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<span style="color: black; "><b>New Media Regulation and Cultural Literacies -- The Need for Evidence-Based Policy</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black; ">The transformation of communication via networked digital media has led to a blurring between media producers and users. There are increasing calls for restriction of content that is legal in some jurisdictions but is considered
offensive in Australia. This has created a new framework of risk to young people who are consumers and creators of material that conflicts with national classification standards. This project aims to (1) present evidence-based research into the kinds of communicative
environments that exist in seemingly problematic online communities; (2) analyse and critique current Australian standards and strategies for regulation (3) and recommend ways that academics, policy makers and users can be brought into dialogue so as to generate
more culturally literate regulatory policies.</span><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">This University of Wollongong workshop involves a series of case studies about communicative environments in specific “communities of use” that are affected by legislation
aimed at preventing certain kinds of representation/speech acts. These include “Boys Love” (a female-based Japanese manga fandom dedicated to male-male romance); “extreme” music communities (user-generated music subcultures using obscene lyrics and images);
teenage “sexting” (exchange of explicit visual and textual materials via new media); and transgressive art practices that challenge normative understandings of childhood as asexual. These case studies will be commented on by experts from both law and informatics
– adding valuable perspectives from outside of the cultural studies paradigms adopted by most speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Mark McLelland, Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> <br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">NSW 2522</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> <br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Australia</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> <br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">tel: 02-4221-4305</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> <br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">web: <a href="http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/ssmac/staff/UOW018742.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/ssmac/staff/UOW018742.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Latest publication: <i>Love, Sex and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation</i>, New York: Macmillan,</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/lovesexanddemocracyinjapanduringtheamericanoccupation/MarkMcLelland" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://us.macmillan.com/lovesexanddemocracyinjapanduringtheamericanoccupation/MarkMcLelland</a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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