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Dr Anne Begg

BA, PGDip(Dist), MA(Dist), PhD (Otago)Anne Begg
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.

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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).

Begg, A. (2018). Migration and mobility politics. borderlands, 17(2). Retrieved from http://www.borderlands.net.au/issues/vol17no2.html

Journal - Research Article

Begg, A. (2012). Our stadium of four million. New Zealand Journal of Media Studies, 13(2), 32-45. doi: 10.11157/medianz-vol13iss2id14

Journal - Research Article

Begg, A., & Devadas, V. (2017). Border politics. borderlands, 16(1).

Journal - Research Other

Devadas, V., & Begg, A. (2016). Space, places and social control. borderlands, 15(1).

Journal - Research Other

Begg, A., & Devadas, V. (2014). Power, subjectivity, resistance. borderlands, 13(2).

Journal - Research Other

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.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Begg, A. (2013, November). How free-market neoliberalism sells potential disaster as a risk worth taking. Verbal presentation at the Disaster! A Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Begg, A. M. (2012). Brand New Zealand: Media governmentality and affective biopower (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/2455

Awarded Doctoral Degree

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