Carolyne Lee

Shifting the Politics of Memory: Mnemonic Trajectories in a Global Public Terrain

Conceptual debates about memory in the context of new transnational public sphere structures remain on the periphery of journalism research. Despite paradigmatic shifts toward the broader frameworks of information, digital or ‘network’ society, which increasingly situate national journalism in an enlarged spectrum of continuous viral flows across transnational public discourses, the role of collective memory as a discourse sphere within such a space is under researched. Given the increasing complexity of social media structures and the ontological centrality of public community, public memory could constitute an important layer of journalism within such an enlarged networked space. However, journalism research rarely incorporates spheres of memory and, as Zelizer remarked, is more concerned with the ‘here-and-now’ than the ‘there-and-then’ (Zelizer, 2008: 80).

Deconstructing organizational communication for (productive) dissensus

Abstract The metanarrative of ‘crisis’ is now often present in communication constructing an organization’s identity and culture. Processes by which certain interpretations of circumstances predominate over others have been theorized by Gramsci’s notion of hegemony, enriching communication research. Here, I develop an argument for an approach based not on normative and interpretive discourses, but instead on those that are critical and dialogic, an approach urgently necessary in researching the increasingly complex communicative situations of workplaces. I outline a methodology, an ethnography of a communication site (an Australian organization), which could be piloted to solicit a sample of employees to express their own views towards quotidian organizational communication.