ANZCA Panel: Reconfiguring Reality: Cases of Redefinition, New Relationships, Remodeling, and Reorganizing

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Change in the worlds of media and organizations is often framed as the consequence of interventions that disrupt, distort or displace an existing reality. This panel showcases scholarship from Australian and New Zealand Communication Association members that reveals some of the ways changes in communication media and organizational practices are not only reconfiguring reality but bringing unexpected and often positive consequences. Each paper in this panel confronts commonly accepted definitions (e.g., disability as tragedy) and at times taken-for-granted communication practices (e.g., group decision-making in organizations) and shows that there is more to consider than we expect. Each is a thought provoking offering that requires the audience to think more deeply about the types of communication interventions we use or are confronted with and appreciate that they may themselves spawn interventions that reconfigure the reality the initial intervention engaged with.

Sub Unit

• Sponsored Sessions

Chair

• Phillip McIntyre, U of Newcastle

Individual Presentations

• Disability Interventions: Reformatting Masculinities in TV’s The Last Leg - Gerard Michael Goggin, The University of Sydney

• The Intervention of the Personal in Professional Journalism: Social Media Cultures and Relations Between Journalists and Audiences - Diana Bossio, Swinburne U

• "My Selfies Pay My Rent": Intervening Roles in a Digital Broadcasting - Jonathon Hutchinson, U of Sydney

• Liberation Management: An Innovative Intervention or a Contemporary Means of Worker Exploitation? - Colleen Elizabeth Mills, U of Canterbury

Respondent

• Herman Wasserman, U of Cape Town