23
April
2012
Will (and can) Local TV work? Part 1
This conference podcast is split into 10 parts
Chair: KEVIN MARSH, former Editor BBC Radio 4’s Today programme
Speakers include:
STEVE HEWLETT, The Guardian/ The Media Show, BBC Radio 4, SIMON BUCKS, Sky News Tyne & Wear, DEBRA DAVIS, City TV Broadcasting, CLIFTON STEWART, Coventry University, TOM THOMSON, managing editor of the Glasgow-based Herald & Times Group, DAVID HAYWARD, Head BBC Local TV experiment 2006, BARNIE CHOUDHURY, Lincoln School of Journalism, SHAUN HIDES, Coventry University, STEVE HARRIS, CUTV Local TV bidder/BJTC
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23
April
2012
A discussion in 3 parts.
Local journalism: its death and rebirth
Is the local press in Britain fighting for its life? Is death inevitable or can it re-invent and re-energise itself to find new audiences on new platforms?
Chair:
Ian Reeves, Kent University Centre for Journalism, former editor UK Press Gazette
Panel:
Professor Roy Greenslade from City University & Guardian columnist
Chris Oakley, former CEO Midland Independent Newspapers, Regional Independent Newspapers;
Neil Fowler, Nuffield College Oxford, former Editor ‘Newcastle Journal’ , ‘Derby Evening Telegraph’
Tom O’Brien: Founder ‘My Muswell Hill’
Ross Hawkes: Founder ‘Lichfield Live’
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23
April
2012
A discussion in 3 parts.
Local journalism: its death and rebirth
Is the local press in Britain fighting for its life? Is death inevitable or can it re-invent and re-energise itself to find new audiences on new platforms?
Chair:
Ian Reeves, Kent University Centre for Journalism, former editor UK Press Gazette
Panel:
Professor Roy Greenslade from City University & Guardian columnist Chris Oakley, former CEO Midland Independent Newspapers, Regional Independent Newspapers; Neil Fowler, Nuffield College Oxford, former Editor ‘Newcastle Journal’ , ‘Derby Evening Telegraph’ Tom O’Brien: Founder ‘My Muswell Hill’ Ross Hawkes: Founder ‘Lichfield Live’
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23
April
2012
A discussion in 3 parts.
Local journalism: its death and rebirth
Is the local press in Britain fighting for its life? Is death inevitable or can it re-invent and re-energise itself to find new audiences on new platforms?
Chair:
Ian Reeves, Kent University Centre for Journalism, former editor UK Press Gazette
Panel:
Professor Roy Greenslade from City University & Guardian columnist
Chris Oakley, former CEO Midland Independent Newspapers, Regional Independent Newspapers;
Neil Fowler, Nuffield College Oxford, former Editor ‘Newcastle Journal’ , ‘Derby Evening Telegraph’
Tom O’Brien: Founder ‘My Muswell Hill’
Ross Hawkes: Founder ‘Lichfield Live’
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3
April
2012
The economy of gaming, like probably any economy, functions according to the principles of “general” and “restricted economy”. On the one hand, there is the phantasm (or the promise) of “free (or radical) play” – difference unleashed. On the other, there are the reality principles, the “structures” or “rules” without which no game would actually be playable. This aporia – highlighted in Derrida’s work ever since “Structure, Sign, and Play…” – sets out the playground so to speak of what is thinkable, not just within “game studies”, but it certainly seems to inform the foundational debate between “ludologists” and “narratologists”. This paper, however, does not wish to revisit what has by now probably become a stalemate, but, instead, returns to some “earlier” theoretical questions about the relationship between play, reality and simulation. It will attempt to reconceptualise and recontextualise the debate about the ethics, politics and aesthetics of (digital) games in the light of two related developments which I would call digitalization and posthumanization. What role do (digital) games play in the transition from an “analog” mediascape to a global(ised) digital and simulational “network”? What effects of remediation can be seen at work in this transition – an aspect that seems to me to have been somewhat neglected in the ludology/narratology debate? What kind of “posthumanist” subjectivities and “reading” practices are thinkable under these conditions, now that “our” more than five-hundred-year-old forms of “literacy” might be giving way to what Gregory Ulmer refers to as “electracy”?
Bio
Stefan Herbrechter is Reader in Cultural Theory (Department of Media, School of Art and Design, Coventry University, UK). He studied English and French at Heidelberg University, and English literature and Critical & Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. He is series editor of Critical Posthumanism (Rodopi) and author and editor of a number of books on a variety of aspects in English and comparative literature, critical & cultural theory, continental philosophy, cultural and media studies. He is also a translator of cultural theory/philosophy from French into English (Derrida, Cixous, Stiegler).
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3
April
2012
The irresolvable paradox of intellectual property has a long history, however due to the technological, economic, legal and cultural developments that have taken place since the mid-1990s, it has taken centre stage within the ‘information society.’ Whilst the notion of property helps to borrow legitimacy from the quasi-natural right to material property, its enforcement increasingly conflicts with another central category of the knowledge economy: creativity. Where creation and innovation rely on access to and the use of protected works, proprietary rights stifle new creation and innovation. Therefore, particularly art practices that are based on the use and re-working of pre-produced and copyrighted material bring into effect the paradoxes of intellectual property. Sollfrank explores and performs these paradoxes in her practice-led research, using the famous Warhol Flowers as an exemplary case.
Bio
Cornelia Sollfrank is a postmedia conceptual artist and researcher and writer. After her training in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (1987-1994), she started to explore the worldwide communication networks by transferring artistic strategies of the classical avant-gardes into the digital medium. Against the backdrop of gender-specific and institution-critical approaches, Sollfrank has continued the anti-modernist challenging of authorship, authenticity and originality in the digital environment and considers appropriation to be a central strategy of digital cultural production. This also led to her research in the field of copyright and art. In 2011 Sollfrank completed her practice-led interdisciplinary research at Dundee University, Scotland, and published her PhD thesis with the title Performing the Paradoxes of Intellectual Property.
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23
March
2012
Les Reid works for the Coventry Telegraph. He came & spoke to First Year students in BA Journalism and Media about ‘Getting Researching into Local Politics’.
He demonstrated his approach for the research he made for a recent article about the Localism Bill, and gave students some tips into reporting accurate data.
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23
March
2012
On 17 February 2012 Tim Sparks from Coventry University’s SIGMA centre for math support spoke to First Year students in BA Journalism & Media about reporting statistics.
He gave examples of good and bad practices for conveying complex information with graphics, offered tips on how to spot wrong reports and demonstrated how students can use technology to report complex information.
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23
March
2012
Donal joined us via Skype.
He spoke to First Year students in BA Journalism and Media about Undercover Journalism.
He shared a few stories about investigations he’d recently done, and gave students some tips about the do’s and dont’s of undercover journalism.
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23
March
2012
Annie Othen, Radio Presenter for BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, spoke to First Year students in BA Journalism and Media about Researching for Radio.
She shared a few stories about interviews she’d recently done, how she prepared for them, and emphasised on the importance of research and preparation before an interview.
She also gave students lots of tips about the do’s and dont’s of interviewing guests on radio.
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