MeCCSA - Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association

Women’s Media Studies Network

Overview

Gender and Reality TV: New Ways of Saying Old Things

University of Manchester, 2 June 2004

Room 4.9, 4th Floor, Sociology Department, Roscoe Building (map)

For a brief review of the seminar, please see the October 2004 WMSN newsletter

Programme

12.00pm

Refreshments and welcome (bring own lunch)

1.00-2.45pm

Session 1

Helen Wood and Beverley Skeggs, University of Manchester
Notes on Ethical Scenarios of Self on British Reality TV

Kirsty Fairclough, University of Salford
Women’s Work? – Wife Swap and the Reality Problem

Refreshment break

3.15-4.30pm

Session 2

Participative roundtable on developmentsin researching RTV

4.30-5.15pm

WMSN business meeting