Mellichamp Lecture Series
in Global Civil Society
PRESENTS
Toby Miller
Professor of Media & Cultural Studies, UC Riverside

"Talking Rubbish"

The address will consider the intersection of media technology and global environmental hazards to call for a new form of media studies. This new form will differ from Media Studies 1.0 (media effects, scarcity policy, political economy, and content and textual analysis) and Media Studies 2.0 (active audiences and narcissography). It will be Media Studies 3.0. Media Studies 3.0 will blend Media Studies 1.0 and 2.0. It will transform them, both by mixing them up and by articulating them with diasporic, labor, and environmental questions.

Toby Miller, Chair of the Department of Media & Cultural Studies at UC Riverside, studies the media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy via political economy, textual analysis, archival research, and ethnography. Editor of Television & New Media and Editor and Co-Editor of book series Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Lang) and Sport and Culture (Minnesota), he was also Chair of the International Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division, Editor of Journal of Sport & Social Issues, and Co-Editor of Social Text, the Blackwell Cultural Theory Resource Centre, and the book series Film Guidebooks (Routledge) and Cultural Politics (Minnesota). He has recently become the co-editor of Social Identities. After working in broadcasting, banking, and civil service, Toby Miller became an academic in the late 1980s, when cultural studies was starting its boom, and was able to parlay a combination of his work experience, theoretical interests, and political commitments into a new career, since which time he has taught media and cultural studies across the humanities and social sciences at the following schools: University of New South Wales, Griffith University, Murdoch University, and NYU.