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COLLOQUIUM
'Multi-disciplinary Research Agendas In Communicative Activism'
20+21 February 2006
Convened by the UTS Network on Communicative Activism, this Colloquium
will bring together people who research at the nexus between communication
and social change. The objective of the meeting is to to explore possibilities
for collaboration in multi-disciplinary research agendas. Network participants
have a shared interest in the following aspects of research activity:
i. a focus on communication in social change: the ‘art of change’,
as a social technology of self governance, thereby engaging with dilemmas
of PR, ‘branding’, data design and genre management;
ii. an emphasis on grounded, ‘bottom-up’ and participatory
modes of agency, thereby investigating modes of self-organisation: namely,
how people go about organising themselves to bring about social change;
iii. a focus on dialogic relations (through activism) as much as pedagogic
relations (through communicative strategy, or agitprop);
iv. a concern to explore the meanings of activism, including dynamics
of engagement, affect, involvement, narration, motivation;
v. an interest in engaging with the socio-political theorisation of
social change: exploring the wider framing for social strategy.
The intention is to create a two-day event where people talk about
how they approach these concerns, both in theory and practice, and how
their research could be strengthened through collaboration or dialogue
with other disciplines. The focus is on opening-up the possibilities
and shared themes, both as a way of developing greater coherence for
the Network, and as a way to develop concrete research proposals.
If you would like to present at the forum please email RIIA: melanie.gillbank@uts.edu.au
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