Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Media and Communications
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Media and Communications
- Swinburne Institute for Social Research (SISR)
- Academic A or B: $55,640 - $93,922 plus 17% Superannuation
- Full-time, fixed-term two year position – Hawthorn, Melbourne campus
The Swinburne Institute for Social Research <www.sisr.net> is one of
the largest social science and humanities research centres in
Australia, with an international reputation for independent,
innovative and influential work. Staff work across disciplines
including media and communication studies, sociology, economics,
political science, urban studies, human geography and history. The
Institute participates in leading national and international research
networks, including the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative
Industries and Innovation, and the International Research Consortium
for an Open Internet, sponsored by Google.
We are now seeking a postdoctoral research fellow to work on new and
existing media and communications research projects, in collaboration
with the SISR’s Director, Professor Julian Thomas, and other SISR
staff. Areas of particular interest include communications law and
policy; intellectual property and piracy; and the social dynamics of
digital media. The role will combine the development of your own
research with opportunities for collaboration on larger projects.
Skills & Experience
The successful applicant will have a relevant PhD, or equivalent
qualification, in conjunction with research experience. You will also
need advanced writing, communication and organisational skills.
Benefits
To find out more about the benefits offered to Swinburne employees
please visit: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/corporate/hr/swin/benefits/index.htm
How to Apply
Swinburne encourages applications from Indigenous people, people from
culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with
disabilities, women and men.
For position information and to apply online go to: www.swinburne.edu.au/jobs
Please do not email or send paper applications, all applications must
be submitted online.
For further information about the position, please contact Julian
Thomas on +61 3 9214 5466.
If you are experiencing technical difficulties with your application,
please contact HR Reception on +61 3 9214 8600.
Refer to Position Number: 27365
Applications close 5pm, 9 June 2012
Lecturer in Music and Sound, Creative Industries QUT
A new lecturer position has opened up in the Music and Sound discipline within the Creative Industries at QUT. This position is part of the ECARD (Early Career Academic Recruitment and Development) program and is an ongoing position. I was hired under this program and have really enjoyed the support and community of an in-house ECR program.
Position Title: Lecturer
Reference: 12251
Closes: 13 June 2012
Organisational Area: Creative Industries Faculty
Campus: Gardens Point & Kelvin Grove
Salary Range/Classification: $AUD78 542 to $AUD93 277 pa (Level B)
Plus Superannuation: 17% employer contribution
Status: Ongoing
Contact: Cherie Sonnenburg
Senior HR Officer
+61 7 3138 7075
HR Contact: Gina Ramsay
Senior HR Advisor
+61 7 3138 7083
Open to: Australian and International applicants Lecturer, Music & Sound
Position Purpose
QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty is seeking an energetic and innovative academic in the Discipline of Music & Sound. The successful applicant will have a strong commitment to teaching and research excellence. S/he will have a track record demonstrating ability to contribute to the research profile of the Faculty, and to engage at high levels with industry and community groups. The appointee will have expertise and experience in one or more of the following areas: Musicology, Music Technology, Music Curriculum Studies, Community Music, or Music Composition and Production. The successful candidate will also demonstrate the ability to contribute to the Faculty’s Creative Practice profile and work as part of a small but energetic teaching team focused on the development of professional and creative musicians who are well prepared for a challenging professional environment.
More details can be found here <https://qut.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&...,CurBID,JobListID,jobsListKey&lid=43111540007>
Kiley Gaffney
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Music and Sound
Creative Industries Faculty | QUT
+61 7 3138 3732 | kiley.gaffney@qut.edu.au
Cultural studies of work - June 4
The Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and Media and Communications present
Cultural studies of work: An afternoon symposium
featuring
Mark Banks (Open University, CRESC) ‘Cultural Work – Then and Now’
with Melissa Gregg (GCS) & Justine Humphry (MECO)
Monday, June 4, 2-5pm
Venue: Woolley Common Room, University of Sydney
Abstract: Cultural Work – Then and Now
While much has been written about the rise of cultural and/or creative workers as key and distinctive contributors to post-industrial economies, much of this work has failed to a) consider its object in an appropriate historical/temporal context and b) track longitudinally the biographical development of cohorts of workers within the current conjuncture. This paper seeks to do both, firstly by considering the extent to which the cultural worker represents a continuation or break with historical cultural work, and secondly - taking a cue from Lisa Adkins’ recent reading of the alleged transition from ‘clock’ to ‘event’ time - through the use of new in-depth interviews with workers first interviewed over a decade ago, assessing the ways in which personal experiences and biographical narratives of cultural/creative work have developed or transformed in the recent period. By comparing and contrasting workers ‘before’ and ‘after’ accounts, the paper offers some much needed empirical data on the nature of change in the (UK) creative industries and the changing - and continuous - temporalities of work.
Speaker details
Mark Banks is Reader in Sociology at the Open University. He is author of The Politics of Cultural Work (Palgrave 2007) and co-editor of Theorizing Cultural Work: Labour, Continuity and Change in the Creative Industries (with Rosalind Gill and Stephanie Taylor, Routledge forthcoming). Mark convenes the research strand on Cultural Industries in the context of the Reframing the Nation Theme 2 of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). His current research examines notions of autonomy, craft, ethics and practice in the cultural industries, including work on cultural ownership, policy and labour in the context of the Open University’s AHRC funded project ‘What is Black British Jazz?’
Melissa Gregg works in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Her book Work’s Intimacy (Polity 2011) shares findings from her ARC Fellowship ‘Working From Home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of domesticity’. Based on interviews conducted in four organizations, this research analyses the landscape for work in the networked knowledge economy - its proliferating locations and pressures. The coercive dimensions of communications platforms are shown to combine with new management practices to produce the anticipatory affects of professional ‘presence bleed’.
Justine Humphry completed her PhD at the University of Western Sydney on the daily use of ICT by professional knowledge workers and cultures of mobility and flexibility. She is currently Lecturer of Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney and has previously taught media and communications at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and Macquarie University. She was the founder and managing director of an IT company Tilda Communications from 1998 until 2004. Her research interests include the discourse and practices of new media technologies and their social, organisational and environmental implications.
Enquiries: melissa.gregg@sydney.edu.au
CFP: Collaborative Struggle
Institute for Social Transformation Research presents:
‘COLLABORATIVE STRUGGLE’ CONFERENCE
University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Convened by Ian Buchanan and Marcelo Svirsky
24 September, 2012
Keynote address: ILAN PAPPÉ, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), The Modern Middle East (2005), A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (2003), and Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1988). Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist.
The ‘Arab Spring’ and the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movements have both, in their very different ways, brought to life the idea that ‘the people’, long thought to be missing, can and do make a difference. This conference is interested in the possibilities these kinds of ‘collaborative struggles’ are opening up for new ways of thinking about politics, citizenship, identity and indeed life itself. What happens when Palestinians and Jews struggle together to defeat the segregation that nourishes the continuation of their conflict? What if a society of white privilege were to give way to an integrative way of life in Australia? This conference discusses different aspects of joint action – or ‘collaborative struggles’ – as the way to exit colonial divisions and oppressive relations in contemporary societies. We assume that the way we choose to struggle is the way we choose to create the new.
INVITED SPEAKERS: HENRY REYNOLDS – UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA; CHRIS WEEDON – CARDIFF UNIVERSITY; LORENZO VERACINI – SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; MATT ALLEN – UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG; SIMONE BIGNALL – UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference invites 20 minute papers on different aspects of ‘collaborative struggle’:
joint activism and decolonisation in settler-colonial societies * radical activism and capitalism * civil society and collaborative action * ‘shared history’ and critical narratives * collaborative struggles and cultural studies * transversal activism * bilingualism and interculturalism *
SEND 200 WORD PROPOSALS TO MARCELO SVIRSKY BY JUNE 15TH TO: msvirsky@uow.edu.au<mailto:msvirsky@uow.edu.au>
Robyn Ferrell on Sacred Exchanges, May 16
The Writing & Society Research Centre and the Philosophy Research Initiative at UWS presents following seminar on Wednesday May 16:
SPEAKER: Robyn Ferrell
School of Humanities and Communication Arts
University of Western Sydney
TITLE: Sacred Exchanges
TIME: 2-4pm
PLACE: UWS Bankstown Campus, 3.G.55
ABSTRACT: As the international art market globalizes the indigenous image, it changes its identity, status, value, and purpose in local and larger contexts. Focusing on a school of Australian Aboriginal painting that has become popular in the contemporary art world, Sacred Exchanges traces the influence of cultural exchanges on art, the self, and attitudes toward the other.
The photo-essay I present in this session is a companion piece to the book, tracing a line of associations that I used as part of the method of writing. It highlights ficto-critical material that was treated more academically in the book. It explores, through my own photos taken as research aids, some of the affects and effects of images that directed my discussion on the relation between art, culture, gender and law.
BIO: Assoc. Prof. Robyn Ferrell is is a research fellow in the Gender and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Sydney and has taught at the University of Melbourne, Macquarie University, and the University of Tasmania. She has also held visiting research positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Western Sydney and is the author of Copula: Sexual Technologies, Reproductive Powers, Genres of Philosophy and Passion in Theory: Conceptions of Freud and Lacan.
CALL FOR PAPERS - Platform Politics
Special issue of Culture Machine, vol. 14; http://www.culturemachine.net
edited by Joss Hands (Anglia Ruskin University) Greg Elmer (Ryerson University) Ganaele Langlois (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
This special issue of the peer-reviewed, open access journal Culture Machine on the concept of ‘Platform Politics’ will explore how digital platforms can be understood, leveraged and contested in an age when the ‘platform’ is coming to supplant the open Web as the default digital environment.
Platforms can be characterized as resting on already existing networked communication systems, but also as developing discreet spaces and affordances, often using ‘apps’ to circumvent any need to access them via the Internet or Web. For this issue of Culture Machine we are seeking papers that explore the nature and distinctive aspects of the ‘platform’: as something that can be positioned as more than just a neutral space of communication; and as a complex technology with distinct affordances that have powerful political, economic and social interests at stake. In this respect the platform constitutes a zone of contestation between, for example, different formations and configurations of capital; social movements; new kinds of activist networks; open source and proprietary software design. Platforms also constitute spaces of struggle between mass movements and governments, users and the extractors of value, visibility and invisibility: witness the various debates over the role of ‘social media’ in the Arab Spring, anti-austerity, student and occupy movements. Such struggles entail a compelling intersection between technology and design, capital, multitude, the democratization of technology and ‘subversive rationalization’.
The platform represents not just a question of software and control, then; it also connects to wider social struggles in the sense that ‘platform’ can refer to a ‘political platform’, and can thus take on the agenda setting or framing role of political discourse more generally. Accordingly, this special issue will look to understand ‘platform politics’ as a broad social assemblage, complex or form of life. Linking particular platforms across the molecular and molar, it will think about platform politics as a distinct new context of power operating at the intersection of technological development, software design, cognitive/communicative capitalism, new forms of social movement and resistance, and the attempts to contain them by the exiting democracies. As such, platform politics requires a distinct mode of engagement, which this special issue of Culture Machine will endeavour to encourage and provide.
We invite contributions on topics such as:
• Protocols as machinery of the platform – its common language, including ideas of control and/or the possibilities and limitations of open, non-proprietorial platforms.
• The specific relationship between networks and platforms (including the discussion of whether the former are being subsumed by the latter), and distribution vs centralization/aggregation -- not least in terms of user created content and content management systems (code politics of algorithms, and the use of APIs).
• The question as to whether a process of enclosure is taking place via the struggle over the creation and expropriation of 'network value', or whether it entails a more parasitical engagement with, and enhancement of, the existing network architectures.
• Visibility/invisibility: platforms as political spaces to be seen/heard, or indeed tactically escaped and eluded.
• Resistance: how the above described issues relate to the potential for cultural, political, social and economic praxis, which in turns opens up a space from which to address recent global events. (See, for example, RIMs (Blackberry Messaging’s) enclosure, which ironically creates spaces of resistance as well as disturbance and securitization.)
• New software possibilities: for example, Drupal’s opening up and democratization of content management, which perhaps creates a kind of ‘platform commons’? The potential of ‘Diaspora’, the open source social network, to offer a viable alternative to proprietary social media.
• The role of intrinsic network tendencies, as opposed to political and economic decision-making, taking in explorations of the relevance of graph theory, the role of power laws and the network-specific characteristics of ‘communication power’.
Deadline for submissions of complete articles: 1st November 2012
Please submit your contributions including contact details by email to Joss Hands:
< joss.hands@networkpolitics.org>
Culture Machine’s Guidelines for Authors:
http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
All contributions will be peer-reviewed.
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Established in 1999, CULTURE MACHINE http://www.culturemachine.net is a fully refereed, open-access journal of cultural studies and cultural theory. It has published work by established figures such as Mark Amerika, Alain Badiou, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, N. Katherine Hayles, Ernesto Laclau, J. Hillis Miller, Bernard Stiegler, Cathryn Vasseleu and Samuel Weber, but it is also open to publications by up-and-coming writers, from a variety of geopolitical locations.
!!! New 2012 issue on attention economy coming out soon!!!
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Gary Hall
Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts
Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Co-editor of Culture Machine
http://www.culturemachine.net
Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Website http://www.garyhall.info
Call for papers: From SMS to Smartphones
Call for papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
From SMS to Smartphones: Tracing the Impact of the Mobile Phone in Asia
Publication date: October 2013
The mobile phone has had a discernible impact on Asia, given its affordability, versatility and ubiquity as the key platform for computer-mediated communication. It has been widely deployed in virtually every aspect of everyday life, be it in commerce, politics, governance, education, religion, entertainment or recreation. The diversity and complexity of this fast-growing region has birthed innovative and ground-breaking applications of the mobile phone. While basic feature phones are already a mainstay in both rural and urban Asia, the smartphone is now rapidly diffusing through the region at a rate exceeding the rest of the world. Bringing the idea of the ubiquitous web to fruition, the smartphone's heightened connectivity and thriving app market are enabling yet more revolutionary uses of the mobile phone. While the rising adoption of the smartphone burgeons with potential for civic action, commercial enterprise, employment and educational opportunities and social service provision, challenges are also emerging for consumers, industries and governments alike.
The early phase of mobile communication research was influenced by studies and theorization from North America and Europe. Spurred on by the wide diffusion of mobiles globally, research is now very much seeking to understand the international underpinnings of this form of mediated communication, especially as it increasingly blurs the lines between computers, Internet, and phones. Over the past decade, Asian research has been important in addressing the rapid diffusion, transformation, and shift in mobiles. Such research is growing, but is still relatively incipient. Against this backdrop, this special issue seeks to bring together the latest research findings, regional understandings, conceptualizations, and theories of the mobile in Asia. Article proposals are sought for topics including but not limited to the following:
* does a digital divide exist in Asia with regard to mobile phone penetration and usage trends and if so, how can and should they be remedied?
* what are the implications of the development of mobiles - especially smartphones and mobile Internet - for contemporary media in Asia?
* how is the growing proliferation of the smartphone facilitating unprecedented forms and scales of communication?
* how do issues of broad infrastructure provisions and market pricing influence the behaviour of mobile phone users?
* how are the location based services offered by smartphones altering user behaviour and lifestyles?
* how does mobile Internet use complement and possibly complicate fixed location Internet use?
* what implications does the growth of smartphone apps have for the cultural complexion of Asian countries?
* how is the mobile phone serving the needs of marginalised communities in Asia?
* to what extent do smartphones and the behaviour which they enable test the boundaries of existing regulatory frameworks?
* how does the rising ubiquity of the smartphone and by implication, that of always-on, always-available Internet access challenge prevailing theoretical frameworks relating to inter alia, technology acceptance, mobility, communication, social influence and identity?
Please submit an 800 word abstract and a 100 word biographical note to both special issue editors as an e-mail attachment no later than 30 June 2012. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 15 July 2012 and invited to submit a full paper. Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references, conform to APA style, and submitted by 30 October, 2012. All papers will be subject to anonymous peer review following submission.
Important dates
Deadline for abstracts 30 June 2012
Decisions to authors 15 July 2012
Full paper submission 30 October 2012
Decisions 30 January 2013
Revised paper submission 30 April 2013
Final proofs 30 June 2013
Issue publication October 2013
Special issue editors:
Sun Sun LIM, National University of Singapore, sunlim@nus.edu.sg
Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, gerard.goggin@ <mailto:gerard.goggin@usyd.edu.au> sydney.edu.au
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Gerard Goggin
Professor and Chair
Department of Media and Communications
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Sydney
e: gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au
p: +61 2 9114 1218 m: 0428 66 88 24
w: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/ggoggin
Address:
Level 2, room 206
Holme Building (A09a)
Footbridge terrace entrance
University of Sydney NSW 2006
CFP: Studies in Australasian Cinema
Studies in Australasian Cinema
ISSN: 17503175
CALL FOR PAPERS 6.3
Studies in Australasian Cinema is an international refereed scholarly journal devoted to the cinema of, and film scholarship from, the Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific region. We would like to announce a call for papers for:
Issue 6.3 (Dec 2012): Open Issue The journal features academic articles focusing on current and historical trends, representations, themes, styles, debates and scholarly work from across the region's rich cinema culture: What shapes, and has shaped the contemporary filmmaking landscape in the region? How do recent films made in the region engage with the current Australasian and global socio-political context? What theoretical and critical discussions of cinema are, and have been in the past, the most visible in Australasia? What policies, practices, modalities and technologies define Australasian cinema?
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Cinema and postcolonialism
- 'National' cinemas
- Australasian independent film making and films/television
- Australasian global commercial film making and films
- The representation of the region, specific countries, cultures and its peoples in global cinema
- The local and international work of Australasian writers, directors, and actors
- Reception of Australasian films in the region and around the world - Reception of global films in Australasia
- Past and present cinema audiences - New approaches to Australasian film history
- Australasian film theory
- The teaching of film and screen culture in Australasia
- Short films, Government film making, Experimental film and Amateur film making
The editor of Studies in Australasian Cinema is Anthony Lambert.
Contact: Dr. Anthony Lambert,
Media, Music Communication and Cultural Studies (MMCCS),
Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2109.
Telephone: +61 (0) 28502148
Email: anthony.lambert@mq.edu.au
Final submissions to this issue close on Friday September 28, 2012.
We also welcome suggested for themed or special issues of the journal. Submission for issues can be made directly to the editor as above or via the journal link: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/article-sub/
intellect journals ISSN 1750-3175
Lecturer in Gender Studies - 3 years fixed term
LECTURER IN GENDER STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF GENDER AND CULTURAL STUDIES
SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHICAL AND HISTORICAL INQUIRY
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
REFERENCE NO. 490/0312
- Join a highly successful and respected school
- Develop your teaching and research career in an interdisciplinary environment
- Full-time, 3 year fixed term, remuneration package: $104.6K-$124.2K p.a. including salary, leave loading and up to 17% super
The University of Sydney is Australia's first university and has an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. It employs over 7,500 permanent staff supporting over 49,000 students.
The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has a proud history of intellectual rigour and offers a vibrant research and teaching environment. The School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI) is one of five schools in the Faculty, made up of the departments of Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History, Gender and Cultural Studies, History and Philosophy. The school brings together an exciting group of academics and students who participate in a wide array of undergraduate and postgraduate programs. It is home to some of the leading researchers and teachers in Australia and the world, as well as regularly hosting prominent visitors and international colloquia.
Applications are invited for a 3 year fixed-term lectureship at level B in Gender Studies in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies. The department has a vibrant interdisciplinary research culture and a reputation for excellence at all levels of teaching. It offers a dynamic undergraduate curriculum with majors in both Gender Studies and Cultural Studies.
The department is seeking an applicant who can demonstrate a high level of excellence in teaching and an emerging research profile in Gender Studies or a related discipline. We are particularly interested in appointing a candidate who specializes in gendered approaches to violence. The appointee will be expected to teach undergraduate and postgraduate units of study and to supervise Honours and Master’s dissertation students. In addition, they will be expected to pursue an active research program, participate fully in the department’s research culture and undertake appropriate administrative roles and curriculum development as required.
Applicants must have a doctorate in Gender Studies or a related discipline or field. Demonstrated teaching excellence at the undergraduate level is essential as is the ability to contribute to more than one area of the department’s teaching. The applicant must be able to provide evidence of research publication and current research activity in their field. Applicants must also have excellent communication skills and a commitment to teamwork in curriculum development and other areas of administration. Experience in the delivery of curriculum to large first year students, in the supervision of Honours and Master’s dissertations, and in administration in a humanities and/or social science department is desirable.
Please note: the successful applicant will need to commence employment in July 2012.
All applications must be submitted via the University of Sydney careers website. Visit sydney.edu.au/positions and search by the reference number for more information and to apply.
CLOSING DATE: 23 May 2012 (11.30 pm Sydney time)
The University is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to equity, diversity and social inclusion. Applications from equity target groups and women are encouraged.
New Media Advertising for Social Research
Open to everyone!
New Media Advertising for Social Research
University of Sydney, Carslaw Tutorial Room 357
Date(s) - 30/04/2012
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
University of Sydney, Carslaw Tutorial Room 357
Online advertising has considerable potential for social researchers to
engage in targeted and specialised recruitment for research activities.
This includes interview, survey and group-based activities.
This scholarly talk will bring representatives from the major online
advertisers to talk with social researchers about what their products can
offer. The session will include the opportunity for a Q&A and brainstorming
about innovative solutions to current and future research problems.
Confirmed speakers are:
* Mia Garlick, Communications & Public Policy Australia New
Zealand, Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/> ;
* Waseem Ghulam, Founder of Clixpert <http://www.clixpert.com.au/> (Google
AdWords reseller);
* Rob Flaye, Research Business Development Manager, Empowered Communications
<http://fillmeupwith.info/events/social-media-advertising-for-social-researc
h/www.empoweredcomms.com.au> , and
* Dr Margaret Faedo, University of Sydney Ethics
<http://sydney.edu.au/research_support/ethics/index.shtml> .
The session will importantly offer participants ample time to discuss their
research, and explore ways in which online advertising may be used to build
better research samples.
RSVP here: http://fillmeupwith.info/events/social-media-advertising-for-social-research/
