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<p class="" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Media@Sydney presents:</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(23,54,93)">Monday, 9<sup>th</sup> Sept: </span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(23,54,93)">‘What is New about New Media?’</span></b></p>
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<p class="" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(23,54,93)">Tuesday, 10<sup>th</sup> Sept:<span style> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(23,54,93)">‘The Blindspot of Public Sphere Theory: The Role of
Expressive Culture’</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(23,54,93)">(co-hosted by the Institute of Democracy and Human
Rights, with Dr. Peter Chen)</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">By Professor Jostein Gripsrud
(Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen)</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b style><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><i style><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">‘What is
New about New Media?’</span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB">The
digitalization of new media and especially the introduction and developments of
the Internet have been accompanied by a host of attempts to understand the
implications of these innovations in social, cultural, political and economic
terms. Some of them are of an academic or scholarly nature, others more
journalistic or business oriented. The majority of contributions in both
categories have, firstly, argued for the radicalness of the changes digital
communication technologies represent, often proclaiming that other media, such
as television, are facing an imminent death and that (global) society is
entering a totally new historical stage. Secondly, they have also tended to
estimate the impact of digitalization very optimistically as a historical leap
in terms of democratization, freedom and egalitarian values. The challenge for
a more critical appraisal of digitalization is to balance these discourses with
some cooler theoretical, historical and empirical perspectives without denying
the obvious and impressive gains and potentials of the new media and
communicative forms. On place to start is the discussion of technological
determinism, e.g. in Raymond Williams’ <i style>Television:
Technology and Cultural Form</i> and various contributions to debates on the
work of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. As for historical perspectives, the
transitions from theatre to film and then television as the most popular medium
of dramatic entertainment is worth looking at when talking about the death of
older media as new ones arrive. In this presentation, however, the emphasis
will be on the implications of digitalization for the structures and processes
of the public sphere on the one hand and for socio-cultural stratification more
generally on the other. </span></p>
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<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Details: </span></b></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Date: <u>9<sup>th</sup> September
</u></span></b></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Time: 2-4 pm</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Location:<span style> </span>New Law Seminar Rm. 105, </span></b><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/campus.shtml"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">New Law
Building (F10)</span></b></a>, <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University
of Sydney</span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(192,0,0)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><i style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(23,54,93)"><span style> </span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><i style><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style> </span>‘The Blindspot of Public Sphere Theory: The
Role of Expressive Culture’</span></i></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Theoretical work on the public
sphere has almost completely concentrated on the political part of it. Even
book-length contributions where “culture” is in the title have not dealt with
the role of expressive culture and discourses about and around that, but been
about culture in the anthropological or ethnological sense. This is lamentable
not only because the literary or cultural public sphere was the very beginning
of the modern public sphere, but also because today’s actually existing public
spheres are marked by quite obvious close relations between expressive culture
and a variety of key democratic functions. </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"></span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><span class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This presentation will discuss the implications of
and possible remedies for this weakness in public sphere theory and point to
historical and current examples of how expressive culture has politically
relevant impacts and implications that need to be addressed. Expressive culture
is evidently involved in a variety of ways in public discourses dealing with
this situation, contributing to understandings of it and promoting political
attitudes and actions. On the other hand, the cultural public sphere also
offers possibilities for a retreat from politics and socio-cultural engagement,
where differences in terms of engagement vs retreat are structured along lines
of already established social divisions.</span></span><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></b></p>
<p class=""><i style><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"> </span></i></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Date: <u>10<sup>th</sup>
September</u> </span></b></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Time: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">12:30 – 2pm</span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Location: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Woolley Common Room, Level 4<span style="color:rgb(192,0,0)">, </span></span><a href="http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">John Woolley Building (A20)</span></a>,
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University of Sydney</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class=""><i style><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"> </span></i></p>
<p class=""><i style><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB">Jostein Gripsrud is Professor of Media Studies at the
University of Bergen, Norway.<span style> </span>He has
published extensively on a variety of topics in media and cultural studies. On
television, he has published </span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB">The
Dynasty Years: Hollywood Television<i style> and </i>Critical
Media Studies<i style> (Routledge, 1995) and a
number of articles, some of which have appeared in anthologies he edited or
co-edited: </i>Television and Common Knowledge<i style> (Routledge, 1999), </i>Media, Markets & Public Spheres: European
Media at the Crossroads<i style> (Intellect, 2010)
and </i>Relocating Television: Television in the Digital Context <i style>(Routledge, 2010).<span style> </span>He has also co-published articles on cultural
sociology<span style> </span>(e.g. “Changing Relations:
Class, education and cultural capital” , in </i>Poetics<i style>, vol 39 (2011), pp 507-529) and published articles as well as
co-edited and contributed to anthologies on public sphere theory: </i>The Idea
of the Public Sphere<i style> (Lexington Books,
2010) and </i>The Public Sphere vol I-IV<i style>
(Sage, 2011)</i></span></p>
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<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><b style><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Media@Sydney is presented by
the Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney </span></u></b></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">All
seminars will be held on the University of Sydney Camperdown campus</span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For
more information contact Dr Fiona Martin </span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">T:
0428391122 or 02 90365098<a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p>
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