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<p class="MsoTitle" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-AU"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6">Media@Sydney: Seminar Series Semester 1, 2014</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D">10<sup>th</sup> March: ‘</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D">Journalism
and foreign policy: covering the Middle East’</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D"></span></i></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Ms Carol Giacomo, New York Times, foreign affairs editorial writer</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Reporting on the foreign affairs agenda of a major world power can have extraordinary personal and political
challenges. Veteran New York Times and Reuters journalist Carol Giacomo joins Media@Sydney to talk about the demands of foreign policy journalism and her strategies for dealing with contentious debates, such as the backlash against the recent academic boycott
of Israel.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Carol Giacomo </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">is
a foreign affairs editorial writer for The New York Times. She is a former diplomatic correspondent for Reuters in Washington, where she covered foreign policy for the international wire service for more than two decades. As a Reuters correspondent she traveled
over one million miles to more than 100 countries with eight Secretaries of State and various other senior U.S. officials. She joined The New York Times editorial board in August 2007. She won the Georgetown University Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting
in 2009. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1999-2000 she was a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, researching U.S. economic and foreign policy decision-making during the Asian financial crisis.</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">In the fall semester of 2013 Carol was the Ferris Professor in Journalism at Princeton University,
teaching editorial writing on international issues. She has been a guest lecturer at the U.S. National War College and other academic institutions. Born and raised in Connecticut, she holds a B.A. in English Literature from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts.
She began her professional journalism career at the Lowell Sun and later worked for the Hartford Courant in the city hall, state capitol and Washington bureaus.</span></i></p>
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</span></span></b><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">John Woolley Building (A20)</span></b></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
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off Manning Road, near the 19<sup>th</sup> century machine sculpture.</span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D">11<sup>th</sup> March: ‘</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D">Rupert
Murdoch: A Reassessment’ (book launch)</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Emeritus Professor Rodney Tiffen</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">What is the truth about Rupert Murdoch and his audacious business practices? Tony Abbott thinks that Murdoch is one of the most influential Australians of all time and that we should
support our ‘hometown hero’. Conrad Black once described his fellow media tycoon as, like Napoleon, ‘a great bad man’, and said it would be as wrong to doubt his greatness as his badness. American newspaper columnist Mike Royko was cheekier: no self-respecting
fish, he said, would be seen dead wrapped in one of Murdoch’s papers.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">In his landmark book, Rodney Tiffen provides a fresh assessment of a remarkable and controversial media proprietor – his journalism, his unparalleled expansion and his costly failures.
It offers a new perspective on the development of Murdoch’s political ideas, his enthusiasm for campaigning, and the way he has transformed political support into policy favours in Canberra, London and Washington. Finally, it examines the phone-hacking and
bribery scandals that have wracked Murdoch’s empire, and traces their roots to a corporate culture shaped by one man over six decades. </span></p>
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<i>Rodney Tiffen is Emeritus Professor in Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. A leading international scholar of media, his books include
</i>News and Power <i>(1989); </i>Scandals: Media, Politics and Corruption in Contemporary Australia<i> (1999);
</i>Diplomatic Deceits: Government, Media and East Timor<i> (2001), and numerous other publications on mass media and Australian politics. His most recent book, with Ross Gittins, is
</i>How Australia Compares<i> </i><i>(2nd ed. 2009). He worked with the Media Monitoring Project as an observer during the 1994 South African election, conducted three reviews of Radio Australia, and worked with the independent Finkelstein Inquiry into the
media in 2011-12.</i></span></p>
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</span></span></b><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">John Woolley Building (A20)</span></b></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
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off Manning Road, near the 19<sup>th</sup> century machine sculpture.</span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D">28<sup>th</sup> March: ‘</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D">Challenging
official propaganda? Public opinion leaders on Sina Weibo’</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr Joyce Y.M. Nip</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">This study seeks to understand the implications of the Internet on freedom of information and opinion
in China by studying the mechanism of formation of public opinion in a series of corruption cases exposed after the Chinese Communist Party's 18th Congress in 2012.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Focusing on Sina Weibo, the study examines the prominence of various users as public opinion leaders
in these corruption cases. The research found that ordinary citizens made the largest category that initiated the cases, whereas news organizations and online media were the main actors that set the agenda of and disseminated information about corruption.
Reading the messages found that news organizations and online media mainly published similar content to that of official agencies, suggesting that the commonly-held view that the party-state has little influence on Weibo needs revisiting.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Among the most eye-catching cases, cultural and news workers played a significant role in getting messages
reposted and commented upon. These findings suggest that while Weibo provides channels for citizens to publish information and opinion, the news media and online outlets remain as the main vehicle of agenda setting and public dissemination. Reputable individuals
are able to triumph as public opinion leaders in certain cases. The party-state, with the media under its control, is able to maintain its general domination of public opinion on the Sina Weibo platform.</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr Joyce Y.M. Nip</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""> is a Senior
Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications and the Department of Chinese Studies at The University of Sydney. She was a journalist before joining the academia, and is an editorial board member of Journalism Practice and Digital Journalism. </span></i></p>
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off Manning Road, near the 19<sup>th</sup> century machine sculpture.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU"></span></span></p>
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</sup>April: ‘</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D">Slow journalism and the recovery of attention’</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr Megan Le Masurier</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">In his existential mathematics of memory, the novelist Milan Kundera suggests that ‘the degree of slowness
is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting’ (1996).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Before we can forget however there has to be something to remember.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">In terms of the world beyond our everyday lives, journalism is a key mediator of information, some of
it puerile and forgettable, some of it critical to our political, cultural, social lives. It has been argued that the speed of much contemporary journalism, in its instantaneous communications via proliferating media platforms to an already information-saturated
public, overwhelms our capacity to attend – to listen, select, concentrate, and finally to remember. Surfeit and speed allow information to enter short term but not long-term memory (Klingberg). We lose the ability to discriminate and to focus on what really
matters in this abundance of information. Journalists, too, operate at such intense velocity that context and perspective disappear. The driver of most journalism – immediacy – needs to be radically questioned. As Stuart Brand warns, ‘the price of staying
perfectly current is the loss of cultural memory’ (2003).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">There has been a counter-trend, however, in the resurgence of slower approaches and formats – both in
long form journalism and its traditional home, the magazine. And especially in media made by independent producers. Slow journalism asks the question: how much news do we really need? And, when do we need it? This talk will look at many different examples
of slow journalism emerging around the world, in print and online. It will argue that slower journalism can create a contemplative space of quality and pleasure that encourages attention and allows the life force of cultural memory to be sustained and absorbed.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr Megan Le Masurier began working for the Department of Media and Communications in 2005 and teaches
in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs. She studied music at the Sydney Conservatorium, graduated with Honours in History from the University of Sydney and is now working on the book version of her PhD, ‘Fair Go! Cleo magazine as popular feminism’.
Her professional life began briefly in the academy, fell happily into the magazine industry (writing and editing), and the CV is now beginning to read like there was a strategic rationale behind it all (there wasn’t!). She is currently researching small-circulation
independent print magazines in a digital age, and developing a book on the genres of journalism with Fiona Giles.</span></i></p>
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</span></span></b><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">John Woolley Building (A20)</span></b></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
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off Manning Road, near the 19<sup>th</sup> century machine sculpture.</span></b></span><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D"></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D">2<sup>nd</sup> May: ‘</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D">Constructing
values in the news’</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D"></span></i></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">News values, the values that determine the newsworthiness of an event, have been researched from many perspectives and across several disciplines. They are said to impact heavily on
journalistic practice and, as some argue, ‘govern each stage of the reporting and editing process’ (Cotter 2010: 73). In our own work, we take a complementary, discursive perspective from which we can conceptualize news values in terms of how newsworthiness
is established through verbal and visual resources. A discursive perspective on news values allows us to systematically investigate how these values are constructed in the different types of textual material involved in the news process (e.g. press release,
interview, images, news story).</span></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr Monika Bednarek</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""> joined the Department of Linguistics after gaining her PhD at the University
of Augsburg, Germany, in 2005 and extensive post-doctoral research at the University of Sydney (2006-2008) and the University of Technology, Sydney (2008-2009). This research focused, respectively, on evaluative language in the 'popular' vs. the 'quality'
press, emotion talk across registers of English, and, most recently, the language of fictional television.</span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr. Helen Caple</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""> is a Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Journalism with the School
of the Arts and Media at UNSW. In 2009, she completed her PhD on image-text relations in print news media with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Current research interests include news values, text-image relations, visual storytelling
and the role of picture galleries in online news reporting. Helen has worked on research projects investigating the portrayal of women in sports by the Australian Media (with JMRC at UNSW) and investigating visual storytelling techniques at the ABC. A training
module on visual storytelling was developed for the ABC as a result of this project. Other research interests include Ecolinguistics (language and the environment) and Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory (genre and discourse analysis). In 2013, Helen was
a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, UK. Helen is also a former press photographer.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></i></p>
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</span></span></b><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">John Woolley Building (A20)</span></b></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D">5<sup>th</sup> June: ‘</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D">Global
Activism in Food Politics: Power Shift’ (book launch)</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D"></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Who should provide food, and through what relationships? Whose livelihoods should be protected? For over 20 years the
peasant farmers of La Via Campesina have been engaged in a fight against injustice, hunger and poverty under the banner of food sovereignty, ‘the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable
methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems’. They campaign for healthy, sustainable alternatives to an industrial food system controlled by agribusiness companies and the architects of unfair trade agreements. This book draws
on grounded case studies of agrarian movements in the Americas and Europe as exemplars of a ‘power shift’, as local opposition scales up to global action in an effort to wrest control of our food away from transnational corporations and back to communities.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr. Alana Mann is Senior Lecturer and Director of Degree, Master of Strategic Public Relations, in the Department of
Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">5:00– 7:00pm, in the S226 MECO seminar room, Level 2<span style="color:#C00000">
</span></span></b><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">John Woolley Building (A20)</span></b></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">
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off Manning Road, near the 19<sup>th</sup> century machine sculpture.</span></b></span><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#17365D"></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'; color:rgb(23,54,93)">13<sup>th</sup> June: ‘The public/private dichotomy of </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'; color:rgb(23,54,93)">food
politics’ </span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">This talk will explore the contradictions inherent in representations and material manifestations of the local-global dichotomy as it pertains to issues of sustainability and environmental
costs of food politics</font><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">Professor Andrew Calabrese
</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); color:rgb(51,51,51); line-height:18.200000762939453px">joined the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication of the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1992. He previously worked at Purdue University,
where he was on the faculty of the Department of Communication. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia in 1998 and a research fellow at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, in 1999. His teaching and
research center mainly on the relationship between communication media and citizenship with an emphasis on theoretical and practical issues of media and globalization. He edits a book series called ”Critical Media Studies” for the publisher Rowman & Littlefield
and serves on editorial boards of several research journals. He is a board member of the European Institute for Communication and Culture. Calabrese earned his BA from Denison University and his MA and PhD from the Ohio State University.</span></font></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">3:00– 4:30pm, in the S226 MECO seminar room, Level 2<span style="color:rgb(192,0,0)"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'">John
Woolley Building (A20)</span></b></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman'; color:windowtext"> entry
off Manning Road, near the 19<sup>th</sup>century machine sculpture.</span></b></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">Media@Sydney is presented by the Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">For more information contact Dr Fiona Martin
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"">T: 0428391122 or 02 90365098<a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p>
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