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Please note the updated link for keynote P. David Marshall at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York City (below). Further details are available here: http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/nyc2017/ CFP deadline: April 15, 2017
Bridging Gaps: Where is the Critic in Television Journalism?
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
New York City, USA
August 31 – September 1, 2017
P. David Marshall
Professor and Personal Chair, DEAKIN University
Pandemic Mediatized Identity: Professional Personas as Public Intellectuals in the social media and “presentational media” era
One of the most major transformations in contemporary culture is the mediatization of the self. Across an array of social media platforms – from Twitter and Facebook to Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Pinterest and YouTube (and this list could be extended to games use and even fitness sharing) – we have had a proliferation of ways and means to present oneself publicly. This pandemic change is having repercussions across the social (Marshall, 2016), political (Marshall and Henderson, 2016) and cultural world (Marshall, 2015b) as a presentational media and cultural regime continues to be on ascendance. This new regime is replacing what I have called the representational media and cultural regime – which identifies the incomplete breakdown and transformation of what could be described as legacy media.
One of the implications of this change is the way that expertise moves through this presentationally-oriented media culture. After developing the foundations of this presentational media era, this presentation will explore how different professionals engage in presenting themselves online with some discussion/data on the public presentation of the self and knowledge by lawyers, doctors and the current generation of academics on Twitter specifically. It will discuss how the public intellectual (Atherton and Marshall, 2015; Marshall, 2015a) is differently constituted in this era: in some ways, expertise is still rewarded through appearances on legacy media, but, like YouTube celebrities, it is now partially dependent on a continuing connection to an audience of followers, sharers, and “friends” that reshape the movement of information. The paper concludes with identifying how this different flow of expertise is connected to our current moment of political and information turbulence.
Bio:
Professor Marshall, a research professor and holding a personal chair in new media, communication and cultural studies at Deakin University, has published widely in two areas: the public personality/celebrity and new media culture. His books include Contemporary Publics (Palgrave, 2016), Celebrity Persona Pandemic (Minnesota, Forerunner Series, 2016), A Companion to Celebrity (Blackwell Wiley 2016), Celebrity and Power (1997; second edition, 2014), Fame Games (2000), Web Theory (2003), New Media Cultures (2004), and The Celebrity Culture Reader (2006). He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences as well as interviewed for articles and many broadcast media programs from CNN, Fox News, BBC, and the ABC/Radio National to the Sydney Morning Herald, New York Times and the Toronto Star. His previous academic positions have been at Northeastern University in Boston, the University of Queensland in Brisbane, and Carleton University in Ottawa along with visiting positions at New York University, York University and Karlstad University. He is also Visiting Distinguished Foreign Expert in the School of Journalism and Communication at Central China Normal University (CCNU) in Wuhan China.
His current writing and research has focused on some key areas in contemporary popular culture: he has been developing the idea of ‘persona studies’, where the presentation of the public self has expanded well beyond celebrity culture via particularly online forms: it now structures and patterns reputation and value across many professions and through many recreational and leisure pursuits. He has developed three related concepts to help explore this change in contemporary culture: presentational media, the intercommunication industry, and the personalization complex. Forthcoming books include: Advertising and Promotional Culture: Case Histories (Palgrave, 2016), and Persona Studies: Celebrity, Identity and the transformation of the public self (Wiley). He is also the founder of the Persona Studies Journal and M/C as well as the Persona Celebrity Publics Research Group (PCP) and a member of the Motion.Lab-Centre for Creative Arts Research (ML-CCAR). His personal blog can be found at: www.pdavidmarshall.com
More: http://cmc-centre.com/keynotes/davidmarshall2017/