BA, PGDip(Dist), MA(Dist), PhD (Otago)
Fixed Term Lecturer; Kaiāwhina Māori
Contact
Office: 3N1, 3rd floor, Arts (Burns) Building
Tel: 64 3 470 3421
Email: anne.begg@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests
Media culture, media governmentality, algorithmic governmentality, neoliberalism, biopolitics and affective biopower
Anne's research field is critical inquiry and her specific focus is on media culture, brand identity and the impact of market-driven governance on concepts of 'self' and political citizenship. Her most recent research includes analysis of the way prevailing algorithmic coding systems structure and manipulate individualised online experiences.
Affiliation
Editor: Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Law and Earth
Teaching 2023
Semester One:
MFCO103 Introduction to Communication Studies
MFCO217 Television Studies
Possible Supervision
Anne is happy to supervise topics related to her own area of research which focuses on critical analysis of the politics of media culture and examines, for example, the role of social media and the impact of digital culture more generally on understandings of self and identity.
Publications
Nicholls, B., Begg, A., Williams, J., Hayden, L., & Stutchbury, S. (2018, August). The changing face of advertising and effect it's having on business, particularly media. Panel discussion at the University of Otago Winter Symposium Series, Auckland, New Zealand.
Begg, A. (2018). Migration and mobility politics. borderlands, 17(2). Retrieved from http://www.borderlands.net.au/issues/vol17no2.html
Begg, A., & Devadas, V. (2017). Border politics. borderlands, 16(1).
Devadas, V., & Begg, A. (2016). Space, places and social control. borderlands, 15(1).
Begg, A., & Devadas, V. (2014). Power, subjectivity, resistance. borderlands, 13(2).