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Situating public intellectuals
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posted on 2015-08-31, 00:00 authored by David MarshallDavid Marshall, Cassandra AthertonCassandra AthertonThe concept of the public intellectual has always been a somewhat contestedterm. This article serves as both an introduction to the debates around what it constitutes and an entry point into how the new media environment is producinga different configuration of the public intellectual. Through key thinkers who have addressed the idea of the public intellectual internationally and those who havefocused on the Australian context, this essay positions the arguments made bythe authors in this special issue. Via a short case-study of TED, the conferenceand online idea-spreading phenomenon, it argues that the contemporary moment is producing and privileging a different constellation of experts as celebrities that match the exigencies of online attention economy. A shifted conception of the public intellectual is beginning to take shape that is differently constituted, used and situated, and this article helps to define the parameters for further discussion of these transformations.
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Media International AustraliaIssue
156Pagination
69 - 78Publisher
University of QueenslandLocation
Brisbane, Qld.ISSN
1329-878XLanguage
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
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