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Class Times

1 x 1hr lecture and 1 x 1hr seminar every week

Lecture: Wednesdays, 10-11am

Lower Theatre (Room B01), Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Science Building (FVAS)

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Seminars: Wednesdays, 1hr, various times.

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NB: Seminars commence in Week 1 of the semester for this subject.

Subject Description

This subject examines the transformations of urban life and social belonging by focusing on the

related impact of human mobility and new media and communication technologies. It will

critically engage with the dominant sociological models for explaining global movement and the

emergence of global, mobile media, and will test their relationship to theories of the nation state,

diasporic cultures and new urban formations. In particular it will examine the formation of new

hybrid identities, cosmopolitan organizations, transnational modes of agency and social

interaction. This subject will address the complex cultural transformation of public space and the

public sphere in contemporary society. It will situate this discussion in relation to underlying fears

towards outsiders and ambivalence towards the impact of new technologies and mobility in

general.

Subject Objectives

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Students who successfully complete this subject should be familiar with alternative perspectives

for understanding the relation between global flows and local affiliations, and for understanding

the emergence of new social spaces and practices in the diasporic cultures of contemporary

cities.

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Generic Skills

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• Prepare and present their ideas in both verbal and written mode at an intermediate level

and in conformity to conventions of academic presentation.

• Participate in discussion and group activities and be sensitive to the participation of

others.

Time management plays a key role in relation to successful university study.

Students need to keep in mind that as well as scheduled contact hours for lectures, tutorials and

seminars a considerable additional time commitment is needed to complete the academic

requirements of each subject.

Fourth Year & Postgraduate Subjects

• 24 contact hours per semester;

• 36 hours of class preparation and reading per semester**; 60 hours of assessment-related

tasks per subject;

• 120 hours total time commitment per semester per subject 10 hours total time

commitment per week per subject

This means that in every week of semester, aside from your specified contact hours of lecture and

tutorials, you should also be devoting at least 5 - 6 hours of your own time to each subject

undertaken during the semester including reading, research and assessment tasks.

Subject Materials

Required readings and some further reading are in the Subject Reader.

Expectations about Reading

Reading is divided into ‘essential reading’ which is compulsory and ‘further reading’ which is

recommended and useful for your essays and research papers. Aside from your textbook, all other

set readings and recommended readings are in your subject reader.

You should ensure that you do your reading before seminars. It is advisable to bring your Subject

Reader to all lectures and seminars.

This subject includes material from a variety of different sources and can include readings which

are quite different from traditional journal articles or other academic writing - including reports

and briefing notes. This helps to develop an important skill – the ability to interpret and analyse a

variety of written material.

Undertaking Research

Please note that the readings in the Subject Reader are the minimum reading you are required to

do. All students are expected to read more widely, particularly for areas in which they are writing

essays. Each topic contains a list of suggestions for further reading. Many of these books have

been placed at the Reserve Desk in the Baillieu library. There are also many other relevant books

and materials you can refer to. Where you are unable to obtain material from the Baillieu, always

check the State Library.

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If you are having trouble locating a particular reading, you should consult with the lecturer who

may be able to help you to access a copy, or suggest alternatives. Students who read more

widely will inevitably be more successful in their studies.

Libraries

The main library where you will find holdings is the Baillieu Library. Most of the resources related to

this subject are located here. Apart from its general collection, the Baillieu Library has useful

academic journals as well as a host of online resources.

The Library has a reasonable collection of videos in the Education Resource Centre. The Baillieu

has a large collection of national and international newspapers with both current and archival 5

holdings. Electronic newspapers and online media related magazines can be found through

Discovery Search on the Library homepage.

To locate relevant peer-reviewed articles, follow the A-Z E-journal and Database Search on the

Library Homepage. APAIS and Expanded Academic ASAP are very useful for locating useful

journal and newspaper articles including some full-text articles. The library also maintains a list of

media-related journals under ‘Media’ in the Database by Search function.

Journals

Most journals can now be accessed electronically. If you are not already familiar with using the

Library’s online search catalogue for searching databases, you should arrange to undertake a

library information session as soon as possible.

Assessment

We strongly recommend that you obtain a copy of the School of Culture and Communications

Essay Writing Guide available from the School Office, Level 2, John Medley Building, West Tower,

or on our website: http://culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/sites/culture-

communication.unimelb.edu.au/files/Essay_Writing_Guide.pdf

This Guide describes matters of writing style, referencing and essay submission in great detail. It is a

very important resource for your studies. Further assignment help can be found via Student

Services and the Academic Skills Unit. Please see your tutor to find out more about these services.

Assessment for this Subject Consists of:

Completion of two pieces of assessment during the semester:

Assessment Task 1

Site Analysis Presentation & Essay (1000 words)

25% of total marks

The first assessment task comprises a class presentation and an accompanying 1000 word essay

that analyses a site of your choice. The site analysis is to be carried out in relation to the

corresponding weekly topic. The 1000 word essay is to be submitted no later than 1 week after

your presentation.

For the site analysis: choose a site from Melbourne or beyond. This site will be the focal point for

observation and reflection informed by issues and themes addressed in this subject. You may

choose to undertake a mapping of the site, identify key factors concerning patterns of mobility

and social agency in relation to the site, conduct fieldwork or outline a new imaginary relationship

to the site. Ensure to make reference to the applicable key readings.

Assessment Task 2

Reflective Essay (4000 words)

75% of total marks

Answer one of the nine questions listed overleaf. In your response, you should demonstrate your

awareness of relevant literature, and offer a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses,

including its methodology. Where appropriate, you should use case study examples to advance

your argument.

Questions for Reflective Essay

• What is the significance of mobility as a social concept?

• How do global migration patterns present new challenges for nation states?

• How has digital technology underpinned the emergence of ‘global cities’?

• What is the relation between the growth of personal media and increased urban

surveillance?

• How have media platforms affected the movement from a national to transnational

public sphere?

• How might placed-based interactive media projects contribute to the production of new

forms of public agency?

• Can cosmopolitanism provide a new perspective on the form of social relationships?

• Is the concept of human rights broad enough to embrace the plight of refugees and

strangers?

• What is the relation between the desire for openness to the world and the need to feel

secure at home?

Tutorial Attendance and Participation

Participation means more than just attending. It is important to have done the required reading

prior to the seminar so that you are able to contribute to group discussions. Attendance and

participation is a requirement for all subjects offered by the School of Culture & Communication.

NB - More specific details including handouts will be provided about the assessment tasks in the

first weeks of semester. Assessment will also be discussed in tutorials and you will have time to

discuss these with your tutor or the subject coordinator.

Extensions for Written Work and Penalties for Late Work:

It is your responsibility to submit work by the due date. If for some reason you think cannot make a

deadline, please discuss the matter with the subject coordinator or tutor prior to the due date.

Extensions will only be granted in special circumstances. Extensions will not be granted on final

pieces of assessment without an application for special consideration lodged along with

supporting documentation (see below).

Essays submitted after the due date without an extension will be penalised 2% per day. Essays

submitted after two weeks of the assessment due date without a formally approved application

for special consideration and an extension will only be marked on a pass/fail basis if accepted.

All requests for extensions for final essays must be accompanied by an application for Special

Consideration with supporting documentation.

Special Consideration is lodged online and the requested supporting documentation must be

submitted before the application will be considered. Please note the timelines for the lodgement

of special consideration. Applications that are lodged outside of these timelines will not be

considered.

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Planning Your Workload

It is important to plan your workload in advance. If you leave things to the last minute, you will

often find that someone else is using the book that you want. The best thing to do is to sit down

now with your diary and organise a semester timeline for all your subjects.

Please remember that having essays for other subjects due at the same time does not amount to

‘special circumstances’ for requesting special consideration or an extension!

Students' Responsibilities to Contribute to their Own Learning

At the commencement of each semester students are made aware, through subject readers,

departmental notice boards, web and other means, of their responsibilities to contribute to their

own learning. All students must:

• familiarise themselves with departmental guidelines for assessment;

• be aware of the requirements and due dates for each of the components of assessment,

including examination times;

• ensure that the they take into account the total time commitment to study for each

subject of their enrolment;

• make sure that their studies are not impeded by part-time work or other outside

commitments;

• regularly consult subject noticeboards or wherever subject information is regularly posted;

• seek assistance if they experience difficulties with any aspect of their studies.

It is also each student's responsibility to plan their course in a way that satisfies course requirements

by ensuring timely enrolment in the correct number of subjects at the appropriate year level.

General Notes on Assessment

a) There is an 80% tutorial attendance rule. Your tutorial attendance will be monitored and

without documented evidence explaining tutorial absences of more than 20% you will

FAIL this subject.

b) An extension of time beyond the due date of final examinations will be given only on

submission of a Special Consideration application via the online site detailed above, and

only for a reason that falls within the guidelines for Special Consideration. A specific date

for submission will then be agreed upon and enforced unless evidence for additional

Special Consideration is produced.

c) You are required to keep a copy of all written work submitted for assessment.

d) Brief comments will be included on all assignments, together with a grade on the following

scale: H1 = 80-100%, H2A = 75-79%, H2B = 70-74%, H3 = 65-69%, P = 50-64%, N = 0-49%.

e) All failed essays will be double-marked before being returned.

f) Any request for a reconsideration of the final and official grade for this subject must be

made in writing to the Head of School or the Head of your study area, and give reasons

why reconsideration is justified. You will be required to resubmit all original pieces of

assessment submitted for the subject with your request for reassessment.

g) You are advised to take note of the Faculty Policy on Plagiarism: copies of this document

are displayed on departmental noticeboards.

h) You may not submit for assessment in this subject any written work submitted in whole or

part for assessment in another subject.

i) All final written work for assessment must be submitted on LMS. Hard copies are to be

submitted to the School Office located on the 2nd floor of the West Tower, John Medley

Building and include a correctly completed cover sheet. Essays cannot be submitted by

fax or email. You should include a stamped and self-addressed envelope if you wish to

have your final marked essay returned to you. Essays without a stamped self-addressed

envelope will not receive examiners comments and will not be returned to students.

j) You should check details of your enrolment, because you will not receive a formal result

for any subject unless you are enrolled in it correctly. You need to make changes to your

enrolment within the first two teaching weeks of the semester. 8

Notes on PLAGIARISM

It is very important that you are aware of requirements regarding plagiarism.

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is the use of another person's work without due acknowledgment. Examples include:

• direct duplication, by copying (or allowing to be copied) another's work. This includes

copying from a book article, web site, or another student's assignment

• paraphrasing another person's work with minor changes, but keeping the meaning, form

and/or progression of ideas of the original;

• piecing together sections of the work of others into a new whole;

• submitting an assignment that has already been submitted for assessment in another

subject;

• presenting an assignment as independent work when it has been produced in whole or

part in collusion with other people, for example, another student or a tutor.

Practical Advice to Students

How to Avoid Plagiarism and Why is Plagiarism so Serious?

Plagiarism is defined as ‘the taking and passing off the thoughts, writings, etc, of other people as

your own’. In short, it is intellectual theft.

In not crediting the source, a person is guilty of stealing another’s research, thinking, writing, or

images (intellectual knowledge in all its forms). It is unacceptable at all times; it is completely

unacceptable in an intellectual environment such as a university. We take a very dim view of

students who engage in plagiarism.

If a student is found to have deliberately plagiarised the work of another—including copying the

work of other students—the penalties are severe. The ‘best outcome’ will be a zero for the

particular assessment exercise. You may be failed outright for that subject. If there is reason to

believe that you have made a practice of plagiarism, university disciplinary action may be

recommended which could result in your expulsion from the university and denial of your degree.

Sometimes a student might inadvertently plagiarise. This is usually the result of inexperience, sloppy

note taking, or a combination of both. With the advent of the Internet and a wide range of other

electronic sources, the rules for correct citation are still being written. In general, you should try to

follow the practice established for citation of written works.

The following notes are to help you avert being suspected of or accused of plagiarising the work

of another person. They include special notes on citation of sources found on the internet.

You must cite the source of information in the body of any essay or assignment (either as a

numbered footnote or as an in-text reference) and list the cited source in the bibliography

ordered alphabetically. To do this properly, you need to be careful about recording the source of

each note that you make, whatever the source, be it a book, a journal, a film or TV documentary,

or a source on the Internet.

Each note you take should include certain basic information which enables another person to

identify correctly and locate that source and the origin of your quote or data cited. The methods

vary for different types of sources. In the first reference to any type of item you must give a

description sufficient to identify it.

The School of Culture & Communication Essay Writing Guide provides precise style requirements

for citing references but in general, you are required to note:

For books: Author (full name), Title of book (underlined or in italics), the edition (if not the first),

Place and Date of the publication, and Page Number.

For articles: Author (full name), Title of article (between ‘quotation marks’), Name of journal

(underlined or in italics), Volume and Issue number, Date/Year of publication, Page Number.

For internet sources: name of organisation providing the service, the title of the home page and

its http://-address (this is the most important reference), the date of creation of that page (if

known) and the date of your access (since pages can change or disappear). Because the

internet is hyperlink media, pages containing ‘hotlinks’ which allow you to go elsewhere, it is

important that you note the actual location (URL) of the page from which you have obtained

your information. You do that by looking at the Location: field which shows the http://-address.

(Some sites allow you to visit other sites within one of their frames without changing the root

address. You need to note this.)

If you take notes using your word processor running simultaneously with your web browser, using a

process of copy and paste, make sure you put quotation marks around passages which are a

direct copy of the Web document to distinguish the copied passages from notes which are in

8 Methodological Cosmopolitanism

9 Culture and Cosmopolitanism

[Non-teaching period 26 September – 2 October]

10 The Home in Mobile Times

11 Towards a New Universalism

12 Reflection: Mobility in the Anthropocene

Seminar Plan

Week 1: Wednesday 27 July

MODERNITY AND MOVEMENT

This topic introduces migration and media as twin optics for understanding the emergence of

contemporary society as a social form based on mobility. The modern period is commonly

associated with change. Ideas of progress, transformation and discovery are often expressed

through the metaphors of movement. Similarly, the experience of travel and migration, which is a

physical act of movement, also became a more widespread phenomenon during modernity.

Migration has been a dominant force in the reshaping of modern societies, but its meaning has

often oscillated between the poles of threat and opportunity. The advent of cheaper and faster

modes for the transportation of people and commodities has been paralleled by the

development of new means of circulating images and information. The transition from traditional

media to digital networks means that mobility has gained even greater force in contemporary

society. This introductory session will offer an overview on theories of mobility and communication.

Key issues

• What are the general patterns and meanings associated with movement?

• What is the significance of mobility as a social concept?

• How has the relation between media and the nation state changed in recent years?

Essential reading

1.1 Papastergiadis, N. (2000) The Turbulence of Migration, Polity Press, Cambridge, pp. 22–50.

1.2 McQuire, S. (2009) ‘Media Technologies, Mobility and the Nation State’ in J. Hall, L. Grindstaff

and M. Lo (eds.) Handbook of Cultural Sociology, London and New York, Routledge.

Further reading

A case study of social differences in mobility

Multiplicity (2005) ‘Borders: The Other Side of Globalisation’, in S. McQuire and N. Papastergiadis,

(eds.) Empires Ruins + Networks: The Transcultural Agenda in Art, Melbourne, Melbourne

University Publishing; London, Rivers Orams Press: 169–84.

Theories of mobility

Nail, T. 2015, The Figure of the Migrant, Redwood City, CA, Stanford University Press.

Tomlinson, J. (2007) ‘The Condition of Immediacy’, in The Culture of Speed, London, Sage: 72–93.

Urry, J. (2002) ‘Mobility and proximity’, Available at

http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/projects/mobilenetwork/downloads/urry1stpaper.doc

Hannam, K, Sheller, M. and Urry, J. (2006) ‘Editorial: Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings’,

Mobilities, 1 (1): 1–22. Available at:

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a741385574~db=all~o rder=page

McQuire, S. (1998) ‘Pure Speed; from Transport to Teleport’, Visions of Modernity, London, Sage:

183–90.

McQuire, S. (2008) ‘The uncanny home’ in The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space,

London, Sage: 12-28.

On the relation between media and movement

Virilio, P. (2000) ‘The Last Vehicle’, in Polar Inertia (trans. P. Camiller), London, Sage: 17–35.

On migration

Castles, S. and Miller. M. (2003) The Age of Migration, New York, Palgrave.

Massey, D.S. and Taylor, J.E. (2004) International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global

Market, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Massey, D.S. et al (1998) Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the

Millennium, Oxford, Clarendon University Press.

Week 2: Wednesday 3 August

GLOBAL PEOPLE MOVEMENTS AND THE CONTEMPORARY NATION

PART 1: PERSPECTIVES FROM EUROPE

This topic considers how discourses on the nation state and mobility have been confined to an

oppositional model. It will focus on the dominant sociological models for explaining global

movement and explore their relationship to theories of the nation state. In particular it will examine

the twin pillars of micro-agency and macro- structuralism that have supported the prevailing

sociological theories of migration present the nation state as a bounded system. This topic will also

consider whether the theories of migration and the nation-state as a unified and exclusionary

social system are in effect producing an underlying fear towards outsiders and ambivalence

towards mobility. An alternative model based on complexity theory will then be used to address

the global flows and local affiliations of contemporary society. We will also examine the most

recent report by United Nations High Commission on Refugees.

Key issues

• In what ways are perceptions of national integrity linked to border control?

• How do global migration patterns present new challenges for nation states?

Essential reading

2.1 Papastergiadis, N. (2012) ‘Kinetophobia, Motion, Fearfulness’, Cosmopolitanism and Culture,

Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press: 36-56.

2.2 UNHCR (2015) World at War: UNHCR Global Trends, Forced Displacement in 2014. Available at

http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/country/556725e69/unhcr-global-trends-2014.html

2.3 Nordland R. (2015) ‘A Mass Migration Crisis, and It May Yet Get Worse’, New York Times, 31

October 2015. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/world/europe/a-mass-

migration-crisis-and-it-may-yet-get-worse.html

Further reading

Theories of Nation

Cheah, P. (2003) Spectral Nationalism. New York, Columbia University Press.

Kleinschmidt, H. (2006) ‘Migration and the Making of Transnational Social Spaces’, Australian

Centre seminar paper, University of Melbourne, 11 June.

Basch,L., Schiller, N.G. and Blanc-Szanton, C. (1994) Nations Unbound, Amsterdam, Gordon and

Breach.

Tamir, Y. (1993) Liberal Nationalism, Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Migration Theory

Mezzadra, S. (2016). ‘Borders and Migration. Emerging Challenges for Migration Research and

Politics in Europe’, Berlin Lecture 2016 (Berliner Institut für empirische Integrationsund

Migrationsforschung, Humboldt Universität.), June 23 2016.

Brettell, C. and Hollifield, J. (eds.) Migration Theory, London, Routledge.

Faist, T. (2000) The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Spaces,

Oxford, Clarendon Press.

Kleinschmidt, H. (2003) People on the Move, Westport, CT, Praeger.

Hammar, T. (2001) ‘Politics of Immigration Control and Politicisation of International Migration’, in

M. Saddique (ed.) International Migration into the Twenty First Century, Cheltenham,

Edward Elgar Press.

Massey, D. and Taylor, J.E. (eds.) International Migration, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Stark, O. (1991) The Migration of Labor, Cambridge, Basil Blackwell.

Zlotnik, H. (1998) ‘International Migration 1965–96: An Overview’, Population and Development

Review 24.

Refugees and Trafficking

Tyler, I. and K. Marciniak (2013) ‘Immigrant protest: an introduction’, Citizenship Studies, 17(2): 143-

156, DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2013.780728

Salt, J. (ed.) (2000) Perspectives on Trafficking of Migrants, Geneva, International Organisation for

Migration.

Skeldon, R. (2000) ‘Trafficking: A Perspective from Asia’, in J. Salt (ed.) Perspectives on Trafficking

of Migrants, Geneva, International Organisation for Migration.

Warner, D. (1999) ‘The Refugee State and State Protection’, in F. Nicholson and P. Twomey (eds.)

Refugee Rights and Realities, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Week 3: Wednesday 10 August

GLOBAL PEOPLE MOVEMENTS AND THE CONTEMPORARY NATION

PART 2: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE ASIA-PACIFIC

This week continues our examination of migration theories in relation to the nation-state, with a

particular focus on Australia and the Asia-Pacific region more broadly. We will consider the way

nationhood is contested and reconfigured through contemporary border crossings and

interactions with ‘strangerhood’.

Key Issues

• How is the nation negotiated through border control in Australia?

• How do past and present global mobilities—or immobilties, as the case may be—

accumulate and collide in the Asia-Pacific region?

• What role does ‘the body’ have in the context of global migration and how is it related to

understandings of the nation?

Essential Reading

3.1 Ganguly-Scrase, R. and K. Lahiri-Dutt (eds.) (2016), ‘Dispossession, Placelessness, Home and

Belonging: An Outline of a Research Agenda’, Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific

Perspectives, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 3-29. Originally published 2012 by Ashgate

Publishing, Burlington.

3.2 Whitlock, G. 2014, ‘The hospitality of cyberspace: mobilizing asylum seeker testimony online’,

Biography, 48(5): 245-266.

3.3 Pietsch, J. and Marotta, V. (2009), ‘Bauman, strangerhood and attitudes towards immigrants

among the Australian population’, The Australian Sociological Association, 45 (2): 187-200.

Further reading

On ‘surveillance society’

Bell, D. (2009) ‘Surveillance is Sexy’, Surveillance and Society, 6(3): 203-212

Baumann, Z. (2005), ‘Seeking Shelter in Pandora’s Box; or Fear, Security and the City’, in Liquid Life,

Cambridge, Polity: 68–79.

Deleuze, G. (2002), ‘Postscript on Control Societies’, in T. Levin, U. Frohne and P. Weibel (eds.) Ctrl

Space: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, Karlsruhe and London, ZKM

and MIT Press: 316–21.

Lyon, D. (2007) ‘Resisting Surveillance’, in P. Hier and S. Greenberg, (eds.) The Surveillance Studies

Reader, Maidenhead, Open University Press: 368–77.

On the ‘interactive’ city

Mitchell, W.J. (2003) Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.

Novak, M. (1997) ‘Cognitive Cities: Intelligence, Environment and Space’, in P. Droege (ed.)

Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution, Rotterdam, Elsevier

Science: 386–420.

On the transformation of urban space

Flusser,V. (2005) ‘The City as Wave Trough in the Image Flood’, Critical Inquiry, 31: 320–8.

Tomlinson, J. (2007) ‘The Metropolis’, in The Culture of Speed, London, Sage: 32–9. 17

Sheller, M. and Urry, J. (2006) ‘Mobile Cities, Urban Mobilities’, in Mobile Technologies of the City,

Milton Park, Routledge: 1–8.

Virilio, P. (1991) ‘The Over-Exposed City’, in The Lost Dimension (trans. D. Moshenberg), New York,

Semiotexte: 9–27.

Mitchell, W.J. (2003) ‘Boundaries/Networks’ and ‘Developing the Herzian Frontier’ in Me++: The

Cyborg Self and the Networked City, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press: 7-17, 55–8.

McQuire, S. (2008) ‘Liquid Cities’ in The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space,

London, Sage: 90-101

Graham, S. and Wood, D. (2007) ‘Digitizing Surveillance: Categorization, Space, Inequality’, in P.

Hier and S. Greenberg (eds.) The Surveillance Studies Reader, Maidenhead, Open

University Press: 218-30.

Sassen, S. (2002) ‘Locating Cities on Global Circuits’, in S. Sassen (ed.) Global Networks, Linked

cities, New York and London, Routledge: 1–27.

Castells, M. (1989) Chapters 1 & 3, in The Informational City, Oxford and Cambridge MA.,

Blackwell.

Choo, C.W. (1997) ‘IT2000: Singapore’s Vision of an Intelligent Island’, in P. Droege (ed.) Intelligent

Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution, Rotterdam, Elsevier Science:

49–65.

Graham, S and Marvin, S. (2001), ‘“Glocal” Infrastructure and Urban Economies’, in S. Graham, S.

and S. Marvin, Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities

and the Urban Condition, London, Routledge: 313–42.

Graham, S. (ed.) (2004) Cybercities Reader, London and New York, Routledge.

Sassen, S. (2001), Chapter 10 and Epilogue, The Global City, New York, London, Tokyo (2nd ed.),

Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press.

Sassen, S. (2006) ‘Citizenship in the Global City’, in Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to

Global Assemblages, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 314–9.

deSouza e Silva, A. (2007) ‘From cyber to hybrid: mobile technologies as interfaces to hybrid

spaces’ in Bell, D. and Kennedy , B. The Cyberculture Reader (2nd edn) 757-772.

Week 5: Wednesday 24 August

GLOBAL MEDIA AND THE TRANSNATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE

This topic addresses the new conditions of public culture in the global era. Beginning from the

historic association between media and the public sphere posited by those such as Habermas,

we examine the growing need to reformulate concept in the present. Global networks of

communication are creating the potential for new scales and patterns of social organization.

They are also altering the conditions of public culture in contemporary cities. If the growth of

modern media once forced public life to shift from the street to the screen, we are now witnessing

a shift back to the street.

Key issues

• How have media platforms affected the movement from national to transnational public

sphere?

• How can we conceptualise the changing relation of public sphere to public space?

Essential reading

5.1 Papacharissi, Z. (2002) ‘The Virtual Sphere: The Internet as a Public Sphere’, New Media and

Society, 4 (1): 9–27.

5.2 Downey, J. and Fenton, N. (2003) ‘New Media, Counter Publicity and the Public Sphere’, New

Media and Society 5 (2): 185–202.

5.3 Lovink, G. (2008) ‘Updating Tactical Media: Strategies for Media Activism’, in Zero Comments:

Blogging and Critical Internet Culture, New York and London, Routledge: 185–205.

Further reading

On the historical formation of a national public sphere

Anderson, B. (1983) Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism,

London, Verso.

Habermas, J. (1989) ‘The Basic Blueprint’, in Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An

Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (trans. T. Burger), Cambridge, MA, MIT Press:

27–30.

McLuhan, M. (1974) ‘The Printed Word: Architect of Nationalism’, in Understanding Media,

Abacus: 182–91.

Morley, D. (2000) ‘Broadcasting and the construction of the national family’, in Home Territories:

Media, Mobility and Identity, London and New York, Routledge: 105-127.

Theories and critiques of the concept of the ‘public sphere’

Calhoun, C. (ed.) (1992) Habermas and the Public Sphere, Cambridge, MA., MIT Press.

Crossley, N. and Roberts, J. (eds.) (2004) After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere,

Oxford, UK and Malden, MA., Blackwell Publishing.

Gitlin, T. (1998) 'Public Sphere or Public Sphericules?, in T. Liebes and J. Curran (eds)

Media Ritual and Identity, London, Routledge.

Habermas, J. (1992) ‘Further Reflections on the Public Sphere’, in C. Calhoun (ed.), Habermas and

the Public Sphere, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.

Robbins, B. (ed.) (1993) The Phantom Public Sphere, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.

Thompson, J. (1993), ‘The Theory of the Public Sphere’, Theory, Culture and Society, 10: 173–89. 19

On transnational communication networks

Bailey, O., Georgiou, M. and Harindranath, R. (eds.) (2007) Transnational lives and the media: re-

imagining diaspora, Basingstoke [England]; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Cederman, L. and P.A. Krauss, (2005) ‘Transnational Communication and the European Demos’, in

R. Latham and S. Sassen (eds.) Digital formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global

Realm, Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press: 283–311.

Hardt, M. and Negri, A. (2004), ‘Inventing Network Struggles’, in Multitude: War and Democracy in

the Age of Empire, New York, Penguin Press: 79–92.

Kahn, R. and Kellner, D. (2004) ‘New media and internet activism: from the “Battle of Seattle” to

blogging’, New Media and Society, 6 (1): 87-95.

Week 6: Wednesday 31 August

TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITIES

This week we look at the formation of diasporic communities in order to question the structures

and flows through which they are constituted. This will critique traditional notions of ethnic

enclaves and question the integrative capacities of the nation state. We will pay close attention

to the influence of new communication and transportation technologies.

Key issues

• How do borders regulate contemporary mobilities?

• What is the difference between national, international and transnational forms of

mobility?

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Essential reading

6.1 Ong, A. (1999) Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, Durham, Duke

University Press, pp. 1-26.

6.2 Papastergiadis, N. et al (2013) ‘Mega Screens and Mega Cities’, Journal of Theory, Culture

and Society, pp. 244-260.

6.3 Lacroix, T. and E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (2013) ‘Refugee and Diaspora Memories: The Politics of

Remembering and Forgetting’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 34 (6): 684-696, DOI:

10.1080/07256868.2013.846893

Further reading

Theories of Mobility and Identity

Ahmed, S. et al (eds.) (2003) Uprootings and Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration,

Oxford, Berg.

Ang, I. et al (ed.) (2000) Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media and Popular Culture,

Sydney, Pluto Press.

Ang, I. (2001) On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West, London, Rougtledge.

Bailey, O.G., Georgiou, M. and Harindranath, R. (eds.) (2007) Transnational Lives and the Media:

Re-imagining Diaspora, Basingstoke; New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. [essays by hari

and bailey]

Bhabha, H. (1994) The Location of Culture, London, Routledge. Brah, A. (1996) Cartographies of

Diaspora, London, Routledge.

Braidotti, R. (1994) Nomadic Subjects, New York, Columbia University Press.

Clifford, J. (1997) Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century, London, Harvard

University Press.

Cunningham, S. (2004) ‘Popular Media as Public 'Sphericules' for Diasporic Communities’, in R.C.

Allen and A. Hill (eds.) The Television Studies Reader, New York, Routledge.

Kleinschmidt, H. (2003) People on the Move: Attitudes Toward and Perceptions of Migration in

Medieval and Modern Europe, Westport, Praeger.

Morley, D. (2000) Home Territories: Media, Mobility, and Identity, New York, Routledge.

International – Global – Transnational

Cresswell, T., and Verstraete, G. (eds.) (2003) Mobilizing Place and Placing Mobility: The Politics of

Representation in a Globalized World, Amsterdam, Rodopi.

Levy, J. (2000) The Multiculturalism of Fear, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Löfgren, O. (2002) “The Nationalization of Anxiety”, in U. Hedetoft and M. Hjort (eds),

The Postnational Self, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Massey, D. and Taylor, J.E. (2004) International Migration, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Morley, D. (2000) ‘Heimat, Modernity and Exile’, in Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity,

London and New York, Routledge: 31-55.

Nederveen Pieterse, J. (2007) Ethnicities and Global Multiculture, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield.

Ong, A. (2012) ‘What Marco Polo Forgot: Contemporary Chinese Art Reconfigures the Global’,

Current Anthropology, 53 (4): 471-494.

Rosenau, J.N. (1997) Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Rosenau, J.N. (2003) Distant Proximities: Dynamics Beyond Globalization, Princeton, Princeton

University Press: xi –iv; 3–17; 184–202.

Terray, E. (2004) ‘Headscarf Hysteria’, New Left Review, 26. Urry, J. (2003) Global Complexity,

Cambridge, Polity Press.

Week 7: Wednesday 7 September

BELONGING IN DIGITAL DIASPORAS

This week we continue our examination of the way new media networks are altering the social

dynamics of cultures and communities. Public space has become a frontier zone for new

opportunities and struggles as embedded, mobile and wireless media become pervasive in urban

infrastructure. Artists have often been at the forefront of developing innovative interfaces and

practices as a means of intervening in and transforming urban space. Beginning from the critique

of the modern city launched by groups such as the Situationist International, we will survey a

range of contemporary projects which are explicitly designed as ‘pathway’ interventions.

Key issues

• How are contemporary artists utilising mobile, networked and wireless media in

conjunction with geo-positioning data?

• How might placed-based interactive media projects contribute to the production of new

forms of public agency?

Essential reading

7.1 Townsend, A. (2006) ‘Locative-Media Artists in the Contested-Aware City’, Leonardo, 39 (4):

345–7.

7.2 Frouws, B., M. Phillips, A. Hassan and M. Twigt (2016), Getting to Europe the ‘WhatsApp’ Way:

The use of ICT in contemporary mixed migration flows to Europe, Danish Refugee Council, The

Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat (RMMS): June 2016.

Further reading

O’Mara, B. and Harris, A (2016), ‘Intercultural crossings in a digital age: ICT pathways with migrant

and refugee-background youth’, Race, Ethnicity & Education, 19(3): 639-658.

Debord, G. (1957/1981) ‘Towards a Situationist International’, in K. Knabb,

(ed.) Situationist International Anthology, Berkeley, Bureau of Public Secrets: 22–5.

Debord, G. (1956/1981) ‘Theory of the Derive’, in K. Knabb, (ed.) Situationist International

Anthology, Berkeley, Bureau of Public Secrets: 50–4.

Sadler, S. (1998), ‘Formulary for a New Urbanism: Rethinking the City’, in The Situationist City,

Cambridge MA., MIT Press: 69–104.

Marotta, V. (2011) ‘Is the Virtual Ethnic Subject Real?’, Journal of

Intercultural Studies, 32(5): 459-464, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2011.603882

McQuire, S. (2008) ‘Performing Public Space’, in The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban

Space, London, Sage: 130–58.

Sennett, R. (1977) ‘The Public Domain’, in The Fall of Public Man, New York, Knopf: 3– 27.

Virilio, P. (1994), ‘The Vision Machine’, in The Vision Machine (trans. J. Rose), London, BFI &

Bloomington, Indiana University Press: 59–77.

von Borries, F., Walz, S. and Bottger, M. (eds.) (2007) Space Time Play, Computer Games,

Architecture and Urbanism: the Next Level, Basel, Birkhauser.

Broeckman, A. (2000) ‘Public Spheres and Network Interfaces’, in R. Lozano-Hemmer (ed.) (2000)

Vectorial Elevation: Relational Architecture No.4, Mexico, City, Conaculta Press: 165–79.

Dietz, S. (2004) ‘Public Sphere_s’, Media Art Net. Available online at

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/public_sphere_s/public_sphere_s/

Lozano-Hemmer, R. and Hill, D. (eds.) (2007) Underscan, Nottingham, East Midlands Development

Agency.

Manovich, L. (2005) ‘The poetics of urban media surfaces’, First Monday. Available at

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/special11_2/manovich/index.html.

Tuters, M. and Varnelis, K. (2006) ‘Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things’,

Leonardo 39 (4): 357–63. Also online in Networked Publics available at

http://networkedpublics.org/locative_media/beyond_locative_media

Foth, M. (2009), Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The practice and promise of the

real-time city, Heshey, and London, Information Science Reference: Section IV: Location,

Navigation, Space’

McCullough, M. (2006) ‘On the Urbanism of Locative Media’, Places-A Forum Of Environmental

Design 18 (2): 26-29.

Rueb, T. (2008) ‘Shifting Subjects in Locative Media’, in B. Hawk, D. M. Rieder, and O. Oviedo (eds.)

Small Tech: the Culture of Digital Tools, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press: 129–33.

Shirvanee, L. (2007) ‘Social Viscosities: Mapping Social Performance in Public Space’, Digital

Creativity 18 (3): 151–60.

Tuters, M. (2004) ‘Locative Media as the Digital Production of Nomadic Space’, Geography 89 (1):

78–82.

Holmes, B. (2008) Unleashing the Collective Phantoms: Essays on Reverse Imagineering, Brooklyn,

Autonomedia.

Butt, D. (2006) ‘Local Knowledge: Place and New Media Practice’, Leonardo 39 (4): 323–6.

Hemment, D. (2004) ‘The Locative Dystopia’, posting to nettime 9 Jan 2004. Available online at

www.nettime.org

Virilio, P. (1991) ‘The Over-Exposed City’, in The Lost Dimension (trans. D. Moshenberg), New York

• Can cosmopolitanism provide a new perspective on the form of social relationships?

• Is cosmopolitanism a useful context for re-thinking the social context and legal order?

Essential reading

8.1 Beck, U. (1999) ‘The Cosmopolitan Manifesto’, World Risk Society, Polity Press, Cambridge, pp.

1–18.

8.2 Urry, J. (2003) ‘Global Complexities’, Global Complexity, Polity Press, Cambridge, pp. 120–40.

8.3 Büscher, M., J. Urry & K. Witchger (2011) ‘Introduction: Mobile Methods’ in Büscher, M., J. Urry &

K. Witchger (eds.) Mobile Methods, London and New York, Routledge, pp.1-19.

Further reading

Social Theory on Cosmopolitanism

Beck, U. (2006), Cosmopolitan Vision, Cambridge, Polity.

Benhabib, S. (2004) The Claims of Culture, Pinceton, Princeton University Press.

Vertovec, S. and Cohen, R., (2002) Conceiving Cosmopolitanism, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Szerszynski, B. and Urry, J. (2002) ‘Cultures of Cosmopolitanism’, The Sociological Review, 50(4).

Papastergiadis, N. (2007) ‘Glimpses of Cosmopolitanism in the Hospitality of Art’, Special Issue:

‘Cosmopolitanisms: Between Past and Future’, European Journal of Social Theory, 10 (1):

139–52.

Law, J., (2004) ‘And if the Global Were Small and Noncoherent? Method, Complexity and the

Baroque’, Environment and Planning D Society and Space, 22: 13–26.

Cultural Theory and Cosmopolitanism

Appiah, K.(2006) Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Norton, New York.

Gilroy, P. (2004)’Cosmopolitanism Contested’, After Empire, Routledge, London: 65– 92.

Morley, D. and Chen, K. (eds.) (1996) Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, London and

New York, Routledge.

Week 9: Wednesday 21 September

CULTURE AND COSMOPOLITANISM

In this week we develop a more finely grained understanding of cosmopolitan practice by follow

the pioneering examples of artists in the formation of new cultural and social communities. In

particular, we will consider the techniques and strategies that artists have adapted and adopted

for extending collaborative and cross- cultural exchange. This will provide an opportunity to

rethink the ideas of boundaries and networks.

Key issues

• How do the new art collectives develop new modes of cultural exchange?

• Do the encounters in art events enable a platform for democratic dialogue?

Essential reading

9.1 Hsu, M. (2005) ‘Networked Cosmopolitanism – On Cultural Exchange and the International

Exhibition’, in N. Tsoutas (ed.) Knowledge + Dialogue+Exchange, Sydney, Artspace: 75–82.

9.2 Lin, M., F. Beinecke & A. Pasternak (2013) ‘Rewinding the clock on climate change through

culture’, Creative Time Reports. Available at:

http://creativetimereports.org/2013/12/02/climate-change-maya-lin-frances- beinecke-anne-

pasternak/

9.3 Papastergiadis, N. (2012) Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism, in G. Delanty (ed.) Routledge

Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies, London, Routledge.

Further reading

Art Projects

see Long March website http//www.longmarchspace.com.

Bourriaud, N. (2002) Relational Aesthetics, (trans. S. Pleasance and F. Woods), Dijon, Les Presses du

Reel.

Bourriaud, N. (2009) ‘Altermodern’, pp.11-23 in Bourriaud, N. (ed.) Altermodern

London catalogue Tate Triennial

Bourriaud, N. (2005) Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Programs the World, (trans. J.

Herman and L. Sternberg), New York.

Esche, C. (2005) Modest Proposals, Istanbul, Baglam Publishing.

Cultural Theory and Art Practice

Chan, K.B. (2003) ‘Imagining/Desiring Cosmopolitanism’, Global Change, Peace and Security

15(2).

Enwezor, O. (2005) ‘The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis’, in S. McQuire and N. Papastergiadis

(eds.) Empires, Ruins + Networks: The Transcultural Agenda in Art, Melbourne, Melbourne

University Press: 11–51.

Kester, G. (2004) Conversation Pieces: Community + Communication in Modern Art, Berkeley,

University of California Press.

Jie, L. (2005) ‘Localizing the Chinese Connection: Contemporary Chinese Art in Asia and Abroad’,

in N. Tsoutas (ed.) Knowledge + Dialogue+Exchange, Sydney, Artspace: 23-36.

Mercer, K. (ed.) (2005) Cosmopolitan Modernisms, London, INIVA and MIT Press.

Meskimmon, M. (2011) ‘Contemporary art: at home in a global world’ in Contemporary Art and

the Cosmopolitan Imagination, London and New York, Routledge, pp. 1-10

Nava, M. (2007) Visceral Cosmopolitanism, Oxford, Berg.

Raunig, R. (2007) Art and Revolution, Los Angeles, Semiotexte: 237 –65.

Regev, M. (2007) ‘Cultural Uniqueness and Aesthetic Cosmopolitianism’, Special Issue:

‘Cosmopolitanisms: Between Past and Future’, European Journal of Social Theory, 10 (1):

123–38.

Retort (Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, Michael Watts) (2006) Afflicted Powers: Capital and

Spectacle in a New Age of War, London, Verso.

Stimson, B. and Sholette, G. (eds.) (2007) Collectivism After Modernism, Minneapolis, MIT Press,

Minneapolis.

Week 10: Wednesday 5 October

THE HOME IN MOBILE TIMES

In this topic we examine the reconstruction of ‘home’ as both a physical location and existential

space in the context of ubiquitous media. How doe we define and negotiate spaces of

communal ‘belonging’ in the global present? What is happening to the ‘privacy’ of the home in

an age of ‘reality TV’ and real-time media? What are the consequences of heightened media

exposure for personal identity?

Key issues

• What is the relation between the desire for openness to the world and the need to feel

secure at home?

• How do media transform the spatiality of the home?

Essential reading

10.1 Morley, D. (2000) ‘Ideas of Home’, in Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity, London

and New York, Routledge: 16–29.

10.2 McQuire, S. (2008) ‘The Uncanny Home’ in The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban

Space, London, Sage, pp. 1-28.

10.3 Bauman, Z. (2008) ‘The Individual Under Siege’, in Liquid Life, Cambridge, Polity: 15–38.

Further reading

On’ reality television’ and the lived space of ‘home’

Andrejevic, M. (2003) ‘Monitored Mobility in the Era of Mass Customization’, Space and Culture 6

(2): 132–50.

Andrejevic, M. (2004) Reality TV: the work of being watched, Lanham, Md., Rowman

& Littlefield Publishers.

Burgin, V. (2002) ‘Jenni’s Room’, in T. Levin, U. Frohne, and P. Weibel (eds.) (2002) Ctrl Space:

Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, Karlsruhe and London, ZKM and MIT

Press: 228–35.

Baudrillard, J. (2002) ‘Telemorphosis’, in T. Levin,U. Frohne, and P. Weibel (eds.) Ctrl Space:

Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, Karlsruhe and London, ZKM and MIT

Press.

McQuire, S. (2003) ‘From Glass Architecture to Big Brother’, Cultural Studies Review 9(1): 103–23.

McQuire, S. (2008) ‘The Digital Home’, in The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space,

London, Sage: 192-201.

Spigel, L. (1992) ‘Television in the Family Circle’, in Make room for TV: Television and the Family

Ideal in Postwar America, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, p. 36–72.

Žižek, S. (2002), ‘Big Brother, or the Triumph of the Gaze over the Eye’ in T. Levin, U. Frohne and P.

Weibel (eds.) Ctrl Space: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, Karlsruhe

and London, ZKM and MIT Press.

Locating home in a globalized world

Bhabha, H.(1999) ‘Arrivals and Departures’, in H. Naficy (ed.) Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media

and the Politics of Place, New York and London, Routledge: vii-xii.

Rethinking identity; the contradictions of the individual

Baumann, Z. (2000) Liquid Modernity, Cambridge, Polity Press.

Beck, U. and Beck-Gernsheim, E. (2003) Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and Its

Social and Political Consequences, London, Sage.

Frohne, U. (2002) ‘“Screen Tests”: Media Narcissism, Theatricality and the Internalized observer’, in

T. Levin, U. Frohne, and P. Weibel (eds.) Ctrl Space: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham

to Big Brother, Karlsruhe and London, ZKM and MIT: 252–77.

Papastergiadis, N. (1996) ‘The Home in Modernity’, Excavating Modernism, ed. Alex Coles,

BACKless Books, London: 95-110.

Week 11: Wednesday 12 October

TOWARDS A NEW UNIVERSALISM

In this week we examine the transformations of political action that have been the result of the

new ideas on diasporic communities, the social practices that produce transnational networks

and the forms of cosmopolitan agency. We will ask how this affects questions of representation

within existing political institutions, the boundaries by which membership is defined, the

relationship between human rights and national rights.

Key issues

• Is the concept of human rights broad enough to embrace the plight of refugees and

strangers?

• Is it possible to have a concept of ethics without borders?

Essential reading

11.1 Cheah, P. (2016) ‘Introduction: Missed Encounters’, What is a world? On postcolonial

literature as world literature, Duke University Press, Durham and London.

11.2 Papastergiadis, N. (2013) The Cosmos in Cosmopolitanism.

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