DeXusChange 2009
Shaping Discourse to Come!

Guests

17th - 22nd August, 2009

 

NEWS

• Anabela Carvalho
• Lawrence Frey
• Shi-xu
• Thomas Tufte

Details about each guest can be found below. Their keynote lectures and workshops can be found also on this website.

Anabela Carvalho

Anabela Carvalho is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences of the University of Minho (Portugal) since she received her PhD from University College London (Department of Geography, 2002). Her research has focused on various forms of environment and science communication with a particular emphasis on the mediations of climate change. Anabela was the head of a project entiteld project "The Politics of Climate Change: Discourses and Representations", funded by Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia. She has published on topics such as discourses on climate change, the present challenges for science communication and the construction of identities of cities in around 20 journals and edited books

Relevant publications

• Carvalho, Anabela (2008). "Media(ted) Discourse and Society: Rethinking the Framework of Critical Discourse Analysis" Journalism Studies 9(2): 161-177.
• Carvalho, Anabela (2008). "Deconstructing a Portuguese City: Cement, Advertising, and the Hegemony of 'Green Growth'". In Carpentier, Nico & Spinoy, Erik (Eds.), Discourse Theory and Cultural Analysis. Media, Arts and Literature, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Ramos, R. and Carvalho, A. (2008) “Science as rhetoric in media discourses on climate change”. In Dam, Lotte, Holmgreen, Lise-Lotte & Strunck, Jeanne, Eds. (2008). Rhetorical Aspects of Discourse in Present-Day Society. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars' Press.
• Carvalho, Anabela (2007). “Ideological Cultures and Media Discourses on Scientific Knowledge: Re-Reading News on Climate Change.” Public Understanding of Science 16(2): 223-243.
• Carvalho, A. (2007) “Communicating global responsibility? Discourses on climate change and citizenship”, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 3 (2): 180-83.
• Carvalho, Anabela (2005). “Representing the Politics of the Greenhouse Effect: Discursive Strategies in the British Media.” Critical Discourse Studies 2(1): 1-29.

Lawrence Frey

Lawrence (Larry) R. Frey is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His teaching and research interests include group interaction, applied communication (communication activism, communication and social justice, communication and community studies, and health communication), and communication research methods (both quantitative and qualitative). His research seeks to understand how participation (especially by those who are under-resourced and marginalized) in collective communicative practices makes a difference in people’s individual, relational, and collective lives.

He is the author or editor of 15 books, 3 special journal issues, and more than 65 journal articles and book chapters. His scholarship has received 13 awards, including the 2000 Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship from the American National Communication Association.

Relevant publications

• Frey, L. R., & Carragee, K. M. (Eds.). (forthcoming). Communication activism (Vol. 3). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Frey, L. R., & Cissna, K. N. (Eds.) (in press). Handbook of applied communication research. New York: Routledge.
• Frey, L. R., & Carragee, K. M. (Eds.). (2007). Communication activism: Volume 1. Communication for social change. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Frey, L. R., & Carragee, K. M. (Eds.). (2007). Communication activism: Volume 2. Media and performance activism. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Frey, L. R. (2006). Across the great divides: From nonpartisan criticism to partisan criticism to applied communication activism for promoting social change and social justice. In O. Swartz (Ed.), Social justice, partisan criticism, and communication scholarship: Diverse perspectives on social change (pp. 35-51). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Frey, L. R. (Ed.). (2006). Facilitating group communication in context: Innovations and applications with natural groups: Vol. 1. Facilitating group creation, conflict, and communication. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Frey, L. R. (Ed.). (2006). Facilitating group communication in context: Innovations and applications with natural groups: Vol. 2. Facilitating group task and team communication. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Frey, L. R. (Ed.). (2003). Group communication in context: Studies of bona fide groups (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Frey, L. R. (Ed.). (2002). New directions in group communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Frey, L. R. (2000). To be applied or not to be applied, that isn’t even the question; but wherefore art thou, applied communication researcher? Reclaiming applied communication research and redefining the role of the researcher. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 28, 178-182.
• Frey, L. R. (Ed.), Gouran, D. S., & Poole, M. S. (Assoc. Eds.). (1999). The handbook of group communication theory and research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Frey, L. R. (1998). Communication and social justice research: Truth, justice, and the applied communication way. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 26, 155-164.
• Frey, L. R. (Ed.). (1998). Communication and social justice research [Special issue]. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 26(2).
• Adelman, M. B., & Frey, L. R. (1997). The fragile community: Living together with AIDS. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Shi-xu

Shi-xu is Qiushi Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, as well as Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies (CCCDS), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.. Shi-xu has been a Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, Lecturer at the National University of Singapore and Reader at the University of Ulster, UK. He is a recipient of the New-Century Outstanding Researcher Fund from the Ministry of Education, China.

Shi-xu has years of teaching and research experience in the Netherlands, Singapore, the UK and China. His particular areas of research and teaching interests lie in language and communication studies, cultural studies, intercultural and international communication and cultural psychology. His central position is that language/communication/discourse is a site of cultural competition, cooperation and transformation and that this needs urgent attention.

He is the founding editor of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses. He is organising The Third International Conference on Multicultural Discourses will be held between Aug 27-29, 2010, in Hangzhou, China.

Relevant publications

• Shi-xu (2008) Towards a Chinese-Discourse-Studies approach to Cultural China: an epilogue. In D. Wu (ed.), Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press: 241-253.
• Shi-xu (2007a). Contemporary Chinese communication with its cultural Others. In L. M. Simao & J. Valsiner (eds), Otherness in Question: Labyrinths of the Self. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing: 257-276.
• Shi-xu & Wu, Doreen D. (Eds.) (2006). Discourse as Cultural Struggle. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
• Shi-xu (2006). A multiculturalist approach to discourse theory. Semiotica 158(1/4): 383-400.
• Shi-xu (2006c). Beyond competence: a multiculturalist approach to intercultural communication. In Kristin Bührig and Jan ten Thije (eds), Beyond misunderstanding: The linguistic reconstruction of intercultural communication. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company: 313-330.
• Shi-xu (2005). A Cultural Approach to Discourse. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• Shi-xu (2002). The Discourse of Cultural Psychology: Transforming the Discourses of Self, Memory, Narrative and Culture. Culture & Psychology 8(1): 65-78.
• Shi-xu & M. Kienpointner (2001) The reproduction of culture through argumentative discourse: studying the contested nature of Hong Kong in the international media. Pragmatics 11(3): 285-307.
• Shi-xu (2001). Critical Pedagogy and Intercultural Communication: Creating discourses of diversity, equality, common goals and rational-moral motivation. Journal of Intercultural Studies 22(3): 279-93.
• Shi-xu (1997). Cultural Representations: Analyzing the Discourse About the Other. Berlin: Peter Lang.
• Shi-xu (1996). Concepts of 'Language' in Discourse: An Interactional Resource in Troubled Intercultural Contexts. International Journal of Sociology of Language 122: 47-72.

Thomas Tufte

Thomas Tufte is Professor in the Department of Communication at Roskilde University. He is the co-director of Ørecomm: Consortium for Communication and Glocal Change.

Currently, Thomas is the principal investigator of a Danida-funded research project called People Speaking Back? Media, Empowerment and Social Change (abbreviated MEDIeA), which runs from 2009-2012 and explores questions of participatory governance around civil society driven media platforms in Kenya and Tanzania. He teaches communication for development and social change, audience studies (reception analysis and media ethnography), health communication, edutainment, citizen media, participatory communication, globalisation, development and strategic communication.

His background reflects a constant interaction between theory and practice, having always mixed his academic pathway with jobs in organisations. He started his professional career as a full time youth and information office in Danchurchaid (Folkekirkens Nødhjælp) from 1990-1993, worked full time as a Junior Professional Officer in UNDP in Paraguay 1994-1996, and has since worked regularly as a consultant for organisations as Danida, SIDA, UNESCO, USAID, etc. His focus areas have been Latin America for many years and also Southern Africa, although he has also done consultancy work in other countries, such as Ukraine, Nigeria and Tanzania.

Relevant publications

• Tufte, Thomas (2008). Fighting AIDS with Edutainment: Building on the Soul City Experience in South Africa. In Servaes, Jan (Ed.), Communication for Development and Social Change, London: Sage.
• Gumucio-Dagron, Alfonso & Tufte, Thomas (Eds.) (2006). Communication for Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings. Communication For Social Change Consortium.
• Gumucio-Dagron, Alfonso & Tufte, Thomas (2006). Roots and Relevance: Introduction to the CFSC Anthology. In Gumucio-Dagron, Alfonso & Tufte, Thomas (Eds.), Communication for Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings, Communication For Social Change Consortium.
• Tufte, Thomas (2006). 'Back in the Trenches? Urgent Call to Reinvigorate HIV/AIDS Communication for Prevention'. In: Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron and Thomas Tufte (eds). Communication for Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings. New Jersey: Communication for Social Change Consortium.
• Hemer, Oscar & Tufte, Thomas (Eds.) (2005). Media & Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development. Gothenburg: Nordicom.
• Hemer, Oscar & Tufte, Thomas (2005). The Challenge of the Glocal. In Hemer, Oscar & Tufte, Thomas (Eds.), Media & Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development, Gothenburg: Nordicom.
• Tufte, Thomas (2005). Communicating for What? How Globalisation and HIV/AIDS Push the ComDev Agenda. In Hemer, Oscar & Tufte, Thomas (Eds.), Media & Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development, Gothenburg: Nordicom.
• Tufte, Thomas (2005). Entertainment-Education in Development Communication: Between Marketing Behaviours and Empowering People. In Hemer, Oscar & Tufte, Thomas (Eds.), Media & Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development, Gothenburg: Nordicom.
• Stald, Gitte and Thomas Tufte (eds) (2002). Global Encounters - Media and Cultural Transformation. Luton: University of Luton Press.