Lecture – Graham Murdock
Contested Connections: Media and Mutuality in Turbulent Times
“In this paper Professor Murdock explores the emerging political economy of the Internet, looking at three key developments — accelerating commercialisation, the rise of new gift economies, and the on-line revivification of public cultural institutions. He examines whether and how, against the countervailing forces of both consumerism and fundamentalisms, we might build a new digital cultural commons based on the mutuality and respect of a reinvigorated cosmopolitan citizenship.
Graham Murdock is Professor in the Sociology of Culture from the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He is an internationally recognised scholar whose main interests are in the Sociology and Political Economy of Culture. Included amongst his many works are Television Across Europe: A Comparative Introduction (co-authored Sage 2000), Media in an Age of Marketisation (co-edited Rowman & Littfield 2007), and the Blackwell Companion to the Political Economy of Communication (co-edited, Wiley-Blackwell forthcoming).”
Curtin University, 3 pm – 5.30 pm, Friday 3rd April 2009 Room 211.221
Will be attending this event and, I believe, responding to Graham’s paper!