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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This is advance notice of the Centre
for Cultural Research’s next seminar for 2007. The speakers are Professor
Stuart Allan (<st1:City w:st="on">University of West</st1:City> <st1:country-region
w:st="on">England</st1:country-region>) and Dr Cynthia Carter (<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cardiff</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>) whose seminar titles and
abstracts are included below: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Date:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Thursday 5
April<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Time:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> 2:00pm-4:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Venue:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Building
EE, <st1:City w:st="on">Parramatta</st1:City> Campus, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Western
Sydney</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>PLEASE RSVP TO Ania Ajiri: <a
href="mailto:a.ajiri@uws.edu.au">a.ajiri@uws.edu.au</a> by 3 April 2007 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Servants
of the Public?: Rethinking Questions of Journalistic Identity<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Professor Stuart Allan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The word 'journalist', most
etymologists seem to agree, can be traced back at least as far as the end of
the seventeenth century, when its definition as 'one whose work is to write or
edit public journals or newspapers' was widely attested. Matters quickly become
complicated, however, when one seeks to determine what sort of social role has
been implicitly prescribed by the use of this term in popular parlance over the
years since. More than a question of semantics, the nature of the proper
identity to be affirmed by the journalist within a democracy has proven to be
fiercely contested - indeed violently so at times - and there is little
indication that it will be resolved anytime soon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This paper begins by considering
current conceptions of journalism within democratic cultures, in general, and
the normative identity to be upheld by the journalist, in particular. It will
be shown that there is a growing consensus that the profession is undergoing an
acute identity crisis, one where individual reporters find themselves
struggling to negotiate a range of contending claims about their personal
responsibilities to the diverse publics they are said to serve. In order
to place this apparent crisis in a broader historical context, the paper
proceeds to evaluate a series of issues considered central to the modern
formation of journalistic identity at the start of the twentieth century. What
were the factors underpinning this process of formation, it will be asked, and
to what extent did they shape or influence the setting of parameters around
what might be legitimately regarded as an appropriate role for the journalist
to embrace? Here a fascinating series of interventions authored by reporters
and editors, as well as their critics, will be examined in relation to this
question, and also with an eye to what they can usefully tell us about today's
debates. Lastly, the paper draws to a close by identifying several
directions for future scholarship in this area of enquiry.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Professor Stuart Allan teaches
journalism studies at the University of the West of England, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Bristol</st1:place></st1:City>. His recent books include <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Media, Risk and Science</span></i> (2002), <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Online News: Journalism and the Internet</span></i>
(2006) and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Journalism: Critical Issues</span></i>
(2005). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Children's
Online News and Views: Investigating Children's Responses to the 2005 <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City> Bombings<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dr. Cynthia Carter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>On 7 July, several bombs went off on
various parts of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>'s
underground and bus system. Almost immediately, young people on Children's BBC
Newsround's "In the News" message board started discussing what had
happened, expressing sadness and sympathy for friends and family of the
victims, voicing disbelief and sharing initial speculations about who might be
to blame. Many instantly began to make links between the bombings and <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region>'s military involvement in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> and its
support for the "war on terrorism". Such online interventions offer
exciting insights into the ways in which a publicly funded children's web news
provider is engaging some young people with what is happening in the world.
Given the new realities of global war, conflict and terrorism, there is now a
pressing need to rethink children and young people's complex relationships to
the news. "In the News" demonstrates that there is much potential in
providing dedicated children's news resources that not only encourage young
people to follow the news, but also to participate in public debates about
important political issues, and in so doing supporting their development as
citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dr Cynthia Carter is a senior
lecturer in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cardiff</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Her research interests
centre on children and news, feminist media studies, and media violence. Her
recent books include <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Critical Readings:
Violence and the Media</span></i> (Open University Press, 2006), and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Critical Readings: Media and Gender</span></i> (Open
University Press, 2004). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Professor <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Kay
Anderson</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>PhD Geography (UBC)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Centre for Cultural Research<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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