Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
BA (Oxf.), DipTh (London.), MA (Soton.), DPhil (Suss.), FASSA, FRSA.
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Current affiliation: Future Fellow and Professor of Comparative Film and Cultural Studies The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
News
Release of Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media
Stephanie and Kirsten Seale have a chapter on 'Children's Film Culture' in the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media, edited by Dafna Lemish, which will be released on May 15.
The volume analyses a broad range of complementary areas of study, including children as media consumers, children as active participants in media making, and representations of children in the media. The handbook presents a collection that spans a variety of disciplines including developmental psychology, media studies, public health, education, feminist studies and the sociology of childhood. Chapters consider vital questions by analyzing texts, audience, and institutions, including:
- the role of policy and parenting in regulating media for children
- the relationships between children’s’ on-line and off-line social networks
- children’s strategies of resistance to persuasive messages in advertising
- media and the construction of gender and ethnic identities
The Handbook’s interdisciplinary approach and comprehensive, international scope make it an authoritative, state of the art guide to the nascent field of Children’s Media Studies. It will be indispensable for media scholars and professionals, policy makers, educators, and parents.
Click here to visit the Routledge web page to pre-order and to recommend to your librarian.
Branding Cities now available through Routledge Direct
Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change (Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman, Catherine Kevin eds) is now available in paperback through the Routledge Paperbacks Direct program.
Routledge Paperbacks Direct is an exciting new initiative that makes the best of Routledge's hardback research publishing available in paperback format for individual customers to purchase directly from the dedicated Routledge Paperbacks Direct website, www.routledge.com/paperbacksdirect. The site also offers students the option to view complimentary e-inspection copies for study purposes.
The program is intended to broaden the potential market for your research by offering it at an affordable price for private readers and students.
Stephanie on YouTube! Defining Loss: the childish poetics of ephemera
Stephanie's paper 'Defining Loss: the childish poetics of ephemera', delivered in December at the Defining Ephemera conference at Rice University, Texas is now available on YouTube.
View the paper here.
'Welcoming Strangers' Conference - HARC Newsletter
The Royal Holloway Humanities & Arts Research Centre (HARC) Newsletter carried a small report in June on the Welcoming Strangers conference.
Click here to download the HARC Newsletter.
Postdoctoral Opportunity with Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Professor Donald's project ‘Migration and Mobility: the question of childhood in Chinese and European cinema since 1945’ will be undertaken at UNSW, 2012-2015 . Fieldwork will be conducted with the collaboration of scholars from the University of Leeds (Prof L Nagib at the World Cinemas Centre), Middlesex University (Prof E Kofman in Social Research) and Renmin University (Professor Xu Weixin in Chinese arts).
A part-time Postdoctoral opportunity exists in this project (application closing date 8th June 2012). Please click here to view the advertisement, and then contact Professor Donald (stephanie.donald@unsw.edu.au) for more details.
There is also scope for postgraduate students (MA and PhD) to attach to the project (and at least one scholarship is currently available) - again please contact Professor Donald in the first instance.
Review of 'Media, Theories & Approaches: A Global Perspective'
Media, Theories & Approaches by Mark Balnaves, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Brian Shoesmith has been positively reviewed in the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (Vol. 6 No. 2) by Nigerian journalist and media studies PhD, Partrick O Malaolu. Malaolu recommends the book as "a complete text for both scholars and students seeking grounding in media theories, particularly at an introductory level."
"Media Theories & Approaches analyses, synthesizes and simplifies media theories for everyday usage. Its stimulating comparative perspectives present an ideal resource for anyone, particularly media students, seeking to understand the complexity of global media whether in terms of their operations, functions or history", he says.
The full review can be accessed via the journal's publisher, Intellect.
Media, Theories & Approaches was published in 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan and is available from booksellers.
Branding Cities - out now in paperback!
Branding Cities: Cosmopolitian, Parochialism and Social Change has been released in paperback by Routledge.
The book, edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman and Catherine Kevin, "brings together cultural analysts, social scientists, and media and film scholars to explore the ways in which core cities generate competing claims on, and visions of, their use and their future, and thus have engaged with the necessity to brand their image for international consumption and for internal coherence."
Preview an e-inspection copy at the Routledge website.
New journal article: '"Recollections": a subset of the project on posters of the cultural revolution'
The Chinese Journal of Communication this month has published Stephanie's paper '"Recollections": a subset of the project on posters of the cultural revolution'.
The full article is available here.
Branding Cities - soon to be released in paperback!
Branding Cities: Cosmopolitian, Parochialism and Social Change will be released in paperback by Routledge in February 2012.
The book, edited by Stephanie Donald, Eleonore Kofman and Catherine Kevin, "brings together cultural analysts, social scientists, and media and film scholars to explore the ways in which core cities generate competing claims on, and visions of, their use and their future, and thus have engaged with the necessity to brand their image for international consumption and for internal coherence" (Amazon product description).
Pre-order your copy now on Amazon!
Stephanie wins ARC Future Fellowship
Stephanie has been awarded over $800,000 over five years under the highly competitive ARC Future Fellowship grant.
The project, entitled 'Migration and mobility: the question of childhood in Chinese and European cinema since 1945' will produce a comparative account of the migrant and mobile child in postwar film, researched in China and Europe. It will contribute deeper knowledge of how childhood has been valued in key societies since 1945, and will bring new energy to international and domestic debates on the status, image and experience of migrant children.
Deutsche Welle interview on Belgian facebook campaign to combat teen road deaths
The Belgian Traffic Institute unveiled its new Facebook campaign to reduce teen road deaths last week. The campaign allows users to send a fake email from Facebook to their friends that informs them of their own death in a drink or drug related car smash. While the email is clearly fake and includes a disclaimer stating it is part of the Institute's road safety campaign, Stephanie was critical of the campaign, and sceptical about its impact on teens. Using a quick poll of Australian teenagers, she suggested that the campaign "was too confronting and too aggressive and that it would almost certainly be hijacked by people sending on emails, frightening people and getting at their parents."
"The ethical approach here is fraught with risk. [The teens polled] support gameification of public information but pointed out that it was counterintuitive to make crashing a game." The teens also pointed out that while Facebook is a good way to reach young people, they expect more authority from public service announcements and official safety campaigns.
Stephanie suggested that "more access to the real fear of the last moments of a crash, rather than the adrenaline of reckless speed - would be useful, and/or doing skill games with handicaps built-in for notional drinks taken."
Stephanie also noted that, for teens, "death is not necessarily as frightening as a life of severe disability" and that "online campaigns involving access to people who have been in car crashes and those who work with people with long term disabilities resulting from car crashes" could be more effective, along with reference to the impacts beyond the victim, such as "family grief, peer grief and suicide."
"Seeing a footballer who now can hardly speak to camera or walk might be a stronger deterrent - and this could be coupled with a game of choices - one leading to crash, another leading to safety."
You can read the Deutsche Welle article (published 24 November 2011 in the 'Science & Technology' section under 'Transportation') in full, here.
Cities, Film and China podcast
A podcast of Stephi's talk 'Cities, Film and China' is available on the University of Amsterdam ASCA Cities Project site - click here to listen.
Youth, Society and Mobile Media now available in paperback
First published in 2010, Youth, Society and Mobile Media is now available in paperback from Routledge.
Amsterdam Cities Seminar
Supported by the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences), Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald spent the month of September in the English Literature department at the UvA working with Christoph Lindner and the ASCA Cities Project on research into the links between cities and cultures of fear.
Lindner and Donald also presented their research at a panel on Globalization and Urban Aesthetics at the international CRESC Conference in Manchester September 6-9 2011.
Donald shared some of her current work on Chinese cinema and urban culture on September 16 at the Cities Seminar in Amsterdam.
Click here to hear the podcast of the event.
Click here for the full listing of Amsterdam Cities Seminars 2011.
ABC Radio interviews Stephanie on social media and protest in Dalian
Today, Stephanie talked to Liam Cochrane on the Connect Asia segment on ABC Radio Australia. She discussed the role of social media in both facilitating and disseminating the protests held on Sunday 14 August, and which resulted in Chinese officials ordering the closure of a petrochemical plant in Dalian port.
The plant produced paraxylene (PX), a petrochemical used in the production of polyester, and locals became concerned about the risk of toxic spills after a storm broke through a protective dike. Locals used social media, including sites such as Weibo, to spread the concerns and to galvanise public protests that demanded the plant be shut down and relocated.
While Chinese officials sought to shut down the spread of information, the large protests achieved their aim. This unusual outcome has been reported widely as evidence that China is changing in the face of increasingly uncontrollable citizen activism, fuelled by social media and, as Stephanie remarked, by "good old-fashioned networking" - a fact of life that should not be underestimated.
Read the transcript, or listen to the broadcast on the ABC website, here.
China Posters Official Website Goes Live!
The official website of the Posters of the Cultural Revolution: Contemporary Chinese perspectives on an era of propaganda ARC-funded project has been launched.
Visit now: www.chinaposters.com.au
CSAA Newsletter reviews posters exhibition
This month's Chinese Studies Association of Australia newsletter has a wonderful review of the China and Revolution exhibition currently showing at the RMIT Gallery (p.13), as well as a report on the related symposium on 12 August 2010 (p.4) and a review of the special issue of Chinese Media Studies edited by Stephanie and Haiqing Yu (p.23).
Don't miss the call for papers for the CSAA 2011 conference, which closes 30 April! (p.7)
Download newsletter here, or from the CSAA website (www.csaa.org.au).
Special Issue of Media International Australia released
A new special issue of Media International Australia (No.138), guest edited by Stephanie and Haiqing Yu and entitled "Chinese Media Studies: The State of the Field", is now available from the MIA website.
Call for authors for new book series
Christoph Lindner (www.christophlindner.nl) is looking for submissions for a new book series from the University of Amsterdam Press, entitled 'Cities and Cultures'.
Cities and Cultures is an interdisciplinary humanities book series addressing the interrelations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce. The series takes a special interest in the impact of globalization on urban space and cultural production, but remains concerned with all forms of cultural expression and transformation associated with contemporary cities. More ...
Christoph is the series editor. He is the Director, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) (website: www.hum.uva.nl/asca), and the series is part of the Cities Project (www.hum.uva.nl/cities).
To download the flyer for the Cities and Cultures series click here, and to express interest in contributing to the series, contact Christoph at: c.p.lindner@uva.nl
'China and Revolution' - Grand Opening at RMIT
On 3 February - Chinese New Year - the China and Revolution: History, Parody and Memory in Contemporary Art opened at the RMIT gallery, Melbourne.
The exhibition, part of the ARC project 'Posters of the Cultural Revolution' by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Harriet Evans (University of Westminster, UK), explores the relationship between poster art of the 1960s and 1970s, specifically the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and contemporary artists whose work engages a conscious dialogue with that period. It features original posters from the University of Westminster’s extensive collection and works from collaborating artists Liu Dahong, Shen Jiawei (pictured below, talking with Stephanie), Li Gongming and Xu Weixin.
Click here to go to RMIT's news story on the opening.
The exhibition is on at RMIT Gallery until 19 March 2011.
New Book Series - Cities and Cultures
Amsterdam University Press is launching a new book series, which will bring together the best interdisciplinary humanities work on the culture of cities. Series editor is Prof. Christoph Lindner of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam.
Stephanie is a member of the advisory board for the series, which will include both monographs and edited collections.
Click here for more information.
"China and Revolution" to open in Melbourne
Following its success at the University of Sydney Gallery, the exhibition China and Revolution: History, Parody and Memory in Contemporary Art, opens in Melbourne on 21 January 2011. Sydney-based artist Shen Jiawei will discuss "The fate of a painting and artists in the Cultural Revolution" with Stephanie Donald at a free event at 12-1pm on Friday 21 January. The exhibition grand opening will take place 3 February - download your invite here.
DFAT invitation to Shanghai Expo 2010
On 27 September, Stephanie participated in the Commonwealth Roundtable discussion on Australia-China co-operation on China Studies, by invitation of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Click here to visit the Shanghai Expo website.
Theory, Culture and Society publishes 'sex, the city and the scapegoat'
Publication of ‘Tang Wei: sex, the city and the scapegoat in Lust Caution’ in Theory, Culture and Society 27(4).
'China and Revolution' exhibition opens in Sydney
10 August 2010
Grand opening of China and Revolution: History, Parody and Memory in Contemporary Art, at the University of Sydney. Click here to read University of Sydney news item.
Online interview: Lust, Caution
Interview with Stephanie by Simon Dawes on the Theory, Culture & Society website, discussing her latest publication, ‘Tang Wei: sex, the city and the scapegoat in Lust Caution’ in Theory, Culture and Society 27(4).