Media, Communication & Cultural Studies Association
3rd Annual Conference

University of Westminster, 309 Regent St, London W1B 2UW
Friday 11 – Sunday 13 January 2002

Opening Panel Discussion
on the Creative Industries

Jonathan Rutherford, Middlesex University
James Woudhuysen De Montfort University
Sara Selwood, University of Westminster
Andrew Calcutt University of East London (Chair)

Drinks Reception

Panels

1. Factual Entertainment
   John Ellis
   Annette Hill ‘Factual Entertainment and the Family’
   Peter Lunt ‘The Emotional Public Sphere: Springer and the interrogation of post-emotions’

2. Media, Politics and Government
   Daniele Albertazzi ‘Southerners, Africans and Albanians: the unprofessional ‘other’ in Lega Nord’s Propeganda’
   Oksana Fedotova ‘Propaganda department and journal publishing in the Soviet Union 1946-53’
   David Machin and Fotini Papatheodorou ‘Media, politics and the market in Southern Europe: the case of Greece and Spain’
   Anthony McNicholas ‘Rebels at heart and revolutionists in purpose: political organisation and the Irish press in mid-Victorian England’

3. National Heroes?
   Martin Conboy ‘Resurrecting St George’
   Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi ‘Cultural studies comes home: interdisciplinary approaches to the Tony Martin case’
   Jane Taylor ‘Glen Hoddle: the medium and the masseuse’

4. Teaching and practice: across the divide
   Mark Hetherington and Gary Lunt ‘The live project module’
   John Parham ‘Media studies: the great vocational-critical divide’

5. Thinking about the self
   Angela Devas ‘Changing myself: feminist autobiography as pedagogic practice’
   Sally Munt ‘Intelligibility and identity: space and time’ Communications and

Keynote Speech

‘Reflections on Studying Disney’

Thoughts on recent scholarship on the Walt Disney Company and its products by
Janet Wasko, University of Oregon, author of:

Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy
Polity Press, 2001

Dazzled by Disney?: The Global Disney Audience Project
Leicester University Press, 2001 (co-editor)

Hollywood in the Information Age: Behind the Silver Screen
Polity Press, 1994

Workshops and Panels

The Womens Media Studies Network will have a stand
in the Board Room all afternoon

1. John Riley ‘I think I remember a programme about that: identifying and accessing broadcast material for learning and teaching’

2. Vicky Ball and Caroline Mitchell Employability Project/Learning and Teaching Subject Centre

3. Getting Published

4. Angela Phillips and Jane Stobart The Industrialisation of the Imagination: a discussion of accreditation in Higher Education.

5. Tony Bennett ‘The invention of the modern cultural fact: towards a critique of the critique of everyday life’

Panels

1. James Lull and Kevin Robins Globalisation, Transnationalism and the possibilities of the ‘in-between’ Chair David Morley

2. Capitalism and its discontents
   Andrew Calcutt ‘The myth of anti-capitalism: corporate culture, counterculture and their commonality’
   Kate Coyer The Anti-Global Capital Movement and the Creation of Participatory Media:A Case Study of the Independent Media Center

3. Jeremy Tunstall Television and Production
   Wendy Phillips ‘Are You Being Served: a case study of the creation of a television programme’

4. Current Affairs and Public Broadcasting
   John Ellis, Patricia Holland and Victoria Wegg Prosser

5. New Media Technologies
   Richard Barbrook ‘Cybercommunism’
   Jason Diceman, ‘Ideal Media’
   Dean Lockwood ‘The politics of telepresence’

Drinks Reception

Panels

1. Women, Television and the Media
   Vicky Ball ‘Female excess and containment: the case of contemporary British television drama’
   Mieke de Clerq ‘Who makes the news? Women’s participation and portrayal in the news’
   Julia Hallam ‘White ‘angels’: mediating the professional identity of nursing’
   Ksenija Vidmar ‘Regarding Ally: universal womanhood and local audiences in Ally McBeal’
   Rachel Velody ‘Watching as Detectives. Strategies of crime and detective work in CrimeWatch UK

2. Radio Studies Network Panel
   Janey Gordon ‘Whose Access? What Access? Access to whom? The initial development of the pilot ?Access? radio stations’.
   David Hendy ‘Why bother with documentaries?’
   Winston Mano ‘Popular Music on Radio Zimbabwe’
   Barbara Rassi ‘Voices of their own: women’s programmes at non-commercial radio stations’

3. New Media: Teaching and Research
   Thomas Giagkoglou ‘The virtual expansion of the school classroom: can new media give a global perspective to education?’
   Fotini Papatheodorou ‘Educating the reflective journalist: beyond the theory-practice divide’
   Roshini Kempadoo ’Differences electronic: multimedia production as research – a case study’

4. Ethnography, media use and popular culture
   Victoria Knight ‘An investigation into mass communication consumption in a male young offenders’ institution’
   Tessa Perkins ‘Talking about Queer as Folk, talking about ‘Us’ – Looking at websites’
   Tarik Sabry ‘Migration as popular culture’

5. Negotiating Identity
   Esra Dogru Arsan ‘Changing media sphere of unchanging Turkey’
   Sofie Van Bauel ‘Resistance through consumerism? A case study of multiple gender identities on MTV and TMF’

MeCCSA AGM

Panels

1. Intertextuality and narrative
   Lois Drawmer ‘Lara Croft and new media technologies’
   Jonathan Gray ‘As the text happens: nonlinearity and the television series’

2. Factual Entertainment Chair: Annette Hill
   Nick Couldry ‘The myth of ‘reality Tv’
   Caroline Dover ‘Hybrid genres and television production’
   Derek Paget ‘The “Not-Doc” tendency: documentary dispersal in Factual Television’

3. Broadcasting, Regulation and Professional Practices
   Tomas Coppens ‘The goal of public broadcasting: a comparative study of the missions, tasks and roles of 20 European public broadcasters’ John Farnsworth Revisiting profession, state and market: the case of New Zealand Broadcasting’
   Petros Iosifidis ‘Regulating digital convergence: competition or sector-specific regulation?’

4. Film, Cinema and Heritage
   Helen Davis ‘The silence of the Bertrams: Revisioning England in Patricia Rozema’s Mansfield Park’
   Joengmee Kim, ‘Elizabeth: technological innovation and innovation of the heritage film’

5. New Technologies
   Seija Nurmi ‘The information gap: a case study of information technology in Finland and Britain’
   Kate O’Riordan, ‘Changes in the Discourses of Cyberculture: A Partial View’
   Juthamas Tangsangtikul ‘Playing’ the Internet

Discussion on events since September 11

Jean Seaton, University of Westminster,
Stuart Price, De Montfort University
Naomi Sakr, University of Westminster

The organisers welcome the participation of Publishers