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December
2011
The links between the university system and broadcasting have rarely been analysed. Universities began as media studies – as theological training schools for the medieval church: that dominant broadcasting system which, from its centralized hub, crafted and produced a single doctrine, carried through its technologies – the monasteries, manuscripts and pulpits – for mass consumption by a captive population. Though universities grew in secularity and independence over the following centuries they followed the same model of informational production and distribution; a model most fully realized with the growth of mass education from the late 19th century. From then until the new millennium a specialist institution and centralized, bureaucratic organisation would control the production and distribution of knowledge, with its experts mass-distributing its message to consumers through its lectures and texts: mass society, mass education and mass media were intimately related. This paper, therefore, asks what happens when that age is over. What happens in a post-broadcast era defined by new alignments of productive, distributive and consumer power? What happens to disciplines in an age when the ability to discover, create, share, debate and legitimate information and ideas has changed so fundamentally? How can academic pedagogical and publishing practice change in the digital era? Can it cope with the open-sourcing of knowledge and is a University 2.0 even possible?
Bio
William Merrin is a Senior Lecturer in media at Swansea University. He is the author of Baudrillard and the Media (Polity, 2005) and co-editor of Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge, 2008). In November 2006 he coined the phrase ‘media studies 2.0′ to argue for a transformation of the discipline to meet the needs of a different, digital-era. He is currently writing ‘Media 2.0′ and (with Andrew Hoskins) ‘Media Ecology/Archaeology’ for Routledge to explore these issues.
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16
December
2011
Charles Miller the producer will come to Cov three days after transmission of this one of the best advertised, most high profile BBC documentaries of the year fronted by Emily Maitlis to talk about making it, Facebook and getting Mark Zuckerberg on camera.
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16
December
2011
Following a “massive year for the visibility of the gypsy community” which inundated Europe’s largest ethnic minority with negative publicity, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding brought the Traveller community to the forefront of the media’s attention.
Jake Bower, one of 3 journalists representing the traveller community, tries to expose the deceit which spread “verbal hatred” against his community.
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16
December
2011
Nativity 2: The Second Coming is the sequel to Nativity which was released in 2009 and filmed in Coventry. The Director, Debbie Isitt, who lives in Coventry, came to the University to talk about the filming of the sequel.
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13
December
2011
Simon King, Director of Operations and IT and one of the founding members of Imagination(www.imagination.com), the award winning global communication and brand experience agency, will be coming to Coventry University for a presentation and a Q&A about his company and his career in digital communications. Imagination has been number 1 in the Design Week Creative 100 for about 10 years.
‘With storytelling at the heart of our approach, we brought together architecture, design and content to create corporate theatre as we know it. From that foundation, we pioneered brand experience in the marketing, financial, retail and digital sectors.’
Imagination's clients include Aston Martin, Guinness, Oneworld global alliance, Disney, Ford, Johnson & Johnson, Goldman Sachs, Shell and Samsung.
This Q&A with Simon King covers themes such as creative practice in the new media environment, distributed media in professional media contexts, and using the cloud in media practice
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9
December
2011
Richard Peppiatt, the reporter who gained attentention when he quit the Daily Star in spectacular circumstances talks at the Winter Season of Coventry Conversations.
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8
December
2011
Professor Paul Bradshaw talks about news is accessed and shared in a digital age.
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8
December
2011
The sizeable public outrage at the News of the World has left some paper’s cowering in the shadows, worried for their lives but Kevin Marsh the former Editor at the BBC College of Journalism turned the spotlights on them.
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8
December
2011
Channel 4 News Presenter, Jon Snow gives an insight into the world of broadcast and tabloid journalism in the Winter season of Coventry Conversations.
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