University of Stirling wins Indian Media Award

Stirling wins Indian media award

The Department of Film, Media & Journalism at the University of Stirling has been awarded the 2009 Business Communication School of the Year (International) by the Public Relations Council of India (PRCI).

The award was presented to Matthew Hibberd (pictured right), Senior Lecturer and deputy head of the Department, by B.S. Yeddyurappa, the Chief Minister of Karnataka, a region of India with a population of 53 million. There were 108 nominations for the awards.

The PRCI is the national body of Communication, Media, Advertising and PR professionals, with 18 chapters spread across India. The PRCI also has strategic international tie-ups with similar organisations in the world.

Their annual national ‘Chanakya Awards’ recognise the contribution made by people in Communication, Innovation, Media, Cinema, PR, Advertising, Rural leadership, Corporate leadership, Social leadership and there is also a PR Hall of Fame.

Congratulations to Prof. Matthew Hibberd!

Media and Politics Group. Annual Conference: “TRUST”

CALL FOR PAPERS MEDIA AND POLITICS GROUP

ANNUAL CONFERENCE: “TRUST”

THURSDAY 5TH – FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, Glasgow, UK

The annual conference of the Media and Politics Group of the Political Studies Association is to be held at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and themed on “trust”. The conference runs through Thursday 5th and Friday 6th November, and will include a welcome reception on the Wednesday night. We now invite abstracts for papers. As well as a 200 word summary of the paper, these should include: full name and title, institutional affiliation and email address. While the conference is themed, we invite papers dealing with any aspect of the relationship between media and politics. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 12 June. Successful proposers will be notified by the end of June. At the conference, the Group will be awarding its annual James Thomas Prize for the most outstanding paper by a graduate student. We would be grateful if applicants would let us know if they intend to submit their paper for this award.

All abstracts and questions should be directed to MPG co-convenor, Michael Higgins: michael.higgins@strath.ac.uk

Transforming Audiences 2

Transforming Audiences 2: creativity / knowledge / participation

University of Westminster, in association with the ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Section, the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), and the Audience Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

University of Westminster, London, UK

Sep 03 – Sep 04, 2009

Contact: e.spindler@wmin.ac.uk

Call for papers: http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk/transforming-audiences-2-cfp.pdf

Website: http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk

The first Transforming Audiences conference, in September 2007, featured over 100 presentations by audience researchers from around the world. Transforming Audiences 2 signals its development as Europe’s major recurring international conference for audience/user studies.

Archives and Auteurs at Stirling

Archives and Auteurs – Filmmakers and their archives

University of Stirling, 2nd 4th September 2009

2nd Call for papers

A reminder that the deadline for submission of abstracts for conference papers is Friday 20th February 2009.

Abstracts should be no more than 300 words in length and should be sent in a MS Word file to Professor John Izod (k.j.izod@stir.ac.uk). This conference will bring archivists, academics, curators and researchers together to discuss the ways in which the study of the archives of filmmakers and the film industry can provide new perspectives and insights into the history of cinema. Proposals for papers of 20 minutes in length are welcomed in the following areas: – archives, authorship and the directorial impulse – the transition from page to screen: evidence in the archives for artistic challenges and compromised visions – new perspectives on classic films – practical issues relating to the management and preservation of the archives of filmmakers – personal experiences of working with the archives of filmmakers – current issues, projects and initiatives in the field of cinema history Papers on other related topics are welcome; and in addition proposals for panels will be considered (please provide full details of subject and speakers). We shall also be glad to review proposals for contributions to a poster session which will be held on Thursday 3rd September. Abstracts will be reviewed externally and contributors will be informed of the outcome by Friday 13th March 2009.

More details about the conference can be found HERE

Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini”

Internet pages of the Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini” are now online.

HERE

The new Centre is institutional member of ECREA and affiliate member of MeCCSA

PhD Studentship @ Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen’s Film and Visual Culture Department is pleased to offer FOUR PhD studentships (three years, home fees only) and TWO taught M Litt in Visual Culture studentships (one year, home fees only) for students applying to commence their studies in 2009/10. Doctoral students have an opportunity to undertake a traditional thesis or one involving film practice-as-research, with a shorter written element. Supervision can either be pursued wholly within Film and Visual Culture, or depending on your topic, co-supervision arrangements are available with the following departments:
Anthropology
Archaeology
Business School
Gaelic Studies
History of Art
Music
Scottish and Irish Studies

For further details visit the Film and Visual Culture Department’s website, clicking HERE and contact: film@abdn.ac.uk

ECREA Section “Audience and Reception Studies” – Workshop

Workshop
Narrative Fact and Fiction
Patterns of narrative construction in media stories and differential effects

(Hosted by the “Narrative Network”, the ECREA Section “Audience and Reception Studies” and the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna)

Date: 4-5, April 2009, location: University of Vienna
One of the most important functions of media is to inform and connect citizens, enabling them to participate in democratic processes and providing the grounds for integration and social cohesion in a society. Specifically, media stories support and uphold these functions. Both journalistic stories referencing real life events as well as fictional stories referencing fictitious worlds contribute to the audience’s knowledge and world view – possibly complementing or contradicting each other. Fictional and factual stories increasingly converge in terms of style and content. Topics are followed up across pragmatic boundaries. A good example of this is Dan Brown’s book “The Da Vinci Code” that reinterprets biblical history, which has solicited popular historical books scrutinizing the novel’s assertions. While the distinction of fact and fiction is clear on the production side, it seems to be less clear in the audience’s mind and next to irrelevant for actual story experience and effects.

The workshop deals with the question how fictional and factual stories are intertwined at various levels and intends to deepen insights of how patterns of construction and the effects of stories differ with respect to its factual or fictional background. Contributions may address aspects such as: What different types of narrative patterns exist in factual and fictional media stories? What are characteristics of effective stories? How do factual and fictional stories interact in the audience’s mind?

Please send abstracts (150 words) for 30-minute presentations via email to the organizers

[susanne.kinnebrock@univie.ac.at; helena.bilandzic@uni-erfurt.de]
Deadline for submissions is February 8, 2009.

MeCCSA Conference 2009

MeCCSA Conference 2009 will be at National Media Museum, Bradford from Wed 14 to Fri 16 January 2009.

Confirmed plenary speakers:

• Shaun Moores  (University of Sunderland)
• Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths)
• Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck University of London)
• Diane Negra (University College Dublin)
• Shearer West (AHRC)

Further informations about pricing charts, subscriptions, conference times, venue are available HERE

Ofcom appoints academic chair of national advisory committee

The UK communications regulatory body, Ofcom, has appointed Philip Schlesinger, professor in cultural policy and Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, as chair of its national advisory committee for Scotland.

To Philip our warm and friendly congratulations.

ECC 08 – Philip Schlesinger

An interview to our friend Philip Schlesinger, in the frame of Ecrea Conference (Barcelona).