Contemporary Publics

P. David Marshall holds aresearch professorship and personal chair in New Media, Communication andCultural Studies at Deakin University, Australia and is also a DistinguishedHigh-End Visiting Foreign Expert at Central China University’s School ofJournalism and Communication, China. He is the author, co-author, editor, orco-editor of many books including Celebrityand Power, 2nd Edition (2014), Companionto Celebrity (2015), PromotionalVistas (2016), and Persona Studies(2016).Glenn D’Cruz is a lecturer inDrama and Cultural Studies at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author ofMidnight’s Orphans: Anglo-Indians inPost/Colonial Literature (2006) and the editor of Class Act: Melbourne Workers Theatre 1987-2007 (2007). He haspublished widely in national and international journals in the areas ofliterary studies, performance studies and cultural studies.Sharyn McDonald is a lecturerin Reputation Management and Marketing Communication at Deakin University,Australia. Her combined teaching and industry experience spans over 20 yearsand has strengthened her interdisciplinary approach to research. Sharyn’sresearch focuses on social responsibility and issue management with aparticular emphasis on non-government organisations.Katja Lee is a SSHRCpostdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University, Canada and a member of thePersona, Celebrity, Publics Research Group at Deakin University, Australia. Shehas published essays on celebrity, public identity performance, and lifewriting, and is co-editor of CelebrityCultures in Canada (2016).

• 1.Introduction:The Plurality of Publics P. DAVID MARSHALL.- Part I.Countering Neoliberal Publics: Screen and Space.- 2.The Beach Beneath the Street: Art and Counterpublic GLENN D’CRUZ.- 3.A Hungry Public: Stranger Relationality and the Blak Wave FELICITY COLLINS.- 4.Re-membering, (Re-) appropriation and Polyphony: SBS Independent and White Australian Memory AMANDA MALEL TREVISANUT.- 5.Ghosting: Putting the Volume into Screen Memory PAUL CARTER.- 6.Dancing Dandenong: The Poetics of Spatial Politics GLENN D’CRUZ, SHAUN MCLEOD, DIRK DE BRUYN, STEVEN MCINTYRE.- 7.New Strategies for Old Practices CAMERON BISHOP.- Part II.Making and Shaping Publics: Discourse and Technology.- 8.Media Technologies and Publics SHARYN MCDONALD.- 9.Cosmopolitanism on Demand? Television and the Narrowing of Mediated Social Connection PAUL ATKINSON, REBECCA STRATING.- 10.Multilingual Publics: Fansubbing Global TV TESSA DWYER.- 11.Surveillance Publics after Edward Snowden MICHAEL RICHARDSON.- 12.Stoking Expectations: Public Relations and the Politics of “Bogans” KRISTIN DEMETRIOUS.- 13.We Are Rhetoric. Get Over It! STEVE MACKEY.- Part III.Commodifying Public Intimacies.- 14.Making Cents of Contemporary Intimacies: The Private in the Public KATJA LEE.- 15.When the Private Becomes Public: Commodity Activism, Endorsement and Making Meaning in a Privatised World P. DAVID MARSHALL.- 16.Elite Athletes as Charitable Ambassadors: Risks Associated with Indiscretions SHARYN MCDONALD.- 17.The Intimate Publics of Popular Music Memoirs: Strategies of Feeling in Celebrity Self-Representation KATJA LEE.- 18.Spirited Publics? Post-secularism, Enchantment and Enterprise on Indian Television TANIA LEWIS