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[ecrea] Participatory Media and Global Change - A Research Exchange

Wed May 30 09:27:25 GMT 2018




The Centre for Global Media and Communication at SOAS, and the Programme for Screen and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne are please to present a co-hosted summer research workshop on the theme of 'Participatory Media and Global Change'.

The notion of ‘participation’ retains today a suggestion of locality and closeness. It turns our attention inward, toward contingent and located community practices. And yet quite conversely, the gaze of media and communication research is moving steadily outward, seeking new pathways for interrogating our ever more globally distributed society. Nevertheless, community participation remains an important aspect of much of our research, promising access to local and decentralised sources of knowledge, while offering a powerful resistance to ethnocentric closure.

Does a concept of ‘participation’ — with its ambitions for horizontal community engagement across social and geo-cultural place — still have a role in understanding the drivers of contemporary global cultures? If so, what approaches to participation might allow us to build new conceptual frameworks, to bridge ideas of local social action with ongoing critiques of global transformation?

This workshop invites scholars and practitioners from across a range of fields in media and cultural studies to discuss the ways that participation permeates the present, and future, of our collective research. Collaborators will be invited to briefly present their own ongoing work - both creative and scholarly - before an open round-table discussion on participatory global cultures in the future of global communication scholarship.

If you are interested in taking part in the event, please email Joshua McNamara ((joshua.mcnamara /at/ unimelb.edu.au)), along with a brief outline of your work. The workshop will take place at SOAS, University of London, on 19th June 2018.

With thanks!


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