Executive Dean's Seminars Series

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Internationally renowned researchers at the Faculty of Education will be presenting on their ground-breaking and innovative research at the Executive Dean’s Seminar Series. A number of seminars will be offered throughout the year and colleagues, students, researchers, advocates of education and the community who have a passion for learning are welcome to attend.

Upcoming Seminar

Professor Kerry Mallan will speak on ‘Look at me! Look at me! Self-representation and self-exposure through online networks’
Date: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Time: 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm (followed by refreshments)
Venue: Room A330, A Block, QUT Kelvin Grove Campus
Please RSVP (acceptances only) before Friday, 6 June by email educationrsvp@qut.edu.au or phone 07 3138 3680

Look at me! Look at me! Self-representation and self-exposure through online networks

Increasingly young people are putting their lives online. With the ever more user-friendly Web, as the medium through which most young people engage, the opportunities to use available channels of online communication and social networking sites complicate ways in which individuals oscillate between exhibition and inhibition, between self-exposure and self-preservation, between authenticity and deception.

This talk will canvass a range of issues relevant to the lives of young people growing up in a network society. In particular, the discussion will draw on a current Australian Research Council (ARC) funded research project as well as other research to illustrate the ways in which youth give accounts of themselves and interact with friends and others in online networks such as MySpace, Facebook, MSN, and blogging sites.

While the nature of online forms of self-documentation has fuelled concerns from Governments, schools, and other community groups regarding young people’s vulnerability and exposure to risks, there is no escaping the fact that online networks and other related activities hold as much promise as peril, in that they are constructing new forms and practices that blur public and private spaces.

Professor Kerry Mallan

Kerry Mallan is a Professor in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education at QUT. Her research interests extend over a number of areas, specifically, youth cultures and new media, and literature and film produced for children and young adults.

Her most recent book, New World Orders in Contemporary Children’s Literature (Palgrave, 2008) was co-authored with Clare Bradford (Deakin Uni), John Stephens and Robyn McCallum (Macquarie Uni). Her book, Youth Cultures: Texts, Images and Identities (with Sharyn Pearce) won the Honour Book Award by the International Research Society in Children’s Literature (2003). She is the co-editor of Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, the premier journal in children’s literature research in Australia. Kerry is currently working on a sole authored book titled Gender Dilemmas.

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Kelvin Grove Transport Options

Public transport: QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus is easy to get to by bus with the QUT Kelvin Grove busway station located at the eastern side of the campus. Contact TransInfo for more information on 13 1230 or visit www.transinfo.qld.gov.au

Street parking is available but is limited. The Kelvin Grove campus is located within a Brisbane Central Traffic Area so there is a two hour parking limit unless otherwise signed from 7.00 am to 6.00 pm.

Parking at the QUT Kelvin Grove campus is limited and regulations are enforced with fines for parking without a permit. There is no free parking on-campus.

Visitors can use the pay and display parking areas. The pay and display car parks are approximately 10 minutes walking distance from the venue.

Pre-paid tickets can be purchased from relevant ticket machines within the Pay & Display car parks. Ensure you bring adequate change for the machine. The pre-paid ticket must be displayed on your vehicle while it is parked.

Herston Road Pay & Display Car Park is located off Herston Road near the tennis courts. Fees: apply from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm, Monday to Friday, 80 cents per hour.

Oval Pay & Display Car Park is located off Herston Road adjacent to the Oval. Fees: apply 24 hours, flat fee of $4.00 per day.

Parking in the SLSC building, F Block is only allowed if you display a pre-purchased scratch-it permit, available from the Kelvin Grove campus bookshop, post office and Student Centre (F Block). Fees: apply 24 hours, $3.00-$6.00 per day.

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Podcasts of Past Seminars

On Education

On Education is a series of podcasts from the Faculty of Education Executive Dean’s Seminar Series which commenced in 2007. Internationally renowned researchers at the Faculty of Education presented on their ground-breaking and innovative research at the seminar series.