Programme
"Media Change and Social Theory"
6-8 September 2006
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Conference Timetable at a Glance
| Tuesday 5 September | 18.30-19.30 - Film Screening | |
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| Wednesday 6 September | Thursday 7 September | Friday 8 September |
| 09.00-10.30 - Plenary Session 1 | 09.00-11.00 - Plenary Session 3 | 09.00-10.30 - Open Sessions |
| 10.30-11.00 - Break | 11.00-11.30 - Break | 10.30-11.00 - Break |
| 11.00-13.00 - Open Sessions | 11.30-13.30 - Open Sessions | 11.00-12.30 - Open Sessions |
| 13.00-14.00 - Lunch | 13.30-14.30 - Lunch |
12.30-13.30 - Lunch |
| 14.00-15.30 - Open Sessions | 13.45-14.25 - Lunch Time screening | 13.30-15.00 - Open Sessions |
| 15.30-16.00 - Break | 14.30-16.00 - Open Sessions | 15.00-15.30 - Break |
| 16.00-17.30 - Open Sessions | 16.00-16.30 - Break | 15.30-17.00 - Plenary Session 4 |
| 17.30-18.00 - Break | 16.30-18.00 - Open Sessions | 17.00-17.15 - Close |
| 18.00-19.30 - Plenary Session 2 | 18.30-19.30 - Drinks reception | |
| 19.30-20.30 - Drinks reception sponsored by Sage Publications | 19.30 - Conference Dinner | |
| 19.30-21.00- Dinner |
Tuesday 5 September 2006
Tuesday 5 September - 18.30-19.30
Film Screening
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Introduced by Pepi Leistyna, University of Massachusetts, Boston A Project by Pepi Leistyna, Narrated by Ed Asner, Directed by Loretta Alper Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows. |
Wednesday 6 September - 09.00-10.30
Plenary Session 1
Philip Schlesinger, University of Stirling, Cosmopolitan temptations, communicative spaces and the European Union
Annabelle Sreberny, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, A contemporary Persian letter and its global purloining: The shifting spatialities of contemporary communication
Wednesday 6 September - 11.00-13.00
Session 101 Wordsworth Room
Computer mediated discourse as political dilemma
Chair: Joss Hands, Anglia Ruskin University
101-a: Lincoln Dahlberg, University of Queensland, The internet and discursive exclusion: From deliberative to agonist public sphere theory
101-b: Joss Hands, From the public sphere to the communications commons: Discourse and multitude in the network society
101-c: Lee Salter, University of the West of England, Online public spheres and the politics of repression
101-d: Eugenia Siapera, University of Leicester, The Internet, blogs and the dream of total participation
Session 102 Maplethorpe Office
Chair: Jonathon Burston, University of Western Ontario
102-a: Lotta Lounasmeri, University of Helsinki, Journalism as an institution of knowledge formation: Case of the Finnish globalisation debate
102-b: Graham Spencer, University of Portsmouth, What role for the media in peace? The case of Northern Ireland
102-c: Farida Vis, The Open University, Representing victims of natural disaster
Session 103 Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Helen Wood, CRESC, University of Manchester
103-a: Shaun Moores, University of Sunderland, Understanding media uses as place-making practices
103-b: Magnus Andersson, Malmö University, Cultural media spaces: Media consumption as a transnational practice
103-c: Maria Hellman and Kristina Riegert, Swedish National Defence College, Transnational and national media in the tsunami catastrophe
103-d: Tony Bennett and David Wright, The Open University, The social space of film consumption: UK 2003-04
Session 104 Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Chair: To be confirmed
104-a: Alison Hearn, University of Western Ontario, Variations of the 'branded self': Theme, invention, improvisation and inventory
104-b: Ruth Holliday, University of Leeds, Classing gender relations in TV makeover shows
104-c: Tania Lewis, Monash University, Smart living: Lifestyle media and popular expertise
104-d: Katherine Sender, Annenberg School for Communication, ‘From cousin It to Brad Pitt’: Audience responses to makeover media
Session 105 MGA Lecture Room
Chair: Philip Schlesinger, University of Stirling
105-a: Jessica Bain and Natalia Chaban, University of Canterbury, Christchurch and Katrina Stats, University of Melbourne, Media and spaces: Framing of the distant others in news media and public opinion
105-b: Angeliki Koukoutsaki-Monnier, University Haute Alsace, About social constructionism in political communication: Debating the European constitution in the French press
105-c: Hannu Nieminen, University of Helsinki, Deliberative or radical democracy for Europe? Concepts of the European public sphere critically contested
105-d: Inka Salovaara-Moring, University of Helsinki, Spatial genealogies of post-Europe: 'Cityzenship', public space and econocracy
Session 106 MGA Seminar Room
Chair: Stuart Price, De Montfort University
106-a: Dorle Dracklé, University of Bremen, Connected with modernity: ICT, policies of development and citizen participation
106-b: Carlos Tabernero and Vincent Dwyer, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Imma Tubella, Open University of Catalonia, Patterns of socio-cultural change in Catalonia related to the expansion of information and communication technologies
106-c: John Myles, University of East London, Interpreting and applying Bourdieu's model of the field: The case of the development of city information networks in Greater Manchester
106-d: John Postill, Sheffield Hallam University, Media change and the limits of field theory: An ethnography of local government and internet activism in Malaysia
Wednesday 6 September - 14.00-15.30
Session 201 Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Chair: Eoin Devereux, University of Limerick
201-a: Simon Dawes, Nottingham Trent University, Reducing the difference between citizens and consumers: A critical discourse analysis of the communications white paper 2000
201-b: Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute, The technological mediation of politics: The media and the social construction of large technological systems in Sweden and America in comparative-historical perspective
201-c: Wim Vanobberghen, Free University Brussels, Back to the future: Analysing the social imaginary of 'new' media in the past
Session 202 Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Jason Toynbee, CRESC, The Open University
202-a: Göran Bolin, Södertörn University College, The production of value in media industries
202-b: Eddie Brennan, Dublin Institute of Technology, Field theory, technology and media production
202-c: Tore Slaatta, University of Oslo, Towards a theory of media order studies: Theoretical and methodological considerations on Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory, the concept of symbolic power and the field of media research
Session 203 Wordsworth Room
Emotional news: Changing media practices and the challenge to social theory
Chair: Claire Wardle, Cardiff University
203-a: Mervi Pantti, University of Amsterdam and Karen Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University, On the political possibilities of therapy news: Social responsibility and the limits of objectivity in disaster coverage
203-b: Claire Wardle, 'Text us and let us know how you feel': Exploring the theoretical implications of interactive comment in television news
203-c: Emily West, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mediated politics and social theories of emotion: Potential for cross-pollination
Session 204 MGA Seminar Room
Chair: John Downey, Loughborough University
204-a: Charles Briggs, University of California, Berkeley and Daniel Hallin University of California, San Diego, The making of neo-liberal governmentality in news coverage of health issues
204-b: Cheryl Martens, University of Manchester, HIV/AIDS education promotion and changing modes of communication
204-c: Pieter Maeseele and Hans Verstraeten, Ghent University, Science, media and the public sphere: A media sociological perspective
Session 205 MGA Lecture Room
Chair: Staffan Ericson, Södertörn University
205-a: Shaun Hides, Coventry University, The post-political: Liminality, extremity and exposure
205-b: Virginia Husting, Boise State University, Bodies, images, texts: Political tools for resisting torture
205-c: Johanna Sumiala-Seppänen, University of Helsinki, Exploring Bataillean schemes around the ‘social’ in contemporary media culture
Session 206 Maplethorpe Office
Chair: John Farnsworth, New Zealand Broadcasting School
206-a: Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex, Happening twice: Mobile phones and field theory
206-b: Isabella van Elferen and Imar de Vries, University of Utrecht, Ringtones, bling phones and floating fabulousness: Representation, performativity and identity in musical ringtones
206-c: Shane Simpson, University of Calgary, Media technology as a socio-technical ensemble: The case of the cell phone
Session 207 Boardroom
Chair: Farida Vis, CRESC The Open University
207-a: Eiri Elvestad, NTNU, Norway, The concepts of 'locals' and 'cosmopolitans' related to media use in processes of social inequality
207-b: Paul Frosh, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mass media witnessing and the morality of weak social ties
207-c: Makram Khoury-Machool, University of Cambridge, Arab-Islamic media and socio-cultural contextualisation
Wednesday 6 September - 16.00-17.30
Session 301 Wordsworth Room
Foucauldian approaches to surveillance, technologies, media and celebrity
Chair: Sue Collins, New York University
301-a: Mark Andrejevic, University of Iowa, Mutual monitoring and the discipline of watching
301-b: Sue Collins, New York University, 'Do your bit': Star propaganda and performance of pro-war citizenship
Session 302 Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Chair: Natalie Fenton, Goldsmiths College, University of London
302-a: Georg P Mueller, University of Fribourg, On the interdependence of the institutional clocks of mass media and civil society in Eastern Europe
302-b: Wendy Willems, SOAS, University of London, From representation to the politics of representation: Decentring the text in media studies
302-c: Colin Grant, University of Surrey, The multiple contingencies of communication: Uncertainty and the dialogical self
Session 303 Maplethorpe Office
Chair: Marie Gillespie, CRESC, The Open University
303-a: Michael Breen, Eoin Devereux and Amanda Haynes, University of Limerick, Othering discourses and the production of fear
303-b: Helen Manchester, University of Manchester, Voices of cohesion: new literacies and empowerment in community radio
303-c: Debbie Rodan, Edith Cowan University and Jane Mummery, University of Ballarat, Being Australian and the problem of detainees: Petro Georgiou and inclusivity
Session 304 Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: David Hesmondhalgh, CRESC, The Open University
304-a: John Downey, Loughborough University, Recognition and the renewal of ideology critique
304-b: Michael Wayne, Brunel University, Ideology from ‘below’ and ‘above’: The missed articulation between traditions of critique
304-c: Bev Skeggs, Goldsmiths College and Helen Wood, The University of Manchester, Telling the classed self: Reality television and audience negotiations of ethics
Session 305 MGA Seminar Room
Chair: To be confirmed
305-a: Alice Frangoulis, Free University of Brussels and Licia Calvi, University of Leuven, Virtuality and multiplicity of contexts: Social implications
305-b: Kate Nash, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Mediating cosmopolitan solidarity: The case of 'Make Poverty History'
Session 306 MGA Lecture Room
Chair: Jason Toynbee, CRESC, The Open University
306-a: Per Vesterlund, College University of Gävle, Television as cinemateque: Feature films in Swedish public service television
306-b: Alena Williams, Columbia University, Movement in vision: The Bauhaus and leftist aesthetics in Weimar Germany
306-c: Diane Burgess, Simon Fraser University, Negotiating admission: The film festival as liminal market/place
Session 307 Boardroom
Chair: To be confirmed
307-a: Nadia Kaneva, University of Colorado, Boulder, Nation branding and the post-communist condition
307-b: Lance Pettitt, Leeds Metropolitan University, Mapping an Irish mediascape
307-c: Michael Skey, London School of Economics, Whose imagination? Whose community? Rethinking the relationship between media and nation in a globalising world
Wednesday 6 September - 18.00-19.30
Plenary Session 2
Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside, The new international division of cultural labour
Liesbet van Zoonen, University of Amsterdam, Dr Phil meets the candidates; how family life produces political discussion
Thursday 7 September 2006
Thursday 7 September - 09.00-11.00
Plenary Session 3
Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Form and power in an age of continuous spectacle
Faye Ginsburg, New York University, Rethinking the digital age
Respondent: Tony Bennett, CRESC, The Open University
Thursday 7 September - 11.30-13.30
Session 401 MGA Seminar Room
Chair: Farida Vis, CRESC, The Open University
401-a: Susan Ashley, York University, Toronto, The press, the museum and the imagining of citizenship
401-b: Anthea Garman, University of The Witwatersrand, Rethinking the media-public sphere relationship
401-c: Laura Saarenmaa, University of Tampere, Bad agency? Sex scandal as participation in the public sphere
401-d: Colin Grant, University of Surrey and Katerina Strani, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, The uncertainty of 'the public use of reason' as the medium of communication in the public sphere
Session 402 Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Garry Whannel, University of Luton
402-a: Richard Haynes, University of Stirling, Behind the mic: Questions of epistemology and historiography in the autobiographies of sports broadcasters
402-b: Svennik Høyer, University of Oslo, Four positions in the study of media and communication
402-c: Indrek Ibrus, London School of Economics, From synchronic discourse networks to the archaeology of diachronies: An approach for researching evolutionary dynamics of media forms
402-d: Nick Stevenson, University of Nottingham, Cosmopolitan education: A critical European perspective
Session 403 Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Chair: To be confirmed
403-a: Tino Meitz-Dungs and Marc Höcker, University of Münster, Isochronous constructions: Complementarities of medial and social emergence
403-b: Ilana Mountian, Manchester Metropolitan University, Social imaginary for critical research
403-c: Anna Sosnovskaya, St Petersburg State University, Strategies of the self in new Russian conditions: Social psychological theory of media
Session 404 Maplethorpe Office
Chair: To be confirmed
404-a: Shane Blackman, Canterbury Christ Church University, 'Shocking stories of horror': An ethnographic exploration of anti-drug narratives, youth and micro moral panics
404-b: Christopher Finlay, University of Pennsylvania, When Martin Luther King Jr uses the 'N-Word': The disparate reactions of fans and the popular press to The Boondocks' “Return of the King” television episode
404-c: Camilla Haavisto, University of Helsinki, Exploring the interface between visibility, agency and the representation of difference
404-d: Dan Laughey, Leeds Metropolitan University, Rethinking media and popular culture: a contemporary agenda
Session 405 MGA Lecture Room
Chair: To be confirmed
405-a: Felicity Collins, La Trobe University, Ethical violence, media time(s) and 'the chat arena' of television
405-b: Bob Hanke, York University, Toronto, Media, temporality and environmentality
405-c: Pepita Hesselberth, University of Utrecht, Future memories
405-d: Ben Roberts, University of Bradford, Technics and media theory
Session 406 Wordsworth Room
Chair: Sylvia Harvey, University of Lincoln
406-a: Robert Bodle, College of Mount St Joseph, Building a digital commons: Principal issues for a comparative study of global internet culture
406-b: Hallvard Moe, University of Bergen, Dissemination and dialogue in the public sphere-an argument for public service online
406-c: Sujatha Sosale, University of Iowa, New modernisations: Media commodification of non-transactional practices
Session 407 Boardroom
Interfacing theory: Technocultural practice as an agent of social change
Chair: David Parisi, New York University
407-a: Robert Jones, New York University, The politics of machinima: Video game-based filmmaking as activist cinema
407-b: Alice Marwick, New York University, Selling your self: Examining online identity
407-c: David Parisi, New York University, Sense wars: Haptic interface design as a countervisual practice
407-d: William Phillips, New York University, Emerging issues in the democratisation of music production
Thursday 7 September - 13.45-14.25
Screening of SOURCECODE: Can Participatory Journalism / Citizen Journalism / User-Generated Content Create Positive Social Change?
Introduced by Sue Salinger, Free Speech TV
SourceCode is a weekly investigative news-magazine program, conceived of as an experiment in the newly-emerging phenomenon of "participatory journalism." We wanted to know if all those consumer cameras in all those non-professional hands could be put to journalistic use - providing meaningful information and leading to an increase in public discourse and a more just society.
We are screening the episode "Criminalization of Dissent," which covers a recent 9-state federal sting of environmental activists who have been accused, under new Patriot Act provisions, as terrorists and who may face extraodinary rendition.
Sourcecode is a production of Free Speech TV, which uses electronic media to cultivate an informed and active citizenry to advance progressive social change. Airing documentaries and international news, FSTV can be seen in over 25 million homes. FSTV takes no money from government or corporate sponsors, receiving its funding from viewers and donors.
Thursday 7 September - 14.30-16.00
Session 501 Maplethorpe Office
Chair: To be confirmed
501-a: Sonia Ambrósio de Nelson, National University of Singapore, Understanding the press imaging of 'terrorists'
501-b: Cristina Archetti, University of Leeds, Understanding what shapes the news: The elite press and the framing of 9/11 in the US, France, Italy and Pakistan
501-c: Ben O'Loughlin, King's College, University of London, Re-presentation, address, response: From exceptional to non-exceptional politics in the 'war on terror'
Session 502 Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Chair: Tony Bennett, CRESC, The Open University
502-a: Annika Egan Sjölander, Umea University, Rare and fruitful: The concrete use of Foucault in media research
502-b: Jeanette McVicker, State University of New York, Fredonia, Journalism, subjectivity, governmentality
502-c: Jeanne Prinsloo, Rhodes University, Using Foucault and Mamdani to theorise news mediations in a southern African context
Session 503 Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Jonathan Burston, University of Western Ontario
503-a: John Corner, University of Liverpool, Mediated politics, promotional culture and the idea of propaganda
503-b: Peter Csigo, Budapest University of Technology, Celebratory politics and popular culture
503-c: Ivor Gaber, University of Bedfordshire, Mis/informing the public: The paradox of 'democratic' political communications
Session 504 Boardroom
Chair: To be confirmed
504-a: Caroline Bainbridge, Roehampton University and Candida Yates, University of East London, Masculine identity, pleasure and consumption in the age of DVD and the internet
504-b: Ruth Burch, University of Warwick, A media science of joy: Donna Haraway's introduction of pleasure into theory
504-c: Mirca Madianou, University of Cambridge, The mediated politics of emotions: An ethnographic exploration of media power
Session 505 MGA Lecture Room
Chair: Natalie Fenton, Goldsmiths College, University of London
505-a: Scott Oberacker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, The paradoxical populist: Michael Moore on the cultural battlefield
505-b: Martha Starr, American University, The dark side of global capitalism: Theorising media coverage of lay-offs and business closures
505-c: John Street, Seth Hague and Heather Savigny, University of East Anglia, Playing at politics? Organising and legitimating musicians as political representatives
Session 506 MGA Seminar Room
Chair: Staffan Ericson, Södertörn University
506-a: Gulseren Adakli, Ankara University, The transformation of management patterns in the Turkish media industry since the 1980s
506-b: Gillian Allard, University of Glamorgan, Only connect: Social networks and the re-presentation of E.M. Forster
506-c: Chia-Sui Sun, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, Connection and innovation of the book publishing and creative industries in a global context: Case studies from Taiwan and the United Kingdom
Session 507 Wordsworth Room
Chair: Marie Gillespie, CRESC, The Open University
507-a: Sandhya Bhattacharya, Pennsylvania State University, Understanding (y)our world: Religious identity, the Rushdie affair and the cartoon controversies
507-b: David Herbert, The Open University, Religion, the media and social theory
507-c: Stewart Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder, Media and the construction of Islam: Emerging journalistic discourses of identity, commonality and difference
Thursday 7 September - 16.30-18.00
Session 601 Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Chair: David Hesmondhalgh, CRESC, The Open University
601-a: Jonathan Burston, University of Western Ontario, Culture as strategic good: Media studies, international relations and human security policy
601-b: Natalie Fenton, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Mediating hope
601-c: Kari Karppinen, University of Helsinki, Against naïve pluralism in media politics: Some implications of the radical-pluralist approach to the public sphere
Session 602 Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Shaun Moores, University of Sunderland
602-a: Milly Williamson, University of Leicester, Bourdieu, audiences and the politics of consumption
602-b: Jane Landman, Victoria University, The character of character in serial television
602-c: Kaarina Nikunen, University of Tampere, Fans, critically speaking
Session 603 Boardroom
Chair: Farida Vis, CRESC, The Open University
603-a: Ana Andjelic, New School University, New York, Transforming practices of media consumption: Actor-network theory and media
603-b: Emma Hemmingway, Nottingham Trent University, Into the newsroom: Applying actor-network theory to an investigation into the way in which constellations of humans and technologies construct news facts
603-c: Jan Teurlings, University of Amsterdam, The 'boring debate' reconsidered: What media studies can learn from actor-network theory
Session 604 MGA Lecture Room
Chair: To be confirmed
604-a: Regina Sperlich, Mediacult, The theory of the mediamorphoses of cultural creation and a study on the digital mediamorphosis in rock and electronic music in Austria
604-b: Gabor Valyi, Pecs University of Sciences, The social afterlife of vinyl records: An ethnography of secondary markets, collecting, community media and subcultural capital in transition
604-c: An Moons, Free University Brussels, Towards an analytical framework for the analysis of the constituting processes of cultural industries: The case of the Flemish designer fashion industry
Session 605 Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Chair: Helen Wood, CRESC, University of Manchester
605-a: Mirko Tobias Schaefer, University of Utrecht, Agency matters: The in-between of software, hardware and user communities
605-b: Terry Austrin, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and John Farnsworth New Zealand Broadcasting School, Fresh connections, ethnography and media networks: Actor network theory and the case of the mediated poker
605-c: Sybille Lammes, University of Utrecht, Spatial regimes of the playground
Session 606 Wordsworth Room
Chair: John Corner, University of Liverpool
606-a: Staffan Ericson, Södertörn University College, Media houses: On media, architecture and the centralisation of power
606-b: Mary Irwin, Glasgow Caledonian University, BBC television talks and features department and Habermas's public sphere
606-c: David Lee, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Naylor Richard, Burns Owens Partnership, and Kate Oakley, Independent Scholar, Giving them what they want: The construction of the public in 'public value'
Session 607 Maplethorpe Office
Institutional Thinking
Chair: Kenneth Saltman, DePaul University
607-a: Mark Cooper, Florida State University, Media and change at the institutional scale: The case of Universal Film Mfg. co, 1912- 1918
607-b: Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, The independent women's forum and the mediation of democracy in Iraq
607-c: Kenneth Saltman, Corporate knowledge production and “democracy promotion” from Haiti to Iraq: the media and education projects of Creative Associates International, Incorporated
Friday 8 September - 09.00-10.30
Session 701 Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Daniel Hallin, University of California, San Diego
701-a: John Downing, Southern Illinois University, Social movement theories and alternative media: An evaluation and critique
701-a: Tanja Dreher, University of Technology, Sydney, Theorising community media interventions
701-b: Libby Lester, University of Tasmania, Lost in the wilderness? Celebrity, protest and the news
Session 702 Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Chair: Deborah Philips, Brunel University
702-a: Dee Amy-Chinn, Oxford Brookes University, Power and ideology: The case of advertising regulation
702-b: Bethany Klein, University of Central England, Taming rebellion: Popular music in advertising and control over meaning
702-c: Richard Tresidder, University of Derby, The tourism brochure revisited
Session 703 Maplethorpe Office
Chair: Anita Biressi, Roehampton University
703-a: Huck Ying Ch'ng, Macquarie University, Sydney, International news coverage in Malaysia: Finding space in a multi-cultural society
703-b: Angela Dressler, University of Bremen, Taking insights into foreign news coverage: Working methods and conditions of German foreign correspondents in Singapore, Israel and the USA
703-c: Ana Tereza Condé Pereira, University of Liverpool, Quality of coverage of international news: Insider views within the context of political economy in American news organisations
Session 704 Wordsworth Room
Media and Subjectivity
Chair: Paul Cobley, London Metropolitan University
704-a: Paul Cobley, In what sense might umwelt be applicable to theorising media audiences?
704-b: Nicholas Haeffner, London Metropolitan University, Towards a biosemiotic theory of filmic realism
Session 705 MGA Seminar Room
Written in time: Rethinking subjectivity and historical experience in the moving image
Chair: Jodi Brooks, University of New South Wales
705-a: Jodi Brooks, Slipping into the break: Film, time and the caesura
705-b: Therese Davis, University of Newcastle, Australia, Up close: The face, recognition and historical experience
705-c: Susannah Radstone, University of East London, Psyche, time, cinema: Revising psychoanalytic film theory
Session 706 MGA Lecture Room
Chair: To be confirmed
706-a: Ercument Gundogdu, York University, Toronto, ‘Give me your soul…’: Exploring the expenditure of souls in the crucible of media practices
706-b: Guy Redden, University of Lincoln, Individualising television
Session 707 Boardroom
Chair: To be confirmed
707-a: Edward Larkey, University of Maryland, Popular music and the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic
707-b: Deborah Philips, Brunel University and Garry Whannel, University of Luton, Cashing public credit: Sponsorship, cultural capital and image management
707-c: Hanna Raijas, University of Helsinki, Digital television and its policy implications for broadcasting: Britain, Finland and the battle between economics and culture in the audiovisual media
Friday 8 September - 11.00-12.30
Session 801 Boardroom
Reclaiming the industrial: a proposal for cultural industry studies
Chair: Timothy Havens, University of Iowa
801-a: Timothy Havens, Global television trade as cultural work
801-b: Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, From the bottom up: Alternative directions in critical political economy
801-c: Serra Tinic, University of Alberta, Producing global television: Ethnography in the culture industries
Session 802 MGA Lecture Room
Chair: To be confirmed
802-a: Manuel Damasio, Universidade Lusofona de humanidades e tecnologias, Seeing films: How European audiences react to their own cultural products
802-b: Irmi Karl, University of Brighton, On/off line: Gender, sexuality and the techno-politics of everyday life
802-c: Priya Virmani, University of Bristol, Across the national divide? A comparative analysis of decodings of Star TV soaps in India and the UK
Session 803 MGA Seminar Room
Chair: To be confirmed
803-a: Valentina Cardo, University of East Anglia, From political representation to cultural representation: The case of Big Brother
803-b: Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn, Roehampton University, Unofficial voices: Political communication, media participation and the Ken Bigley case
803-c: Stijn Reijnders, University of Amsterdam, Global entertainment and local celebration. Appropriations of the Idols TV programme in Dutch festivity culture
Session 804 Wordsworth Room
Chair: To be confirmed
804-a: Abigail Gardner, University of Gloucestershire, Gorrillaz, cartoon and the Irigarayan mimesis: Disembodied pop stars
804-b: Martyn Lee, Coventry University, While we were away: Ideology and the new reactionary in contemporary British television
804-c: Limor Shifman, Oxford Internet Institute, Humour in the age of digital reproduction: continuity and change in internet-based comic texts
Session 805 Maplethorpe Office
Chair: To be confirmed
805-a: Christopher Anderson, Columbia University, Journalism: Expertise, authority, and power in democratic life
805-b: Pieter Fourie, University of South Africa, Moral philosophy as the foundation of normative media theory: The case of African ubuntuism
805-c: Kjersti Thorbjønsrud, University of Oslo, Autonomy, power and legitimacy: Some objections to Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory
Session 806 Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Chair: To be confirmed
806-a: Marian Adolf, University of Vienna, Theorizing media culture critically between Frankfurt and Birmingham
806-b: Andreas Koller, New York University, Social theory and the intermediary field of power: Media change as part of the structural transformation of the public sphere
806-c: Cornel Sandvoss, University of Surrey, Herbert Marcuse's critique of advanced industrial societies and the study of mass communication
Session 807 Maplethorpe Hall
Media pluralism and cosmopolitan citizenship
Chair: Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney
807-a: Ien Ang, SBS and the production of cosmopolitan citizenship: From social recognition to cultural translation
807-b: Gay Hawkins, University of New South Wales, SBS and its shifting ethos of pluralisation
807-c: Marie Gillespie, CRESC, The Open University, Tuning in: The BBC World Service as a diasporic contact zone
Friday 8 September - 13.30-15.00
Session 901 Wordsworth Room
Chair: To be confirmed
901-a: Yoon Choi, University of California, Irvine, Mediating Korea: 'Korea for the world' through Arirang TV
901-b: Claudia Magallanes Blanco, Universidad de Las Americas Puebla, A feminist-dialogical analysis of independent video-makers on the indigenous Zapatista rebellion
901-c: Nicole Wolf, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Performing historicity through independent film practice: Examples from India
Session 902 MGA Seminar Room
Chair: John Farnsworth, New Zealand Broadcasting School
902-a: David Nieborg, University of Amsterdam, The expansion pack economy
902-b: Elisenda Ardèvo and Pau Alsinal, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Ruth Pages, Toni Roig, and Gemma San Cornelio, Open University of Catalonia, Videogame as media practice: An exploration on the intersections between audivisual consumption and game cultures
902-c: Olli Sotamaa, University of Tampere, Let me take you to the movies: Empowerment in the age of commodified play
Session 903 MGA Lecture Room
Chair: Tony Bennett, CRESC, The Open University
903-a: Noha Mellor, University of East London, Journalism and the role of the media in the contemporary polity
903-b: Alexandra Sauvage, University of Paris 4, Sorbonne, The Bayagul Gallery: Media as power at the powerhouse
903-c: Ted Ulas, University of Sussex, Bourdieu and Chaplin: 'The Kid' stays as the picture
Session 904 Boardroom
Subjectivity and the representation of self at work
Chair: Matt Stahl, University of California
904-a: Heide Solbrig, Bentley College, The uses of industrial media and social science in the implementation of affirmative action at AT&T: The working self, the unionised self and the 'REAL' self
904-b: Matt Stahl, University of California, “Think about this little scene; apply it to your life”: The employment relation, the labour theory of property and representations of popular music making
904-c: Vicki Mayer, Tulane University, Media production: Putting creativity and constraints paradigm on the line
Session 905 Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Political communication, journalism and the role of the media in the contemporary polity
Chair: Heather Nunn, Roehampton University
905-a: Maxine Newlands, Roehampton University, The rearticulation of news values: Environmental case study
905-b: Hugh Ortega Breton, Roehampton University, Cultural-political analysis and Foucauldian technologies for understanding subject formation and media representation
905-c: Chris Roberts, Roehampton University, Broadcast news, strategies of containment
Session 906 Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Karel Williams, CRESC, University of Manchester
906-a: Shahab Esfandiary, University of Nottingham, Media production under an Islamic state? The local and global challenges of the Iranian media conglomerate
906-b: Des Freedman, Goldsmiths College, University of London, The UK 'variety' of neoliberalism and its impact on media policies
906-c: Sylvia Harvey, University of Lincoln, Film and television policy in the UK, 1997-2005: Neo-liberalism and New Labour
Session 907 Maplethorpe Office
Chair: To be confirmed
907-a: João Carlos Correia, University of Beira Interior, Public sphere, democratic deliberation and identities: Further developments
907-b: Gëzim Alpion, University of Birmingham, Dead journalists and stillborn readers: Footnoting the Balkans in the British press
907-c: Neil Washbourne, Leeds Metropolitan University, Thinking questions of power in media studies: What does it mean to say 'Rupert Murdoch is powerful' (and is it 'true'?)
Friday 8 September - 15.30-17.00
Plenary Session 4
Daniel C. Hallin, University of California, San Diego, Neoliberalism, social movements, and change in media systems in the late twentieth century
Purnima Mankekar, Stanford University, Media and mobility in a transnational world
Friday 8 September - 17.00-17.15
Conference Closing Session
All the paper abstracts are listed in alphabetical order in the following document which is available to download as a Word file.