<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span>Apologies for cross-posting. And for previous false send.<u>OCTOBER not September date</u>. <br></span></span></div>
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<div><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">*Media and Communications Department*</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <br><br>'Media at Sydney' Seminars Present<br><br>~~~~~~~~
<br>'Listen Up: How MP3 Bloggers Use Sound Recordings to Create and Communicate <br>~~~~~~~~<br><br>by<br>Journalist and PHD Candidate Margie Borschke<br>University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia <br><br><br>Friday October 5th, 3pm
<br>The Refectory, Main Quadrangle H113 [Nicolson Museum Quarter, Downstairs] <br></span></div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Most research on MP3 blogs tend to view them as a kind of unauthorized publicity or distribution tool. They are thought of as the work of fans, amateur music journalists and tolerated pirate music publishers
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. <span>These characterizations oversimplify a more complex creative activity and fail to recognize the participatory nature of contemporary music cultures. </span>
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bloggers imbue existing sound recordings with new meaning and make public their personal relationship with these recordings through the juxtaposition of recorded sound with text, images and/or other sound files.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Margie Borschke is a Sydney-based journalist and Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communications at the University of New South Wales under the supervision of Professor Catharine Lumby. She is writing a dissertation on the subject of copies and duplication and how individuals, communities, and businesses use copies to create and communicate.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">An early career researcher, she has given conference papers on mp3 bloggers and unauthorised distribution on the Internet. She holds an Honours BA in Political Science from McGill University and a Masters Degree in Political Science from the University of Toronto.
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As a writer, reporter and editor, she spent the bulk of her career in New York City where she worked with many of the world's top publications including
<i>The New York Times Magazine</i>, <i>The Times</i> (UK) and <i>Harper's Magazine</i>. She moved to Sydney in 2002 and contributed to many Australian publications including <i>The Weekend Australian</i> and <i>Spectrum
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>'Media At Sydney' is supported by the School of Letters, Arts, and Media, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney. </strong>
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