Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

The first of the Centre for Cultural Policy's Research seminars this term will be on Thursday 27th October 5pm-6.30pm in G50 Millburn House.

Dr. Jonathan Ong from the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester will be presenting a paper entitled Digital Sweatshops in the Disaster Zone: Precarity and Opportunity in Techie Aid Work.

Abstract and bio below.

You are warmly invited to join us. Wine and nibbles will be provided. Please e-mail p.watkins@warwick.ac.uk to confirm your attendance.

All are warmly invited to attend this term's CCPS Research seminar, from Dr. Jo Littler of City Univeristy.

Jo will be presenting and discussing a paper entitled "Kind parents, luxurious winners and normcore plutocrats: the mediated popularisation of ‘meritocratic’ elitism".

The session will be on Wednesday May 11th at 5pm to 6.30 in G50 of Millburn House. We'll be providing light refreshments, so please e-mail p.watkins@warwick.ac.uk if you plan to attend.

It was great to see the partnerships with Brazil harvesting fruit and being recognised by the Funding Agency of the State of Sao Paulo and the British Council this week. Two projects were mentioned involving Joanne Garde-Hansen of the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, firstly the British Council Researcher Links Workshop Beyond the Digital with Prof Gilson Schwartz (USP) and secondly, the career development of Dr Danilo Rothberg (UNESP) who is now a co-researcher with Joanne on the Narratives of Water Project, (a FAPESP-SPRINT-Warwick project). We will be launching the blog for this soon.

Both projects have explored the creative currencies flowing from and between 'memory projects' in the UK and Brazil, and in particular the communication and media strategies employed in the representation, perception and governance of water in Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte and the United Kingdom. In the context of adaptation to increased occurrences to flooding, drought, water security and scarcity, the time is right for more transnational communication on this issue. After all, water circulates globally, and media are also flowing in new directions. Some of this research appears in the newly published Social Memory Technology: Theory, Practice, Action (Routledge), a co-authored book between Joanne and Karen Worcman (Director of the Museu da Pessoa, Sao Paulo). Karen Worcman joined Gilson Schwartz as a visiting researcher in 2014, and the Museu da Pessoa continues to be one of the most important digital museums in Brazil. For more on the UK-Brazil collaborative initiatives see the British Council's Report (in Portuguese) and the news item (in English).