Hej, alla ni som ska till FSMK-dagen och ämneskonferensen,
FSMK-dagen börjar på eftermiddagen men ni som vill kan lite tidigare får gärna vara med då vår Bonnier Professor Graeme Turner utmanar MKV-ämnet med följande presentation. Anmäl er gärna till mig så jag kan veta om vi ska byta rum.
Ni som är eller verkar i Stockholm är givetvis också inbjudna till Professor Turners Allmänna föreläsning redan nästa vecka.
http://events.ims.su.se/public/events/9269.
Mvh, Kristina
kristina.riegert@ims.su.se
Bonnier Seminar: Media studies, new media studies, and the divided curriculum
Högre seminariet – JMKApril 23, 2015. 10:00-12:00. Bangsalen
This paper is drawn from the concluding chapter of Professor Turner’s recently completed book, Reinventing the Media (to be published by Routledge later this year). His book argues that while the media has ‘reinvented’ itself over the last two decades, this has not been matched by a correspondingly comprehensive reinvention of media studies: that is, a version of media studies that is capable of dealing with the mass media, narrowcast media, networked media, and social media, as well as the full range of contemporary media platforms and devices from television to the smartphone. What has tended to happen instead, in many locations today, is that the curriculum for media studies has been gradually dividing itself into two, potentially exclusive, sets of interests. As programs in digital media, new media studies and multi-platform media develop, they are increasingly doing so in isolation from the histories and concerns of what we might call ‘traditional’ media studies, and indeed occasionally by defining themselves in opposition to older mass media forms such as television. While understandable in principle – those working on these fields are perfectly entitled to develop this as a discrete area of interest – Professor Turner argues that this tendency is not helping us towards the objective of developing an inclusive framework within which to place the study and analysis of the contemporary media. Not only are we dealing with a media studies that has yet to thoroughly renovate its view of the media in order to incorporate the dramatic changes that have occurred in recent years, but we are now seeing the evolution of new formations of the curriculum which threaten to institutionalise the partiality of that vision. In this paper, Professor Turner discusses what he argues are the dangers and the inadequacies of the divided curriculum at the present time, before going on to propose some key components for the curriculum of a more inclusive media studies – that is, a media studies that is interested in working with the whole of the reinvented media.
Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner is the founding Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies (2000-2012), and one of the leading figures in cultural and media studies in Australia and internationally. His research has covered a wide range of forms and media – literature, film, television, radio, new media, journalism, and popular culture. He has published 23 books with national and international academic presses; the most recent are (with Anna Cristina Pertierra) Locating Television: Zones of Consumption (Routledge, 2013), What’s Become of Cultural Studies? (Sage, 2012) and Ordinary People and the Media: The Demotic Turn (Sage, 2010). A past president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2004-2007), an ARC Federation Fellow (2006-2011) and Convenor of the ARC-funded Cultural Research Network (2006-2010), Graeme Turner has had considerable engagement with federal research and higher education policy. He is only the second humanities scholar to serve on the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council.
When:
Thursday, April 23, 2015. 10:00-12:00. Bangsalen