[Commlist] 'Media Futures in Times of Crisis' Symposium

Sukhmani Khorana is writing to invite you to *‘Media Futures in Times of 
Crisis’, a fee-free symposium hosted by the Media Futures Hub* based at 
the School of the Arts and Media, UNSW.  Please share with interested 
colleagues and HDR students and see other details below:

We live in times of compounding and intensifying crisis: climate 
catastrophe, a genocide in Gaza, a rising fascist tide across the globe, 
the long crisis of settler colonial invasion and occupation here in 
Australia, and the exhaustion of growth economies. Media technologies 
are often posited as a way to out of crisis: artificial intelligence 
promises productivity gains, automated weapons are presented as more 
efficient and humane ways to wage war, new imaging tools shed light on 
the impacts of global warming, increased data collection is positioned 
as step toward closing the gap and addressing systemic state neglect. At 
the same time, media platforms and organisations are also often seen as 
amplifying crises in the midst of an information disorder, the limited 
and harmful diversity paradigms of legacy media, and the intensification 
of racial capitalism in newsrooms and production studios. How are we to 
make sense of the poly-crisis we find ourselves in? And how are we to 
cut through the hype of the techno-fix?

Media Futures in Times of Crisis confronts these questions across two 
days of presentations, screenings, and discussions. Presented by the 
UNSW Media Futures Hub, the symposium seeks to cultivate theory and 
analysis adequate to the task of understanding the futures we move toward.


*📅****Date:* Thursday 4 December and Friday 5 December
*🕕****Time:* 10 am to 5pm on both days, and a 6pm film screening on Day 1
*📍****Venue:* Robert Webster Building, UNSW Sydney
*🎤** Keynotes**:**Oliva Khoo (Monash);**
**Amy Gaeta & Beryl Pong (Centre for Drones & Culture, Cambridge)*

*Register via this link to secure your spot*: 
https://events.humanitix.com/media-futures-in-times-of-crisis 
<https://events.humanitix.com/media-futures-in-times-of-crisis>


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