Cambridge Media Seminar

Hello, UK readers! :) We hope that you can come and support the first (and only) Media Seminar this year! While we may come from different backgrounds/disciplines and have various research interests, it is perhaps significant to reflect on the media and its centrality to everyday experience. Our capacity or incapacity to make sense of politics, economics, culture--really, our selves and others--depends as much on the media and how it enables or disables reach and understanding.

We hope to see you all as active audiences on the 21st! :)

CAMBRIDGE MEDIA SEMINAR presents

New Media Audiences: Recent Anthropological Research
A Public Lecture by John Postill (Sheffield Hallam University)

SPS Seminar Room, Free School Lane
21 February, Thursday, 500-630PM

*Mobile phone porn in Indonesia*
*YouTube street performers in Madrid*
*Backyard wrestling in the USA*

Media anthropologist John Postill, Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and author of _Media and Nation-Building: How the Iban Became Malaysian_, presents a fascinating talk on recent anthropological studies of audiences' creative consumption of media in everyday life. He discusses recent trends such as ICT domestication research, audience construction by TV producers, and mobile media audiences, and relates these to ongoing efforts to theorise media as practice. His lecture draws partly on work to be published in his co-edited volume _Theorising Media and Practice_.

This talk will prove to be relevant to those interested in media studies, internet research, social anthropology, cultural sociology, cultural geography, among others.

Entrance is free!

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(image copyright tatambatatam)
(to my Ateneo audience, yep, this is no MediaTalk@admu, but this would hafta do. For now.)