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Margie Borschke is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature.She is the author of This is Not a Remix: Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
Borschke's research addresses reproduction, circulation and distribution as cultural practices, with an emphasis on the aesthetics of circulation, the materiality of networked media, and the rhetorical dimensions of Internet culture. Recent work has focused on cloud-based computing, streaming technologies, and analog media revivals, using a media historical approach to address pressing contemporary questions about the social impact of network technologies and how we understand change and innovation. An interest in copies and copying underpins much of her work. Current and recent collaborations include projects on desire lines and imagining data in everyday life, network metaphors, new media gatekeeping practices and technologies, social media pedagogies, post-piracy practices, scholarly networks, the pleasures of the copy, and media histories of the environment and natural world.
Dr. Borschke teaches undergraduate and postgraduate units in media studies and journalism including units on network culture and data journalism.
Current research supervisions: Timothy Yee (Critiquing the Internal Innovation Imperative Through Arts Based Research in Australian Corporations).
Completed Supervisions:
- Kath Kenny, PhD, 2020, "Performing consciousness raising: the Australian women's liberation movement's cultural renaissance on stage and screen (Awarded Vice Chancellor Commendation for Academic Excellence, Aug 20, 2020)
- Timothy Yee, Master of Research, 2017 ("Podcasting personas in the creative knowledge industries.
- Kath Kenny, Master of Research, 2016 ("A (feminist) drug story: raising consciousness or the mother of a neoliberal guilt trip?")
- Adrian Chen, Master of Research 2016 ("The gamer and "The Game": pick-up artists from the perspective of game studies")
Dr Borschke is interested in supervising research in the following areas: media and cultural studies, network metaphors, copying practices and copies, circulation as a cultural practice, media archaeology, media history, network aesthetics, sound studies, technology and software studies, underground and alternative media, collecting practices, enviromental humanities, innovation and media practice, smart cities, data aesthetics, data journalism, data literacies.
Borschke holds a PhD in Media (University of New South Wales), a Master of Arts in Politics (University of Toronto) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science (McGill University). As a journalist, she trained at Harper’s Magazine in New York City in the mid-90s and went on to contribute to both pioneering websites and respected international media titles including The New York Times Magazine, The Times, Harper’s Bazaar and many others.
Biography
This is Not a Remix: Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music
Borschke’s 2017 monograph, This is not a remix: piracy, authenticity and popular music (Bloomsbury Academic) focuses on questions about the materiality of media, its use and the aesthetic dimensions of reproduction and circulation in digital networks. This work uncovers the analog roots of digital practices and brings the long history of piracy into contact with contemporary controversies about the reproduction, use and circulation of recordings on the internet. Through a close look at sometimes illicit forms of composition--including remixes, edits, mashups, bootlegs, mp3 blogs and playlists--Borschke ponders how and why ideals of authenticity persist in networked cultures where copies and copying are ubiquitous and seemingly at odds with romantic constructions of authorship. By teasing out unspoken assumptions about media and culture, Borschke’s work offers fresh perspectives on the cultural politics of intellectual property in the digital era and poses questions about the promises, possibilities and challenges of network visibility and mobility.
Education/Academic qualification
Media, PhD, The University of New South Wales
… → 2012
Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), McGill University
Political Science, Master of Arts, University of Toronto
External positions
Board Member, Association for Cultural Studies
2020 → …Visiting Professor, University of Toronto
1 Jul 2018 → 15 Nov 2018Lecturer, Level B (Fixed Term), University of Sydney
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Projects
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Beyond the cloud, across the data stream: a critical genealogy of network metaphors
1/07/18 → …
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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Virtue, efficiency, and the sharing economy
Borschke, M., 2021, The handbook of peer production. O'Neil, M., Pentzold, C. & Toupin, S. (eds.). John Wiley & Sons, (Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Random Access Memory: personal collections and the poetics of discovery
Borschke, M., Oct 2020, Audiosphere: sound experimentation, 1980-2020. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, p. 45-50 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution › peer-review
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Reimagining copies in digital networks
Borschke, M., 2020, Reimagining communication: mediation. Filimowicz, M. & Tzankova, V. (eds.). New York ; London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 239-251 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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This is Not a Remix: piracy, authenticity and popular music
Borschke, M., 2017, New York ; London: Bloomsbury Academic. 192 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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The extended remix: rhetoric and history
Borschke, M., 2015, The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies. Navas, E., Gallagher, O. & burrough, X. (eds.). New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 104-115 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
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Re-Source Theme in Focus #2: Remix and Theory
Christine Fischer (Invited speaker), Margie Borschke (Invited speaker) & David Gunkel (Invited speaker)
30 Jan 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association (External organisation)
Margie Borschke (Member)
2020 → 2021Activity: Membership › Membership of network
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Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
Margie Borschke (Organiser) & Cait McKinney (Participant)
15 Oct 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop or event series
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Poetics of Circulation
Margie Borschke (Speaker)
4 Feb 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Michigan State University Press (Publisher)
Margie Borschke (Reviewer)
Aug 2020Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Publication Peer-review
Press / Media
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ABC News24: Expert Comment on Music Collectibles
16/03/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Book Review: This is Not a Remix: Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music. By Margie Borschke. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 186 pp. ISBN 9781501318931
1/02/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Margie Borschke, This is Not a Remix: Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music
1/11/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Review: Margie Borschke’s This is Not a Remix, by Owen Gallagher
4/12/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Book Review: This is not a remix: piracy, authenticity and popular music
Margie Borschke & Karlyn King
1/12/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research