Digital Natives – The Internets Lost Tribe? A seminar on Young People and the Internet

POLIS in partnership with OFCOM panel discussion

Date: Tuesday 24 November 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building – London School of Economics and Poltical Sciences
Speakers: Professor David Buckingham, Ranjana Das, Dr Chris Davies, Professor Sonia Livingstone, Dr Rebecca Willet
Chair: Charlie Beckett

Enabling media literacy for ‘digital natives’ – a contradiction in terms?
Professor Sonia Livingstone, Department of Media and Communications, LSE

Talking about their generation: constructions of the digital learner
Professor David Buckingham, Institute of Education

Q & A

Teenagers using the internet: riders, drivers, dabblers and outsiders
Dr Chris Davies, University of Oxford

Power relations, play and boredom in teens’ online interactions
Dr Rebekah Willet, Institute of Education

Panel Reflections
Ranjana Das, POLIS Silverstone Scholar 2009

This event is free and open to all, but pre-registration is required.  RSVP polis@lse.ac.uk|.

Transforming Audiences 2 Conference

Transforming Audiences 2 was a great success and received very positive feedback.

All informations about the conference, photos and videos from the event will be very soon available at http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk

The CMCS (Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini”) based at LUISS University, Rome, Italy, participated to the conference, with the appreciated paper “From Spectators to Participants? Political Engagement and Social Networking in Italy” presented by Emiliana De Blasio.

Some photos are available clicking the folder below.

Transforming Audiences 2

Transforming Audiences 2

The full, final programme, and book of abstracts, is now available online HERE

Transforming Audiences 2

3 – 4 September 2009
University of Westminster – London, UK

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

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.

There has never been a more exciting time for researchers interested in the place of media in people’s lives. The growth of diverse online offerings and easy-to-use creative tools, coupled with the global economic downturn, has made traditional media and conventional broadcasters increasingly uncomfortable. Some critics are concerned about the future of ‘quality’ media for audiences to enjoy, but others celebrate this flourishing of non-elite, grassroots media.

Transforming Audiences 2 – organised by the Audiences Group at the University of Westminster Communications and Media Research Institute, and run in association with ICA, IAMCR, and ECREA – will present a rich set of analyses of the current situation and raise important questions about the future. We have strongly encouraged papers from interesting new scholars as well as more established researchers.

Invited speakers include Liz Bird, Nick Couldry, Natalie Fenton, Christine Hine, Peter Lunt, and Shaun Moores.

Conference organised by David Gauntlett, Caroline Dover, Fatimah Awan, Anastasia Kavada and Annette Hill.

Transforming Audiences 2 will consider the following issues:

DIY media, ‘we media’, ‘user generated content’ and dispersed creativity, Audiences, identities and popular culture, Citizen media and new political communication, Transnational audiences and diasporas, Audiences and users around the world, The economics and business of contemporary media audiences, New methodologies in audience studies, Changing audience/producer relations, Media history and audiences, Philosophical and theoretical paradigms

Overall Schedule and Parallel Sessions Programme

Further informations HERE

Transforming Audiences 2

3 – 4 September 2009, University of Westminster, London, UK

All the informations HERE

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.

Mediated Citizenship

Mediated Citizenship: Political Information and Participation in Europe

ECREA Political Communication Section and Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds

Venue: University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Date: Sep 17 – Sep 18, 2009

Contact: k.voltmer@leeds.ac.uk

In June 2009 European citizens will elect a new European Parliament, some of them who joined the European Union only recently for the first time. 2009 will also see numerous national elections throughout Europe. The Political Communication section will take this important election year in Europe as an opportunity to revisit one of the key issues of political communication research – how democratic participation is shaped and transformed by processes of mediatisation and what consequences this has for the nature of contemporary citizenship.

Gaelic in medieval Scotland

SIR JOHN RHYS MEMORIAL LECTURE

Gaelic in medieval Scotland: advent and expansion

Professor Thomas Clancy, University of Glasgow

Wednesday, 4 March 2009 5.30pm – 6.30pm

followed by a drinks reception The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

Free Admittance

Early 7th century records show that the Gaelic language and people were confined to the region of Argyll, yet, by the 12th century, most parts of what is now Scotland (and indeed parts of northern England) either had or had had communities of Gaelic speakers. This vast expansion of the language happened during one of the least well-evidenced times in Scotland’s history, and the timing and mechanisms of this expansion have been much theorised and debated. The primary evidence illuminating these processes is that of toponyms, and, as such, place-names form the bedrock of this lecture’s investigation. This lecture will review the evidence for Gaelic’s arrival and expansion in the various different regions of Scotland in the Middle Ages, examining in particular a number of different nodes of controversy, where paradigms have been shifting over recent years, including the advent of Gaelic in northern Britain; the dominance of Gaelic in the kingdom of Alba; and Gaelic in the south-west, the Western Isles, and the far north. What will emerge is a much more complex, nuanced series of interlocking episodes in Scotland’s linguistic history.

About the speaker

Professor Thomas Clancy is Chair of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. His research interests include the development of Christianity in early medieval Scotland, the poetry of early medieval Scotland, medieval Gaelic narrative, especially Christian literature, Scottish place-names and saints dedications, medieval Welsh narrative, and the northern Britons. He contributed to the preparation of Celtic Culture: An Encyclopedia (2006).

Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture

In 1924 a fund was given to the Academy for the promotion of Welsh and other studies to commemorate the services of the Rt Hon Sir John Rhys, Professor of Celtic, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Sir John himself was the subject of the inaugural lecture in this biennial series, given by J Morris-Jones in 1925.