Maureen Burns

Bio: Maureen Burns is an academic researcher from University of Queensland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public service & Public broadcasting. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 21 publications receiving 172 citations.

ABC Online: Becoming the ABC

Abstract: principles are translated into concrete guidelines in order to discipline the imagined audience, I contend that the techniques employed are those of freedom. For Ang, the practices and aims are disciplinary, while here the practices are understood as tending more to techniques of the self and the governmental. An examination of the ways that the public is imagined, and how it is to be served, in Public Service Broadcasting will assist an understanding of the differences between these readings. Defining Public Service /Defining Public Service Broadcasting Trine Syvertsen has argued that it is an old truth that there is no standard definition of the term 'public service' in media research. Having considered more than 30 definitions, Syvertsen concludes that not only did the criteria differ, but some were even contradictory: 'the concept of public service [is] highly elastic, not to say amorphous' (Syvertsen, 1999: 5-6). The idea of public service is also, of course, historically contingent. In 1981 in Australia, when the conservative government of Malcolm Fraser was in power, and when the organisational structure of the ABC was stifling its productivity, 'The Public Service' came to be understood as a form of bureaucracy that was staid and inefficient. When the Dix Report (Committee of Review of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1981) criticised the ABC for its Public Service emphasis, it did not refer to the

The disengaged in science communication: How not to count audiences and publics

Abstract: In this article, we suggest that three concepts from cultural and media studies might be useful for analysing the ways audiences are constructed in science communication: that media are immanent to society, media are multiple and various, and audiences are active. This article uses those concepts, along with insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS), to examine the category of ‘the disengaged’ within science communication. This article deals with the contrast between ‘common sense’ and scholarly ideas of media and audiences in the field of cultural and media studies. It compares the ‘common sense’ with scholarly ideas of science publics from STS. We conclude that it may be time to reconsider the ontology of publics and the disengaged for science communication.

Borrowing from Libraries

Abstract: What can we learn from the experience of libraries in dealing with technological change? How can this help us to rethink communications futures? This paper rehearses various histories of libraries. While tracing the shift from an emphasis on collection to an emphasis on dispersal, it explores the ways in which libraries operate as governmental technology. The experience of libraries in dealing with technological change has been continually to create another order from a new chaos. This is what we borrow.

스크린 위의 삶 = Life on the screen : identity in the age of the internet

Abstract: From the Publisher: A Question of Identity Life on the Screen is a fascinating and wide-ranging investigation of the impact of computers and networking on society, peoples' perceptions of themselves, and the individual's relationship to machines. Sherry Turkle, a Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a licensed psychologist, uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, "bots," virtual reality, and "the on-line way of life." Turkle's discussion of postmodernism is particularly enlightening. She shows how postmodern concepts in art, architecture, and ethics are related to concrete topics much closer to home, for example AI research (Minsky's "Society of Mind") and even MUDs (exemplified by students with X-window terminals who are doing homework in one window and simultaneously playing out several different roles in the same MUD in other windows). Those of you who have (like me) been turned off by the shallow, pretentious, meaningless paintings and sculptures that litter our museums of modern art may have a different perspective after hearing what Turkle has to say. This is a psychoanalytical book, not a technical one. However, software developers and engineers will find it highly accessible because of the depth of the author's technical understanding and credibility. Unlike most other authors in this genre, Turkle does not constantly jar the technically-literate reader with blatant errors or bogus assertions about how things work. Although I personally don't have time or patience for MUDs,view most of AI as snake-oil, and abhor postmodern architecture, I thought the time spent reading this book was an extremely good investment.

The Practice Of Everyday Life

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Nations and Nationalism

Abstract: Series Editor's Preface. Introduction by John Breuilly. Acknowledgements. 1. Definitions. State and nation. The nation. 2. Culture in Agrarian Society. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties of agrarian rulers. 3. Industrial Society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture. 4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture. 5. What is a Nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth. 6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus. 7. A Typology of Nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism. 8. The Future of Nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many?. 9. Nationalism and Ideology. Who is for Nuremberg?. One nation, one state. 10. Conclusion. What is not being said. Summary. Select bibliography. Bilbliography of Ernest Gellner's writing: Ian Jarvie. Index