Accepted Papers
- David Hesmondhalgh (Open University)
Bourdieu, media production and the cultural industries - Lincoln Geraghty (University of Nottingham)
‘Realities…blending as one’: Film Texts and Intertexts in
the Star Trek/X-Men Crossover Comics - Feona Attwood (Sheffield Hallam University)
Reading the readers: representing the consumption of sexually
explicit media - Agnes Gulyas (Canterbury Christ Church University
College)
Are Corporate Forms a Threat to Democratic Functions of
the Media? Organisational structure and democratic performance
in the newspaper sectors of Britain and Hungary - Sharon Lockyer (De Montfort University)
‘The Sickest TV Show Ever’: Controversial Television and Moral Regulation - Karen Lury (University of Glasgow)
Teaching Television - Vincent Campbell (De Montfort University)
A Journalistic Deficit? British Media Agendas in European
Elections: A Comparative Content Analysis of British
national news media coverage of the 1994 and 2004 Campaigns’ - Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University College)
‘Europeanness’- Philosophy and Practice in the Relationship Between
US and EU - Jason Copley and Fotini Papatheodorou (University
of the Arts, London)
Television, Politics and Popular Culture - Ian Macdonald (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Playwriting for the Cinema. The conventional view of screenwriting:
its background in practice - Stephen Harper (University of Glasgow)
‘Ridicule is nothing to be scared of’: narratives of mental illness
in celebrity culture - Paul Rixon (Roehampton University)
The creative culture of new media businesses - Karen Ross (Coventry University)
News of gender in the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections
2003: the big squeeze - Nathan Vaughan (Loughborough University)
Hollywood Synergy - Andy Ruddock (Liverpool John Moores University)
Let’s kick racism out of football – and the
lefties too! The negotiation of football’s media
landscape on West Ham fan sites - Jenny Kitzinger (Cardiff University)
Reporting child sexual abuse: the impact on public understandings
and some lessons for media practitioners - Joan Haran (Cardiff University)
Maverick Science: Representing Expertise and the Challenge
to Journalists - Lise Watson (University of Toronto)
World Music Discourse in Canadian Radio Broadcasting - Olga Bailey (Liverpool John Moores University)
Diaspora and Transnational Media - Neil Washbourne (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Imagi(ini)ng the Nineteenth Century Political and Sporting
Celebrity of W.E.Gladstone and W.G.Grace: a contribution
to historical work in media studies - Stuart Price (De Montfort University)
American Mentality: Trauma, Imperialism and the ‘authentic’ veteran - Paul Smith (De Montfort University)
The Politics of UK Television Policy: The Making of Ofcom - Jiska Engelbert (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Making sense of New Labour. Multisemiotic interplay in
Labour’s 1997 and 2001 election broadcasts - Katharine Sarikakis (Coventry University)
Rethinking human subjects in Communication and Cultural
Policy studies - Cristina Archetti (University of Leeds)
What Are We Talking About? The Media and the War On Terrorism:
The Local Meanings of a Global War - Des Freedman (University of London)
What do media policymakers understand by diversity and
pluralism? An evaluation of contemporary debates in communications
regulation - Robin Brown (University of Leeds)
In Defence of Spin?: Rethinking the Media-Politics Interface - Mike Kinnaird (Monks’ Dyke Technology College)
and Deborah Wilson (University of Lincoln)
Radio foundation degrees: Connected education and training - Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham)
Authorship and the American Television Writer-Producer:
A Case Study of Joss Whedon - Nigel Orrillard (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
and Daniel Chandler (University of Wales, Newport)
The ‘Brainwashing’ Sequence in The Parallax
View (Pakula 1974): Visual Semiotics and the Practice of
Film Editing - Kristyn Gorton (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Televisual Desire - Claire Wardle (Cardiff University)
Monsters vs. Angels: Visual Press Coverage of Child Murders
in the US and UK, 1930-1990 - Gareth Longstaff (University of East London)
David Beckham(ism): Post-straight masculinity and the assimilation
of a gay identity - Dan Jackson (Bournemouth University)
What’s Best for Tracking Media Effects? Analysing
the Latest Experimental Techniques on the Impact of News
Framing - Rebecca Reid (University of Leeds)
Breast Cancer in the Media: How coverage is viewed by women
with a family history of the disease - Sarah McLean (University of Brighton)
Visual Depictions of Globalisation in the Harry Potter
Phenomenon - John Marland (York St. John College)
The Use of Adaptation in the Teaching of Film and Television
Production - Elizabeth Coulter-Smith, Sara Harris and Bob
Calver (University of Central England)
Media ContentLab: Reaching Industries by Rethinking Enterprise,
Research and Innovation - Zoe Sujon (London School of Economics and Political
Science)
New Citizens, New Spaces and New Media? Exploring the Constitution
of ‘New Media’ Territories and Behaviours - Stephen Cushion (Cardiff University)
Reporting politics differently: Young people, opinion polls
and news audiences - Shaun Hides (Coventry University)
Exposure Control: the cultural politics of contemporary
visual culture - Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Cardiff University)
When Citizens Have Their Say: Television news, vox pops
and the vanishing of the public sphere - Helen Hutchinson and Gordon Simpson (Cumbria
Institute of the Arts)
Marking schemes and cultural means: observations from a
small scale action research investigation applying shared
marking schemes in a team teaching creative context - Rinella Cere (Sheffield Hallam University)
‘Double exposure’: cinema in the museum - John Farnsworth (New Zealand Broadcasting School)
Portable Sound Technologies and Mobile Social Networks - Deneka MacDonald (University of Glasgow)
Leaving Pedagogy at the Wayside of Information Highways?
Some Thoughts on Communication, Support, and Emotion - Krini Kafiris (University of Athens)
Gender, Sexuality, and the Catastrophe of ‘True Love’ in
Greek Television Drama: 1997-2002 - Wilma De Jong (University of Sussex)
Teaching Media Practice: claiming our own space in the
academic sun - Janey Gordon (University of Luton)
The Culture and Communication of the Mobile Phone - Tim Holmes (Cardiff University)
Bitten: A study in post-postgraduate enterprise - Simon Cross (University of Lincoln)
Walls of Silence: World in Action Reports Ward F13 - Barbara Cairns (University of Lincoln)
Freezing Out Dissent: New Zealand Broadcasting Structures
in Neo Liberal Times - Xin Zhang (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
The Concept of the ‘Local’ in Local Chinese
Television - Trevor Harris (University of Wales, Lampeter)
We’re all creative now: the impact of digital technology
on the Media Literacy debate - Meryl Aldridge (University of Nottingham)
Seeking an effective local public sphere: Must regional
television news be anodyne? - Tony Sullivan (Goldsmiths College)
Consumption as an enabling and constraining activity for
young consumers - Nigel Morris (University of Lincoln)
‘Talk to Me in Your Language’: Broadcasting and the Context of Wales
on Film - Martin Barker (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
The Lord of the Rings international audience project – some
key findings - Jason Toynbee (Open University)
Why Copyright Matters for Media and Cultural Policy - Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia)
The Strange Case of 1940s Horror - Melanie Williams (University of Hull)
Why Woman in a Dressing Gown matters: Studying audience
memories of the 1957 British film - Graham Roberts and Stephen Hay (University of
Leeds)
With all due respect Mr Valenti…an end to cultural
hegemony at the movies? - Graham Murdock, Ruth Lister, Karen Kellard, Antonia
Ivalidi and Liz Sutton (Loughborough University)
Navigating the e-society: Digital technologies and everyday
lives - Kate Woodward (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
‘Surrendering to the Outside?’ Recent films in Wales - Helen Baron (University College Chester)
Improving learning on academic media undergraduate modules:
a case study - Lisa Taylor (University of Wolverhampton)
Class, Taste and Contemporary Gardening: an ethnographic
study - Andrew Hill (University of Ulster)
Osama bin Laden: the presence of evil - John F. Myles (University of East London)
Electronic Opinion: a Bourdieusian critique of On-line
Opinion Polling - Mike Mason and Faye Cleminson (University of
Lincoln)
Developing a subject-based virtual learning environment
within a wider university context - Saba El-Ghul (Monash University)
Broadcast Training for Community Radio in Australia - Dave Harte (University of Central England)
The role of Higher Education in developing a Media Cluster
in the West Midlands - David Hutchison (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Regulating the airwaves – lessons from Canada, OFCOM
and the CRTC - Last Moyo (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Digital Democracy in Africa: New Media rise from the Tombstones
of the Old in Zimbabwe - Jeremy Collins (London Guildhall University)
Risk publics as media audiences: theorizing and researching
non-expert understandings of risks - Sylvia Harvey (University of Lincoln)
Ofcom’s First Year; A Provisional Audit - Michael Tracey (University of Colorado)
The Mathew Effect: media culture and the new illiteracy - Ewan Kirkland (Buckingham Chilterns University
College)
Restless Dreams in Silent Hill: Approaches to Videogame
Analysis - Dean Lockwood and Tony Richards (University of
Lincoln)
Passion Play: Videogames and Critique - Rebecca Farley (Cardiff University)
Voyages of Rediscovery? Exploring the passage from Cultural
Studies to Cultural Politics aboard a Reconstructed Viking
Ship - James Moir (University of Abertay Dundee)
Media and Mind - Ros Brunt (Sheffield Hallam University)
Representing Muslim identities: reflections on a media
literacy project - Neil Blain and Kathryn Burnett (University of
Paisley)
Rebuilding the place of identity: heritage and the fashioning
of history and locality in the BBC’s Restoration - Jeanette Steemers (De Montfort University)
Selling British Television on the Global Stage: the challenge
of exporting British television drama - Ian Hunter (De Montfort University)
Sex Lives of the Potato Men and the decline of the British
working class - Nick Haeffner (London Metropolitan University)
Aesthetics and politics in two recent trans-national films - Kirsty Stevenson (Lancaster University)
Digital’s killing the live-action star? Approaches
to the analysis of the star performer in the ‘New
Media’ age - Eileen Elsey (University of the West of England)
Gender, creativity and short film - Ruth McElroy (University College Worcester)
Lifestyle Television on Welsh Screens: taste, nation and
cultural value - Barbara Hawkins (University of the West of England)
‘Where Do We Go From Here?’: Writing and Directing short film drama
for live interactive performance - Bryan Rudd (University of Lincoln)
BBC Radio 2: Contextualising popular music and current
affairs in The Jeremy Vine Show - Annette Hill (University of Westminster)
Understanding Factual Television: the reception of news,
documentary and reality TV in Britain and Sweden - Tom Nicholls (University of Lincoln)
Catholic influences on political television drama - Adrian Quinn (University of Liverpool)
30 Years of Bad News: A history of the Glasgow Media Group - Paul Elmer (University of Central Lancashire)
UK Progress: a constructivist approach to practice-based
learning in the public relations curriculum - Charlotte Crofts (London South Bank University)
Bluebell, Red Riding Hood and Film Practice as Research - Maria Touri (University of Leeds)
The media in political decision-making: an active player - Marta Cola (University of Lugano)
Media Uses and Identities in a Four Languages Country:
A Case Study of Switzerland - John Adams (University of Bristol)
EXPANDED CINEMA and SCREEN MEDIA project (ExCiSM) - Dave Kenyon (University of Lincoln)
‘Netizens’ Home Pages - Roy Hanney (University College Chichester)
Problem-Based Learning - Mary Agnes Krell (Sussex University)
Investigating Imaginary Evidence