Organising division:
Philosophy of Communication

Co-sponsoring divisions:
Political Communication, Popular Communication, Journalism Studies

Organisers:
Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London + Chair, PhilComm Division
Penny O’Donnell, University of Sydney, Journalism Studies

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PG/ECR Workshop on Methodologies
with Prof Nick Couldry
Monday 15 February 2010, 12 noon – 4pm
University of Technology, Sydney

The event will start with an informal workshop exchanging ideas on research methodologies and discussing the various challenges of researching the huge range of things people now do with and through media. The suggested reading is Nick Couldry (2004) ‘Theorising Media as Practice’, Social Semiotics 14(2). This will be followed by a sessions of informal research mentoring based on participants’ suggested questions and responses to Prof Couldry’s work. ]]> http://www.thelisteningproject.net/2010/02/research-media-practice/feed/ 0 http://www.thelisteningproject.net/2010/02/nick-couldry-visits-sydney/ http://www.thelisteningproject.net/2010/02/nick-couldry-visits-sydney/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:55:25 +0000 penny http://www.thelisteningproject.net/?p=560 NICK COULDRY is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London where he is Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy.  His interests include media power, ritual dimensions of media, audience research, media ethics, the methodology of cultural studies and voice.

He is the author or editor of eight books, including Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (Routledge 2003), and (with Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham) Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 with new paperback edition February 2010) and Media Events in a Global Age co-edited with Andreas Hepp and Friedrich Krotz (Routledge, 2009). His forthcoming book is Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism (Sage, June 2010).

He has run doctoral workshops in Australia and Denmark and is a faculty member of Richard Sennett and Craig Calhoun’s NYLON doctoral network (http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nylon/membership.html)

Nick Couldry will be in Sydney from Monday 15 February – Thursday 18 February 2010. His program includes for The Listening Project includes the following:

Monday 15 Feb, 12 noon – 4.00pm:  PG Workshop – “Methodologies for Researching Media as Practice”

Tuesday 16 Feb, 9.00 – 5.00pm: Colloquium – Listening for Media Justice

Wednesday 17 Feb, 6.00 for 6.30pm: Public lecture, ‘Voice: Culture and politics beyond the horizon of neoliberalism’

Thursday 18 Feb, 10.30am – 12.30pm: ECR/MCR Workshop – “Methodologies for Researching Media as Practice”

Thursday 18 Feb, 2.00 – 4.00pm: Public lecture, “Towards an Ethics of Global Media — Truthfulness, Hospitality, Care”

This discussion will address the following central questions:

• to what extent do the concepts of voice, recognition and listening generate productive insights and/or practical strategies for media justice?

• how might an invigorated conception of political voice and listening challenge established approaches to communication rights?

• what do listening and voice have to offer to work on Indigenous people and the media, global media justice, disability and communications, media and multiculturalism, environmental justice etc?

• how does media justice relate to new visions of the role of voice in economic social and political “development”

• how do listening and voice relate to emerging notions of cultural citizenship?

• how can we further develop a research and advocacy agenda around voice and listening?

• and how can we better listen for emerging possibilities for media justice ‘beyond the echoes’ of corporate media?

The colloquium will generate discussion across a number of productive tensions, including the tensions between

• ethics and justice

• voice and listening

• media and politics

• normative and empirical enquiry

Tuesday 16 February 2010, 9am – 5pm
University of Technology, Sydney Building 3, Room 210

This talk will start out from the way neoliberal discourse’s absolute prioritization of market functioning over and above other political and social values generates a crisis of voice in what we might call neoliberal democracies, a crisis that operates along many dimensions: in the economic sphere, in politics, and in culture. After outlining aspects of that multiple crisis, I will explore what values are available from which a counter-rationality (in Wendy Brown’s term) to neoliberal discourse can be developed.; in this, I will draw on various sources from Amartya Sen’s criticism of the assumptions of neoliberal economics to Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition. While drawing particularly on the dilemmas faced within the UK’s governance culture, I will reflect also on their relevance for other countries which have adopted neoliberal discourse to a significant degree. I will end by reflecting on the implications of my argument for current priorities for media and cultural studies research.

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London and Director of its Centre for the study of Global Media and Democracy. He is the author or editor of eight books including most recently Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (Palgrave 2007, new edition February 2010, co-authors Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham), Media Events in a Global Age (Routledge 2009, coedited with Andreas Hepp and Friedrich Krotz) and Listening Beyond the Echoes: Media Ethics and Agency in an Uncertain World . (Paradigm 2006). His next book is Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism (Sage June 2010).

Prof Couldry’s public lecture is funded by the ARC’s Cultural Research Network and hosted by the Transforming Cultures Research Centre, UTS. Please join us for a drink before the lecture.

All welcome. See you there.

Colloqium

When: Wednesday December 9 @UTS.

“Listening in/as research: Practices Localities and Communities’
with Sarai / Ankur

Where:
9.30am – 5pm
University of Technology, Sydney
City Campus, Haymarket, Building 5, Room 1.05

This project aims to consolidate research on media and listening. I propose to conduct a series of focus groups that will provide participants with an opportunity to rewrite current news stories.

Click here for more information on this project.