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    Understanding gendered transnational education mobility: Interview with Fran Martin
    Martin, F ; Song, L (SAGE Publications, 2023-12-01)
    In this interview, Fran Martin discusses gendered transnational education mobility in relation to research methodology, the contradictions of neoliberal ideology, and the social implications of ethnographic research. Challenging stereotypical and often biased portrayals of Chinese international students in the Anglosphere, Martin argues for the importance of attending to the irreducible details of individual life experiences and explains how to employ affective methods to convey these details to readers. Calling for attention to gender as a key perspective in understanding education mobility, she discusses how the global neoliberal discourse underpinning this form of mobility can be restricting and empowering at the same time. She also reflects on the ways in which researchers could engage with social and policy realities and contribute to improving international students’ well-being.
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    Beyond the smart city: a communications-led agenda for twentyfirst century cities
    McQuire, S (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023-06-27)
    Digital media technologies, from networked sensors to large video screens and mobile devices, have become pervasive urban infrastructure in the twentyfirst century. The dominant framework for understanding the integration of digital technology into urban space has been smart city discourse. In this article, I will argue that this framework, as it has so far been articulated, is inadequate to maximizing the social potential of digital urban infrastructure. Digital urban infrastructure not only changes how cities look, but how they function as social settings. I will propose the ‘communicative city’ as an alternative framework for thinking about digitally mediated cities. The communicative city offers an opportunity to consider networked urban space as a test case in which key problematics of contemporary globalized media are materially instantiated. It is the frontier zone at which everyday experiences of embodied media and new forms of communicative agency collide with powerful logics of tracing and tracking, and the widespread deployment of new forms of automation and machine learning as techniques of urban governance.
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    Locating Buzz and Liveness: The Role of Geoblocking and Co-presence in Virtual Film Festivals
    Burgess, D ; Stevens, K ; de Valck, M ; Damiens, A (Springer International Publishing, 2023)
    The sudden and near-complete move of festivals into the online space in 2020 complicated our understanding of the “there” and “then” involved in film festival participation. Experiencing festivals in lockdown (often from domestic spaces), “taking part” in these virtual events had the potential to dramatically expand the points of access. Although this approach was taken early with the YouTube-based We Are One global film festival, for the vast majority of single-festival-run online events access was limited to specific geographic areas through geoblocking technology. This chapter examines the function of geofenced access in virtual and hybrid virtual/real-world film festivals. It poses the question: what are the benefits for festivals in enforcing territoriality and place-boundedness in the de-territorialized world of online media? Looking to the importance of embodied co-presence and networked publics in existing understandings of liveness, buzz, and value creation at festivals, we interrogate the role of “place” in defining festival prestige and influence. We ask, if the mechanisms of value creation linked to the physical spectacle and viral spread of buzz at festivals are disrupted, will the film festival experience still be seen as valuable? And what might that mean for the future of festivals and their study?
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    PNG’s Women in Waiting
    Chandler, J (Melbourne University Publishing (MUP), 2022)
    The two women, venerable grandmothers and veteran activists, are plotting revolution and dissecting the exercise of feminine power in Papua New Guinea over plates of fish and chips and salad.
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    Ransom enterprise
    Chandler, J (Morry Schwartz, 2023-03)
    By one measure, the trouble starts in October 2019. That’s when a gang of 18 Huli tribesmen from the Hela highlands raid a logging camp in the lowland forests of Papua New Guinea’s Western Province. The murders of a Chinese father and son, shot outside their store in the Makapa logging concession, are “an initial price-setting signal”, says Dr Michael Wood, a Queensland anthropologist who has worked with forest people in the region for 25 years.
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    Artists Look at Art: Activating the Peter Townsend Collection of Chinese prints at the National Gallery of Australia
    Roberts, C ; Cains, C ; Xu Bing, ; Liu Ding, ; Liu Qingyuan, ; See, P ; Shen Jiawei, ; Wang Zhiyuan, ; Lu Yinghua, C ; Cai Tao, ; Li Kang, ; Townsend, C ; Huang Yuan, ; Wang Renyin, ; Huang Yuhan, T ; Thompson, B (National Gallery of Australia, 2023)
    In 1985 the National Gallery of Australian acquired 278 woodblock prints collected by British-born Peter Townsend during his period of residence in China between 1942 and 1951. The acquisition of this group of works, known as the Peter Townsend Collection, was made possible by the vision and generosity of the Australia-China Council. The collection consists of woodcuts and wood-engravings created during a period of great political, social and economic upheaval. The prints represent the modernisation of an ancient Chinese art form. Artists drew inspiration from European and American expressionism and Soviet-style Socialist Realism as well as traditional Chinese folk styles, resulting in striking innovations, as many formally trained artists revitalised familiar modes of visual expression for revolutionary ends. The project Artists Look at Art was a two-day workshop initiated by the University of Melbourne and the National Gallery of Australia which generated artists’ and academics’ responses to the collection, to create an information resource that will make the Peter Townsend Collection more accessible to members of the public and enrich the information about the collection currently available via the Gallery’s website. The workshop brought together participants in Australia and China and was simultaneously hosted onsite and online. Artists and art historians were selected for their connections to the Townsend collection, through their practice, training or the insights they were likely to bring to the workshop viewing and discussions. Several of the artists are represented in the National Collection. High resolution images of the Townsend collection were sent to all participants and each participant selected five works to discuss. The selected works were displayed at the workshop.The two-day workshop was video-recorded in the Learning Studio at the National Gallery. The outcome of the workshop is this edited video.
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    ‘Cadar Garis Lucu’ and the mediated political subjectivity of Muslim women in Indonesia
    Dwifatma, A ; Beta, A (Taylor and Francis Group, 2024)
    The growing use of the internet, especially in urban centres, has made social media the contemporary discursive battleground for Muslims to dispute their cultural and political subjectivities. Muslim womanhood, particularly, has always been a concept under constant scrutiny. Previously, narratives about the ideal Muslim women were dominated by male preachers in mosques and public seminars. Nonetheless, social media has given Muslim women a platform to express what their cultural identity entails, the problems they experience, and their aspirations. This paper analyses the cyberspace activism strategy used by so-called controversial Muslim women group to express their political subjectivity within the Muslims community. This paper focuses on the Instagram account of Cadar Garis Lucu, a self-proclaimed feminist niqabi (face-veiled) community. Content analysis of Cadar Garis Lucu’s Instagram posts and in-depth interviews with its members revealed their three discursive strategies: emphasising authenticity – that their choice of face veiling is their own choice; appealing to moderate Indonesian Muslims’ interpretations of religion as an expression of love and plurality; and utilising collaborations with other similarly moderate religious social media accounts, to further justify face-veiled as a part of moderate Islam in Indonesia.
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    The Point is the Circle and the Circle is the Point
    Roberts, C ; Aitken, A (Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 2023-04-14)
    Artist monograph