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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#17365d">26<sup>th</sup> July:
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#17365d">‘Locating Television:
<i>Working Between Disciplines’</i></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In
this talk, Anna Cristina Pertierra and Graeme Turner will discuss the
series of projects that fed into, and emerged from, their recent book
<i>Locating Television: Zones of Consumption </i>(Routledge, 2013).
Focused upon understanding the socio-cultural function of television
and new media in a number of national locations, the comparative
dimension of these projects has directly informed the
development of the notion of ‘zones of consumption’ as an alternative
way of conceptualising how media are located. Importantly, the book is
also the product of a collaboration between cultural studies and
cultural anthropology; a discussion of that collaboration
will be a central focus of the presentation. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr
Anna Cristina Pertierra is an ARC Posdoctoral Research Fellow in the
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University
of Queensland, and an anthropologist whose central research interests
are in media, especially television, and the role of consumption in
everyday life. Her current ARC funded project is a comparative study of
the social function of television in Cuba, Mexico
and the Philippines. She is the author of</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
<span>Cuba: The Struggle for Consumption<i> </i></span>(2011), <i>
the co-author</i> <i>(with Graeme Turner) of<span> </span></i><span>Locating Television: Zones of Consumption (</span>2013),
<i>and the co-editor (with John Sinclair) of</i> <span>Consumer Culture in Latin America
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> <i>Emeritus
Professor Graeme Turner also works in the Centre for Critical and
Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, and
he is one of the leading figures in media and cultural studies. His
most recent publications include (with Anna Cristina Pertierra)</i>
<span>Locating Television: Zones of Consumption</span>(2013), <span>
What’s Become of Cultural Studies? </span>(2012), <i>and </i><span>Ordinary People and the Media: The Demotic Turn</span> (2010).
<i>He is currently co-editing (with Jinna Tay and Koichi Iwabuchi) the collection</i>
<span>Television Histories in Asia<i> </i></span><i>and a revised edition of his</i>
<span>Understanding Celebrity</span> <i>will be published in October<span>.</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#17365d">22<sup>nd</sup> August:
</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#17365d">‘Reviving the art of listening: Can we use online methods for true community consultation?’</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Victoria Parr, Australian Association of Social Marketing</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">When
online qualitative research is viewed as a replacement for the well
known face-to-face research methodologies, that have comprised ou<a name="13ef9d82df11a874__GoBack"></a>r
research toolkit for the
past decade, one of the key criticisms leveraged is of
representativeness of our research sample. This seminar asks whether
online qualitative research allows for the inclusion of a different
style of representativeness in government decision-making; that
of a democratically elected government making decisions based on true
consultation with its citizenry. Could online qualitative research
provide us with the opportunity for a resurgence of the true
consultative methodologies - the deliberative pollings, deliberative
democracies, the citizens’ juries - that have slipped by the wayside?
Could online qualitative methods actually provide us with an opportunity
to gain the representation in government decision-making that is
critical to addressing the perceived democratic
deficit in the current system of government?<span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As
a social and government research specialist for over thirteen years,
currently working for Latitude Insights,
Victoria Parr has extensive experience with federal and state
government departments. She specialises in strategic communications and
segmentation studies and has conducted many large scale campaigns for
federal and state government agencies.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Victoria’s
research looks at how the growth of social media is changing the way
people communicate, interact
and conduct relationships. As a qualitative specialist, Victoria
identifies online qualitative research is now an essential
methodological tool for the research practitioner to have at their
disposal along with the tried and tested face-to-face methodologies.
She holds a Qualified Practicising Market Researcher accreditation and
has a B Soc Sci from Macquarie University.</span></i></p>
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</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#17365d">‘Affective Mattering and the Felt Materiality of the Screen’</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Assoc. Professor Misha Karva (University of Auckland)</span></b></p>
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Affective mattering is the way in which affect has a material bearing
that causes things to matter. What is often lost in desubjectivised
accounts of affect is the lived material body, individuated by the
affective relations which cause other bodies to matter
to it. Popular media screens mobilise this interpersonal affect, by
making us care about ‘real‘ bodies and beings despite their appearance
on platforms of mediation. In this configuration, where the affective
mattering of the body meets the affective permeability
of the screen, the screen brings its own materiality to bear as a
conduit for felt relations. The seminar will investigate these relations
of mediated affect with reference to three exemplary screens: the
intimate screen of television, the tactile screen of
the touchpad, and the prosthetic screen of Google’s Project Glass.<br>
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<i>Dr Misha Kavka teaches film, television, and media studies
at the University of Auckland. She is the author of two books on reality
television (Palgrave 2008 and Edinburgh UP 2012), and has published
extensively on gothic cinema, New Zealand film
and gender studies. She is currently working on a project about screen
affects.</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr. Alana Mann (University of Sydney)</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In
2008 the escalation of the world's hungry to 870 million led to
proclamations of a new 'global food crisis'. This seminar explores how
civil
society actors including NGOs and social movements are establishing new
understandings of issues related to rural poverty and hunger and
communicating these in formal policy arenas. Based on interviews with
policy-makers at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) in Rome and civil society groups in Geneva and Vienna, this
research reveals patterns of action in political arenas where non-state
actors aim not only to foster reconsideration of chronic problems in
light of new frameworks and ideologies, but to change
the very culture of global governing institutions. The study assesses
the dynamics of change occurring in transnational food policy arenas as a
result of increased interaction between civil society actors and the
UN. It seeks to explain how this interaction
occurs and to assess whether or not it has contributed to institutional
change that better accommodates the views of non-state actors on food
and agriculture policy. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr
Alana Mann joined the Department of Media and Communications as a
full-time lecturer and researcher in July 2007. In her previous career
she was a marketing communications manager at organisations including
Fairfax Media and The Smith Family. In 2013 her first book</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> <span>Power Shift: Global Activism in
Food Politics<i> </i></span><i>will be published by Palgrave Macmillian.</i></span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#17365d">October (TBA):
</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#17365d">Eyetracking Mobile Media and Multiscreen Use</span></i></b></p>
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mobile media and multiple
screen use affects the way we attend to media messages and the ways we
relate, including the conversations we have with people in our immediate
environment. This seminar reports on the Danish School of Media and
Journalism’s Eye-Pad project, which set out
to explore the social and cultural aspects of multi-screen news
consumption in the home. Using mobile eye-tracking, video observation
and usability-centred media ethnography, the EyePad project aimed to
find out what people attend to on their hand-held devices
and to better understand the subtle and seamless shifts between media
technologies and people. Project partners included Danish news company
Berlingske Media, software companies CCIEurope and Visiolink, which
produce platforms for media management and publishing,
and the Eyetracking Research Group at the Poynter Institute, St.
Petersburg, Florida.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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Lars Holmgaard Christensen is the former Head of New Media Research at
the Danish School of
Media and Journalism, and current strategic director of research and
development, in Media and Communications at Aalborg University College.</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><i>Please note: additional seminars will be added to the schedule once details have been confirmed<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><i>For more information please contact Madeleine King - <a href="mailto:mkin5545@uni.sydney.edu.au" target="_blank">mkin5545@uni.sydney.edu.au</a></i></p>