The Media, Race, Violence reading group meets monthly to investigates theories, methods, and practices in order to build more just futures.
The reading group traces the relationships between media, technology, race, and violence with the aim of understanding the role media plays both in the encoding of inequality and in resisting it.
All are welcome to join.
Contact Andrew Brooks at a.brooks@unsw.edu.au to get on the mailing list.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief existing infrastructural inequalities.
The unequal distribution of access to the resources and networks of care necessary for living has resulted in increased risk of exposure and vulnerability to death. This crisis has revealed a truth long articulated by activists and scholars: racism is a public health issue.
In the settler colony of Australia, calls to put an end to racialised policing and Black deaths in custody have grown louder, joining global protests demand the abolition of the carceral system and assert that Black Lives Matter.
These roundtable events will consider the politics of listening in the settler colony in relation to infrastructures of law, policing, and incarceration.
Convenor: Andrew Brooks
Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference panel on Non-Human Vision, organized by Adam Fish, Michael Richardson, and Edgar Gomez Cruz, August 17, 2020.
Revelation Perth International Film Festival and Academic Conference, Perth, Australia, Dec. 4-5, 2020.
The Writing Wednesdays writing sessions aim to share experiences and strategies of writing up research in media studies. The sessions provide quiet, focused company for writing.
Each Wednesday morning we meet (online) to chat, catch up and share writing goals. The conversations are focused on ongoing media research, research methods, and writing strategies. We will then sit down for two hours of focused work time.
Convenors: Danielle Hynes & Diana Kreemers
Fever Games' a video presentation on thermal surveillance for Tony D. Sampson organised conference—A&SM#4.5 Media Virality and the Lockdown Aesthetic—University of East London, UK 16 July, 2020.