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Grizzling about Facebook notes

These are my notes from Meaghan Morris’s talk earlier this month. They are very impressionistic, so please don’t take them to be accurate, i.e. quotable. If you were there please do amend and develop if you can and continue the conversation. I’ve left out a whole set of contextual references to William Gibson, Miranda Devine, [...]

Ordinary Australians? Reading Underbelly

This is a slightly edited version of the Underbelly paper I gave in Melbourne last week. Comments are especially welcome before we submit it for publication.
Ordinary Australians? Aspiration, commodity fetishism and masculinity in Underbelly

by Melissa Gregg and Jason Wilson
Introduction
During the April 23rd screening of the Nine network drama Underbelly, Brisbane viewers sitting through the [...]

Learning from Underbelly

In a couple of weeks the Television and the National conference is on at ACMI in Melbourne. I’m giving two papers. The first is the Work on TV paper I’ve mentioned here previously, and which I’ll post about separately as I add some more touches. I now have to mention Tina Fey’s Palin persona as [...]

Grizzling about Facebook

Setting up my new office, I’m reminded that my first task at Sydney is to introduce and chair this seminar on Friday. All are welcome.
Professor Meaghan Morris
‘Grizzling About Facebook’
Friday, 7th Nov, 2pm
The Refectory, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney
Followed by drinks at Manning Bar
Abstract:
In journalistic usage, “new media” talk often suggests that one set of innovations [...]