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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><B>NATIONAL CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN STUDIES<BR>
SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, AUSTRALIAN & INDIGENOUS STUDIES<BR>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Reception and the negotiation of meaning are key concerns in the field of cultural production, particularly in relation to authorship, publishing, journalism, television and now digital media. This Masterclass Series will concentrate on the ways in which we understand the activity of readers and audiences and the ways they make sense of cultural products. We will consider them spatially, temporally and materially, and will cut across a range of reception practices from in-depth reading to online browsing. How can we as researchers engage with these changing forms and practices of readership? What might we gain by bringing together insights from different media and contexts of reception? These Masterclasses bring together an illustrious, interdisciplinary panel of Australian and international experts to address these questions.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><B> MASTERCLASS ONE: Friday 30th March 2012 <BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13pt'><B><I>‘The Persistent Audience’<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13pt'><B><I> </I></B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><I>‘To counter the Jay Rosen proposal that what we are dealing with now is “the</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><I>people formerly known as the audience” - at least in theory and approach!’<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>When: Friday 30th March 2012 (9.30am – 4.00pm)</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Where: The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> <I>Keywords</I>: television, reception, readership, audience, memory<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Dr Sue Turnbull is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Wollongong. Her research interests include media education, media audiences and television studies. She is currently writing a book on television crime drama for Edinburgh University Press and has recently co-edited a collection of essays with Dr Kate Darian–Smith entitled <I>Remembering Television</I> (forthcoming 2012), which brings together television history and memory studies. She is a former President of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association and currently editor of the academic journal <I>Media International Australia</I> as well as co-editor of Particip@tions, the online journal of audience and reception studies. Sue is a frequent television and radio commentator and is crime-fiction reviewer for <I>The</I> <I>Sydney Morning Herald</I>.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <BR>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Enquiries</SPAN></B><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><a href="Jinna.Tay@monash.edu">Jinna.Tay@monash.edu</a> </FONT>or <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><a href="Louise.Poland@monash.edu">Louise.Poland@monash.edu</a><BR>
</FONT><B>RSVP</B>: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><a href="Robert.Kelly@monash.edu">Robert.Kelly@monash.edu</a></FONT> <BR>
Please include a 100-word expression of interest. Readings will be provided.<BR>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><B>Forthcoming Masterclasses …<BR>
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<SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><I>Dr Danielle Fuller<BR>
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on reading communities<BR>
Friday 22 June 2012 TBC<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><I>Prof. Pat Buckridge<BR>
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on reading experience<BR>
Friday 17 August 2012<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><I>Dr Alberto Manguel<BR>
</I>Renowned author of<I> <BR>
A History of Reading</I> (1996)<BR>
and <I>A Reader on Reading </I>(2010)<BR>
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