|
|
|
Catharine Lumby, "The Pursuit of Innocents: Rethinking Children and the Mediated Gaze" Drawing on recent research Catharine Lumby has been conducting into teenage girls and media consumption and into pornography, this paper will explore discourses of protection concerning media representations of children and young girls. In it she will argue that the genres and formats which are under attack for exploiting or endangering such groups are often the very ones which offer such groups the greatest opportunity to negotiate and return both the solicitous and the mediated gaze. Biography: Associate Professor Catharine Lumby is Director of the Media and Communications Program at the University of Sydney. A widely published print journalist, Catharine has worked as a news reporter, feature writer and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian newspapers. She has also worked as a news reporter for ABC television and currently writes a fortnightly column for The Bulletin magazine. Catharine is the author of two books: Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s (1997, Allen and Unwin) and Gotcha: Life in a Tabloid World (1999, Allen and Unwin). Her current research interests include the way popular media consumption is changing the experience of childhood and adolescence and the relationship between young girls' self-image and media consumption. Catharine is a member of the Advertising Standards Board, a national body which oversees the regulation of advertising. |
 |
