<div dir="ltr"><div>[Apologies for late notice]</div><div><br></div><div><b>Monash Media Matters Series</b></div><div><b>School of Media, Film and Journalism</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>22 May, 4.30 – 6.00 pm</b></div><div><b>B5.37 Theatrette, B bldg, Caulfield Campus (map attached)</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>The Return of Class?</b></div><div><br></div>The concept of social class was central in the formation of Media Studies. In its major forms in Britain, Australia and North America, the development of the field was substantially embedded within a wider project of democratisation, associated with the expansion in the second half of the twentieth century of higher education, broadcasting and the ‘reading public’. A key question in this context was the mode of participation of the social majority, then still identified straightforwardly as ‘the working class’, as they moved into institutions and social spaces that had previously been relatively closed to them.<br><br><div>Over the last twenty years, the concept has seen a significant recession as scholars have disowned Marxist paradigms and sought to correct earlier blindnesses to questions of gender, race, sexual identity and other dimensions of difference. In post-socialist China, where economic inequality has become the most pressing social problem, class has been erased from official discourses. More recently however, there have been signs of a return to class. This has gained particular momentum since the Brexit referendum in the UK, the election of Donald Trump in the US and advances by populist political movements around the world. Where are we now, then, with the concept of class in studies of media, screen and journalism?</div><div><br></div><div><b>Speakers:</b></div><div><br></div><div>Chair: Associate Professor Mark Gibson (School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash)</div><div><br></div><div>Professor Wanning Sun (Public Communication Program, University of Technology, Sydney)</div><div>Dr Deb Anderson (School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash)</div><div>Associate Professor Tony Moore (School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Associate Professor Shane Homan</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Research Coordinator<br></font><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">School of Media, Film and Journalism<br></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Monash University</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">B4.32, Building B, Caulfield Campus</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">900 Dandenong Road</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Caulfield East VIC 3145</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">T: 61 3 99032309</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">E: <a href="mailto:Shane.Homan@monash.edu" target="_blank">Shane.Homan@monash.edu</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><b><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Books</font></b></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">The Mayor's A Square: Live Music and Law and Order in Sydney (2003)</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Access All Eras: Tribute Bands and Global Pop Culture (2006)</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Access-All-Eras-Tribute-Culture/dp/0335216900" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Access-All-Eras-Tribute-Culture/dp/0335216900</a></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Popular Music Industries and the State: Policy Notes (2016)</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.routledge.com/products/9780415824514" target="_blank">http://www.routledge.com/products/9780415824514</a></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Popular Music and Cultural Policy (2014)</font></div><div><a href="http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138787766/" target="_blank"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138787766/</font></a><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Current Grant Projects</font></b></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Interrogating the Music City: cultural economy and popular music in Melbourne (ARC Discovery)</font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">The Economic and Cultural Value of Australian Music Exports (ARC Linkage)</font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/shane-homan/" target="_blank">http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/shane-homan/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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