Identity and Narration: The Unfinished Conversation

Identity and Narration: The Unfinished Conversation

As mentioned in class, The Unfinished Conversation – the installation on which The Stuart Hall Project (2014) is based – is now being shown at The Power…

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Media and the Environment: The Anthropocene

Media and the Environment: The Anthropocene

All of the readings for this unit ask us to reconsider the place of the non-human world within our understanding of human culture and communication….

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Media and the Environment: Examples from Class

Media and the Environment: Examples from Class

Last class, we discussed the articles by Gabrys, Miller and Maxwell in which they drew attention to relative absence of interest in the environment consequences…

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Unit Three Prompt: Materialism and Media Artifacts

Unit Three Prompt: Materialism and Media Artifacts

The readings from this unit ask us to consider the ways in which “media,” whether understood as a technological objects or as tools for sharing…

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Trends in Affective Labour: Cuddles and 'Happy' Meals

Trends in Affective Labour: Cuddles and ‘Happy’ Meals

Here are a few recent discussions of affective labour in the media that you might find interesting. The first of these is the rise of…

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