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January 2010

I am very excited to have the opportunity to attend this event next year. I'm sure I'll learn a lot:

Investigating Young People's Sexual Cultures

A One-Day Symposium

A British Academy Funded Project

Co-ordinated by Dr Feona Attwood (Sheffield Hallam) and Dr Clarissa Smith (Sunderland)

Monday 18 January 2010 10am – 6pm
University of London Union, 1 Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY

Sessions and Speakers:

Young People and Sexual Health
Petra Boynton (UCL, London) Roger Ingham (University of Southampton), Clare Bale (University of Sheffield)

Investigating Young People's Sexual Cultures: Methods and Ethics
Sara Bragg (Open University), Mary Jane Kehily (Open University), Mark Limmer (Teenage Pregnancy Co-ordinator, Rochdale/Lancaster University)

Young People and Sexualized Culture
Rosalind Gill (Open University), Jessica Ringrose (Institute of Education), Emma Renold (Cardiff University)

The symposium will examine ways of developing research on young people's sexual cultures, building on existing work on young people, sex and relationships within the context of a ‘sexualized' and media-saturated culture. Sex education and media literacy emerge as important factors in the way young people develop sexual knowledge and form mature sexual identities. Academic work and governmental policies highlight both as crucial for the development of cultural citizenship and for personal, social and health education, and for participation in society. Media literacy and sex education both remain undeveloped in the UK, and the study of young people's engagements with sexual issues remains a relatively unexplored area. The symposium will explore the theoretical, ethical and methodological issues at stake in this area of work, reviewing existing knowledge and discussing the possibilities for innovative research across disciplinary and professional boundaries.

Attendance is free but places are limited so please confirm your place with
Clarissa Smith via email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it before 19 December 2009.

Dr Clarissa Smith
Programme Leader, MAs in Film, Media & Cultural Studies

 
Course development

Earlier this year, I was invited to produce a one-day module, 'Media and sexuality', for an International Short Course in Critical Sexuality Theory and Research Methodologies, which was funded by the Ford Foundation and developed by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) in conjunction with the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS).

The module was piloted in July 2009 in Mombasa, Kenya, with participants from both Kenya and Uganda, and again in August in Surabaya, Indonesia, with participants from across Indonesia, and received positive evaluations from course participants. Updates on the course can be found on the excellent Sexuality Studies.net blog.

Research Presentations

I presented at two forums this month discussing the proposed Australian internet filtering legistation in an international context. Both presentations came out of a work-in-progress collaboration with Kate Crawford and Nina Funnell at the Journalism and Media Research Centre, considering debates around young people, mobile & social media, regulation and sexual citizenship.

The first was a workshop on Internet Regulation and Filtering in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, hosted by Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies at the University of Wollongong, on November 30 and December 1 2009

The second was a Fibreculture Roundtable on Freedom and Control on the Internet, chaired by fibreculture facilitators, Chris Chesher, Anna Munster and Geert Lovink.