Minding the Gap: Reflections on Media Practice &
Theory
One-day training symposium for Postgraduates & Early Career Researchers
Reuters Institute, Oxford
Saturday 12th May 2007
Keynote Speaker: Professor Brian Winston, University of Lincoln
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There is an unmistakable gap between intellectual models of mass media
institutions and practices, and the ways that practitioners experience the
media. All too often, media theorists lack personal experiences of their topics
of study, and university departments separate theory and practice in their
internal organisation. This training day – for postgraduate research students
and researchers in the first five years of an academic career – explored the
relationship between media theories and mass media practices across three
thematic workshops.
The contributors were researchers and practitioners concerned with factual /
non-fiction-based mass media that engages with and represents the 'real world'
through journalistic and documentary formats, and whose products are intended
for mass or substantial public circulation - broadcasting, print, photography,
film, web, and multimedia. Fields beyond the scope of the training day included
the electronic gaming industry, PR and marketing, the music industry; also
productions primarily intended for artistic or aesthetic purposes or consumption
within the education sector or minor non-public audiences.
The event included three workshops
- Workshop 1: Media Practice as Methods of Research and Presentation
- Workshop 2: Theoretical Models in Mass Media Practice
- Workshop 3: Double vocations: Mass Media Practice and Theory
For further information about the event please contact Cathy
Baldwin
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