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Thursday September 17, 3pm – 4.30pm

Bunty Avieson (University of Sydney)

The Bhutan-Wiki Project: Global knowledge and minority languages

Wikipedia offers a bulwark for cultural resilience by oral cultures and this project investigates the experiences of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.

Thursday October 8, 3pm – 4.30pm

Mark Johnson (University of Sydney)

The Lives and Careers of Professional Live Streamers

Drawing on five years of ethnographic research, this seminar focuses on the pasts, presents and (predicted or considered futures of live streamers.

Thursday October 22, 3pm – 4.30pm

Justine Humphry, Chris Chesher and Sophia Maalsen (University of Sydney)

Smart Publics: Imaginaries and Discoveries of Smart Street Furniture

This talk will present research findings from the Smart Publics project focusing on smart city user imaginaries and public encounters with media hybridised forms of smart street furniture.

Thursday November 5, 3pm – 4.30pm

Alana Mann (University of Sydney)

Book release: Food in a Changing Climate

This new book analyses land and labour relationships in the global food system and considers whose knowledge counts in science communication on health and climate issues.

Thursday November 19, 3pm – 4.30pm

Olga Boichak (University of Sydney)

Mapping the National Web: Spaces and cultures of diasporic mobilisation in the digital age

This seminar explores hyperlinking behaviours among Ukrainian Canadians to map geographic, linguistic, and political boundaries of the Ukrainian national web.

Thursday November 26, 3pm – 4.30pm

Jolynna Sinanan (University of Sydney)

Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University)

Heather Horst (Western Sydney University)

Sarah Pink (Monash University)

Book release: Digital Media Practices in Households

This new book explores practices through locative media, self-tracking and quantified self apps in households in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne.

Thursday December 10, 3pm – 4.30pm

Wayne Hawkins (University of Sydney)

Please Hold: Australia’s Communication Policy Response to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

This presentation evaluates current communication policies in Australia from a critical disability theory (CDT) framework and identifies the quality of those policies as they speak to people with disability.

We are very pleased to announce our Semester 1 schedule for the 2019 Media@Sydney series. Events are usually held on Fridays in the John Woolley Building (A20) at the University of Sydney and Friday seminars are usually followed by informal drinks.

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Thursday 7 March: Digital Rights in an Age of Surveillance AI – Melvin Chen (Nanyang Technological University), Theresa Züger (Humboldt University) and Karaitiana Tairu (Christchurch)

co-hosted by the Goethe Institute*

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm, Seminar 2.03, RD Watt Building (A04), University of Sydney

Monday 11 March: The Journalism of Islam: Contenting Views in Muslim Southeast Asia – Janet Steele (George Washington University)

co-hosted at SSEAC*

5.30pm – 6.30pm, Quadrangle History Room S226, University of Sydney

Friday 15 March: Automated Decision Making and Society – Julian Thomas (RMIT University)

3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney

Friday 29 March: De-/Re-Constructing home: Notions of home and homelessness in times of mobile media – Maren Hartmann (University of Arts, Berlin)

3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney

Discussant: Justine Humphry

Tuesday 2 April: Communicative Reflexivity and Financial Bubbles: Linking Minsky to Marx – Peter Thompson, Victoria University of Wellington

3.00pm – 4.30pm, Seminar Room 2.03, RD Watt Building A04, University of Sydney*

Friday 5 April: Media, Context and the Shaping of Contemporary Movements across de Atlantic – Marta Vilar Rosales (University of Lisbon)

3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney

Friday 12 April: “All that Glitters is not Gold”: Digital Media and Adolescents’ Political Engagement – Jörg Matthes (University of Vienna)

3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney

Friday 3 May: Digital Media and Online Learning: A comparative perspective from the Pacific and the Caribbean – Heather Horst (University of Sydney), Jolynna Sinanan (University of Sydney), Fulori Manoa (University of the South Pacific) and Sheba Mohammid (RMIT University)

3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney

Friday 10 May: Automating the Social: Digital Futures for Welfare, Disability, Social, and Health Services – Paul Henman (University of Queensland), El Gibbs (People with Disability Australia), Leanne Dowse (University of New South Wales), Wayne Hawkins (Australian Communications Consumer Action Network) and Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney)

3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney

Tuesday May 14: Myths, Mistakes, and #FakeNews: A Historical Perspective –Michael Socolow (University of Maine)

3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney*

Discussant: Margaret Van Heekeren

co-hosted by the Centre for Media History (Macquarie University)

Friday 17 May: Voice and Participation in Global Food Politics – Alana Mann (University of Sydney)

3.00pm –5.00pm, The Forest Lodge Hotel, 117 Arundel St, Forest Lodge

*Seminar followed by Book Launch

co-hosted by Sydney Environment Institute

Friday 31 May: No seminar, ICA conference

Tuesday 12 June: Beyond Anthropomorphism Symposium: Day 1

6.00pm – 7.30pm, SSB Lecture Theatre 200, Social Sciences Building, University of Sydney*

co-hosted by University of Sydney Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems and Sydney Ideas

Wednesday 12 June: Beyond Anthropomorphism Symposium: Day 2

9.00am – 5.40pm, Lecture Theatre 1130, Abercrombie Business School Building, University of Sydney*

co-hosted by University of Sydney Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems and University of Sydney Business School

Friday 14 June: How Pet Care Scenarios Can Disrupt Energy Futures – Yolande Strengers (Monash University)

3.00pm – 4.30pm, MECO Seminar Room, S226, John Woolley Building

*Special time or location