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

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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