Popular Communication Public Sphere: Media Studies Summer Seminar Series
Inspired by Habermas' (mythical?) depiction of a cafe culture engaged in lively debate, the Popular Communication Public Sphere: Media Studies Summer Seminar Series aims to provide a friendly yet critical forum discussing key issues concerning media, technology and popular culture today.
Scholars, graduates/undergraduates, and industry people gather once a week for eight weeks this summer to dissect journal articles, present works-in-progress research, watch and discuss movies, and perform other media rituals together.
Regular and irregular participants are welcome. The typical format consists of discussions done over dinner and drinks. The first meeting will be held on 2 April, Thursday. The PCPS group will meet in various sites in the city every Thursday 730PM from the first week of April until the last week of May.
Some of the topics to be covered include (but are not limited to):
1) Media Studies, A History
* What exactly have we learned after 50-plus years of our discipline's existence?
* Keywords: media effects, media power, agency
2) Creating a Canon: Our Gods and Monsters
* Whose works are the most cited in the field and why?
* Who's Who: Williams, Hall, Katz, McLuhan, Ang, Morley, Lewis, Livingstone, Silverstone, McChesney, Peters
3) Issues 1: From Media and Identity to Media and Relationships
* At the Boundaries & Belongings conference, Mirca Madianou and Danny Miller predict a movement in the field from studies of individual consumption and appropriation of media to studies of relationships and their transformations as a result of media and communications technologies. What explains for this trend? What new methodologies, if any, are required?
4) Issues 2: What's New About New Media?
* How do we rethink concepts such as production/consumption, publicity/privacy, dialogue/dissemination, participation/disengagement in the new media environment?
To confirm participation, contact:
Jonathan Ong
M.+63917 527 8094
E. jo296@cam.ac.uk
Tin Aquino
M. +63916 767 3573
E. tintin.aquino@gmail.com
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