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MeCCSA 5th Annual Conference and AGM
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, Friday 19 – Sunday
21 December 2003
List of Accepted Papers
'Blair's Babes' and the Body Politic: Women, Democracy
and Media-ted Representation in the 1997 British General
Election
Charlotte Adcock
Keywords: Women, representation, democracy, newspapers,
journalism, public sphere politics
Framing Gulf War 2 : a preliminary assessment of
the coverage of the Iraq war in British television reporting.
Daniele Albertazzi
Keywords: ITV, BBC, GULF WAR 2
A Vampire is being beaten - De Sade through the
Looking Glass in Buffy and Angel
Jenny Alexander
Keywords: Abjection, male body, sadomasochism, visual
codes, feminism
Internationalism in times of hate : anti-racist
campaigns in European football and in the USA after "September
11"
Mark Alleyne
Keywords: Propaganda, constructivism, internationalism,
racism, terrorism, football
Seeing, feeling, knowing: a case study of audience
perspective on screen documentary
Thomas Austin
Keywords: Screen documentary, audiences
The Lord of the Rings as a contemporary phenomenon
Martin Barker
Keywords: Lord of the Rings, contemporary film, fantast,
book/film adaptations
Writing my Father: men masculinities and auto/biography
John Benyon
Keywords: auto/biography; emplotment; masculinities;
gendered identity; imperial masculinity; life routes; ancestral "roots";
and creative writing/poetry
Women in Scottish Politics: a study of women MSP's
and their communication with journalists in mainstream
and political news media
Sally Berrisford
Keywords: Media, communications, gender, Scottish politics
Boy meets boy meets girl meets girl L gender and
sexuality in the media
Sara Bragg
Keywords: Gender, sexuality, media, young people, audiences
Representing European ethnicities: reflections on
media analysis and action research
Ros Brunt
Keywords: Europe, young people, Arabs, Muslims, media
representation, action research
British Documentary Drama - Production, ontology
and criticism
Richard Butt
Keywords: Documentary drama, reception, aesthetics, ontology,
anxiety
The crisis of information age journalism: isolated,
international or imaginary?
Vincent Campbell
Keywords: Information age, journalism, crisis, international
comparisons, new technology
Television for a new global order: transnational
television networks and the formation of global systems
Jean Chalaby
Keywords: Deterritorialisation, globalisation, global
systems, televisions networks, transnational television
Many globalisations: the dynamic of culture, technology
and society - Harry Potter crosses borders
Crystal Chia-sui sum
Keywords: Globalisation, cultural flows, technology,
Harry Potter
The nation-state in a globalising media environment:
China's regulatory policies on Transborder TV Drama Flow
Yik-chan Chin
Keywords: Globalisation, nation-state, China, Television
policy, TV Drama
Official Ireland? Truth and the news : defence and
security reporting in Ireland
Tom Clonan
Keywords: Reporting, news, truth, defence, security,
Ireland
Internet Governance in the UK
Richard Collins
Keywords: Internet, governance, self-regulation, DNS
"Well it beats doing your homework" : Re-representing
protests against the war in Iraq: young people, politics
and apathy
Stephen Cushion
Keywords: young people, new coverage, apathy, Iraq Way,
politics
Ideology in Culture : Repression of the Return?
Aeron Davis
Keywords: Ideology, culture, elites, networks, the city
The power and limits of media based international
oppositional politics The Brent Spar affair: Greenpeace
versus Shell
Wilma De Jong
Keywords: International pressure groups, media, global
public sphere
Hearing Voices : vocal performance and stardom in
Princess Mononoke
Rayna Denison
Keywords: Voice, vocal performance, star studies, animation
Educating blonds ; widening participation and the
movies
Angela Devas
Keywords: Widening participation, femininity, gender,
education, class
The Pfaffs are not like the Osbournes - National
inflections of the celebrity docusoap
Alexander Dhoest
Keywords: Docusoap, national identity, case study, flanders
Behind Defensive Shield The Israeli Media and the
Re-occupation of the West Bank
Daniel Dor
Keywords:
Cinemergencies : Deleuze and machinic abstraction
in Cinema
Garin Dowd
Keywords: Abstraction, machinic, diagram, force, emergence,
emergency, "cinemergancy", Deleuze, Garrel, Foucault, the
political
'No one would have believed' H.G. Wells and Popular
Culture
Linda Dryden
Keywords: K.G. Wells, science fiction, popular culture,
cultural influences
Learners' personal constructs about 'reflections'
on practical work
Dan Fleming
Keywords: Reflection, pedagogy, practice, learning, teaching
Dumbing Up? The 'mirror' and the war
Des Freedman
Keywords: Newspapers, political communications, war,
ownership, tabloidisation
Media celebrities and young people's aspirations:
an art project
David Gauntlett
Keywords: Audiences and identities, celebrity, gender,
research methods, young people, influences and aspirations
Virtual Reality : Space of Negotiation
Petra Gemeinboeck
Keywords: Virtual Reality, virtuality, space, embodiment,
negotiation, presence, art
The creation of worldwide TV studios for children
(students).
Konstantina Giannopoulou
Keywords: Media education, schools, worldwide TV studios,
young students (children), cultural exchange, global activities
Branding Hollywood: Studio logos and aesthetics
of Memory and Hype
Grainge
Keywords: Branding, logos, studio majors, post-classical Hollywood, cultural
industries
Children drawing toy commercials, understanding
and media transference of television production features
Merris Griffiths
Keywords: Advertising, children, media literacy, production
techniques, toys
'But Who is Betty Crocker?' The critical interrogation
of the representation of people and personalities in contemporary
international packaging
Kirsten Hardie
Keywords: Media, marketing, visual culture, consumerism,
semiotics, packaging, advertising, cultural studies, multicultural,
identity, branding, celebrity
Madness, media and "Misrepresentation" : critical
reflections on anti-stigma discourse
Stephen Harper
Keywords: Mental Illness, violence, critical reflections
on anti stigma discourse.
Audiences, value and subjectivity : an Ethnography
of Popular Music
David Hesmondhalgh
Keywords: Audiences, value and subjectivity
The textual engineering of "Zeitgeist Monstrosity":
Appropriations of Genetics in contemporary horror film
Matthew Hills
Keywords: Genetics, appropriation, horror genre, narrative,
zeitgeist
Over, under, sideways, down: middle managers, organisational
hierarchies, communities and communication
Peter Jachimiak
Keywords: Communication, communities, definement/confinement,
hierarchies, Locations of enactment, middle managers, organisations
"A home for Refugees ; Writing Wales differently"
John Jewell
Keywords: Refugees, hound people. Media literacy
Lifestyle Media, the City and Identity Politics
in Athens
Krini Kafiris
Keywords: Lifestyle, magazines, radio, city, identity
Global Knowledge as Local Entertainment: The Launch
of University Challenge India
Angelina Karpovich
Keywords: Cross cultural television formats, quiz show,
knowledge and nationhood, local audiences, local knowledge
Adaptation and Agency: Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
and the marginalisation of the child in children's cinema
Ewan Kirkland
Keywords: children, agency, representation, genre, musical
'Story Placing': how journalists and audiences use
physical and cultural geographies in mapping sexual abuse
Jenney Kitzinger
Keywords: Sexual abuse, violence, representation, geography,
place
Towards an Understanding of Vernacular Cinema
Mikel J. Koven
Keywords: exploitation cinema, vernacular and cultural
theory, giallo
Placing Research into Teaching
Stuart Laing
Keywords: Research, teaching, knowledge production
Media Coverage of the war with Iraq
Justin Lewis
Keywords: Iraq/war/media
Reading Girls images in transnational popular culture
in Asia
Yeran Kim
Keywords: Postcoloniality, transnational communication,
popular culture, girls eroticism
Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells : The editor constructs
the offended audience
Sharon Lockyer
Keywords: Readers letters, editorial manipulation, offence,
censure, straplines, intertextuality, strategic positioning
Fantasy for Reality: 'Reality' and 'Storyworld'
in the Critical Reception of The Lord of the Rings
Ernest Mathijs
Keywords:
There is no altruism in voluntary work : unpaid
work in the lives of recent Media and Cultural Studies
Graduates
Nicole Matthews
Keywords: Voluntary work, unpaid work, graduate destinations,
graduateness, employability, work experience, work based
learning
The alternative Press in Northern Ireland
Gred McLaughlin
Keywords: Press dissent, conflict, media and cultural
studies
Cultural Computer Games -he Emergence of a Research
Field
Andy Miah
Keywords: Computer games, culture, research, policy,
methodology
Computer games and female audiences. A study on
the myth of the boy gamer
Elena Moschini
Keywords: Computer games, game audiences, female audiences,
digital entertainment
Frankenstein Returns : Visual Politics and the GM
Debate
Graham Murdock
Keywords: popular imagery, photography, politics, news,
public sphere, genetic modification
The status of the electronic archive in digital
culture
John Frederick Myles
Keywords: Electronic archive, disintermediation, horizontal-lexical
and vertical-indexical levels of archival reason, acts of
consignation, community, the mundane, material history, memory
Commercial Radio in Wales, 1972 - 2003: radio and
the Public Sphere
Thomas O'Malley
Keywords: Wales, commercial radio, public sphere, radio
history, policy
Transgender and the Internet: global movement or
casualty of globalisation
Kate O'Riordan
Keywords: Transgender, transsexual, social movements,
internet, alternative media
Video, technology and emplacements in St Petersburg
Gail Pearce
Keywords: Video, digital technologies, artistic practice,
Russia, St Petersburg, 2002-2003, site-specific, cross cultural,
local, national and international, identity and place, emplacements
Heritage, humanism, populism : the representation
of Shakespeare on contemporary British television
Roberta Pearson
Keywords: Shakespeare, television. Heritage
The Virtual Spaces of the Internet: towards the
standardisation or diversification of culture
Sheenagh Pietrobruno
Keywords: cyberspace, dance, Diaspora, globalisation,
standardisation
Structures of Feeling: a critical re-appraisal
Eryl Price-Davies
Keywords: Structure of feeling, culture, Marxism, cultural
analysis
Gender, culture and memory : how public memory institutions
articulate gender in relation to atrocity and genocide
Anna Reading
Keywords: Gender, cultural memory, museums, memorials,
genocide, atrocity, the holocaust
British television culture: the special relationship
Paul Rixon
Keywords: Television, schedules, British television culture,
American television, television imports
Western wars and peace activism: Movements in global
mass-mediated politics
Martin Shaw
Keywords: Movements and action methods, media and civil
society
Film Studies and the creation of Hollywood genres:
the case of melodrama and the woman's film
Martin Shingler
Keywords: Film, genre, melodrama, woman's film
Designed for pleasure : style indulgence and accessorised
sex
Clarissa Smith
Keywords: Sex toys, sex retailing, women consumers, distinction,
domestification
Negotiating the Past: the process of identity construction
Fiona Smith
Keywords: Media and nostalgia, postmodernism and fragmentation,
utopia/dystopia
Media and the (Global) Public Sphere
Colin Sparks
Keywords: (global) public sphere. Globalisation, media
The difference between sources and experts - The
MMR vaccine in the British media
Tammy Speers
Keywords: MMR, vaccine, expertise, sources
From Programmes to Formats: Television Industry
Discourse and the Future of Broadcasting
Steve Spittle
Keywords: Formats, public service broadcasting, marketisation,
industrial discourse
Social movements and Global Activism
Neil Stammers
Keywords: Social movements, global activism, (I) NGO's.
globalisation
David Bowie, performance and bohemian cultures :
popular music into literature
Nick Stevenson
Keywords:
Theorising Television: The Day Britain Stopped and
Melodrama
Michael Stewart
Keywords: Television, melodrama, genre, docu-drama, textual
analysis, cultural technology
Developing community media practice with students
at Nottingham Trent University
Georgia Stone
Keywords:
New Developments in the realm of the senses: film
studies meets neuroscience
Donovan Synmoie
Keywords: Neuroscience, media and film theory, theories
of cognition
'A Tory press wot won it?" Politics and the Popular
Press in the UK 1940 - 2003
James Thomas
Keywords: Politicisation, Tory press, winter of discontent,
newspaper power
Nationhood and Europeanness - discursive constructions
in the English and Scottish press
Ruxandra Trandafoiu
Keywords: Press, Europe, nationalism, identity, devolution,
Englishness, Scottishness, Britishness
The decline of US mass media on the work scene
Jeremy Tunstall
Keywords: USA, Media, World
Citizenship, Disgust and Media Capital: Discourses
on British Tabloid Newspapers
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
Keywords: Mass observation, tabloids, discourse, citizenship,
Journalism, popular culture, news
Megan Kanka and Sarah Payne: A cross-cultural comparison
of coverage in the US and UK press
Claire Wardle
Keywords: Press, discourse, crime
'No need for fear or Secrets': Ruth Fisher and grotesque
realism in HBO's Six Feet Under.
Sherryl Wilson
Keywords: TV Drama, grotesque realism, family, representation
of women.
Playing the Game by the Rules? Television regulation
around China's entry into WTO
Guo Zhenzhi
Keywords: China, television, transformation, law, regulation
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