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Technologies of communication

Technologies of communication

TfC Researchers explore how technologies of communication constitute the world we know and the individuals we are:

  • genres of writing
  • visual cultures
  • sound and music
  • digital cultures
  • performance
  • kitsch
  • museum, exhibition and curatorship

In particular, TfC researchers explore

  • the relationship between communication practice and social & cultural context
  • the ethics of communication
  • the relationship between writing and memory
  • communication as a technology of individual subjectivity
  • communication and/as social transformation

TfC Projects in this area include:

  • Paul Allatson, Being Famous in China: Celebreties, Heroes and Public Figures
  • Anne Cranny-Francis, Jack Lindsay: Critic, Writer, Socialist
  • Tanja Dreher & Justine Lloyd, The Listening Project
  • Tara Forrest, Alternative Public Spheres: Alexander Kluge's Film and Television Experiments
  • Andrew Hurley, Love Narratives in Contemporary German Literature since 1990
  • Tony Mitchell, Local Noise: Indigenising Hip Hop in Australia
  • Katrina Schlunke, Captain Cook and the Popular Imagination: Postcolonial Memorials, Place and the Past
  • Ilaria Vanni, Contact Zones: Activism, Art and Media in Italy, 1994-2006
  • Ialria Vanni, Tony Mitchell, Devleena Ghosh, Christina Ho, Tanja Dreher & Justine Lloyd, Information and Cultural Exchange: a study of best practices in community building, participation and cultural citizenship through creative practices

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