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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">'Public radio voice: Hearing institutional racism in the American soundscape’</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">Online seminar by Dr Laura Garbes (Brown/U Minnesota) presented by the Media Futures Hub in the School
of Arts and Media, UNSW<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">Thursday 5 May, 2pm (AEST, Sydney, Australia)<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">Please RSVP to mediafutures@unsw.edu.au for the Zoom link<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">ABSTRACT: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">How
does institutional racism shape who gets heard in the public sphere? In this talk, I outline the institutional practices of racialized voice evaluation within American public radio production processes. I find that institutionalized practices of finding sources
and narrating stories have racially exclusionary impacts on whose voices make it onto public radio airwaves. Drawing on the experiences of 82 nonwhite employees in the American public radio industry, I show that voices evaluated for broadcast are coded as
nonwhite, their clarity and expertise are more likely to be questioned. For each institutionalized norm of voice evaluation, I identify strategies that these workers use to expand the voices that make it on air. These findings suggest that these evaluations
place a burden on public radio employees of color that seek to deviate from these institutionalized norms. The research contributes to a growing literature on racialized evaluation by highlighting the role of the voice and sound in how institutional racism
shapes cultural production. It also brings in the sociology of work to understand how racialized evaluation shapes the workplace experiences of employees of color in the cultural industries.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">BIO: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333">Laura
Garbes is an incoming assistant professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. She received her PhD in Sociology from Brown University. She has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the American Association for
University Women for her work, which focuses on the relationship between voice, whiteness, and cultural organizations. Her current research project interrogates the racialization of sound in American public radio. Her article “When the “Blank Slate” Is a White
One: White Institutional Isomorphism in the Birth of National Public Radio” is published in <i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">Sociology of Race and Ethnicity</span></i>. Her most recent publication,
““Anti-Colonial Struggles on Air: Challenging the Colonial Soundscape through Indigenous Soundwork” can be found in <i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture</span></i>.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Associate Professor | </span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">School of Arts and Media</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Co-Director </span><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="https://mediafutureshub.org/"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">Media
Futures Hub</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">University of New South Wales</span></p>
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