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<div>Yes, should be in humanities. This shift is concerning because it
suggests a move away from journalism, communication and media as a
reflection on the human--on what it means to be human, or the relation
between the human and experience, and towards an entirely
instrumentalist concept where the human is simply presupposed as the
'given' in an operation to produce meaning or sense within calculative
regimes.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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<div>Warwick Mules</div>
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color="#0000FF">Dear CSAA list</font></blockquote>
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color="#0000FF">Do other members share my concern that the
'Preferred model' of the Research Quality Framework, recently released
for discussion, places 'Journalism [no comma] communication and
media' in the<i> Social sciences, law, education, politics, sociology
and indigenous studies panel</i> instead of in the<i> Humanities
panel?</i> The model is available at:</font> <a
href="http://www.dest.gov.au/resqual"><font face="Arial"
size="-1">http://www.dest.gov.au/resqual</font></a><font face="Arial"
size="-1" color="#0000FF"> (and, specifically,</font> <a
href=
"http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/research_sector/policies_issues_reviews/key_issues/research_quality_framework/rqf_preferred_model.htm#The_RQF_Preferred_Model"><span
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>http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/research_sector/policies_issues_revie<span
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF">The ARC has traditionally dealt with journalism,
communication and media studies via the Humanities and Creative
Arts panel, and Humanities is generally constructed as providing the
key disciplinary and methodological orientations for the disciplines
as practiced in Australia.</font></blockquote>
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color="#0000FF">The Research Quality Assessment Framework
(RQAF) Team has asked for written comments and feedback by the
4th October to:</font></blockquote>
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color="#0000FF">RQAF Team</font></blockquote>
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color="#0000FF">Loc 721</font></blockquote>
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color="#0000FF">Department of Education, Science and
Training</font></blockquote>
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color="#0000FF">GPO Box 9880</font></blockquote>
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color="#0000FF">Canberra ACT 2601</font></blockquote>
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color="#0000FF">Fax 02 6123 5717 or 02 6123 5911</font></blockquote>
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color="#0000FF">Email </font> <a
href="mailto:rqf@dest.gov.au"><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF">rqf@dest.gov.au </font></a></blockquote>
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color="#0000FF">While the Academy of the Humanities and the
Council of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences etc will all be
responding to the Preferred Framework paper, I believe it is worth our
time in making our own judgements and representations as
individual academics and as Schools, Departments and
Faculties. </font></blockquote>
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color="#0000FF">Lelia Green</font></blockquote>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#007700"><b>Dr. Warwick
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