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Tasmania is on fire. Hepburn Springs is evacuated. Townsville is flooding. Mass graves are being dug for a million dead fish in the Darling. The BOM says our Jan temps were “unprecedented”. And I can’t find a single policy page on the Liberal party site using the word “climate”.

Great piece by alana lentin 🇵🇸 on the ideological distortions & silences that shape public discourse about race."This lack of “racial literacy” comes down 2 the fact that the dominant interpretations of racism..are very far removed from what race actually is" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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JOBS ALERT 2 positions in critical communications at Otago - ongoing lecturer roles. Please share widely! otago.taleo.net/careersection/…

Will this revive the myth (see Roland Barthes work) of NZ as Middle Earth? odt.co.nz/opinion/editor…

My advice to the advice industry? Let me make my own mistakes theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Racism has never been put in a critical context by the media. When it comes to fighting racism, the media are part of the problem. They perpetuate stereotypes. They lie by omission, distortion and selection. They give racists inflated importance and respectability” - Stuart Hall

Looking forward to Sun-ha Hong seminar next week.

We were told that if Corbyn were elected there would be a huge economic crisis. A run on the pound, flight of capital, angry market forces warning the government non-stop to retreat or pay the price. Ha, ha, ha. The imbecile Truss and her advisers have annoyed capitalism.

Interesting. The Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill recasts the Reithian ‘inform, educate, entertain’ as ‘inform, enlighten, entertain’ 12(1). The residue semiologist in me says it’s time for a paradigmatic analysis! rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Proudly announcing that my department media film coms will be doing an event with Paris Marx

Kicking off 2023 MFCO Research Seminar Series with our own Prof. Catherine Fowler on representations of sexual harassment and abuse in TV series. Tuesday 14th March, 10am NZDT In-person and online. Watch this space for the zoom registration.

Tonight's the night! Come along to University Book Shop at 5.30pm to listen to Paris Marx, author of "Road to Nowhere" on The Politics of Urban Mobility. Q&A, book signing, and refreshments included!

We are very proud to announce our own, Professor Catherine Fowler will be presenting her Inaugural Professorial Lecture tomorrow at 5.30pm.

New publication🚨 "To be Heard through the #MeToo backlash" Co-written w/ @Charlottebsn gouinette parle trop Giuseppina Sapio Zoé Duchamp We argue the Depp v. Heard trial is a new iteration of postfeminism, one that acknowledges the cultural significance of #MeToo yet reactivates rape myths

At the Voyager Media Awards last night, Re: News won Best news, current affairs or specialist publication! 🥳 Such a dream team to be a part of 💜

Come work with Brett Nicholls 🇵🇸ojutel.bsky.social 🛹 and the rest of the Media, Film & Comms crew at University of Otago We are hiring ongoing L / SL in Comms Click link 🔗 and search 🔍 DM for more deets. thoroughly recommend - excellent work life balance, lively research culture otago.taleo.net/careersection/…

Check out Dr Rosemary Overell’s insightful media release on nostalgia and cinema. John Hughes lives on! rosemary overell ♐️ otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…