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January 11, 2012

Annual MeCCSA Conference 2012

Start:
January 11, 2012
End:
January 13, 2012

logo.gifThe Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) is the UK subject association for those researching and teaching in the area, whether in arts, humanities or social sciences departments.

In 2012 the MeCCSA annual conference will be hosted by the Bedfordshire Institute for Media, Arts and Performance at the Luton Campus Centre, University of Bedfordshire.

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The conference will be held on 11-13th January 2012, in the Luton New Campus Centre of the University of Bedfordshire. Luton is situated in the county of Bedfordshire in the midst of the Chiltern Hills, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is at the centre of the UK’s transport network.

Plenary speakers include:

  • Steven Barnett on policy
  • Clio Barnard on practice
  • John Downing on alternative media
  • Christine Geraghty on film narrative
  • Stuart Laing on media in higher education
  • Janet Murray on new media

The conference will also feature scholarly papers, presentations of practice, posters and panels across the full range of interests represented by MeCCSA and its networks.

In the call for papers we especially encouraged contributions from scholars with interests in the social and cultural implications of new media technologies; policy making and research practice-led research and media pedagogy.

Please note: deadline for abstract submissions extended to Friday 7th October. See Call For Papers for details.

Prizes

The ADM-HEA Subject Centre invites MeCCSA conference presenters to submit papers analysing key learning, teaching and assessment issues in media, communications and cultural studies higher education. The selected paper will be published in the ADM-HEA’s online Networks magazine and the author will receive a £500 award presented at the 2012 MeCCSA conference.

There will also be a prize of £100 awarded to the best poster, to be judged by members of the MeCCSA Executive Committee.

Conference Website

Further information about the 2012 MeCCSA Conference on the official website: http://www.beds.ac.uk/meccsa

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December 3, 2011

A celebration of the ‘International Day of Persons with Disabilities’: The representation of disabled people in an age of austerity

Start:
December 3, 2011
Venue:
Rooms 2 & 3, RNIB
Address:
105 Judd Street, London, WC1 9NE

A celebration of the ‘International Day of Persons with Disabilities’ with invited speakers and public discussion.

A collaboration between the MeCCSA Disability Studies Network and the Disability Equality Research Network

Speakers

  • Professor Nick Watson
    ‘Bad news for disabled people: Changes in the way newspaper report disability
  • Allan Sutherland
    Title TBC
  • Deborah Williams
    The Good, The bad and The Disabled!
  • Nicola Martin
    Disability Identity: Disability Pride

This event is based around a new study of how media are reporting and misrepresenting disability in the context of government spending cuts. Bringing together a recognition of ‘International day of persons with disabilities’ with an exploration of the major shifts in the portrayal of disabled people, leading voices on the topics of disability, media and identity have been invited to examine the impact recent media coverage is having on public attitudes and on disabled people themselves.

Refreshments will be provided. Discussion and networking will be welcomed.

Please see directions above. Nearest tube is Kings Cross/St Pancras.

This is a free event. However places are limited so you are encouraged to reserve a place by emailing Alison Wilde at alison.wilde@bangor.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

October 21, 2011

Media and Mothers’ Matters

Start:
October 21, 2011
Venue:
University of Winchester

Friday 21 October 2011 1-5pm
The Boardroom, University of WinchesterHosted by:
Women’s Media Studies Network
School of Media and Film Studies, University of Winchester


This half-day round table conference is a participatory space for parties with an interest in media and women’s issues. It is supported by MeCCSA Women’s Media Studies Network and the Mothers’ Union.

The event is to foster dialogue on mothers’ concerns about media coverage and experiences from their engagement with the media. It is to establish or reinvigorate the agenda for teaching, research, advocacy and policy.

Keynote papers by:

  • Dorothy Hobson School of Law, Social Science and Communication, University of Wolverhampton
  • Stella Roberts Diocesan President, Mothers’ Union in the Diocese of Winchester

Participants are welcome to present their positions on any aspect of the subject. These will contribute to the new research agenda which we hope will emerge, so come prepared.

Further details will be available in October on the following websites: MeCCSA; Mothers’ Union; and the School of Media and Film Studies University of Winchester

Registration of interest should be sent by email to Oluyinka.Esan@winchester.ac.uk by the 10 October 2011.

September 22, 2011

MeCCSA Policy Network Meeting with Martin Moore

Start:
September 22, 2011
Venue:
LSE

22nd September, 2011 from 6-8 pm in
The Graham Wallas Room, 5th Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton St, WC1

THE MAIN SPEAKER AT THE MEETING IS MARTIN MOORE, OF THE MEDIA STANDARDS  TRUST AND THE HACKED OFF CAMPAIGN. He will speak about the campaign’s work, and will then participate in a discussion with members.

The meeting has been set up as an ‘open mike’ meeting for colleagues to talk briefly on current issues of: media regulation; press freedom; privacy; phone hacking; the relationship between press, politics and police; colleagues’ own research and writing on these and other related issues, all in discussion with Martin. Be prepared to speak briefly (5 minutes maximum) if you have something to say.

The newly formed CCMR (Co-ordinating COmmittee for Media Reform), which has some overlap of members with Meccsa Policy,  has a steering group meeting beforehand and we hope some of this group can attend the Policy Network meeting.  It would be good if somebody from the committee could speak briefly about its goals.

There are a couple of useful weblinks to articles by members that colleagues may be interested to read:

September 12, 2011

Mediating Women, War and Terror

Start:
September 12, 2011

WOMEN’S MEDIA STUDIES NETWORK
10TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT

Monday 12 September 2011, 1- 6pm.

This event is happening exactly ten years to the day since the inauguration of the Women’s Media Studies Network at Derby University. It is jointly sponsored by MeCCSA and the Media Discourse Group at De Montfort University.

The event examines the media role and representation of women throughout the last decade of conflict. It will combine panels of media practitioners and researchers with viewing and discussion of film and television.

The popular Showcasing Women feature of the Network also returns to this event.   All participants are invited to bring along any examples of their own recent media research or practice – or any information/publicity about it.

Further details available next month on the MeCCSA website: www.meccsa.org.uk/womens-media-studies-network

The event is free but we are asking people to reserve a place by Friday 2 September by registering with one of the organisers, Kaity Mendes:. kmendes@dmu.ac.uk

De Montfort University, Leicester.
All women welcome.

June 24, 2011

Journal of Media Practice symposium

Start:
June 24, 2011 8:00 am
End:
June 24, 2011 5:00 pm
Venue:
Watershed
Address:
Bristol

MeCCSA Practice section supported the Journal of Media Practice symposium on the 24th June 2011 at the Watershed, Bristol, in association with the University of West England.

For further details, please visit: http://postdigi.wordpress.com/57-2/

June 9, 2011

Women, Politics, News – Same old, same old?

Start:
June 9, 2011

WMSN Seminar on 9th June 2011

Organiser: Professor Karen Ross

Hoested by the MeCCSA Women’s Media Studies Network and Media and Politics Research Group (Department of Communication and Media Liverpool University) at Rendall Theatre Workshop (1st Floor Rendall Building) on Thursday, 9 June 2011, 1.30pm-4.15pm. All welcome.

PROGRAMME

1.30pm: networking lunch (BYO)

2.15 – 2.45: Emily Harmer, Loughborough University
“Just another gratifyingly photogenic leaders’ wife” and “a bigoted sort of woman”: Newspaper coverage of women in the British General Election 2010.

2.45 – 3.15: Valentina Cardo, University of East Anglia
Women’s activism: between old and new media.

3.15 – 3.45: Karen Ross, University of Liverpool
Women and news: the Global Media Monitoring Project as barometer of change, or not.

3.45-4.15: discussion and close

January 12, 2011

MeCCSA Conference 2011

Start:
January 12, 2011
End:
January 14, 2011

The Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) is the UK subject association for those researching and teaching in the area, whether in arts, humanities or social sciences departments.
 
In 2011 the conference will be hosted by the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre which is situated within the School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford.
 
The conference is to be held at the award-winning theatre and arts complex The Lowry, at Salford Quays in the city of Salford. This is adjacent to MediaCityUK, where the BBC, the University of Salford, and other media and creative organisations have new facilities and buildings.
 
As is usual, the conference will include papers, presentations of practice, posters and panels across the range of interests represented by the Association and its networks. Papers, posters and panels will cover all areas of media, communication and cultural studies.
 

Instructions for Authors

Abstracts of papers, presentations of practice and posters, no longer than 250 words, should be submitted at http://www.meccsa2011.org.uk by 22 September 4 October in order for peer review to take place.

For panels, we require a short description and rationale for the whole (200 words), abstracts for each of the papers (250 words each) and the name of the person chairing. For practice proposals please ensure that you send DVD preview material (not the whole item) with the abstract via post (details to be provided on the conference website).  Alternatively, include in your abstract a URL which points us to somewhere on the web where we can see preview material. 

Poster Competition

There will be a poster competition with a prize of £100, to be judged by members of the MeCCSA Executive Committee. The academic poster is highly valued by MeCCSA as an indicator of current research and there will be a space set aside at the 2011 conference for this activity. An online tutorial on how to design a poster is available here: http://tinyurl.com/6xn9om

Important Dates

Submission of Abstracts, Posters and Panels: 22 September 2010 4 October 2010
Notification of acceptance: 4 October 2010
 

What’s Next?

In the next few weeks we will be announcing our Plenary and Keynote speakers.  In the meantime, get your submissions ready and do sign up for news via our RSS feed.  You’ll also be able to follow the conference on Twitter.  Ben Light will be tweeting updates as we go along – his username is doggyb and the conference hashtag is #meccsa2011
 
For further information please contact Deborah Woodman – d.woodman@salford.ac.uk

August 6, 2010

MeCCSA Conference 2010

Start:
August 6, 2010
End:
August 8, 2010

MeCCSA held its last conference from 6th -8th January 2010, hosted by the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science and held at LSE. It included a reception and conference dinner at LSE. In keeping with the commitment of LSE’s Department of Media and Communications to policy-relevance and to the highest ethical standards of
practice in our field, the overall theme of the 2010 conference was Media, Communication, Policy and Practice.

Information linksMeCCSA 2010 conference

Competitions


Poster Competition
The MeCCSA Executive Committee offered a poster competition prize of £100. The academic poster is highly valued by MeCCSA as an indicator of current research.
Prize Awarded to Rosidayu Sabran (University of Leicester), for the poster Political Economy of Conglomeration and its impact on television programming: the case of Malaysia.


Competition for Best Paper on Art, Design and Media for Higher Education
The Art Design Media – Higher Education Academy Subject Centre (ADM-HEA) offered a £500 prize and publication for the best paper analysing key issues impacting on media, communications and cultural studies in higher education.
Prize Awarded to Daniel Ashton (Bath Spa University) for the paper ‘You just end up feeling more professional’: Media production and industry ready personhood.

Competition for Best Paper on Media and Communications Policy
LSE’s Department of Media and Communications offered a £300 prize and publication in its Media@LSE Electronic Working Paper Series for the best paper addressing critical perspectives on key issues of policy relevance in a convergent media and communications industry.
Prize Awarded to Prof.Steven Barnett (University of Westminster), What’s Wrong with Media Monopolies? A Lesson from History and a New Approach to Media Ownership Policy

Speakers

  • Prof Tony Bennett, University of Western Sydney
  • Prof Georgina Born, University of Cambridge
  • Prof Paul du Gay, Warwick Business School
  • Prof Sylvia Harvey, University of Leeds
  • Prof Adam Joinson, Bath Spa University
  • Dr Jason Lee, Derby University
  • Prof Eileen Munro, LSE
  • Dr Kieron O’Hara, University of Southampton
  • Prof Charles Raab, Edinburgh University
  • Paul Woolard, Ofcom
  • Prof Karen Ross, University of Liverpool
  • Dr Katharine Sarikakis, University of Leeds
  • Prof Philip Schlesinger, Glasgow University
  • Dr Gillian Youngs, University of Leicester

MeCCSA AGM 2010 documents

Conference Press Review

Conference fees

The pricing chart for the 2010 MeCCSA Conference at the LSE was as follows:

3 days 1 day
MeCCSA member £210 £155
Non-member £240 £180
Student £130 £100

Conference planning

MeCCSA Conference Planning: Dr. Anita Biressi , Prof. Heather Nunn; Dr. Jason Lee; Paul Kerr; Janey Gordon

LSE Conference Planning: Chair, Prof Robin Mansell; Catherine Bennett, Dr. Bart Cammaerts, Prof Lilie Chouliaraki, Dr. Myria Georgiou, Maria Kyriakidou, Dr Frédérik Lesage, and Prof Sonia Livingstone.

January 14, 2009

MeCCSA Conference 2009

Start:
January 14, 2009
End:
January 16, 2009

National Media
Museum, Bradford
Wed 14 – Fri 16 January 2009

Hosted by the School of Informatics, University of
Bradford

Plenary speakers

  • Shaun Moores, University of Sunderland
  • Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths College
  • Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck University of London
  • Diane Negra, University College Dublin
  • Shearer West, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Flyers

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Annual General Meeting 2009

Poster competition

There was a poster competition with a prize of £100, judged by
members of the MeCCSA Executive Committee. The academic poster is highly
valued by MeCCSA as an indicator of current research and there was a
good space set aside at the 2009 conference for this activity.

Best Paper competition

The Art Design Media – Higher Education Academy Subject Centre (ADM-HEA) offered
also offering a £500 prize, and publication, for the best paper analysing
key issues impacting on media, communications and cultural studies in higher
education. 

Conference fees

The pricing chart for the 2009 MeCCSA Conference in Bradford was as follows:

3 day 1 day
MeCCSA member – early £170 £125
MeCCSA member – standard £190 £140
Non-member – early £200 £150
Non-member – standard £220 £170
Postgraduate – early £100 –
Postgraduate – non-early £120 –