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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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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Media, Sensation and Affect

Media, Sensation and Affect

Following on and leading into our ongoing discussion of affect, embodiment and communications, I wanted to share a few examples of how embodiment, as discussed…

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Sadvertising: I'd rather feel bad than feel nothing at all

Sadvertising: I’d rather feel bad than feel nothing at all

Over the past year, a number of cultural commentators have made coined the term ‘sadvertising’ to describe campaigns that work to produce an emotional response,…

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Online course run by Cathy Davidson.

Online course run by Cathy Davidson.

There are a variety of sites in which technology is being integrated into the learning process. Some of this has involved the introduction of MOOCs…

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Nudges and Subliminal Media: Two Examples of Attention and its Complexities

Nudges and Subliminal Media: Two Examples of Attention and its Complexities

One of the themes in this week’s class is the question of how we pay attention to media messages. In class, we’re going to discuss…

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