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Dr Tanja Dreher is a Scientia Associate Professor in Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. Tanja’s interdisciplinary research examines media and social justice through the lens of the politics of listening in the context of settler colonialism, Indigenous sovereignties, intersectionality and anti-racism. As an engaged researcher, Tanja works with community and activist media and has collaborated on media interventions with Arab and Muslim communities during the long ‘war on terror’ and with media and community arts organisations including Indymedia Sydney and Information Cultural Exchange (ICE). Her Future Fellowship research, funded by the Australian Research Council, analysed the proliferation of First Nations and intersectional media to highlight the political listening practices necessary to support the potential for voice in the context of the neoliberal racial state and increasingly dominant platform logics. Tanja’s previous research has focused on news and cultural diversity, community media interventions, experiences of racism and the development of community anti-racism strategies after September 11, 2001. Tanja is a former Vice-Chair of the Community Communication and Alternative Media Section of the IAMCR (2016 – 2019), and the incoming Vice-Chair of the Philosophy, Theory, Critique Division of the ICA. Tanja is a Co-Director of the Media Futures Hub at the University of New South Wales and a founding convenor of Community and Alternative Media Research Australia (CAMRA). 

Tanja has previously worked as a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Wollongong, an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney and as the Research Manager at the UTS Shopfront community engagement program.  Tanja has also taught media and cultural studies at UNSW, UTS, the University of Western Sydney and Macquarie University.

Twitter: @TanjaDreher
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Web:https://tanjadreher.net/

Dr Poppy de Souza a Research Fellow with the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia and an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University, in Brisbane.  Poppy’s scholarship is concerned with the politics of voice and listening—broadly defined—in conditions of inequality and injustice across a range of contexts.  Her PhD Beyond Voice Poverty (2015) examined the politics of voice and listening in the context of increasing datafication, media fragmentation, political polarisation, and rapid social change.  More recently, her work has examined the relationship between sound, listening and racial in/justice; acoustic violence and the ‘white ear’; and the potential of slow listening in the context of settler colonialism and offshore detention regimes.  Her work has been published in Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, and Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.

Previously, Poppy worked with and within archival and cultural institutions as a collections-based curator, researcher and writer with The National Film and Sound Archive and The Learning Federation.  She has also facilitated digital storytelling workshops in community-based arts settings, collaborating with diverse communities to co-create stories about their histories, identities and cultures. 

Web: http://www.poppydesouza.com/

Nicola Joseph is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. Nicola's research focuses on the ways in which media has shaped not only the way we see race and cultural difference but also the way we listen to Black, Blak, Brown, Indigenous and POC people. Nicola brings to her research over 40 years of experience in the Australian media including as a founder of Radio Skid Row-Radio Redfern in community radio, an executive producer at the ABC and as station manager at SBS radio in Sydney. She has taught media production to women in the media across Asia and the Pacific.

Nicola has been involved in community broadcasting since 1978 when she first went to air as a media student in Bathurst. She has worked in paid positions at 4ZZZ, 2SER and Radio Skid Row. She has also worked for the National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council (NEMBC) and Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA). More recently she was the founding CEO of the Community Media Training Organisation (CMTO). Nicola is an award winning media producer and leader in the field of diversity and the media. She is also an experienced media trainer and training manager. Her work aims to contribute to research about race representation in the Australian media through an examination of the creative work of audio producers from minority communities. It raises questions about how we have come to listen to race as a nation and how minority producers negotiate these listening practices.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicola.joseph.395

Twitter: @fadwadaniens

Diana Kreemers is a UNSW Scientia PhD Candidate in the School of Arts and Media. Her research interests include representation, recognition, mediatisation and listening practices of professionals in democratic institutions. She has over eight years of experience working with policymakers, bureaucrats, journalists and media users.  Diana worked on research projects on community media to develop new professional practices. More recently she investigated listening practices in political context in a two-year participatory research project at the Dutch government. Her current research analyses the politics of listening necessary to support the democratic potential of refugee voices. 

Academia.edu: https://unsw.academia.edu/DianaKreemers       
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Diana_Kreemers2   
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