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Inaugural Symposium
Thursday, October 8, 2015 @ 4:00 am - 5:30 pm
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Whose Vantage Point? Locating Global Media and Communication Studies
Dr Wendy Willems is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research focuses on new media, neoliberalism and social change; performance, popular culture and politics; and the politics of global academic knowledge production. Her published work in these areas has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, and she is co-editor (with Ebenezer Obadare) of Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century (Oxford.)
Networks of E-labor-ation: The Globalization of Screen Media Productions
Michael Curtin is the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Film and Media Studies and co-founder of the Media Industries Project at UC Santa Barbara. His research and teaching focus on media globalization, cultural geography, industry studies, and creative labor. His forthcoming books include, Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor and Media Capital: The Cultural Geography of Globalization.