We are very pleased to announce our Semester 2 schedule for the 2018 Media@Sydney series in 2018. Events will be held in the John Woolley Building (A20) at the University of Sydney and will be followed by informal drinks.
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Friday 3 August: Reporting Elections: Rethinking the Logic of Campaign Coverage – Dr. Stephen Cushion (Cardiff University)
3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney
Friday 17 August: The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones Symposium and Book Launch – Prof. Heather Horst (University of Sydney), Prof. Robert Foster (University of Rochester), Lucas Watt (RMIT University), Wendy Bai Magea (University of Goroka), Romitesh Kant (LaTrobe University/University of the South Pacific), and Dr. lucas gaspard (RMIT University)
3.00pm – 5.30pm*, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney
Friday 24 August: Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism and Social Media – Axel Bruns (University of Queensland)
3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney
Tuesday 28 August: Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media – Tarleton Gillespie (Microsoft Research)
4.00pm – 6.00pm* John Woolley Common Room, N480, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney
Friday 31 August: No Seminar – 4S Conference in Sydney
Friday 14 September: Life in Antarctica: mediations, speculations, ethnographies – Juan Francisco Salazar (Western Sydney University)
3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney
Friday 21 September: This changes everything! What “the digital” means for the purposes and practices of education – Julian Sefton-Green (Deakin University)
3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney
Friday 5 October: Digital Housekeeping: Living with Data – Heather Horst (University of Sydney) and Jolynna Sinanan (University of Sydney) and
Oversharing, Normative Intimacy, and Gender in ‘Digital Intimate Publics – Amy Dobson (Curtin University)
as part of the Gender and Cultural Studies Seminar Series*, 2.00pm – 4.00pm, The Refectory, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney
Friday 12 October: Political Participation on Social, Civic and Computer Networks – Francesco Bailo (University of Sydney)
3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building
Monday 5 November: Climate Change and the Media: Discussion and Book Launch – Benedetta Brevini (University of Sydney) and Justin Lewis (Cardiff University)
In partnership with the Sydney Environment Institute*
Discussion: 5.00pm – 6.30pm, Law School Foyer, New Law School, followed by Book Launch: 6.30pm – 8.00pm, Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law School
Friday 5 November: Design Ethics and the Age of Conversational Systems – Panel Discussion with Rafael Calvo (University of Sydney), Jean-Claude Martin (Université Paris Sud, France ), Virginia Dignum (Umeå University, Sweden) and Nick Enfield (University of Sydney), Moderated by Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney)
3.30pm – 5.00pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building*
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