Thursday 12th July |
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Delegates to arrive |
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S Block |
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| 9:30 |
10:30 |
1:00 |
Registration of delegates, refreshments to be served |
S Block |
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| 10:30 |
11:00 |
0:30 |
Welcome Address |
2D67 (LT) |
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Estella Tincknell, Head of School of Cultural Studies |
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Prof. June Hannam, Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences |
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| 11:00 |
12:30 |
1:30 |
Panel Session 1 |
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| Panel 1: Imperialism and Globalisation |
Dr Prasun Sonwalkar |
2S603 |
| Sulaiman Arti, Loughborough University |
The complexities of American cultural imperialism in Kuwait and the Middle East: from Hollywood defamation to soft power attraction |
imperialism, orientalism, propaganda, film, kuwait |
| Unaloam Chanrungmaneekul, Loughborough University |
Negotiating globalisation: media representations and popular perceptions: a case study in eastern Thailand |
globalisation, mainstream media, alternative media, social movement, modernity |
| Venkata Vemuri, University of the West of England, Bristol |
Oh, God! It's News: Using Mythology to Construct Saleable News in Indian Channels |
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| Panel 2: Online Citizens and Democracy |
Dr Lee Salter |
2S604 |
| Chen Li, University of Glasgow |
Groups and individuals: blogging as technological and informal ways for overseas Chinese |
golden shield project, chinese internet, blogging, web dissidents |
| Einar Thorsen, University of the West of England, Bristol |
'Have your say' and then what? Civic Engagement, BBC News Online and the 2005 General Election |
online journalism, elections, democracy, interactivity |
| Gulum Sener, Beykent University (Turkey) |
Internet use by trade unions in Turkey: a case study on DISK |
internet, public sphere, trade unions, democratization |
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| Panel 3: Television Audiences |
Dr Seth Giddings |
2S608 |
| George Dawei Guo, University of Westminster |
Genre and audiences: the reception of television historical dramas in China |
history, genre, quality, audiences, Chinese television |
| Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, Cardiff University |
Funny ha-ha, funny peculiar, or just not funny at all? Comedy, reality and television audiences |
television studies, comedy, trans-national audiences |
| Somnath Batabyal, SOAS, University of London |
The end of imagination: audience defined in Indian news channels |
audience ratings, imaginings, viewer preferences |
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| Panel 4: Mediating Identity 1 |
Dr Elspeth kydd |
2S609 |
| Cathy Baldwin, University of Oxford |
Nation, faith, ethnicity, culture: studying media consumption and identity in England using ethnography |
media consumption, identity, ethnography, England |
Gailna Miazhevich, University of Manchester
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Television news representations of Islam in France and Russia |
islam, discourse analysis, objectivity and impartiality, public service broadcasting, media studies |
| Mengmeng Zhang, Loughborough University |
Representations of identity in the Hong Kong Press: a quantitive discourse analysis of Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong |
Hong Kong, identity, democracy, discourse analysis, newspaper |
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| 12:30 |
13:30 |
1:00 |
Lunch to be served |
Street Café |
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| 13:30 |
14:30 |
1:00 |
Plenary Session 1 |
2D67 (LT) |
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Keynote: The PhD Experience and Finding Employment |
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Dr Lincoln Geraghty, Dr Farida Vis and Libia Villazana |
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Chair: Estella Tincknell |
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16:00 |
1:30 |
Panel Session 2 |
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| Panel 5: Reporting the Conflict |
Dr Prasun Sonwalkar |
2S603 |
| Claudia Heske, University of Pittsburgh (US) |
Examining newspapers as representational and documentation modes of communication |
imperialism, nationalism, discourse, objective, mode of production |
| Ian Taylor, Loughborough University |
The battle for hearts and minds: the media relations of the antiwar movement |
antiwar activism, grassroots activism, local media |
| Mary O'Regan, University of Stirling |
Explaining media frames of contested foreign conflicts - Irish national newspapers' frames of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (July 2000 to July 2004) |
foreign newspaper coverage, frame analysis, social construction, Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
| Yennue Zarate Valderrama , University of Westminster |
Telling the Truth about war? The role of the media in conflict |
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| Panel 6: Journalism and Social Responsibility |
Prof Stuart Allan |
2S604 |
| Ann Luce, University of Cardiff |
The press as perpetrators of childhood bullying and suicide |
bullying, suicide, children, press |
| Forward Maisokwadzo, University of the West of England, Bristol |
A case study of HIV/AIDS reporting in Zimbabwe |
media and poverty eradication, HIV, AIDS and HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS reporting |
| Jepther Ukachukwu, Loughborough University |
Media representations of body weight, rethinking the concept of obesity |
obesity, media representation, ideal body weight (size zero), aesthetics |
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| Panel 7: Sexual Representations in Cinema |
Dr Greg Tuck |
2S608 |
| Ana García López, University of Bedfordshire |
Female sexual desire in contemporary Spanish cinema directed by women |
contemporary Spanish cinema, sexual representations, women filmmakers |
| Ming-jung Kuo, University of Bath |
Sex embodied: representing the explicit in contemporary cinema |
sex in cinema, embodiment, performance |
| Shweta Sharma, St. Mary's College |
The Killer Father and the Final Mother: Womb-envy in The Cell |
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| Panel 8: Popular Culture |
Helen Kennedy |
2S609 |
| Cath Davies, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff |
Death becomes them: stardom and the spectacle of death |
stardom, celebrity, representation, spectacle, death |
| Kiel Hume, McMaster University |
Affective empires: bio-political production in Oprah and Dr. Phil |
media studies, affect theory, popular culture, post-structuralism |
| Kim Charnley, University of the West of England, Bristol |
[Vice Magazine and the authority of fashion commodity] |
[fashion commodity, magazine, baudrillard] |
| Matthew Bartley, University of Sunderland |
Little Englander' - Fawlty Towers - A textual analysis of nationalistic ideology |
textual analysis, thematic, narrative, visuals |
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| Panel 9: Still Image |
Prof Martin Lister |
2S611 |
| Heli Lehtelä, University of Lapland (Finland) |
Representations of the Sami in photojournalism |
photo journalism, representation, the Sami, otherness, content analysis |
| Jonathan Milburn, University of Dundee |
Raiding the myth kitty? |
painting, myth, lyotard, ossian, art |
| Katy Parry, University of Liverpool |
British press and the Iraq war: tensions in developing a model of visual framing analysis |
visual framing, iraq, press photography |
| Vasileios Kantas, Wimbledon College of Art, UAL |
Constructing ambiguous photographs |
staged photography, ambiguity, directorial strategies |
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| 16:00 |
16:30 |
0:30 |
Refreshments to be served |
Street Café |
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| 16:30 |
18:00 |
1:30 |
Workshop Session |
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Workshop 1: Teaching |
2S603 |
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Debbie Flint, ADM-HEA and Kate Brooks, UWE |
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Workshop 2: Funding |
2S604 |
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Richard Bond from Research, Business and Innovation at UWE, and Joanne Montgomery from Art, Media and Design at UWE (formerly of the AHRC) |
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| 16:30 |
18:00 |
1:30 |
Panel Session 3 |
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| Panel 10: Branding, Advertising and Corporate Cultures |
Dr Greg Tuck |
2S608 |
| Chloe Peacock, University of Brighton |
Steve Jobs: the human logo |
branding, discourse, technologies, lifestyle |
| Fiona McLean, University College London |
The culture of sport utility vehicles: media representations in the UK and Germany |
advertising, audiences, cross-cultural comparison, semiotic analysis, social movements |
| Grant Davies, University of the West of England, Bristol |
Documentary as a form of interruption |
[documentary] |
| Pipsa Purhonen, University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) |
Interpersonal communication competence in SME internationalization |
interpersonal communication, interpersonal communication competence, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), internationalization, intercultural communication |
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| Panel 11: Film and Theatre |
Dr Elspeth kydd |
2S609 |
| Gideon Benari, [Independent researcher] |
The video editor and the dilemmas of a researcher-practitioner |
ethnography, researcher-practitioner, research methodology, collaboration |
| Norman Taylor, University of the West of England, Bristol |
The engine of narrative, or is there a machine in the ghost? Revisiting film as anthropology |
cinema, digital technology,remediation, agency, internet, actor network theory |
| Othniel Smith, University of Glamorgan |
The playwright-filmmaker - history, theory and practice |
playwright-filmmakers, dogme, theoretical practice |
| Sarah Martindale, University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
Reconciling high and low: developing a methodology for the study of Shakespeare in popular culture |
shakespeare, audience, adaptation, methodology, culture |
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| 18:00 |
19:30 |
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Wine reception |
Street Café |
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| 19:30 |
21:00 |
1:30 |
BBQ in Street Café |
Street Café |
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| 20:00 |
23:00 |
3:00 |
Entertainment |
Street Café |
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| 23:00 |
3:00 |
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Late License: Escape Bar |
Students' Union |
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Friday 13th July |
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| 8:00 |
9:00 |
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Continental breakfast |
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OneZone |
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| 8:30 |
9:00 |
0:30 |
Registration of new delegates |
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S Block |
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| 9:00 |
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Panel Session 4 |
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| Panel 12: Alternative Film |
Dr Kathrina Glitre |
2S603 |
| Ayumi Hata, University of Ulster, Coleraine |
Unchained voices: strike films of Ogawa production and sound |
voice / sound in cinema, japanese documentary film, japanese postwar history, modernism |
| Eamonn Kelly, University of the West of England, Bristol |
"Will the real Black Panthers please stand up?" Representing the US Black Power movement in documentary film |
documentary film theory, representation, black militancy |
| Eimear Ballard, Warwick University |
Guts and glory: The representation of the 'redneck' in contemporary horror cinema |
redneck', horror cinema, road movie |
| Jenny Woodley, University of Nottingham |
An amicable controversy': the NAACP and Hollywood in the 1940s |
african americans, film, 1940s, civil rights |
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| Panel 13: Feminism, Gender and Identity |
Dr Josie Dolan |
2S604 |
| Ira Virtanen, University of Tampere (Finland) |
Gender differences in supportive interaction behaviour: skill deficit or result of cultural norms? |
interpersonal communication, supportive communication behaviour, close relationships, cultural norms, gender differences |
| Kaitlynn Mendes, Cardiff University |
Representation of equal rights legislation in British and American press, 1968-1982: a cross-cultural comparison of key issues during second wave feminism |
representation, british and american print media, women's liberation movement, 1960-1980, gender roles |
| Lisa Richards, University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
I was a teenage multicultural man: language and identity in Head On |
language, film, teenagers, textual analysis, identity |
| Mercy Nyawanza, Coventry University |
Reporting gendered violence: women's criminality and the British press |
[representation, criminal women] |
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| Panel 14: Fan Culture and Online Audiences |
Dr Mark Bould |
2S608 |
| Maria Mellins, St Mary's University College |
Dressing up as Vampires - Virtual vamps: negotiating female identity in cyberspace |
audience, internet, identity |
| Rebecca Williams, Cardiff University |
Pure power, pure pleasure? Recontextualising fan/object and fan/fan relationships |
audiences, fandom, cultural value, online studies |
| Rebekah Smith, University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
Experiencing Grindhouse (Part of - Tarantino’s Audience: A Cognitive based Audience Research Enquiry) |
qualitative research, cognitivism, quentin tarantino, audiences |
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| Panel 15: Public Service Broadcasting and Radio |
Janet Jones |
2S609 |
| Christian Potschka, Loughborough University |
Regionalisation and decentralisation in British and German broadcasting |
broadcasting regionalisation, media policy, comparing media systems, comparing political systems, public service broadcasting |
| Ieuan Franklin, Bournemouth Media School |
Oral history, community and vernacular radio |
radio, orality, community, vernacular, archiving |
| Salvatore Scifo, University of Westminster |
The development of community radio in Britain since 1997 |
community media, radio studies, british broadcasting, new labour, media policy |
| Simon Dawes, Nottingham Trent University |
Reducing the difference between citizens and consumers: a critical discourse analysis of the Communications White Paper 2000 |
citizen, consumer, public service broadcasting, critical discourse analysis, critical social theory |
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| 10:30 |
11:00 |
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Morning tea / coffee and biscuits to be served |
Street Café |
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| 11:00 |
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Panel Session 5 |
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| Panel 16: Design for Screen |
Prof Martin Lister |
2S603 |
| Asim Evren Yantac, Yildiz Technical University (Turkey) |
The role of cultural factors on the design of icons used in info-assistant interface design: a research on Turkish and German users |
cross cultural design, info-assistant, icon, interface design |
| Barbara Brownie, University of Hertfordshire |
Fluid and transient letterforms in screen-based typographic artefacts |
typography, motion graphics, animation, film title design |
| Greg Singh, Buckinghamsire Chilterns University College |
Nostalgia, and 'affective' responses to the contemporary CGI film: spectacle as Kitsch's most encompassing moment |
spectacle, computer-generated image, nostalgia, kitsch, affect |
| Gurpreet Singh and Michael Pickard, Sunderland University |
Using Knowledge of vision science to inform creative image design |
vision, art, design, multimedia, education |
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| Panel 17: Uses of Music and Sound in Film |
Prof Michael Chanan |
2S604 |
| Elena Boschi, University of Liverpool |
Radiofreccia: A New Direction for Italian Film Music? |
music, film, Italy, popular song |
| Gerry Moorey, University of the West of England, Bristol |
A body of sound: a phenomenological consideration of the social role and meanings of music |
music, memory, representation, the body, phenomenology |
| Lauren Anderson, University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
In the 'know': talking to audiences about popular music film soundtracks |
film soundtracks, popular music, audience reception, romantic comedy |
| Tim McNelis, University of Liverpool |
Lost Spirits: Musical Representation of 'Race' and Gender in Ghost World |
popular music, film, race, gender |
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| Panel 18: Mediating Identity 2 |
Dr Josie Dolan |
2S608 |
| Carrie Maclennan, Glasgow Caledonian University |
Girls rock like guys don't': musical realities from the Glasgow scene |
music, gender, identity |
| Joanna Rydzewska, Swansea University |
Imagining ‘Britishness’: The Cinema of Pawel Pawlikowski |
British identity, English identity, European identity, gender, Pawwel Pawlikowski |
| Richard Kpabi, University of Westminster |
Encounters in diasporic space: syncretisation and identity redefinition in the Ghnaian diaspora of London |
diaspora, identity, syncretism, culture, media |
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| Panel 19: Citizens, Interaction and the Public Interest |
Dr Lee Salter |
2S609 |
| Jo Henderson, Institute of Education |
The citizen producer |
user-generated content, first person narrative, self-documentation |
| Julie-ann Davies, University of Strathclyde |
Secrets and spies: national security and the public interest |
qualitative, sociology, media, democracy, secrecy |
| Minna Finstad, University of Tampere (Finland) |
Politicians interacting with citizens |
politician-citizen interaction, interaction competence, interpersonal interaction, democracy |
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| MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Executive Committee Meeting |
2S611 |
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Lunch to be served |
Street Café |
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Plenary Session 2 |
2D67 (LT) |
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Keynote:
Publish or Perish?
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Prof Stuart Allan, University of the West of England, Bristol
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Chair: Estella Tincknell |
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Keynote: Adventures with Digital Video
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Prof Michael Chanan, Roehampton University, London
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Chair: Estella Tincknell |
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Afternoon tea / coffee and biscuits t |
