Media, Text and Travel 2023

Welcome to the first ever joint online symposium on Media, Text and Travel, co-hosted in 2023 by The University of Melbourne and The University of Salzburg.

We are pleased to announce the first joint online symposium on Media, Text and Travel, to be hosted via Zoom, from Thursday, 16 March 2023, to Friday, 17 March 2023. The event is put together by the Media and Communications program of the University of Melbourne and the Department of English and American Studies of the University of Salzburg.

Experts from both Universities will share their ongoing research, teaching practices and industry experience on digital media discourse, professional media writing, applied language study, and intercultural communication.More broadly, the theme of Media, Text and Travel provides a forum for challenging, advancing, and understanding issues of media consumption and production in national and global settings.

The online symposium invites scholarly discussion and reflection on innovative teaching pedagogies, diverse research approaches and critical theories for analysing media texts, such as advertising, news, travel writing, and social media. The presentations and discussions seek to engage with the fast-changing role of media and media platforms in contemporary forms of public communication.

Symposium Date: Thursday, 16 March 2023, to Friday, 17 March 2023

Access the full program with details via Symposium Programme.

Main Themes

• Theories, concepts, and methods of text analysis
• Discourse analysis and Multimodality 
• Marketing, Public relations, advertising and tourism
• Intercultural communication
• Global media and media technologies

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For detailed information on individual presentations, visit our Book of Abstracts.