Market Information in the Age of Platform Dominance: Implications for Computational Social Science

24 June 2019 11:00am12:30pm
We find ourselves in an era where much of audience activity centres around a handful of digital platforms. This also has impacted how we learn about audiences. Audience measurement has traditionally been the province of neutral third-party firms, whereas digital platforms provide their own measurement estimates, the production of which is largely shielded from external stakeholders. Presenter Harsh Taneja delineates this ongoing shift in market information regimes in media markets raising critical questions for the emerging area of computational social science.
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Researching the Media User through Big Data: A Research Methods Conversation with Dr Harsh Taneja

21 June 2019 11:00am12:30pm
Contemporary media research necessitates the creative use of the audience and media use data of commercial market information providers to answer fundamental questions about media usage. In this research roundtable, presenter Harsh Taneja will discuss the research methods he deploys to allow the large datasets of panel-based audience measurement firms such as Nielsen and comScore to illuminate some of the most pressing problems in our transition to online enabled media.

Roundtable on Platform Media as Traditional Media

12 June 2019 1:00pm2:30pm
It has been customary in media studies to take platform media at their word and consider them as technology companies. This, with some exceptions, has been the case whether or not these companies are being discussed by cultural industries, political economy or new media/digital media scholars. However, the rise of platform media and their extension from social media and search to subscription-based streaming services has brought platforms into the very centre of media studies generating renewed interest in distribution and infrastructures paving the way for a general interrogation of platform media as media industries. Presenters Tom O’Regan and Andrew Ventimiglia will scope out continuities in media repertoires to better clarify their particular working out in platform media.

Revising Communication Law and Ethics for Platform Media

5 June 2019 1:00pm2:30pm
“Communication Law and Ethics” is a foundational Communications course designed to inform future media professionals about the legal issues and ethical norms relating to communication and media industries. The core components of this course have historically been central to traditional media industries. Yet, the emergence of digital platforms has changed every dimension of the contemporary media ecosystem. How are we to revise Communication Law and Ethics in order to adequately address this change and prepare students for a very different media world than the one imagined in the textbooks? Panellists: Andrew Ventimiglia, John Harrison, and Jane Johnston, moderated by Tom O’Regan.

Reimagining Media Seminar - Holding the line: Corporate Social Responsibility and Digital Citizenship

3 June 2019 3:00pm5:00pm
Holding the line: Corporate Social Responsibility and Digital Citizenship
Lelia Green
School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University

Reimagining Media Seminar - Holding the line: Corporate Social Responsibility and Digital Citizenship

3 June 2019 3:00pm5:00pm
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and paralleling a growing discussion around the concept of Digital Citizenship, societies around the globe are engaging in new ways of imagining what corporate social responsibility should look like in the digital domain. Citizens and policy makers are in active discussions around identifying a forward-facing vision of how platforms can and should behave in terms of performing civic responsibility in supporting the best possible ideals for democratic engagement. This is the battle for the ‘hearts and minds’ of users currently being waged by the platforms themselves. Presenter: Lelia Green.

Journalism by Numbers: What the Census Tells us about Journalists and Journalism since the 1960s

26 April 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
In this paper we use the five yearly census of occupations and industries to develop a comparative historical perspective on Australian journalism stretching from 1961 to 2016. Connecting patterns of journalism employment with wider histories of media transformation of which our latest iteration, online media form a part, we show how the open internet era (2001-2011) was substantially in continuity with the longue durée of journalism and media development that precedes it while the platform media era (2011-2016) marks a significant departure from these historical patterns. Presenters: Tom O’Regan and Catherine Young.
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Streaming, disruption and the evolving cultures of use

12 April 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
This paper draws upon an empirical project into television consumption during a period (2015-17) when the arrival of Netflix transformed the television market in Australia. The results of that project have served as a provocation to the argument that television studies needs to focus in a more considered and apposite way on how consumption is now configured in a context where streaming has become a major constituent of the experience of television. This, the paper argues, may require not only a shift in focus, but also in method and approach. Presenter: Graeme Turner.

Building a Firm-Hosted Online Community

5 April 2019 12:30pm2:00pm
Online communities are a topic of increasing academic and practitioner interest. Yet, little is known about the underlying mechanisms of building a firm-hosted online community. Our in-depth single-case study of how the world’s largest miniature model railway exhibition established a vital firm-hosted online community addresses this gap. We identify a process consisting of three key practices – luring, documenting, and moderating – that explains the inherent challenge of building a firm-hosted online community: how to attract and how to keep people engaged with the online community. Presenter: Leona Achtenhagen.

Roundtable with Leona Achtenhagen on Entrepreneurship, Media Businesses and Education

4 April 2019 12:30pm1:30pm
This Roundtable with Professor Leona Achtenhagen will allow those interested in entrepreneurship, the central role it plays in media development, and in educating our students for entrepreneurship to intersect with one of Europe’s leading Professors of Entrepreneurship and Business Development. Using Prof Achtenhagen’s research and that of the Centre she leads, on digital entrepreneurship and her own experience of teaching entrepreneurship to business and journalism students we will explore with her some of the practical steps we can take to encourage an entrepreneurial mindset and ultimately media entrepreneurship, scope out some of the difficulties we might encounter in education for entrepreneurship and harness the intercultural opportunities that a mixed student cohort provides.
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UQ DRAMA CREATIVE FELLOWSHIP ~ Research Roundtable

22 March 2019 4:30pm6:00pm
Participants: Katalin Trencsényi, Bernadette Cochrane, Stephen Carleton, and Kathryn Kelly

Creative Pathways, Industry Trajectories 1: Actors & announcers, live performance and contemporary platforms

22 March 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
This conversation examines the changing shape of actors and announcers employment and of the live performance and related media industries within which they work. Our starting point for discussion will be historical and contemporary census data on acting and announcing and the live performance and other industries that support these starting from 1933. Our conversation will range over the historical trajectory of actors and announcers since then including their employment within theatre and other live performance spaces and other media industries right up to and including the impact of platforms and platformisation most recently. Presenters: Tom O’Regan and Chris Hay.
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UQ DRAMA CREATIVE FELLOW 2019 ~ Dr. Katalin Trencsényi

20 March 2019 6:00pm7:30pm
This public lecture by internationally renowned dramaturg and researcher Katalin Trencsényi will examine this on two levels: micro-dramaturgy (the level of individual performance-making), and macro-dramaturgy (institutional processes).
Heart-to-Heart Conversation with Laura Nsengiyumva and Monique Mbeka Phoba, Contour Biennale 9: Coltan as Cotton / The Waxing Crescent Moon Phase, January 2019, photo by Lavinia Wouters.

On the Necessity of Transforming One's Practice

2 March 2019 10:30am11:30am
Talk by Paris-based curator, editor and writer Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, co-presented with the University of Queensland's School of Languages & Cultures and School of Communication & Arts.

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