Politics of Listening E2: First Nations media - Lorena Allam & Summer May Findlay

Media Futures Podcast

Episode 2 of the Politics of Listening miniseries - ‘First Nations media and the politics of listening’ features First Nations media producers Lorena Allam and Summer May Finlay . Allam and Finlay reflect on the politics of listening in their work, including at The Guardian, the ABC, #IHMayDay Indigenous Health MayDay and #JustJustice. Lorena speaks about her award-winning work for Guardian Australia’s Deaths Inside interactive database which tracks Indigenous deaths in custody. Summer May picks up the theme of listening responsibilities and the difficult work of listening to uncomfortable truths. Deaths Inside: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2018/aug/28/deaths-inside-indigenous-australian-deaths-in-custody Croakey: https://croakey.org/tag/summer-may-finlay/ Tweetdeck: https://www.politicsoflistening2018.com/twitter The Politics of Listening is a series of four podcasts from the Media Futures Hub inspired by the recent ‘turn to listening’ in media studies, cultural studies and political theory. The series was recorded at The Politics of Listening 2018 conference at the University of New South Wales. This interdisciplinary conference brought together scholars, artist-researchers and cultural practitioners from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, South Africa and beyond whose work engages with listening in various ways: as a political practice; as a critical frame; as an alternative politics; as a contribution to justice and/or as an ethics of relation. It was the first international academic conference on critical studies of listening. This podcasts mini-series is produced by Dr Poppy de Souza and A/Prof Tanja Dreher https://www.politicsoflistening2018.com/