as a result of the internet, and what has actually happened. While
the internet has effected some significant changes, the transformations that were predicted have not occurred. The internet has
<u>not</u>, as confidently claimed by many commentators:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">provided a geyser of prosperity;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">promoted global understanding;
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">empowered the powerless;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">caused the fall of dictatorships, or
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">generated a renaissance of journalism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Indeed many forecasts have been unfulfilled. Why, then, has internet prophecy so often departed from internet reality, and can it now be legitimately described as another
‘God that failed’?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">James Curran is the Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University
of London. He is author and editor (solely and collaboratively) of over 20 books about the media, including the recent works
<i>Media and Democracy</i> (Routledge, 2011); <i>How Media Inform Democracy</i> (edited with Toril Aalberg, Routledge, 2011);
<i>Power Without Responsibility</i> (with Jean Seaton, 7<sup>th</sup> edition, Routledge, 2010), and the forthcoming
<i>Misunderstanding the Internet</i> (with Des Freedman and Natalie Fenton, Routledge, 2012).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Date: Wednesday, September 21 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">To RSVP your attendance, contact
<a href="mailto:c.nguy@uws.edu.au">c.nguy@uws.edu.au</a> or (02) 9685 9600 by September 13, 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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