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<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">Hashtag
Dissent: How The #IdleNoMore Protests Took On Mainstream Media Narratives
Through Twitter</span></b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"></span></p>

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<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">By Assoc. Professor
Alfred Hermida</span></p>

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<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">Graduate School of
Journalism, University of British Columbia, Canada</span></p>

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<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">Tuesday 26<sup>th</sup>
November 2013</span></p>

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<p class="" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">A growing body of
research points to how social media, and specifically Twitter, is emerging as a
hybrid space for the cultural production of journalism, with citizens are
involved in the flow, framing and interpretation of news. Studies into recent
social movements such as Occupy Wall Street indicate how committed individuals
are appropriating social media as one of the tools to articulate a counter
narrative, and contest dismissive framing by mainstream media. These movements
do not have specific, concise demands that can be easily explained by the
media, but present an open-ended, unspecified meta-narrative where participants
create their own meaning.</span></p>

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<p class="" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">One such movement is
Idle No More. This presentation will discuss how activists in Canada mobilised
around the #Idlenomore hashtag and used Twitter to advance their message of
dissent. What started as an Aboriginal protest in December 2012 developed into
a loosely knit political movement. Twitter served as an alternative platform of
public communication that facilitated the visibility of a marginalized social
reality. This talk will discuss how engaged elites on Twitter shaped the
message, often at odds with the narratives in mainstream media. The research
provides insights into how engagement with networked technologies by people
outside news organisations neutralise, challenge or reinforce the power of
media institutions to construct social reality and how it reconfigures
journalism’s role to foster a </span><span style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">broadly informed and engaged public.</span></p><p class="" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"> </span></p>


<p class=""><i><span style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">Professor
Alfred Hermida is an award-winning British online news pioneer, digital
media scholar and journalism educator. An associate professor at the Graduate
School of Journalism, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, his
research on the intersection of communication technologies, journalism and the
networked society has been published in </span></i><span style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">Journalism
Studies</span><span style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">,Journalism Practice <i>and the </i>Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. <i>He is co-author o</i>f Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates
at Online Newspapers, (<i>Wiley-Blackwell,
2011), and is working on his new book,</i> Tell Everyone: How the Stories We Share Shape What We Know and Why It
Matters, <i>due to be published by
Doubleday Canada. Prof Hermida is a 16-year veteran of the BBC and was a
founding news editor of the BBC News website in 1997.</i></span><i><span style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"></span></i></p>

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<p class=""><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">Details</span></u></b></p>

<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">Date:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"> Tuesday, 26<sup>th</sup> November 2013</span></p>

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<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">Time:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">5 – 6:30 pm</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"></span></p>


<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">Location:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">New Law Annexe Seminar Rm 346,<span style="color:rgb(192,0,0)"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/campus.shtml"><span style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">New Law Building (F10)</span></a></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"> </span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;color:windowtext">Eastern Ave, University of Sydney (Camperdown campus)</span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"></span></span></p>


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<p class=""><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">Media@Sydney is presented by the Department of Media and
Communications, University of Sydney </span></u></b></p>

<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">For more information contact
Dr Fiona Martin </span></p>

<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">T: 0428391122 or 02 90365098</span></p>

<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">E: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:fiona.martin@sydney.edu.au"><span style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">fiona.martin@sydney.edu.au</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"></span></p>


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