Coventry University Podcasts

Narratives of Independent Production in Video Game Culture - Paolo Ruffino

openmedia — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:32:23 +0000

Paolo Ruffino (Goldsmiths, University of London)

‘Narratives of Independent Production in Video Game Culture’

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In this presentation I will discuss some of the latest iterations of independent gaming. The notion of ‘independence’ has been introduced in video game culture in order to define a way of producing video games where developers are also responsible for the publication and distribution of their own work. This phenomenon has often been described in revolutionary terms by video game magazines and industry practitioners, as representing the democratisation of the production process of a video game which is allegedly no longer dependent onexternal figures to reach its public. A significant network of independent developers has been emerging in the last few years, assisted in reaching public visibility by a large number of events and institutions. The Independent Games Festival, started in 1998, is the most famous event. Other conferences include Indiecade and, in Scandinavian countries, the Nordic Game Jam, on top of many other events and industry exhibitions which now tend to display at least one independent session or track. In 2012, the documentary ‘Indie Game: The Movie’ has been awarded at Sundance Film Festival and has gathered further attention on this phenomenon.

The concept of independence seems to have emerged in video game culture as a discursive redefinition of some of the practices of production of a video game. As such, it is not only descriptive but also generative of further practices and interpretations. The argument I want to put forward is intended to contrast with the view of independent gaming as founded merely on shifts in technological, economic or managerial practices. I propose that independent gaming should also be understood in terms of the influences it receives and replicates, such as those coming from the creative industries and contemporary forms of immaterial labour. From this perspective I will discuss how ‘independence’ might work as a discursive justification for the introduction of individualised forms of work in the game industry. Also, this change appears to be framed on similar discourses currently emerging in video game culture, where forms of openness, user-generated content, hacking and players’ engagement are narrated as revolutionary and positive practices of production and consumption. Independent gaming can thus be seen as part of a broader phenomenon and as a form of re-interpretation of existing discourses which have been emerging in different contexts, such as Web2.0, software engineering and creative industries.

Bio

Paolo Ruffino is a Visiting Tutor and PhD student at the Media and Communications department at Goldsmiths, University of London, Lecturer at the Game Cultures programme at London South Bank University, and Research Fellow at Leuphana University. His research project is based on a cultural analysis of video game consumers and, particularly, of the emergence of the prosumer in the video game industry. It involves a study of the concepts of consumer and producer, the history of the medium of the video game and phenomena such as ‘modding’, independent gaming, gamification and game art. His interests include video game theory and culture, semiotics, cultural analysis, digital media and ‘new media’ art.

Film Art in the Body of the City: Moving Image Practice as Performance - Matthew Hawkins

openmedia — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:54:54 +0000

Matthew Hawkins (Coventry University)

‘Film Art in the Body of the City: Moving Image Practice as Performance’

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In 2011-12 Matthew Hawkins helped to organise an independent short film festival and a series of filmmaking workshops in the local community of Plumstead, South East London. He has also worked as a filmmaker in the area since 2006, producing short film, documentary films and experimental works. Being an impoverished community, Plumstead is home to a rich multi-cultural community with a large Indian, Nepalese, Nigerian and Polish population. This vibrant mix of cultures and ethnicities produce tensions, conflicts, differences and extreme occurrences, all of which feed into the art produced by people living within the boundaries of the place. Drawing from the work of Gilles Deleuze, Hawkins will screen extracts from his short film and discuss how the affective nature of the place in which artistic work is produced influences the way in which the work is produced as well as the form, style and narrative of the final piece itself. Hawkins has experienced community participation in art production as an unpredictable process, whilst enabling the members of the community to meet and affect each other’s creative output. The presence of a filmmaker changes the place, as the place changes the artistic work produced. This mutually affective exchange of forces and events calls into question the traditional borders of film-set-highstreet-participan-consumer-actors, and opens the space to the potential for new lines of creative possibilities.

Bio

Matthew is a lecturer in Media Production at Coventry University. His research interests include film theory, focusing on affect and tone in narrative cinema, ethnographic and documentary film, and the pedagogy of film practice. His current research project is focused on the concept of affective tonality, and how this can be used as a tool for understanding the experience of cinema, and how film theory can emerge through film practice, drawing theoretically on the empiricism of Gilles Deleuze, and findings within the field of neuroscience concerning the body’s role in cognition

He is cofounder of the Edge of the City Film Festival, based in South East London. Matthew arranges screenings of a range of challenging international and domestic films, both short and feature length, to underrepresented audiences on the outskirts of the city. As well as curating a programme of classic films he is also responsible for seeking out original work from emerging and unknown filmmakers to screen in a community traditionally deprived of such material. He is also involved in organising and delivering free filmmaking and film history workshops to the local people.

Platform Communism - Joss Hands

openmedia — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:39:15 +0000

In recent years we have seen an increasing reliance on new forms of social media platform to coordinate and augment political movements around the world, often short-circuiting traditional means of corporate and state control. In the same period we have seen a widespread revival in the currency of the the ‘idea of communism’ being consciously rehabilitated by a number of thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou and numerous others. This paper looks to the relationship between these two tendencies and asks whether there might be such a thing as a ‘platform communism’, what this might look like and what confronts its realisation.

Bio

Joss Hands is reader in media and critical theory at Anglia Ruskin University where he is director of the Anglia Research Centre in Media and Culture, he is author of ‘@ is For Activism: Dissent Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture’ from Pluto Press, 2011.

alt.media: Create to Engage - Helen Keegan

openmedia — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:26:09 +0000

I will describe the use of alt.media to create learning experiences for undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts in a transdisciplinary context. Exploring themes around identity, creativity, engagement, remix culture, spreadable media and curiosity, I will present a series of projects which centre on open educational practices where formal education and informal learning practices collide, subverting traditional methods through folk creativity, identity play, performance and transmedia intertextuality. Following Jenkins et. al. (2013) in their critique of the notion of ‘virality’, and developing ideas around ‘spreadability’, I will highlight our use and exploration of memes and remix culture through open production practices and crowdsourced research. I will also present an experiment in Alternate Reality Gaming to introduce mystery and intrigue into the curriculum, raising questions around produsage, identity play, and hoaxes online. Through highlighting a range of practices, many of which resonate strongly with open media and creative activism, I will encourage participants to consider everyday creativity, audience engagement and media production, consumption and critique.

Bio

Helen Keegan (@heloukee) is a National Teaching Fellow (UK Higher Education Academy) and Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Salford, UK. Her expertise lies in curriculum innovation through social and participatory media, with a particular focus on creativity and interdisciplinarity. She is known for her work on digital cultures and identities, social technologies and the interplay between formal and informal learning; Helen works across sciences and media arts, developing partnerships and creative approaches to learning and collaboration. As a regular international speaker, recent engagements have included the New Media Consortium at MIT, BBC Global News and the European Distance Education Network.Alongside presenting and consulting, Helen has published in journals and edited collections including the European Journal of Open and Distance Learning, Selected Papers of Internet Research, and the Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. For more info see http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/profiles/keegan/

We Are Open: Openness in a new public art gallery and social space - Ruth Catlow

openmedia — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:06:05 +0000

I will talk about how concepts and practices of openness have shaped the values, programmes and infrastructures of Furtherfield as an independent community for arts, technology and social change. In Spring 2012 Furtherfield opened a new public gallery and social space in the heart of Finsbury Park in North London. We want to connect the local audience (many of whom are new to art) with the work of a long-standing community of artists, technologists and activists who have a longstanding engagement with a range of open practices. “Such participatory production and “media democratisation” counters elitist propaganda that art is a special activity for special people… and returns the outcomes of inventiveness to the common for mutual enjoyment and open-ended reiteration. (Da Rimini, 2010) I will draw on artworks and curatorial projects from the Furtherfield Programme that are informing our work and some of the strategies that we are developing.

Bio

Artist, curator and co-founder with Marc Garrett of Furtherfield, an online community for art, technology and social change since 1997; now also a public gallery in the heart of Finsbury Park, London. Her collaborative, intermedia artworks and projects are exhibited and hosted in international venues and include Rethinking Wargames (Lowfi netart commission 2003) VisitorsStudio (awarded the Grand Netart Prize in 2009), WeWontFlyForArt (2009) and Zero Dollar Laptop (2010-ongoing). Co-editor of Artists Re:Thinking Games (2010) and Collaboration and Freedom– The World of Free and Open Source Art (2011) a collection for Arts Council England and P2P Foundation. Currently collaborating on a public game art project with Mary Flanagan called Local Play. Ruth is also Head of Writtle School of Design, for arts and design in the environment. http://furtherfield.org http://writtle.ac.uk/design

Casey Kelbaugh in Conversation with Matt Johnston

cuphotography — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:31:29 +0000

Casey Kelbaugh is a photographer and founder of the now-worldwide phenomenon ‘Slideluck Potshow’

Casey talks here with Matt about the importance and need for the physical event in 21st century publishing and the challenges associated with trying to bring that experience to an online community.

Picturing the Body: Bertil Nilsson Artist Talk

cuphotography — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:46:11 +0000

Bertil Nilsson talks about his photographic practice, his project and first book title ‘Undisclosed: Images of the Contemporary Circus Artist’, and ideas around movement and the human form.

Picturing the Body: Michelle Sank Artist Talk

cuphotography — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:02:21 +0000

Photographer and educator Michelle Sank talks about her practice around social documentary, and addressing issues of social and cultural diversity.

Picturing the Body: Anthony Luvera Artist Talk

cuphotography — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:13:11 +0000

Photographer Anthony Luvera presents his photographic work and long term project with homeless and ex-homeless people in London and Belfast, and discusses issues of collaboration and authorship.

Picturing the Body: Dr Adrienne Evans on the Representation of the Body

cuphotography — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:21:55 +0000

Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, Dr Adrienne Evans talks to the Picbod claas about the representation of the body via media and throughout history, as part of the Picbod lecture series.

Men meets Machine - Eva Weinmayr

openmedia — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:43:32 +0000

It is the technological advances of the analog printing press that construct our contemporary idea of books as fixed objects. Here, immutability is a key factor allowing for mass and consistent reproduction. But now, with digital printing technologies, mass production and mutability live hand in hand. The values and attributes that define books are much more malleable than we wish to face and we must be diligent of where knowledge is being generated. It is undeniable that books are an incredible technology that will most likely never be abandoned, but that doesn’t mean they will remain the same. They have never remained the same.

Bio

Eva Weinmayr is a German artist, writer and editor based in London. In her work she focusses on bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media, digital and print media, cultural piracy, the fluidity of authorship, translation processes, collaborative strategies and open culture. Since 2009, she has been co-founder and director of AND Publishing in London.

She has exhibited at Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, Whitechapel Gallery London, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Zacheta National Art Gallery Warsaw, FormContent, Matt’s Gallery and The Showroom in London. She has been teaching at Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths College, London College of Communication, The Ruskin in Oxford and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Her published books include (pause) 21 scenes concerning the silence of Art in Ruins (Occasional Papers, London) Water Found on Mars (Hatje Cantz, Stuttgart) and Suitcase Body is Missing Woman (Book Works, London)

Silence, Delirium, Lies: An Uncoded Response to Social Media - Caroline Bassett

openmedia — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:50:10 +0000

One way to respond to the monopoly of commercial social media is to stop communicating. Resist terminal integration into expanding communicative circuits reaching far beyond the screen. Switch off, turn away, mis-speak, refuse to play – or become silent. Don’t make the kind of social noise that generates the exploitable signals.

To suggest that a critical response to social media’s voracious demands for more material might be developed around calls to produce less of it, doesn’t seem to be acceptable at all. Even amongst many of those wary of the commoditized modes of communication social media enables, proposing tactics that might frustrate communication – to refuse to network, to un-compute – provokes suspicion and unease. This unease perhaps arises because of justifiable concerns to defend freedom (and freedom of speech). But this presumes the consequences of continuously expanding social media monopolies (with their seductive appeal: speech for free/free speech/more speech/more freedom) will be positive; that the network effect is automatically good for everybody as well as good for the network’s functioning. I would rather start with growth and with the assertion that to fail to contribute to the volume or density (and volume becomes capacity alarmingly fast) of the social environment is heretical in a world in which growth is deified and in which technological growth is aligned with progress.

Having no problems with such heresy, in this talk I investigate ways in which various form of communicational revolt – silence, delirium, lies, all of which involve forms of refusal – might constitute an appropriate response to social media monopoly. It is partly because the demand for less – which at its most extreme becomes a demand for silence, but which is not restricted to that – is thoroughly unacceptable that it is also intriguing. In the context of a seminar on Open Media, I also want to argue that this approach, appearing to produce a kind of closure, may open new possibilities: not least for forms of sonic solidarity.

Bio

Caroline Bassett is Reader in Digital Media and researches and teaches in the Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex. Her research explores cultural impacts of digital media focusing on gender, narrative, mobile media and public space. She is currently completing a monograph exploring cultural hostility to computerisation and undertaking two funded projects: the first exploring science fiction and innovation and the second, digital economies in relation to cultures and communities.

Online/Offline-How Digital Media Facilitates and Encourages the Generative Experience-Matt Johnston

openmedia — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:35:09 +0000

A generation of digital natives walk with their heads down, staring at illuminated devices, connected to a digital life and removed from the physical world around them. Or at least this is what we are led to believe, instead the physical, and generative has never been so important and treasure as it is today. The personal or shared ‘real-world’ experience is at the heart of two open classes run at Coventry University (#picbod and #phonar) and a global community project run by Matt Johnston – The Photobook Club. This presentation looks at how digital choices can not only enrich the online community but also facilitate the offline experience.

Bio

Matt Johnston is a photographer and educator based in London. His photographic practice has seen him work with Channel 4, Ocean Media group and various architectural magazines and companies. Alongside this commercial work Matt is a respected voice in the photobook community having set up the popular Photobook Club website and events which promote discussion around the physical photobook, there are now 6 branches of the Photobook Club from New York to Lisbon. In 2012, in partnership with Ken Schles, Matt published a highly commended digital edition of Schles seminal photobook ‘Invisible City’ which along with displays the original book as well as extended features and commentary from Schles and other practitioners. During his time at Coventry University Matt has been instrumental in creation and delivery of the open classes #picbod and #phonar, working to ensure the best possible learning experience for attending and remote students.

From Flame Wars to Frame Wars: The Structure of Conflict in Networks - Nate Tkacz

openmedia — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:50:48 +0000

The warm and fuzzy rhetoric of network cultures – words like collaboration, participation and open communities – have always been made possible through an act of analytic metonymy. Once an open community has been established, to take an example, deviations are all too often depicted as one-off exceptions, as problematic individuals bent on destroying the common spaces and creations of the well meaning many. The figure of the troll and its modus operandi of ‘flaming’ are exemplary in this regard. The act of naming someone a troll, not only reaffirms the general ‘good faith’ of the rest of the community, but also transforms antagonism into a mere character flaw. In this presentation, I suggest the notion of the frame, read primarily through Bateson and Goffman, can be translated into online spaces in order to make visible the structural conditions that underpin forms of online antagonism. Drawing from “article deletion” discussions in Wikipedia, I show how the ascription of negative subjectivities – trolls, vandals, fundamentalists etc. – is the result of a prior ‘frame politics’. I conclude by detailing what is at stake in a frame war and by showing the tactics and strategies of those engaged in one.

Bio

Nathaniel Tkacz is an assistant professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. His research lies at the intersection of network theory, software studies and politics. He is co-editor (with Geert Lovink) of Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader (2011).

Introduction to Research Methods Pt. 1

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:44:34 +0000

This introductory podcast reviews the basic principles of research methodology and what this paradigm might mean in relation to media analysis, marketing and consumer culture.

Research Methodologies in Media Studies is an open podcast series exploring research approaches, methods and techniques in the broad area of media and communication studies and is part of a Coventry University Media & Communication postgraduate course led by Dr Adrienne Evans. By the end of the series you will be able to identify, assess and evaluate the usefulness and relevance of a variety of research methods & approaches in the field of media and cultural analysis and critically evaluate the research findings of others.

Introduction to Research Methods Pt.2

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:50:04 +0000

This second introductory podcast continues in reviewing the basic principles of research methodology and what this paradigm might mean in relation to media analysis, marketing and consumer culture.

Content Analysis in Media Research

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:50:54 +0000

This podcast provides an overview of the use and effectiveness of content analysis within research project design in the context of media & communication studies.

Surveys & Questionnaires in Media & Communication Research

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:13:10 +0000

An exploration of the use and effectiveness of surveys & questionnaires within research project design in the context of media & communication studies.

Conducting Experiments in Media & Communication Research

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:19:31 +0000

This podcast discusses the use and effectiveness when conducting experiments as a research tool in the context of media & communication studies.

Procedural Ethics in Media & Communication Research

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:05:06 +0000

This podcast explores the importance and relevant approaches of applying procedural ethics when conducting research projects in the context of media & communication studies.

Personal Ethics in Media & Communication Research

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:04:58 +0000

An introduction to the importance of acknowledging personal ethics when conducting research projects in the context of media & communication studies.

Audience Analysis in Media & Communication Research

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:20:34 +0000

An introductory look at the use and effectiveness of audience analysis within research project design in the context of media & communication studies.

Identities & Subjectivity in Media & Communication Research

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:10:02 +0000

This podcast provides an overview of identities & subjectivity from a researchers perspective when conducting research projects in the context of media & communication studies.

Textual Analysis in Media & Communication Reseach

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:55:19 +0000

This podcast explores the use and merits of a textual analysis approach within research project design in the context of media & communication studies.

Feminist Analysis (Pt. 1) in Media & Communication Research

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:44:49 +0000

An introduction to the use and merits of a feminist analysis approach within research project design in the context of media & communication studies.

Feminist Analysis (Pt. 2) in Media & Communication Research

cumedia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:20:48 +0000

The final podcast in the series continues the discussion around the use and merits of a feminist analysis approach within research project design in the context of media & communication studies.

My Life With The Seven Ups’ - George Jesse Turner

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:40:36 +0000

My Life With The Seven Ups’ In an historic Coventry Conversation the series Director of Photography George Jesse came to Coventry to converse about being part of such a landmark project and living with the ‘Seven ups’

This programme is widely seen as one of the greatest TV documentary series ever, ’Seven Up’ started nearly half a century ago on ITV and has followed a diverse group of British children through the thick and thin of life. The critically acclaimed show is pure television ethnographic gold.

His images also dominated ‘World In Action’ for a quarter of a century.

Coventry Car Day, Symposium Part 8

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:31:24 +0000

Nick Hull, Transport Design course director at Coventry University and associate editor of Car Design News

Coventry Car Day, Symposium Part 7

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:28:29 +0000

Nick Hull, Transport Design course director at Coventry University and associate editor of Car Design News

Coventry Car Day - Symposium Part 6

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:20:38 +0000

Damian Harty, former vehicle dynamics specialist at Prodrive, now a senior research fellow in vehicle dynamics and control at Coventry University

Coventry Car Day - Symposium Part 5

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:10:36 +0000

John Jostins, founder of Microcab and Professor of Sustainable Transport Design, Coventry University

Coventry Car Day - Symposium Part 4

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:06:55 +0000

Peter White, a leading authority on low carbon vehicles and Professor of Thermofluid Dynamics in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Coventry University.

Coventry Car Day - Symposium Part 3

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:02:30 +0000

Steve Cropley, editor-in-chief of Autocar magazine

Coventry Car Day - Symposium Part 2

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:58:39 +0000

David Bailey, automotive industry expert and Professor of International Business Strategy and Economics, Coventry University Business School

Coventry Car Day - Symposium Part 1

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:55:19 +0000

Coventry Car Day, organised by Coventry University, celebrated the great cars of the past and present, particularly those with a link to the city and looked ahead to the vehicles of the future.

This podcast includes a welcome speech by the University VC Professor Madeleine Atkins CBE ,as well as a keynote speech from Sir John Egan , former chief executive of Jaguar and chancellor of Coventry University.

The symposium as a whole was chaired by Professor Martin Woolley Associate Dean of Applied Research at Coventry University.

Coventry Car Day - Question Time

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:49:28 +0000

A car-themed ‘Question Time’ took place in The Hub, giving attendees & enthusiasts the opportunity to ask questions and share thoughts with a panel of automotive industry luminaries. This Q&A session was chaired by Autocar magazine editor-in-chief Steve Cropley.
The panel consisted of; Sir John Egan, Sir Nick Scheele, Damian Harty & Andrew Didlick

Coventry Car Day - Sir Nick Scheele, Bugatti Lecture

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:40:31 +0000

Sir Nick Scheele came and spoke on “the changing role of the British motor industry in the development and manufacturing of cars – past, present and future”, for this year’s Bugatti Lecture.

Sir Nick, who was President and Chief Operating Officer of the Ford Motor Company.

Sir Nick’s impressive career also saw him complete tenures as chairman and CEO of Jaguar Cars from 1992 to 1999, as chancellor of the University of Warwick from 2002 to 2008 and as president of Coventry Transport Museum from 2006 to the present. In 2001 he was knighted for services to British exports.

Sky News Mini Conference - Mark Evans, Home News Editor Sky News

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:45:29 +0000

Sky News Mini Conference

Mark Evans is the Home News Editor at Sky News.

Here he talks about his job. A good listen for any prospective journalist.

*Apologies for the lack of quality on the sound clips Mark used.

Dave Bennett & Micky Gynn - CCFC The glory years

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:20:11 +0000

Dave Bennett and Micky Gynn were part of Coventry City’s finest moment, the winning of the 1987 FA Cup Final.

They both speak here as part of the CCFC Coventry Conversations. Join them & listen whilst they reminisce about the glory years and that 1987 FA Cup win as well as the changes the club has gone through since then.

Sky News Mini Conference - Hugh Westbrook: Delivering News On Multiple Platforms

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:07:03 +0000

Sky News Mini Conference

Hugh Westbrook: Delivering News On Multiple Platforms

Hugh is a digital producer for Sky News

Sky News Mini Conference - Alex Crawford OBE: Tripoli before & since

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:03:47 +0000

Sky News Mini Conference

Alex Crawford OBE: Tripoli before & since

Alex is the special correspondent for Sky News based in South Africa and covering the Gulf and Middle East. She has won the Royal Television Society award for Journalist of the Year on three occasions.

CCFC Fans Forum

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:56:13 +0000

This forum was chaired by Duncan Jones & held at The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry. On the panel were Tim Fisher CCFC CEO & Steve Waggott CCFC Development Director.

In Conversation with… Elinor Carucci

cuphotography — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:56:13 +0000

Photographer Elinor Carucci speaks with Lecturers Jonathan Worth and Matt Johnston as part of the free and open photography class #picbod (picturing the body) at Coventry University. Elinor answers questions on her intimate practice, how she has applied her skills to editorial work, and among other topics, talks us through her latest body of work.

Will (and can) Local TV work pt.10 [David Hayward]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:37:19 +0000

Will (and can) Local TV work? Part 10

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

Will (and can) Local TV work pt.9 [Steve Harris]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:34:57 +0000

Will (and can) Local TV work? Part 9

This conference podcast is split into 10 parts

Chair: KEVIN MARSH, former Editor BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

Speakers include:

Will (and can) Local TV work pt.8 [Shaun Hides]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:20:05 +0000

Will (and can) Local TV work? Part 8

This conference podcast is split into 10 parts

Chair: KEVIN MARSH, former Editor BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

Speakers include:

Will (and can) Local TV work pt.7 [Barnie Choudhury]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:14:17 +0000

Will (and can) Local TV work? Part 7

This conference podcast is split into 10 parts

Chair: KEVIN MARSH, former Editor BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

Speakers include:

Will (and can) Local TV work pt.6 [David Hayward]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:58:43 +0000

Will (and can) Local TV work? Part 6

This conference podcast is split into 10 parts

Chair: KEVIN MARSH, former Editor BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

Speakers include:

Will (and can) Local TV work pt.5 [Tom Thomson]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:53:43 +0000

Will (and can) Local TV work? Part 5

This conference podcast is split into 10 parts

Chair: KEVIN MARSH, former Editor BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

Speakers include:

Will (and can) Local TV work pt.4 [Clifton Stewart]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:48:34 +0000

Will (and can) Local TV work? Part 4

This conference podcast is split into 10 parts

Chair: KEVIN MARSH, former Editor BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

Speakers include:

Will (and can) Local TV work pt.3 [Debra Davis]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:43:53 +0000

Will (and can) Local TV work? Part 3

This conference podcast is split into 10 parts

Chair: KEVIN MARSH, former Editor BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

Speakers include:

Will (and can) Local TV work pt.2 [Simon Bucks]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:18:04 +0000

Will (and can) Local TV work? Part 2

This conference podcast is split into 10 parts

Chair: KEVIN MARSH, former Editor BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

Speakers include:

Will (and can) Local TV work pt.1 [Steve Hewlett]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:16:13 +0000

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:

What Do We Mean By Local [Part 3]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:11:51 +0000

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’

What Do We Mean By Local [Part 2]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:08:10 +0000

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:

What Do We Mean By Local [Part 1]

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:56:17 +0000

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:

Just Gaming with the Posthuman: Toy Story, Remediation and Electracy - Stefan Herbrechter

coventryuniversity — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:11:46 +0000

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).

Performing the Paradoxes of Intellectual Property - Cornelia Sollfrank

coventryuniversity — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:10:24 +0000

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.

Les Reid, Data Journalism Masterclass

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:44:43 +0000

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.

Tim Sparks, Data Journalism Masterclass

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:39:32 +0000

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.

Donal MacIntyre, Data Journalism Masterclass

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:34:22 +0000

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.

Annie Othen, Data Journalism Masterclass

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:11:26 +0000

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.

Ready Steady Show! - Sir Peter Bazalgette

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:05:16 +0000

Sir Peter Bazalgette, a media consultant in television and digital entertainment, could not come to Coventry University last Thursday but he remained faithful to the Coventry Conversations audience and talked about his life and work via Skype.

So Big You Can See It From Space – Reporting the Health Service Reforms

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:10:18 +0000

Alastair McLellan - Alastair is the editor of the Health Service Journal

The 1987 F.A. Cup Final- More than a distant memory… - David Pleat & Dave Bennett

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:43:24 +0000

David Pleat is an former English football player turned manager and sports commentator. He is remembered by his contemporaries primarily for his career as manager of Tottenham Hotspur and Luton Town football clubs, and for an oft-televised clip of him running onto the pitch in 1983 to celebrate after a last-minute goal by Raddy Antic against Manchester City prevented Pleat’s team Luton Town from being relegated from Division One.

Dave Bennett is a former English football player. He is most famous for playing in two FA Cup Finals; 1981 for Manchester City, when he finished on the losing side, and 1987, when he produced a Man of the Match performance as Coventry City beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-2.

‘THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT’ MARK LINSEY – COVENTRY CONVERSATIONS

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:37:45 +0000

Mark is the Controller of Entertainment Commissioning for the BBC.

He took up the role in February 2009 & since then has commissioned, amongst others, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Wizard Of Oz, Strictly Come Dancing & Graham Norton’s new chat show.

He joined BBC Entertainment Commissioning in February 2007, first as a Commissioning Editor then as an Executive Editor. During his time he was responsible for, amongst others, all Lottery formats, Children In Need, The Royal Variety Performance, The Kids Are Alright, Hole In The Wall, The One & Only & Total Wipeout.

David Hayward - So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (9 of 9)

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:32:17 +0000

So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (9 of 9)

Local TV? Local papers? Local websites? The media are going down to street level thanks to the rise of social media and cheap technology. But what exactly do we mean by local? How local is it-a street, village, town? How are they reached and served? Is there really any local interest in local news? Just what do we mean by local?

David was the Head Of The BBC Local TV Experiment. He also has experience of running the BBC College of Journalism’s programme of events. He began his career at BBC Radio Leicester, and has since worked across the BBC in network radio, regional TV and the World Service Trust in Eastern Europe.

Andrew Adamson - So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (8 of 9)

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:29:50 +0000

So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (8 of 9)

Andrew is General Manager of the Tenby Observer, Narberth and Whitland Observer and Pembroke and Pembroke Dock Observer.

Ross Hawkes - So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (7 of 9)

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:26:02 +0000

So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (7 of 9)

Ross is a Senior Lecturer at Staffordshire University with experience at a variety of print titles in the Midlands. 10,000 people a month visit Ross’s Lichfield Live blog, set-up following the closure of the local newspaper, the Lichfield Post.

Neil Fowler - So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (6 of 9)

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:22:42 +0000

So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (6 of 9)

Neil is the outgoing Guardian Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. He has edited local newspapers in England and Wales and Which?

Jay Rosen - So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (5 of 9)

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:20:31 +0000

So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (5 of 9)

A media critic, writer and professor at New York University, Jay is a champion of citizen journalism. He frequently writes about journalistic issues and won the 2005 Reporters Without Borders’ Freedom Award for his PressThink blog. He joined us via Skype.

Jeremy Pollock - So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (4 of 9)

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:12:49 +0000

So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (4 of 9)

Jeremy is overseeing a transformation of local station BBC Coventry & Warwickshire. He was assistant Editor at BBC WM before becoming Managing Editor at BBC C&W.

Phil Riley - So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (3 of 9)

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:10:04 +0000

So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (3 of 9)

Former Chrysalis Radio chief Phil owns Orion and Mercia FM. His strategy for successful radio in the Midlands has included snapping up the rights for Coventry City games.

Steve Orchard - So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (2 of 9)

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:07:20 +0000

So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (2 of 9)

Grammy award winning Steve, a commercial radio mogul, is the CEO of Touch FM. The station aims to reflect the pride and frustrations of the community in its output.

Darren Parkin - So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (1 of 9)

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:04:14 +0000

So, Just What Do We Mean By Local? (1 of 9)

Darren is the youngest ever editor of the COVENTRY TELEGRAPH has worked to reconnect it with its core community audience during his two-year stewardship. He has spent two decades working in regional newspapers.

Bob Marley; Divide & Rule - Colin Grant

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:02:22 +0000

Bob Marley; Divide & Rule

Colin Grant is the author of I and I The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer. Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers—one of the most influential groups in popular music.

Grant is a historian, Associate Fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies and producer for BBC Radio. He joined the BBC in 1991, and has worked as a TV script editor and radio producer of arts and science programmes on radio 4 and the World Service. He has written and directed plays including The Clinic, based on the lives of the photojournalists, Tim Page and Don McCullin.

Matt Mason on Creative Disruption, Piracy, Transmedia and Ecosystems

coventryuniversity — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:28:10 +0000

Matt Mason currently serves as Executive Director of Marketing at BitTorrent, a creator of advanced, innovative technologies designed to efficiently deliver large files across the Internet. BitTorrent currently boasts over 150 million active monthly users, and moves 20-40% of all Internet traffic on a daily basis.

He is also the bestselling author of The Pirate’s Dilemma, the first book in the history of the world to hit the number one spot on Amazon’s economics/free enterprise bestseller list and the rap bestseller list at the same time. It has since been published in ten countries and counting. He is also a board member at PopTech, a global community of innovators, working together to expand the edge of change.

He began his career as a pirate radio and club DJ in London, going on to become founding Editor-in-Chief of the seminal music magazine RWD. In 2004, he was selected as one of the faces of Gordon Brown’s Start Talking Ideas campaign, and was presented the Prince’s Trust London Business of the Year Award by HRH Prince Charles.

Matt works across a range of media and has written and produced TV series, screenplays, comic strips, apps and records, not to mention award-winning, global advertising campaigns. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer Music Monthly, Dazed & Confused, Adweek, VICE, Complex, Liberation and other publications in more than 20 countries. His short story Hard Times was published by Penguin as part of the We Tell Stories project, which won Best in Show at SXSW and was shown in the Talk To Me exhibition at the MOMA in New York City in 2011.

Matt Mason regularly speaks on creativity, disruptive innovation, copyright infringement and the promise of P2P technologies all over the world.

In this conversation with the Creative Activism class Matt discusses some of his work: covering issues around piracy and control in the creative industries, new ways of working and thinking about engagement, corporate responsibility and changes in advertising, transmedia storytelling and how creatives need to be thinking through working with emerging ecologies and ecosystems for the sustainability of their practice.

Round and round the track, and the world - Formula One Driver Karun Chandhok

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:58:05 +0000

Karun Chandhok (Hindi: करुण चंडोक; born January 19, 1984 in Madras) is an Indian racing driver, who competed for Hispania Racing in Formula One in 2010. Before this, he drove in the GP2 Series for three years, winning two races. Prior to his time in GP2, Chandhok won the Formula Asia championship in 2001 and was the inaugural Formula Asia V6 by Renault champion in 2006. On 22 March 2011, Chandhok was confirmed as a reserve driver at Team Lotus for the 2011 season. He drove the car in free practice for the Australian Grand Prix, crashing out on the installation lap. He reprised his co-commentary role for BBC Radio 5 Live at the Spanish Grand Prix. After driving in a further three free practice sessions he replaced Jarno Trulli for the German Grand Prix. He finished 20th and last, two laps behind teammate Heikki Kovalainen and a lap behind 19th placed Daniel Ricciardo. He was also 4 laps behind race winner Lewis Hamilton. In the last quarter of 2011, Chandhok joined the i1 Super Series as an International class driver for its inaugural season in 2012. Chandhok admitted that he was unlikely to gain a Formula One seat for 2012, and targeted a third driver place once again. He also wishes to compete in the new World Endurance Championship, especially at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Comedy, Satire and Change with James Cook, Stand-up Comedian

coventryuniversity — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:20:37 +0000

In this talk and workshop comedian James Cook explores the role of comedy as a part of public debate, as well as taking a look through how comedy has responded and reacted to politics and issues in society.

He also talks through a few useful techniques to get you thinking about using comedy in your creative work.

You can find out more about James by following him on Twitter or check out the News With Jokes podcast series that he has created.

If you’d like to find the links to the material that James was discussing please visit the Creative Activism Website

Social Entrepreneurship and Creative Visions – Charles Tsai from Social Creatives

coventryuniversity — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:27:22 +0000

Charles Tsai is a journalist, writer, speaker and consultant for social entrepreneurs.

A former reporter and producer for CNN, Charles ventured into the social sector to help youth design and implement their own solutions for change. He helped Ashoka launch its first global campaigns to support youth-led social ventures. Now, he has launched SOCIAL Creatives, a new framework to learn, teach and practice social entrepreneurship. He also works with the Creative Visions Foundation.

In this podcast he discusses along with some useful tips for activists who want to get their messages heard and acted on. You can find out more about Charles Work on his website http://www.charlestsai.com/

Farewell Stratford, Hello? - Vikki Heywood, Chief Exec RSC

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:38:12 +0000

Vikki Heywood was appointed as Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2003. She is a Governor of the Company and a member of its Board. The company has a turnover of approximately £35 million per year, employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon. The RSC regularly performs in London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne and tours the UK and abroad.

Games & Education - Michael Richards

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:26:46 +0000

Michael Richards talks about the use of games in education.

The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism at the Crossroads?

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:17:47 +0000

The Leveson Inquiry is showing the fault lines in British Journalism. It will never be the same again. Journalism truly is at the crossroads.Listen in to this debate to celebrate the publication of ‘The Phone Hacking Scandal; Journalism at the crossroads’ This debate was chaired by Raymond Snoddy & panel members include former BBC college chief Kevin Marsh, former Daily Star reporter Richard Peppiatt, Society of Editors’ director Bob Satchwell, journalist and author Glenda Cooper and ex-News of the World deputy editor Paul Connew.

‘ICT in Schools is Crap’ Debate

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:06:43 +0000

Education Secretary Michael Gove’s frank admission that ICT teaching in schools is a “mess” with children “bored out of their minds” during lessons, has resulted in a special Coventry Conversation to debate if ICT in schools really is ‘crap’.

Panel Chair; Irene Glendinning, Computer scientist from Coventry University & chair of BCS Coventry branch

Panel; Joan Fuller, Head of ICT at Heart of England School, Solihull Professor Michael Hammond, Warwick Institute of Education Chris Hall, Advisor for ICT, Coventry City Council

The Changing world of Media and the BBC- David Hayward

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:45:30 +0000

David Hayward head of BBC College of Journalism’s (CoJo) spoke in a Coventry Conversation about what the College of Journalism do and how the BBC is trying to keep up with new media.

‘Tales From Inside The Box’ - Clive Tyldesley

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:34:25 +0000

Clive Tyldesley is an English sports commentator, television presenter and voiceover artist, who since 1998 has been the main football commentator for ITV.

The Italian Experience in Fighting Criminal Groups - Dr Gery Ferrara

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:14:31 +0000

Taking Stock of Mafia and Anti-mafia Activity: The Italian Experience in Fighting Criminal Groups, a talk by Anti-Mafia Deputy Prosecutor in Sicily Dr Gery Ferrara.

Agitpop – Protest and Social Change in Popular Music – Chris Jury

coventryuniversity — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:28:57 +0000

Chris Jury (Broadcaster, Lecturer and Activist) discussing his radio show called Agitpop- and shares some of his work and reflections on pop and protest as part of the Creative Activism Open Class

You can download the slides and tracklist from Chris’ show by visiting this page on the Creative Activism class

Cameras Everywhere: Sam Gregory discussing Video Advocacy at WITNESS

coventryuniversity — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:24:48 +0000

Sam Gregory is a human rights advocate, video producer and trainer. He directs WITNESS‘ programmatic work, including supervising the Campaign Partnerships, Tools & Tactics, and Cameras Everywhere Leadership initiatives. In 2005, he was the lead editor on the handbook Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism (Pluto Press), and in 2007, he developed the Video Advocacy Institute, an intensive two-week training program for human rights advocates. He also teaches on human rights advocacy using new media as an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Over the past decade, Sam has worked extensively with human rights activists, particularly in Latin America and Asia, integrating video into campaigns on a range of civil, political, social, economic and cultural human rights issues. Videos he has co-produced have been screened to decision-makers in the U.S. Congress, the U.K. Houses of Parliament, the United Nations and at film festivals worldwide, and have contributed to changes in policy, practice and law.

In this podcast he discusses the work of WITNESS and its role in enabling human rights advocacy through video.

‘Newspeak’ Discussion With Radical Documentary Filmmaker Ken Fero

coventryuniversity — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:22:58 +0000

Documentary Filmmaker, Ken Fero from Migrant Media, discusses his documentary called ‘Newspeak’ which was the last film to be broadcast by Press TV on 20th January 2012. The film questions the relationship between Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, and power. The film uses poetry and experimental visual techniques to take the viewer on a personal journey to reflect on how the radical content of certain images – deaths in police custody, Occupy London the invasion of Iraq, workers uprisings – remain hidden from UK audiences.

Watch Newspeak on Vimeo. You can also watch Ken’s earlier film called Injustice, an award winning film about deaths in police custody - and here’s a recent Guardian article related to it

Here’s his discussion with the Creative Activism class following the screening of the film.

#blackout: the viral counterpublicity of online protest – Dr Tessa Houghton

coventryuniversity — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:17:55 +0000

Dr Houghton is Assistant Professor in Media and Communication in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. Her co-edited book Nexus: New Intersections in Internet Research (Peter Lang, 2011) brings together collaborative research from the alumni of the 2009 Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme, and she is currently co-editing a volume on flows of online control and resistance. Her research interests include public sphere theory, online activism, digital politics and rights, and the digital divides.

In this talk, given as part of the Open Media series and the Creative Activism Class at Coventry University, she discusses the web blackout that took place on 18/01/12. On this day numerous websites, including Wikipedia and Google, ‘blacked out’ in protest against the ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ (SOPA) currently being heavily lobbied for within the US political context. This massive online protest will have been many netizens’ first encounter with the #blackout form; however, it is borrowed from previous ‘digital rights’ campaigns in other locations. In 2009, ‘the lights went out’ all over the New Zealand internet as NZ and international netizens participated in the ‘NZ internet blackout’, a ‘performative hacktivist’ campaign (Samuel 2004) that catalysed viral online protest against the threatened domestic implementation of ‘3-strikes’ or graduated response-style anti-filesharing legislation. Despite the eventual passing of the legislation (albeit in much-modified form), the blackout garnered extensive global participation, illustrating the latent counterhegemonic power inherent in hacktivist campaigns.

This presentation interprets the blackout through a critical discourse analysis and a public sphere theoretical framework built upon the radical or agonistic tradition. It shows that socially-mediated counterpublicity can generate successful counterhegemonic projects and even bring about legislative change, and in doing so, makes the argument that our understanding of what the modern public sphere is should allow for more unruly forms of democratically legitimate communication.

Richard Aucock Data Journalism masterclass

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:01:42 +0000

On 27 January 2012, Richard Aucock spoke to First Year students in BA Journalism and Media about ‘Motoring Research Using Twitter’.
He demonstrated how he uses the platform to keep up with industry news, and offered tips for journalists who are just starting off using Twitter for research.
This was part of the Data Journalism masterclasses, organised by John Mair.

Richard Ancock Data Journalism masterclass

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:53:36 +0000

On 27 January 2012, Richard Ancock spoke to First Year students in BA Journalism and Media about ‘Motoring Research Using Twitter’.
He demonstrated how he uses the platform to keep up with industry news, and offered tips for journalists who are just starting off using Twitter for research.
This was part of the Data Journalism masterclasses, organised by John Mair.

The Art of Successful Radio- Adrian Van Klaveren

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:01:40 +0000

“We are news and sport.” is how Adrian Van Klaveren described BBC Radio 5 Live. Adrian is the controller of both BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. He spoke at a Coventry Conversation about BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio can be successful.

Robot in the Basement; How interactive media is changing journalism

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:53:21 +0000

Judith Townend - Digital Journalist, discusses how interactive media is changing journalism.

Ab Fab-welcome back Edina and Patsy! - Jon Plowman

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:36:45 +0000

Executive Producer, Comedy BBC Jon Plowman talks about producing comedy for the BBC.

What Do You Expect … The media future is computing! - Dean Stockton

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:24:26 +0000

Dean Stockton the Senior Creative Director, Chello Media International talks about the future as a media creative.

London 2012 - David Moorcroft & David Long

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:19:03 +0000

London 2012, the view from two Coventry athletics heroes.

The Art of the Prank and Culture Jamming with Joey Skaggs

coventryuniversity — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:22:39 +0000

Joey Skaggs is a fine artist and social activist. Although he has painted and sculpted throughout his life, starting with his iconoclastic and controversial performance-art protests in the Sixties, his public work took on a new direction. Skaggs realized he could use art to challenge the system. Appalled at the cultural hypocrisy he saw around him, especially how it was blindly supported in the media, he began to satirize social issues with public performances and elaborately contrived media hoaxes. The mass media in turn became an unwitting collaborator in his concepts, reporting his satire as news. Joey Skaggs quickly acquired an international reputation as a cultural satirist and media critic. His work incorporates guerrilla tactics and traditional public relations techniques to promote his staged performances. Few media outlets over the last four decades have not fallen for one or another of his hoaxes. He has been covered in newspapers, magazines, and on radio and television around the world, in some cases many times as different people.

At the School of Visual Arts Joey Skaggs taught Media Communications including “Culture Jamming and Media Activism,” a course of his creation. He also taught at Parsons The New School for Design. He now lectures internationally on divergent approaches to addressing social issues through art. He’s the creator of the Universal Bullshit Detector Watch and the publisher and editor of “The Art of the Prank” blog. A master storyteller, he inspires in his audiences original and inventive insights while sharing the tools and techniques that foster independent thinking, media literacy, and creative activism. Like the Wizard of Oz, he reveals the man behind the curtain, showing, in a visceral way, the influence mass media has on society. http://joeyskaggs.com, http://artoftheprank.com

In this podcast he talks about some of his work.

Get your facts straight and do the work for them – John Mair

coventryuniversity — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:02:24 +0000

This weeks guest podcast is from John Mair, who is Broadcaster and Academic.

In this podcast John discusses how he helped to orchestrate a media campaign to stop lorries using the B430 in Weston-on-the-Green. They had been using it as a rat-run to avoid congestion on the M40, causing all kinds of issues within the Oxfordshire village.

John talks about how by using just a laptop, some hard facts, doing journalists work for them and making sure the right people were involved helped the campaign to be successful.

This podcast is part of the Creative Activism Open Class- come and join us.

Small Acts of Resistance - John Jackson

coventryuniversity — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:44:30 +0000

John Jackson is a New York-based writer and activist originally from London, covering social activism and international affairs. He is co-author of ‘Small Acts of Resistance, How Courage, Tenacity and Ingenuity Can Change the World (2010)’. In this talk he discusses the book as well as some useful advice for activists.

This talk is part of the Creative Activism Open Class - Exploring Creativity and Social Change.

Open Art, or What could Open Art mean? - Round table discussion

coventryuniversity — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:13:56 +0000

Open Art, or What could Open Art mean? - Round table discussion with Elly Clarke (Coventry University), Penny Whitehead and Daniel Simpkins (Independent artists) and James Wallbank (Access Space Sheffield).

Elly Clarke (Artist/Curator)

Elly Clarke is an artist, photographer and curator/founder of Clarke Gallery in Berlin, but which is currently mobile, or one, could say homeless! She is interested in the impact of mobility (of people, information and things) upon sense of self, both when alone and as part of a community. She produced internationally recognized documentary projects such as Moscow to Beijing (exhibited in Helsinki, Moscow, Milton Keynes, London & New York) and the Broadway House Photo Project. Next up atMeter Room will be THE MOBlLlTY PROJECT, a traveling show that launched this summer at Galerie SUVl LEHTINEN in Berlin and will find its way to Coventry in January. Her first travelling exhibition,WUNDERKAMMER, is also currently on show at TROVE in Birmingham.

Penny Whitehead and Daniel Simpkins (Independent artists)

Penny Whitehead and Daniel Simpkins are two artists/organisers working collaboratively since 2006 across a number of experimental disciplines, communicative channels and media. They are currently based at Static Gallery where over the last year they have been developing an ongoing series of projects around free and self-initiated education. They approach their art practice as a means of political agency through which to interrogate and re-imagine the systems, spaces, institutions and situations of contemporary urban life.

James Wallbank (Access Space Sheffield)

For more than a decade James has developed and led action research exploring the impacts of creative digital engagement on personal, community and economic development. He works to shape ethical relationships with technology which are environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable. Currently he is CEO of Access Space Network, an organisation which provides the UK’s longest running free, open media lab. He works locally and internationally to seed similar creative digital communities. James has worked on projects with Oxford E-Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University’s Culture, Communications and Computing Research Institute (C3RI), Sheffield University’s Interdisciplinary Research in Socio-Digital Worlds (IRiS) Centre and “Imagination” at Lancaster University. He has authored several influential documents, including “Lowtech Manifesto” (1999), “Grow Your Own Media Lab” (2008) and “The Zero Dollar Laptop” (2010) which have spawned transnational networks of practice. James works with diverse groups, including young people, adults in danger of social and economic exclusion, people with disabilities, artists, designers, asylum seekers, professionals and technical experts. He is a frequent presenter at research conferences, universities and digital media festivals and delivers technical training for enterprises and community organisations. He has an MA in Art & Design and is a self-taught LPIC1 Engineer.

Peer-production of culture: Independent film making in the Wreckamovie community - Isis Hjörth

coventryuniversity — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:10:37 +0000

It is often claimed that networked media, and in particular the internet, has democratized the production of information and culture. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is repeatedly used to exemplify how new open models of production, notably peer-production, are radically changing the the way we think about content producers and consumers. In this talk, I will critically examine definitions of peer-productions suggested in scholarly literature. The examination will draw on a range of published empirical research on peer-production providing evidence suggesting that the openness of peer-production is not unlimited. On the basis of this, I will present preliminary findings from my study of independent film making in the Wreckamovie.com community. More specifically, by discussing the trajectory of the crowfunding struggles of a feature length Wreckamovie production, I will question the ideas of peer-productions as being non-proprietary, and existing in an open non-market driven sphere independent from traditional cultural industries.

Bio

Isis Amelie Hjorth is an AHRC funded doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. In her PhD research, she examines the emergence of cultural peer-production in the domain of independent film making. Questioning some of the utopian visions of the transformative powers of peer-production dominating discourses in new media research, she seeks to contribute towards a more nuanced understanding of distributed forms of cultural production. Alongside her studies, Isis is engaged in an NESTA/AHRC/Arts Council UK funded research project investigating the consequences of the uptake of digital tools for theatrical production. A firm believer in interdisciplinarity, Isis holds a MSc in Technology and Learning (University of Oxford), as well as a BA and MA in Rhetoric from her native Copenhagen. Before embarking on the route towards an academic career, she worked in the media sector as a journalist at a Danish TV production company, and made a debut as a playwright.

Just Do It - Exploring the world of Climate Activists with Documentary Filmmaker Emily James

coventryuniversity — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:20:15 +0000

Emily James’ Documentary film ‘Just Do It’ lifts the lid on climate activism and the daring troublemakers who have crossed the line to become modern-day outlaws. Documented over a year, the film follows the lives of activists as they blockade factories, attack coal power stations and glue themselves to the trading floors of international banks despite the very real threat of arrest.

In this talk, recorded after a screening of the film, Emily speaks to our Media students at Coventry University about her work.

Corrupt as f**k: How fixing is killing sport - Prof, Simon chadwick

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:15:05 +0000

Simon Chadwick is the Professor of Sport Business Strategy and Marketing at Coventry University. In this talk he discusses corruption in the world of sport.

Alex Ferguson: The greatest ever manager? - Jim White

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:02:43 +0000

Jim White a sports journalist for The Daily Telelgraph discusses the career of Alex Ferguson, the greatest ever manager?

Making ‘Our War’- Colin Barr

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:37:16 +0000

On the 6th October 2011, Coventry University were lucky enough to play host to the Executive Producer of the recent ‘Our War’ documentary series, Colin Barr. ‘Our War’ is a documentary series about the conflict in Afghanistan and was designed to reach a young audience. It all began from a small bit of footage which was filmed by a soldier a few years back and this footage made the BBC think about how much war footage filmed by the soldiers might be out there.

Open Sourcing Knowledge: Towards a University 2.0 - William Merrin

coventryuniversity — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:06:37 +0000

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.

Facebook, Inside the inside story - Charles Miller

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:52:38 +0000

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.

Jake Bower – It’s a Gypsy Life For Me

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:45:27 +0000

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.

Debbie Isitt – The making of Nativity 2

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:32:06 +0000

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.

Creative Practice in the New Media Environment- Simon King, Imagination

coventryuniversity — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:11:24 +0000

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

Confessions of a Red Top Reporter - Richard Peppiatt

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:44:51 +0000

Richard Peppiatt, the reporter who gained attentention when he quit the Daily Star in spectacular circumstances talks at the Winter Season of Coventry Conversations.

Don’t be afraid of the future - Professor Paul Bradshaw

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:28:50 +0000

Professor Paul Bradshaw talks about news is accessed and shared in a digital age.

Hutton and all that - Kevin Marsh

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:54:32 +0000

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.

Is Hackgate really the biggest story? – Jon Snow

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:03:04 +0000

Channel 4 News Presenter, Jon Snow gives an insight into the world of broadcast and tabloid journalism in the Winter season of Coventry Conversations.

Journalism after Phone Hacking – Professor Stewart Purvis

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:54:18 +0000

How will the phone hacking scandal effect Journalism? What will be the outcome of the Leveson inquiry? Professor Stewart Purvis, Professor of Television Journalism at City University and former Editor-in-Chief of ITN talked about Hackgate at a recent Coventry Conversation.

Peter Sissons – The Beatles, Hillsborough and a Great Career

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:42:31 +0000

Peter Sissons came to speak about some of his life experiences and about his brilliant 45 year career in the Media at a recent Coventry Conversation.

“The Arab Spring has been a Marathon and not a Sprint”- Jon Williams

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:35:02 +0000

Jon Williams, World News Editor for the BBC talks about reporting in the Arab Spring.

Paul Abbot - Shameless and much, much more…

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:55:37 +0000

Paul is a BAFTA award-winning television screenwriter. He has become one of the most critically and commercially successful television writers working in Britain today, following his work on many popular series, including Coronation Street, Cracker and Shameless, the latter of which he created.

Phonar: The Final Task

cuphotography — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:15:04 +0000

Jonathan Worth introduces the final #phonar task. For more information, see http://www.phonar.org

Phonar: Fred Ritchin on ‘What Matters Now?’

cuphotography — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:12:10 +0000

Fred Ritchin author of After Photography, Professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and former picture editor of The New York Times Magazine, is here in conversation with his assistant Alison Wynn for #phonar.

Phonar: Richard Stacy on the Social Media Revolution

cuphotography — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:01:27 +0000

After a successful 25 year career in public relations, working for big brands like IBM, Diageo and P&G, Richard Stacy has turned his attention to Social Media and Brand Storytelling.

‘Does Photography need photographers?’ Will sharing inconsequential data have huge consequences ?’ are just some of the provocative questions that thinker Richard Stacy put to #Phonar this week.

Phonar: Documentary Director Adam Hopkins

cuphotography — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:26:02 +0000

Phonar’s Matt Johnston speaks to documentary filmmaker Adam Hopkins about his approach to narrative, research and storytelling among other things. Adam has worked for the BBC, Channel 4 and most recently National Geographic on situational documentaries. For more information see www.phonar.org

Phonar: David Campbell on ‘Narrative, Responsibility and Power’ - A Seminar

cuphotography — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:05:12 +0000

Professor David Campbell takes part in a follow up seminar to his ‘Narrative, Power and Responsibility’ lecture with #phonar students at Coventry University. Here David tackles questions on changing narratives, tools, authorship, research and interpretation. For more information see http://www.phonar.org

Photography Talk: Travis Shaffer, ‘We Are All Thieves, Right?’

cuphotography — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:53:18 +0000

Photographer Travis Shaffer discusses his own work in relation to photographic reproduction, appropriation and authorship as well as an introduction to his involvement with ABC (Artist’s book cooperative) and experience with book making and distribution. This lecture was given as part of the free and open photography class #phonar - http://www.phonar.org

Mediating Agriculture in the Age of “Open-Source” - Gabriela Mendez Cota

coventryuniversity — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:13:58 +0000

How can contemporary agricultural issues inform debates around ‘openness’ in media and cultural studies? How can these debates in turn productively ‘mediate’ agricultural struggles in the context of technoscientific knowledge production? As a way of approaching these questions, I will re-trace my own steps from new media studies to an examination of the cultural politics of an agricultural struggle, and back to new media studies via ‘open source agriculture’ as a relevant instance of the promises and challenges of ‘openness’ in a digitized world. First, I will present a sketch of my current research on Mexican ‘maize nationalism’ as it is being deployed against genetically engineered maize. Second, I will explain how my work for Living Books About Life has allowed me to unlock the cage of nationalist discourse in order to imagine different, more complex ways of resisting the enclosure of life by transnational agribusiness. Finally, I will raise the more specific question I’m concerned with at the moment: if ‘open source agriculture’ is a potential, at least partial solution to the capitalist enclosure of life, how can media and cultural studies engage with it in a critical, productive way?

Bio

Gabriela Méndez Cota is a doctoral student in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. Drawing on her humanities training, she has worked on issues related to technology, such as technological blind spots in Western philosophy and the status of technology in contemporary critiques of metaphysics. More recently she has been investigating the ethical and political aspects of particular understandings of technology. Her PhD thesis develops a critical interdisciplinary approach, rooted in philosophy and media and cultural studies, to the complex relations between agricultural biotechnology and the cultural politics of Mexican nationalism.

Photography Talk: Matt Johnston on the Future of Photobooks

cuphotography — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:39:27 +0000

Matt Johnston, co-founder and editor of the Photo Book Club http://www.photobookclub.org speaks at the London Design Festival 2011. Johnston presents a case for the future of the printed photobook, highlighting importance of community, experience and the book as an object.

Phonar: Mike Lusmore on Photofilms, Transmedia and Transformative Storytelling

cuphotography — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:41:30 +0000

Mike Lusmore, a photographer and photofilm producer talks to the attending #phonar class about photofilms, transmedia and transformative storytelling. For more information: http://www.phonar.org

Chinese Organised Crime in Italy - Dr Stefano Becucci

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:43:08 +0000

Chinese Organised Crime in Italy - Dr Stefano Becucci

Football Reporting – John Sinnott and Steve Carpenter

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:36:24 +0000

A Coventry graduate Steve Carpenter and a BBC sports reporter John Sinnott talk about the world of sports journalism.

‘Dawn Of A New Age’ – Darren Parkin and Jeremy Pollock

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:30:52 +0000

Darren Parkin, editor of the Coventry Telegraph and Jeremy Pollock, managing editor of BBC Coventry and Warwickshire talk about how the world of media and journalism is undergoing a significant change.

Steve Cropley – Making Yourself Stand Out

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:54:59 +0000

Steve Cropley the Editor-In-Chief of Autocar magazine talks about getting ahead and how to get a position as an intern and your first job.

The Oliver twins - The future of video games

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:47:56 +0000

The founders of Blitz Games, the Oliver twins talk about the future of computer games.

Dr John Beech - Football, on the road to penury?

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:44:27 +0000

Dr John Beech talks about football and asks if it is on the road to penury.

Photography Talk: Jonathan Worth on McLuhan, Transmedia and Generatives

cuphotography — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:21:28 +0000

Freelance photographer and MA course director in Photography at Coventry University, Jonathan Worth introduces some of McLuhan’s ideas and themes in relation to 21st century photography, as well as investigating how ‘Transmedia’ tools can be applied to storytelling.

Phonar: Jon Levy in conversation with Jonathan Worth on ‘touchstones’ and ‘product’

cuphotography — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:12:02 +0000

Jonathan Worth speaks to Jon Levy, founder and editor of foto8.com and ‘eight’ magazine about the importance of touchstones and tuning signals from today’s total noise. Worth and Levy also talk about photographer’s “product” and ask is ‘eight’ magazine the product or is it something else?

Phonar: Jon Levy on setting Task 1

cuphotography — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:08:41 +0000

Jon Levy talks to Jonathan Worth about why he set Task 1, and why it is an important and useful exercise.

Phonar: Jon Levy on submitting work to Foto8

cuphotography — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:05:51 +0000

Jonathan Worth asks Jon Levy, founder and editor of foto8.com and ‘eight’ magazine, how the #phonar class can submit work to to the magazine.

Photography Talk: Jon Levy on Foto8 and Storytelling

cuphotography — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:03:45 +0000

Founder and editor of foto8.com and ‘eight’ magazine, Jon Levy talks to the #phonar class about storytelling. audience, getting work seen and having an authorial voice in photography.

The economic impact of Rugby World Cup 2011

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:21:42 +0000

The Centre for the International Business of Sport (CIBS) associate and researcher, Dr Dave Arthur, discusses the economic impact of the RWC 2011 with Stuart Cameron, vice president, Regional Marketing, Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa, MasterCard Worldwide

BT e-Archive Project Launch

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:56:33 +0000

This one million pound project is a collaboration between Coventry University (CU), BT Heritage and The National Archives (TNA). It aims to catalogue, digitise and develop a searchable online archive of almost half a million photographs, images, documents and correspondence assembled by BT over 165 years.

Economics Taster Day

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:35:46 +0000

Guest speakers including a Coventry graduate now working at the investment arm of Barclays speak to year 12 students to give an introduction and information about studying economics.

The importance of specialisation in health for journalists: The Spanish case

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:22:28 +0000

As part of the Health in the Headlines conference Esther Paniagua a health journalist from Spain discusses the importance of specialisation in health for journalists. To find out more please visit www.europeanhealthjournalism.com

Raising Standards in Health Journalism

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:21:02 +0000

As part of the Health in the Headlines conference Afroditi Veloudaki, Director of HeaRT (Health Reporter Training Project) talks about improving the training and raising Standards in Health Journalism in Europe. To find out more please visit www.europeanhealthjournalism.com

Pressing for accuracy, balance and completeness in health journalism

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:19:00 +0000

As part of the Health in the Headlines conference Gary Schwitzer - Publisher of award winning website healthnewsreview.org discusses Pressing for accuracy, balance and completeness in health journalism. To find out more please visit www.europeanhealthjournalism.com

News in the making: Features and changes in health coverage in Portugal

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:16:37 +0000

As part of the Health in the Headlines conference Rita Araujo from the University of Minho discusses health news coverage in Portugal. To find out more please visit www.europeanhealthjournalism.com

Health in the Headlines - The attack on Medicare

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:05:55 +0000

As part of the Health in the Headlines conference Trudy Lieberman, contributing editor Columbia Journalism Review discusses health care news coverage in the US and the attack on Medicare. To find out more please visit www.europeanhealthjournalism.com

Health in the Headlines - How NICE works globally

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:03:46 +0000

As part of the Health in the Headlines conference francoise Cluzeau, Senior Advisor from NICE International discusses how NICE works globally and with the NHS and also its treatment from the press. To find out more please visit www.europeanhealthjournalism

Andrew Beck - Mirage in the Desert - Reporting the Arab Spring

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:36:21 +0000

ANDREW BECK is the International Co-ordinator in the Coventry University School of Art and Design. He is a much published author on communication studies Andrew has thirty years experience as educationalist, consultant, author, examiner, and curriculum designer.

This Coventry Conversation is from a conference titled ‘Mirage In The Desert’, and how the Arab Spring was reported.

Prof. Richard Keeble - Mirage in the Desert - Reporting the Arab Spring

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:26:45 +0000

PROFESSOR RICHARD KEEBLE Is the acting head of department at the Lincoln University School of Journalism. Richard is the doyen of the ‘hackademics’ writing many of the standard texts in use in Higher education.He has Co-edited five books to date with John Mair.The latest ‘FACE THE FUTURE’ was published in April 2011.The next ‘INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM;DEAD OR ALIVE’ will be published in September.

This Coventry Conversation is from a conference titled ‘Mirage In The Desert’, and how the Arab Spring was reported.

Alex Thomson - Mirage in the Desert - Reporting the Arab Spring

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:13:26 +0000

ALEX THOMSON is the Chief Correspondent for Channel Four News. He was also worked for the BBC In Northern Ireland. He is the leading Channel Four News ‘fireman’ sent to Japan,Tunisia and Libya inter alia this year. Alex spoke at a previous Coventry Conversations conference on Reporting Afghanistan and contributed an excellent chapter to the book AFGHANISTAN;DEADLINES AND FRONTLINES (Abramis 2010)

This Coventry Conversation is from a conference titled ‘Mirage In The Desert’, and how the Arab Spring was reported.

Dr Miriyam Aouragh - Mirage in the Desert - Reporting the Arab Spring

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:05:04 +0000

DR MIRIYAM AOURAGH is a Research Fellow Oxford University Internet Institute Miriyam is studying the implications of new generation/Internet 2.0 for Palestinian and Lebanese activists.

This Coventry Conversation is from a conference titled ‘Mirage In The Desert’, and how the Arab Spring was reported.

Mohamed Yehia - Mirage in the Desert - Reporting the Arab Spring

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:51:59 +0000

MOHAMED YEHIA is the editor BBC Arabic online and had (literally) just returned from Egypt.

This Coventry Conversation is from a conference titled ‘Mirage In The Desert’, and how the Arab Spring was reported.

Oliver Poole - Mirage in the Desert - Reporting the Arab Spring

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:43:21 +0000

OLIVER POOLE War Reporter Oliver reported from Libya this year. He is a war corr veteran.He was the Daily Telegraph Correspondent in Baghdad where he lived and wrote the well received book ‘Red Zone: Five bloody years in Baghdad’

This Coventry Conversation is from a conference titled ‘Mirage In The Desert’, and how the Arab Spring was reported.

Andrew Butters - Mirage in the Desert - Reporting the Arab Spring

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:34:24 +0000

ANDREW BUTTERS is a Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.

This Coventry Conversation is from a conference titled ‘Mirage In The Desert’, and how the Arab Spring was reported.

Photography Talk: Seba Kurtis

cuphotography — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:14:22 +0000

Photographer Seba Kurtis talks to students on the Photography BA (Hons) course at Coventry University. Seba discusses his life in photography, the theme of immigration, and how he manipulates light and analogue technique for unique results.

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The Photographic Mediations Podcasts are brought to you by the Photography Course in the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University.

Filipo Grandi- Deputy Commissioner-General of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:33:01 +0000

Filipo Grandi, Deputy Commissioner-General of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees delivers a lecture to students at Coventry University.

Rugby lifted by growth in emerging markets

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:04:35 +0000

Professor Simon Chadwick from the Center for Business in Sport (CIBS) at Coventry University talks to MasterCard’s Head of Sponsorships, Asia/Pacific Middle East & Africa, Stuart Cameron, about the sport’s growth markets, IRB investment and the influence of Sevens ahead of this year’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

Scaling the Summit of Indie Production - Alex Connock

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:54:57 +0000

Alex Connock is the CEO of Ten Alps which he Co-founded in 1999 with Bob Geldof. You may not have heard of him but he is one of the most powerful people in independent media in the UK.

The Coventry Conversations are brought to you by the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University which has courses in Journalism and Media, Media and Communications, Media Production and Photography. You can stay up to date with us by visiting the CU Today Journalism Student website.

Rich Peppiatt - The Daily Star Ate My Profession!

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:12:36 +0000

Rich Peppiatt a Tabloid reporter bit the hand that fed him-that of Richard Desmond the proprietor of the Daily Star (and much more). Peppiatt resigned as a reporter with the tabloid in a fury over their ‘anti-Islamic bias’ and the tendency to get him to simply make up stories. His resignation letter is to the point.

Stephen Cole - Al Jazeera and the recent Arab revolutions

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:41:26 +0000

Stephen Cole, one of the most widely-recognised faces on international television news. The Hereford-born presenter, who currently anchors the English version of the Arab news network Al Jazeera, has over 26 years of experience in both print and broadcast.

In this talk he gives a unique insight into work at Al Jazeera and into the news channel’s role in the current Arab uprisings.

Jon Snow - Hacking into the unknown, the challenge of covering the Japanese Tsunami

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:01:01 +0000

Jon Snow is a journalist and presenter best known for presenting Channel 4 News. He has won several RTS Awards — two for reports from El Salvador, one for his reporting of the Kegworth air disaster, and two as “Presenter of the Year”. He is a Visiting Professor at Coventry University and regularly comes to see and give advice to our students here.

In his most recent Coventry Conversation Jon Snow talks about his experience covering the Japanese Tsunami and the twitter generation of journalism.

International Student Welfare Advice - Studying at CU

coventryuniversityjon — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:03:22 +0000

Some useful advice for International students at Coventry University.

International Student Welfare Advice - Living in the UK

coventryuniversityjon — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:00:52 +0000

Some useful advice for International students at Coventry University.

International Student Welfare Advice - British Culture

coventryuniversityjon — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:57:25 +0000

Some useful advice for International students at Coventry University.

International Student Welfare Advice - Before You Travel

coventryuniversityjon — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:53:26 +0000

Some useful advice for International students at Coventry University.

International Student Welfare Advice - Arrival

coventryuniversityjon — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:47:21 +0000

Some useful advice for International students at Coventry University.

Eamonn Matthews - Investigative Journalism; Dead or Alive?

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:29:43 +0000

Is Wikileaks a one-off? Has investigative journalism died off in Britain, apart from on the BBC and Channel 4? Can it be revived?

Eamonn Matthews is Executive producer of ‘Unreported World’ on Channel Four. He has produced many ‘Dispatches’ and ‘Panoramas’ and won RTS, BAFTAS and EMMYS for his films.

Donal Macintyre - Investigative Journalism; Dead or Alive?

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:01:11 +0000

Is Wikileaks a one-off? Has investigative journalism died off in Britain, apart from on the BBC and Channel 4? Can it be revived?

Donal Macintyre is the best known practitioner of undercover in Britain. His series ‘Macintyre Undercover’ for the BBC in 2000-2003 broke new frontiers with revelations about Chelsea hooligans, city bankers and more based on him going undercover for months on end.

Paul Lashmar - Investigative Journalism; Dead or Alive?

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:58:01 +0000

Is Wikileaks a one-off? Has investigative journalism died off in Britain, apart from on the BBC and Channel 4? Can it be revived?

Paul Lashmar is (acting) Head of Journalism at Brunel University. He was a well known investigative journalist with the Observer and the Independent and has also worked for ‘World in Action’ on ITV. He was press gazette UK Reporter of the year in 1986.

Phillip Knightley - Investigative Journalism; Dead or Alive?

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:07:23 +0000

Is Wikileaks a one-off? Has investigative journalism died off in Britain, apart from on the BBC and Channel 4? Can it be revived?

Phillip Knightly is the distinguished (former) writer of Insight on the Sunday Times where he was a Special Correspondent for two decades. Twice winner of Journalist of the year. He is the author of the journalism best seller ‘The First Casualty of War’.

Kevin Marsh and Madeline Atkins - Investigative Journalism - Dead or Alive?

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:49:23 +0000

Is Wikileaks a one-off? Has investigative journalism died off in Britain, apart from on the BBC and Channel 4? Can it be revived?

Kevin Marsh is Executive Editor of the BBC College of Journalism. He is a former editor of ‘Today’, ‘The World at one’ and ‘PM’ on Radio Four. Professor Madeleine Atkins is the Vice Chancellor of Coventry University. They introduce the 4th Coventry Conversations conference.

Formats/Diversity - Trish Adudu

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:33:12 +0000

Trish is a committed media professional with a proven track record of TV/Radio Presenting and also in developing, producing and having her formats aired. She talks about how to develop and sell a format.

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding: Fact or Faction - Coventry Conversations

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:22:09 +0000

Jake Bowers is one of Britain’s very few Romani journalists. Screened on Channel 4, the series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding was described by it’s makers, Cutting Edge, as “Ancient traditions meet modern fashions in an ostentatious culture clash in the world of 21st-century gypsy and traveller weddings.” How accurately did the series reflect the culture of Britain’s Gypsies and Travellers?

The Response to Organised Crime in the UK

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:38:00 +0000

Dennis Clark is a former Detective Chief Inspector of the Metropolitan Police and is now PhD Candidate at Coventry University. In this talk he discusses the response taken by the UK Police force to organised crime.

To find out more about courses at Coventry University please visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk

Why WikiLeaks might not be as radical as it thinks - Clare Birchall

coventryuniversity — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:09:18 +0000

Clare Birchall is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent. She is the author of Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (Berg, 2006), co-editor (with Gary Hall) of New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (EUP, 2006), and editor of a special issue of Cultural Studies (21 (1) 2007). She is the reviews editor for Culture Machine and is involved with various online projects including Liquid Theory TV, Liquid Books, and the Open Humanities Press.‘

The full title of this talk is ‘”If a right to the secret is not maintained, we are in a totalitarian space”: Why WikiLeaks might not be as radical as it thinks’.

Dr Clare Birchall discusses the way the ideal of open government might date back to the Enlightenment, but in recent years transparency has been given a modish inflection through its association with and dependence on e-technologies, as well as its invocation in the U.S. by Obama who has been called ‘America’s first hip president’ (Fulllwood, 2009). To go against transparency in the ‘west’ today is to be opposed to progress (conservative in the general sense); corrupt (if there is nothing to hide, why fear transparency?); or anti-democratic (the link between transparency and democracy has become unassailable). I want to try to open up a more nuanced debate in this paper. After examining transparency’s ascendance, and considering other academic critiques of transparency, I will be asking whether the left ought to be thinking about how it can appropriate the secret from the processes of (in)securitization that became a feature of the Bush administration, rather than investing wholly in transparency. The problem is not that America ‘has forgotten how to keep a secret’ as Donald Rumsfeld claimed in 2004, but that the left has forgotten to think through and with the secret; it has abandoned secrecy and its productive possibilities. The lessons and strategies of secrecy have been obscured, that is, by a moral attachment to disclosure. Recognizing this could open up a new public discourse: one that does not presume the political and moral alignments of concealment and disclosure.

The Open Media Talk series is brought to you by the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University.

Contested Spaces

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:08:30 +0000

Dr Martin Evans gives a talk to Coventry University students entitled Contested Spaces. In the talk, he discusses conflict, international aid and political restructuring in Senegal’s southern borderlands.

Jeff Jarvis: Guardian Columnist and Associate Professor of Interactive Journalism

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:03:04 +0000

Jeff Jarvis blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York. He is consulting editor and a partner in Daylife. He writes a new media column for The Guardian and is host of its Media Talk USA podcast.

Philip Oliver: Co-creator of Blitz Games Studios

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:59:34 +0000

Philip Oliver co-founded Blitz Games Studios in 1990 with his twin brother Andrew Oliver, following nearly ten years of designing and writing many number 1 UK games, including the hugely popular Dizzy series.

Andrew Davenport: Co-creator of the Teletubbies

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:55:28 +0000

Andrew Davenport is an award winning British producer, writer and composer specialising in creating television and publishing for young children. Davenport created the Teletubbies, and wrote all 365 episodes. He created ‘In the Night Garden’ and wrote all 100 episodes, composed the title theme and incidental music.

Mafia Women in Contemporary Italy

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:48:33 +0000

Dr. Ombretta Ingrasci (Queen Mary College, London & University of Milan) visits Coventry University to deliver a lecture to students.

She discusses mafia women, from traditional roles to leadership positions in contemporary Italy, and answers student questions on the changing role of women within mafia organisations.

Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium” - Daniel Rourke

coventryuniversity — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:02:35 +0000

Daniel Rourke is a writer and researcher based in London. His work explores the forgotten territories of text and writing, through experiments with alternate art history, post-humanist philosophy, digital noise and fictional science. Daniel is currently undertaking a Practice-Based PhD in Art and Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Find him on the web at MachineMachine.Net

In this discussion he talks about what is it about a particular media that makes it successful? Drawing a mini history from printing-press smudges to digital compression artefacts this lecture considers the value of error, chance and adaptation in contemporary media. Biological evolution unfolds through error, noise and mistake. Perhaps if we want to maximise the potential of media, of digital text and compressed file formats, we first need to determine their inherent redundancy. Or, more profoundly, to devise ways to maximise or even increase that redundancy.

The Open Media Talk Series is brought to you by the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University.

African High Commissioners Q & A

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:07:59 +0000

In March 2011, the high commissioners from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon and Nigeria visited Coventry. In Coventry Cathedral, the high commissioners talk to students from Coventry University, and answer their questions on a variety of topics including politics, student issues and how young African people can contribute to the future of their country.

Open Meaning in Digital Writing - Maria Mencia

coventryuniversity — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:55:44 +0000

María Mencía is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at Kingston University. She holds a PhD in Digital Poetics and Digital Art by the University of the Arts, London. She studied English Philology at the Complutense University in Madrid, Fine Art and History and Theory of Art at the University of the Arts London. Mencía’s practice-led research questions the mark as a meaningful and visual form, phonemes as ‘semantic’ units, the creation of new meanings in mediated textualities of image-sound-text. It draws from different cultural, artistic and literary traditions such as: linguistics, fine art, visual, concrete and sound poetry, with digital poetics, electronic writing, and new media art theories and practices.

Her practice in experimental, textual, generative and sound poetics is in collections such as the First volume of the Electronic Literature Collection, K. Hayles, N. Montfort, S. Rettberg, S. Strickland eds. The Electronic Literature Organization, UCLA Department of English, Los Angeles, as well as, in various e-lit and e-poetry databases at research centres, and has been exhibited at art galleries, international conferences and festivals such as ISEA, FILE, BEAP, onedotzero, Caixaforum, ICA and TATE Modern.

Her she discusses Open Meaning in Digital Writing

Kiss of life or the kiss of death? - Professor Malcolm Woolard

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:41:53 +0000

On Monday 21 February, Malcolm Woollard, Professor of Pre-hospital and Emergency Care from the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Coventry University, gave a Professorial Lecture about the use of the ‘kiss of life’ and why some experts in 1998 controversially recommended that mouth-to-mouth training be removed from public classes.

How to make a panorama in ten easy steps - Paul Kenyon

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:30:23 +0000

He made his first Panorama in 1999. Paul has reported on Gap and Nike breaking anti-sweatshop rules in Cambodia. In 2006 his investigation into a bail hostel revealed serious criminals were not being properly monitored after release. In 2000, he was given his own BBC One series, Kenyon Confronts, a program which hit the headlines in its very first run.

Last Men Standing in Local Radio - Phil Riley and Steve Orchard

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:16:15 +0000

In 2009 Phil purchased a number of heritage Midlands stations, including BRMB, Beacon, Mercia and more, Phil now runs the stations as CEO of Orion Media. Steve’s career highlights include high profile radio station launches and re-launches. Last year he set up a company which now owns six Midlands based stations.

Photography Talk: Benjamin Chesterton - Telling Stories

cuphotography — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:52:22 +0000

Benjamin Chesterton is a documentary producer for BBC radio 4 as well as forming half of ‘Duckrabbit’ productions and blog. Here Benjamin talks to students about the use of stills images alongside audio and video in Robert Gumpert’s work in San Francisco jails as well as ‘Open Eye: Lebanon’s Missing’, a documentary Benjamin produced, working with photographer Dalia Khamissy to tell the story of the thousands of people kidnapped during the Lebanese civil war.

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The Photographic Mediations Podcasts are brought to you by the Photography Course in the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University.

The Headington Shark - Bill Heine, BBC Radio Oxfordshire

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:16:41 +0000

The Headington Shark at 25; a brief history. The Shark became the most famous resident of Headington when it landed in the roof of 2 New High Street in the early hours of Saturday 9th August 1986.

Wayne Rooney: Trousers Down. Pay Up! - Jim White, Daily Telegraph

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:16:05 +0000

Jim was a founding member of The Independent in 1986 and worked there for a decade before moving to The Guardian. He won sports columnist of the year during his time there and established himself as one of the most well-respected sports journalists. He now writes for the Daily Telegraph as a regular columnist on sport, arts and other matters.

Zombie Media: Media Archaeology as Circuit Bending - Jussi Parikka

coventryuniversity — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:51:27 +0000

Reuse, remix, remediation, and various other inventions of the “re” are an emblematic part of contemporary digital culture. This talk gives an insight into how we can reimagine media archaeology as an artistic methodology of circuit bending and reinventing old media into new uses – something we refer to as “zombie” media instead of dead media. The talk addresses how the methodologies of reuse and opening up old technology can be seen as crucial artistic methodologies to address the political economy of closed consumer technologies – and how this links up with the ecological crisis of information waste. The talk is based on the text co-written by Garnet Hertz and Parikka, and nominated for the Transmediale 2011 Media Theory Award.

Dr Jussi Parikka is Director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy research institute at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He is Reader in Media Studies (Anglia Ruskin) and Adjunct Professor of Digital Culture Theory (University of Turku, Finland). Parikka is the author of Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (2007) and Insect Media (2010). His co-edited books include The Spam Book (2009) and the soon forthcoming Media Archaeology (2011). Currently he is writing a new book that investigates the new interpretations and theories of media archaeology. More information: http://www.jussiparikka.com.

The Open Media Talk Series is brought to you by the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University

The new ecology of information, how social edia challenges the University - Professor David Campbell

cuphotography — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:45:37 +0000

Professor David Campbell discusses the new ecology of information and how social media is challenging Universities as part of the Open Media Lecture Series at Coventry University

Photography Talk: Pete Brook -Tattoos, scars and tears, Robert Gumpert’s work in San Francisco jails

cuphotography — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:18:54 +0000

Pete Brook talks about the work of Robert Gumpert in San Francisco jails

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The Photographic Mediations Podcasts are brought to you by the Photography Course in the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University.

Barcelona FC: The End? Prof. Simon Chadwick

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:56:04 +0000

Simon Chadwick speaks about the changes that have taken place in Barcelona football club over the past decade.

Behind the scenes from The X Factor - Peter Ogden - TV Producer

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:45:50 +0000

Pete Ogden is a Coventry Uni graduate and is now a producer/director for X-Factor. He talks about his experiences working in the media.

I Love Photographing Cars - Mike Valente, Professional Photographer

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:34:43 +0000

Mike Valente is one of the UK’s leading car photographers. Although not conventially trained as a photographer he has now accumulated over 30 years experience in his field. Mike shoots in studio and on location and is now working on various future projects including the 2012 olympics.

Working the Media - David Bailey & Simon Chadwick

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:28:26 +0000

David Bailey has written extensively on globilisation, economic restructuring and policy responses, with special reference to the auto industry. He has an extensive media profile, having undertaken over a thousand media interviews in recent years. Simon Chadwick’s research and teaching interests lie in the areas of sponsorship, sports marketing and commercial strategy in sport.

Surviving the Perfect Storm: Editor Coventry Telegraph - Darren Parkin

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:23:43 +0000

Darren Parkin is the editor of the Coventry Telegraph, he has been in this post for over a year and talks about his experiences managing the Coventry Telegraph.

No ‘Off’ switch - Radio presenter Andy Kershaw

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:12:28 +0000

Andy presented his Radio 1 show for 15 years and joined Radio 3 in 2001. A journalist at heart, he has often reinvented himself as a foreign correspondent for BBC radio news and occasionally made travel documentaries for Channel 4. He reported for the BBC from the midst of a volcanic eruption at Montserrat.

Gill Furze - Biomedical vs. Biopsychosocial treatments: The example of Angina

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:04:57 +0000

Gill Furze is Professor of Adult Nursing and Health Care at Coventry University. To find out more about upcoming Professorial Lectures please visit http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/events/lectures/Pages/ProfessorialLecutures.aspx

Reducing Carbon Emissions- Can the Automobile make a positive contribution? Professor Peter White

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:20:05 +0000

Professor Peter White of Coventry University discusses carbon emission reduction, with a focus on the automobile. Topics raised in the lecture include technical innovation, alternative fuels and consumer attitudes towards motoring.

Part of the Coventry University professorial lectures series. To find out about upcoming lectures, please visit: http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/events/lectures/Pages/ProfessorialLecutures.aspx

Steve Herrmann - Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:49:50 +0000

Steve Herrman speaks at the Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference 24th November 2010.

Steve Herrmann is Editor of the multiple award winning BBC News website bbc.co.uk/news, a role he has held since January 2006.

Oliver Snoddy - Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:42:42 +0000

Oliver Snoddy speaks at the Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference 24th November 2010.

Oliver Snoddy was hired in October this year by Doremus to support the New York office in its digital activities.

Matthew Eltringham - Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:37:03 +0000

Matthew Eltringham speaks at the Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference 24th November 2010.

Matthew Eltringham is one of the BBC’s leading figures in social media and user generated content. He has spent over 15 years at the BBC working across radio, tv and web output.

Marc Reeves, Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference - 24th November 2010

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:36:32 +0000

Marc Reeves speaks at the Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference 24th November 2010.

Marc Reeves is editorial director of regional business news website TheBreakfastDesk.com, before joining the online only business he had a 22 year career in local and regional newspapers across the UK.

Julian March - Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:24:32 +0000

Julian March speaks at the Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference 24th November 2010.

Julian March is the Executive Producer for the Sky News Website.

Judith Townend, Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference, 24th November 2010

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:10:12 +0000

Judith Townend speaks at the Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference 24th November 2010.

Judith Townend is researching legal restraints on the media and specialises in online media reporting at the industry site Journalism.co.uk

Fred Mudhai - Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:47:32 +0000

Fred Mudhai speaks at the Face the Future Coventry Conversations conference 24th November 2010.

Fred Mudhai was part of IT and Civil Society Network of the IT and International Cooperation Program.

Transformative works and the politics of contemporary media engagement - Mafalda Stasi

coventryuniversity — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:46:32 +0000

Mafalda Stasi discusses Transmedia and Fan cultures as part of the Open Media Lecture Series at Coventry University

David Yelland: “My life in and out of the Sun”

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:05:12 +0000

David Yelland is a British writer, a former journalist and editor of The Sun and a partner at Brunswick Group LLP, a global finance public relations and communications company.

Christian Wolmer - The Railways of War: “Longer, Bloodier and More Extensive”

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:49:07 +0000

Christian is a writer and broadcaster specialising in transport. He has spent nearly all of his working life as a journalist and has written on a wide range of subjects from cricket to the Private Finance Initiative.

Paul Watson - My life is one long documentary

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:45:52 +0000

Paul is an English documentary filmmaker. He is an influential figure and has been responsible for a number of important documentaries since the 1960s.

Prof. Keith Popplewell - Sharing enterprise knowledge to collaborate

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:54 +0000

Prof. Keith Popplewell, Jaguar Cars Professor of Engineering Manufacture and Management. gives a lecture entitled Sharing enterprise knowledge to collaborate - A competitive strategy for SME’s. This lecture was part of the Coventry University Professorial lecture series.

To find out more please visit Coventry University

Mischief on the beach by Emilie Jones - A Coventry Words podcast

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:39:34 +0000

Mischief on the beach is childrens story written and narrated by Emilie Jones. Coventry Words has been set up to enable local creative writers and students showcase their work. Written work including Poetry, Song lyrics and Descriptive prose to Short stories.

To find out more about Coventry Words please visit the website.

Drake by Tyler Murray - A Coventry Words podcast

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:01:36 +0000

Drake is a children’s story written and narrated by Tyler Murray.

Coventry Words has been set up to enable local creative writers and students showcase their work. Written work including Poetry, Song lyrics and Descriptive prose to Short stories and Plays will be showcased.

To find out more about Coventry Words please visit the website.

Photography and Photojournalism in Haiti - Pete Brook

cuphotography — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:40:58 +0000

Pete Brook talks about the treatment and portrayal of Haitian prisoners following the earthquake of 2010.

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The Photographic Mediations Podcasts are brought to you by the Photography Course in the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University.

Photography: Narrative, Power and Responsibility - Professor David Campbell

cuphotography — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:36:09 +0000

Professor David Campbell talks about power and responsibility in relation to photographic narratives.

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The Photographic Mediations Podcasts are brought to you by the Photography Course in the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University.

Photography and Authorial Identity - Simon Roberts

cuphotography — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:26:14 +0000

Simon Roberts talks about the role of authorship in photographic practice and leveraging public support.

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The Photographic Mediations Podcasts are brought to you by the Photography Course in the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University.

This is a story about Penny by Beth Golds - A Coventry Words Podcast

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:42:39 +0000

This is a story about Penny is a childrens story by Beth Golds

To find out more about Coventry Words please visit the website.

The Spaceship in the shed by Kyle Weir - A Coventry Words podcast

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:54:50 +0000

The Spaceship in the shed is a childrens story by Kyle Weir

To find out more about Coventry Words please visit the website.

Shadows and 66 by Kyle Weir - A Coventry Words podcast

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:21:26 +0000

Shadows and 66 is a poem by Kyle Weir.

To find out more please visit the website.

Nebula Horizon by Kyle Weir - A Coventry Words podcast

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:03:17 +0000

Nebula Horizon is a poem by Kyle Weir.

To find out more please visit the website.

Blue Endings by Kyle Weir - A Coventry Words podcast

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:58:21 +0000

Blue Endings is a poem by Kyle Weir

To find out more please visit the website.

333 by Kyle Weir - A Coventry Words podcast

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:52:02 +0000

333 is a poem by Kyle Weir.

To find out more please visit the website.

53 by Kyle Weir - A Coventry Words podcast

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:21:29 +0000

53 is a poem by Kyle Weir.

To find out more please visit the website

Coventry Conversations - Mark Wild, Building Meerkat Manor

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:44:24 +0000

Mark is a multi-award winning producer and director of global television programmes with 20 years of experience in the UK film and television industry.

Coventry Conversations - Trevor Morris, talks PR

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:24:24 +0000

Trevor Morris is Visiting Professor in Public Relations at the University of Westminster and an author, business consultant and mentor. He was formerly the CEO of Chime Communications Public Relations Group, the UK’s largest PR group.

Coventry Conversations - Tamara Abood - Producing Dispatches

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:42:45 +0000

Tamara Abood, commissioning editor of news and current affairs on Channel 4, talked about her career and the experience of producing dispatches

Open Education: A case for the Arts and Humanities- Shaun Hides, Peter Woodbridge

coventryuniversity — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:49:56 +0000

Shaun Hides and Peter Woodbridge (Coventry University) present ‘Open Source Education: A radical case for the Arts and Humanities’.

Exploring some of the open projects in the department for Media and Communication at Coventry University.

Open Software and Digital Humanities - Federica Frabetti

coventryuniversity — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:58:39 +0000

Federica Frabetti discusses Open Software and Digital Humanities as part of the Open Media Lecture Series at Coventry University

Coventry Conversation - Tom Reeves & Brody Swain - BBC Local Radio

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:50:03 +0000

Tom Reeves and Brody Swain speak about their experiences working in local radio, the changing environment of local radio and how to get a job working in local radio.

Coventry Conversations - CJ Hubbard & Greg Keane

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:36:14 +0000

Two Coventry University graduates talk about their experiences of working in journalism since their graduations.

Coventry Conversation - Kirsty Wark, BBC Newsnight - Renaissance Woman

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:46:51 +0000

Kirsteen Wark is a Scottish journalist and television presenter best known for fronting the BBC Two’s news and current affairs programme Newsnight since 1993, and its weekly arts annexe Newsnight Review which is now relaunched as “The Review Show”.

Meet the Business Prof - Jon Billsberry

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:23:25 +0000

Jon is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Coventry University.

Les Worrall - Meet the Business Prof

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:18:57 +0000

Les is Professor of Strategic Analysis at Coventry University.

Charlie Beckett - News & Networks: Back to the Future

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:06:56 +0000

Charlie Beckett is the first director of Polis. He has 20 years of experience with LWT, BBC and ITN’s Channel 4 News. He broadcasts and writes regularly on media and political affairs

Neil Forbes - Defenders of Democracy?

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:52:44 +0000

Neil Forbes, Professor of International History gives a lecture entitled Defenders of Democracy? (Big business, ideological crisis and war, 1931-1940) as part of the University’s Professorial Lecture Series.

To find out more about upcoming Professorial Lectures please visit http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/ProfessorialLecutures

Financial Reporting - Adam Shaw - BBC Radio 4 Presenter

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:32:47 +0000

Adam Shaw is a journalist, actor and presenter, currently employed by the BBC. Between 1994 and 2008 Shaw presented on Working Lunch, working alongside Adrian Chiles. He was particularly known for the Shaw’s Shares segment of the programme, in which he rounds up the day’s happenings on the stock market.

The Nativity Brand Extensions - Debbie Isitt

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:16:11 +0000

Debbie Isitt has made three feature films – Nasty Neighbours, Confetti and Nativity. Nativity was released in November 2009; It had a world premiere in Coventry and got to number four in the Christmas film charts. She still lives in Coventry.

Meet the Business Professor - Denise Skinner

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:33:54 +0000

Denise is Acting Dean and Professor of Human Resource Management. Here she discusses her work.

Shameless & More - Paul Abbott

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:17:56 +0000

On your screen nightly, BBC Midlands Today - Nick Owen

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:10:12 +0000

Nick Owen is the main presenter on BBC Midlands Today. He came to national prominence in 1983 as one of the first faces to appear on breakfast television in Britain. Nick is a past President of Derbyshire County Cricket Club and current chairman of Luton Town Football Club. In 2006, he was awarded the Baird Medal by the Royal Television Society, Midlands, for lifelong achievement in television.

BBC Cyber Frontiers - Pete Clifton

coventryuniversity — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:27:31 +0000

Peter Clifton has overall responsibility for all new developments on BBC Journalism’s multimedia platforms. These include the News, Sport, Weather and Local websites, mobile, Red Button services and IPTV. Peter is responsible for the design and delivery of projects such as Democracy Live, the relaunch of the News and Sport websites and the development of a number of new journalism production tools.

I started in Cov - Jeremy Vine

coventryuniversity — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:25:50 +0000

Jeremy is a British journalist and news presenter for the BBC. He is known for his direct interview style and exclusive reporting from war-torn areas throughout Africa. He is the current host of the BBC Radio 2 program, Jeremy Vine, which presents news, views, and interviews with live guests. He began his journalistic career in Coventry, working for the Coventry Evening Telegraph.

Life is more than Top Gear - Steve Cropley

coventryuniversity — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:23:22 +0000

Steve is the Editor-in-Chief of Autocar and has been described as one of the most influential reporters working today.

Sports Business Strategy and Marketing - Professor Simon Chadwick

coventryuniversity — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:17:05 +0000

Simon became Professor of Sport Business Strategy and Marketing at Coventry University Business School in 2007. Simon has published extensively in the areas of sports marketing and sport business strategy and has collaborated with various organisations. He has also worked as a consultant to a variety of sport businesses.

Here he discusses his work.

Ambush Marketing in Sport - Simon Chadwick

coventryuniversity — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:21:08 +0000

Professor Simon Chadwick, from Coventry University Business School, discusses ambush marketing and its impact on sports in the future.

Life on Mars and other adventures in TV Drama - Stephen Garrett

coventryuniversity — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:03:29 +0000

Stephen Garrett is responsible for over 100 hours of broadcasting a year. His list of production credits includes work from TV drama ‘Psychos’ to the movie ‘Pure’ and the first series of ‘Spooks’, he is also an Executive Producer on the US version of ‘Life on Mars’.

In this Coventry Conversation he talks about some of his work.

The pros & cons of 3 models of Occupational Therapy - KAWA

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:31:08 +0000

Kee Hean Lim discusses the pros and cons of the Occupational Therapy model KAWA (River).

To find out more about Occupational Therapy courses at Coventry University please visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk/hls/ot

The pros & cons of 3 models of Occupational Therapy - MOHO

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:26:18 +0000

Kee Hean Lim discusses the pros and cons of the Occupational Therapy model MOHO.

To find out more about Occuptional Therapy courses at Coventry University please visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk/hls/ot

The pros & cons of 3 models of Occupational Therapy - CMOP

coventryuniversityjon — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:19:57 +0000

Kathleen Nthakomwa-Cassidy discusses the pros and cons of the Occupational Therapy model CMOP.

To find out more about Occupational Therapy courses at Coventry University please visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk/hls/ot

Coventry University London Campus - A real business experience

coventryuniversity — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:34:20 +0000

Hear what leading business figures think about Coventry University London Campus. To find out more please visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk/LondonCampus

Dr Mike Short - The International Health Service; The Power of Mobility and Broadband

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:59:11 +0000

The series entitled ‘Healthy Debates at Coventry’ has attracted influential contributors from the Health and Social Care sector. In this talk Dr Mike Short; Vice President Telefonica Europe, O2 discusses the the use of mobile technology within the NHS. To find out more please visit http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/hls

Dr Malcolm Fisk - Care or Custody?

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:54:28 +0000

The series entitled ‘Healthy Debates at Coventry’ has attracted influential contributors from the Health and Social Care sector. In this talk Dr Malcolm Fisk; Chairman of Telecare Services Association discusses the Impact of Telecare and TeleHealth. To find out more please visit http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/hls

Professor Bryan Stoten - From Good to Great; What will they do to the NHS next?

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:49:11 +0000

The series entitled ‘Healthy Debates at Coventry’ has attracted influential contributors from the Health and Social Care sector. In this talk Professor Bryan Stoten; Chair of NHS Confederation discusses the the current issues facing the NHS. To find out more please visit http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/hls

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh - Focussing on Quality and Innovation in the NHS

coventryuniversityjon — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:32:48 +0000

The series entitled ‘Healthy Debates at Coventry’ has attracted influential contributors from the Health and Social Care sector. In this talk Professor Sir Bruce Keogh; Medical Director NHS discusses the current issues facing the NHS. To find out more please visit http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/hls

Irregular Migration Discussion Part Two

coventryuniversity — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:34:22 +0000

Coventry University academics from the African Studies Centre and visiting experts discuss the issue of Irregular Migration.

Irregular Migration Discussion Part One

coventryuniversity — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:24:40 +0000

Coventry University academics from the African Studies Centre and visiting experts discuss the issue of Irregular Migration.

Transformational Marketing & Social Business - Prof. Michael Baker

coventryuniversity — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:11:30 +0000

The Academy of Marketing 2010 Conference, entitled Transformational Marketing, took place between the 6th to the 8th July 2010 at Coventry University.

In this closing plenary session, Professor Emeritus Michael Baker discusses Transformational Marketing and Social Business.

To find out more please visit http://www.am2010.org

Transformational Marketing - Rachel Elnaugh

coventryuniversity — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:09:56 +0000

The Academy of Marketing 2010 Conference, entitled Transformational Marketing, took place between the 6th to the 8th July 2010 at Coventry University.

In this talk entrepreneur Rachel Elnaugh discusses the role of transformational marketing on the future of businesses and brands.

To find out more please visit http://www.am2010.org

Benign Envy - Russell Belk

coventryuniversity — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:08:28 +0000

The Academy of Marketing 2010 Conference, entitled Transformational Marketing, took place between the 6th to the 8th July 2010 at Coventry University.

In this talk Professor Russell Belk discusses benign envy.

To find out more please visit http://www.am2010.org

Industry Roundtable on Corporate Social Responsibility

coventryuniversity — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:06:56 +0000

The Academy of Marketing 2010 Conference, entitled Transformational Marketing, took place between the 6th to the 8th July 2010 at Coventry University.

This roundtable discusses Corporate Social Responsibility from a number of perspectives and includes representatives from IBM, Severn Trent and United Arab Emirates. It is chaired by Sir John Egan.

To find out more please visit http://www.am2010.org

The Future of Marketing Capability - The Chartered Institute of Marketing

coventryuniversity — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:05:35 +0000

The Academy of Marketing 2010 Conference, entitled Transformational Marketing, took place between the 6th to the 8th July 2010 at Coventry University.

David Thorp and Thomas Brown from The Chartered Institute of Marketing discuss the issue of Improving Marketing Capability in business.

To find out more please visit http://www.am2010.org

Defending Your Dissertation - Michael Baker

coventryuniversity — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:03:00 +0000

The Academy of Marketing 2010 Conference, entitled Transformational Marketing, took place between the 6th to the 8th July 2010 at Coventry University.

This talk was delivered as part of the Doctoral Colloquium that took place alongside the conference. Professor Emeritus Michael Baker offers advice on defending your dissertation at the viva.

To find out more please visit http://www.am2010.org

Rigour in the PhD Process - Adamantios Diamantopoulos

coventryuniversity — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:01:28 +0000

The Academy of Marketing 2010 Conference, entitled Transformational Marketing, took place between the 6th to the 8th July 2010 at Coventry University.

This talk was delivered as part of the Doctoral Colloquium that took place alongside the conference. Professor Adamantios Diamantopoulos discusses establishing rigour in the PhD process.

To find out more please visit http://www.am2010.org

Publishing Roundtable - John Cadogan and Nick Lee

coventryuniversity — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:01:07 +0000

The Academy of Marketing 2010 Conference, entitled Transformational Marketing, took place between the 6th to the 8th July 2010 at Coventry University.

This talk was delivered as part of the Doctoral Colloquium that took place alongside the conference. Professor John Cadogan and Professor Nick Lee discuss their model for making sure you get published.

To find out more please visit http://www.am2010.org

Coventry University speaks to Education Radio Nigeria

coventryuniversity — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:27:29 +0000

Gary Armstrong, Deputy Director International Office, and Tim Hunt, Regional Manager Africa, speak about Coventry University and Coventry University London Campus in this radio interview.

Coventry University’s Tim Hunt speaks to Nostalgie Radio 96.0FM, Cameroon

coventryuniversity — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:25:15 +0000

Tim Hunt, Regional Manager Africa at Coventry University, speaks to Carole Leuwe from Nostalgie radio about Coventry University and Coventry University London Campus.

Media Festival 2010

coventryuniversity — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:45:07 +0000

Interviews and highlights from the Media Festival at Coventry University

Design and Visual Arts Degree Show 2010

coventryuniversity — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:44:12 +0000

Highlights from the Design and Visual Arts Launch night at the 2010 degree show in Coventry University

Performing Arts Degree Show 2010

coventryuniversity — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:42:51 +0000

Highlights from the Performing Arts degree show at Coventry University

Fashion Show 2010

coventryuniversity — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:41:25 +0000

Highlights of the 2010 Fashion Show at Coventry School of Art and Design

Industrial Design Degree Show 2010

coventryuniversity — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:40:14 +0000

Highlights from the industry private view from the Industrial Design department at Coventry University

The Vicar of Bagdhad - Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:32:08 +0000

The Reverend Canon Andrew White “The Vicar of Bagdhad” talks about Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice. The talk was held in the Holy Trinity church and was part of the opening ceremony for the Conference of European University Chaplains held at Coventry University.

To find out more about the conference please visit http://www.ceuc.org

Risk Behaviours and Health - Dr Mike Titterton

coventryuniversity — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:15:54 +0000

Dr Mike Titterton (from HALE: Health and Life for Everyone) discusses his research into Risk and Risk Behaviours in Health by reflecting on his experiences in the UK and Internationally.

Stormy Days Ahead - John Kettley

coventryuniversity — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:42:17 +0000

John worked at the meteorological office at Manchester Airport for two years from 1970 before studying Applied Physics at what is now Coventry University. From 1980 he worked at the Nottingham Weather Centre, presenting his first forecast for Radio Lincolnshire, then further forecasts for Midlands Today. In 1985 he became a national forecaster on the BBC.

How can we get people to walk more? - Professor David French

coventryuniversity — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:59:46 +0000

David French is Professor of Health Psychology in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences in Coventry University.

In this talk he discusses the health benefits of helping people to be more active through walking and the way that health psychology interventions can dramatically improve the amount of walking that people do.

Please visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk/hli to find out more about research into Health and Lifestyle Interventions at Coventry University.

Directing the General Election - Rob Hopkin

coventryuniversity — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:38:28 +0000

Rob Hopkin was at the very apex of the General Election programme. He was the main director in the Television Centre gallery responsible for bringing together scores of outside broadcasts in four nations, five star presenters in London and much more.

Here he discusses how such a huge broadcasting operation comes together.

Life in the Motor Industry - Richard Parry-Jones

coventryuniversity — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:33:26 +0000

Richard Parry-Jones is an automotive engineering leader who worked for the Ford Motor Company for 38 years.

Richard spent nearly ten years as group Vice President in charge of Research and Development for Ford and its subsiduary companies worldwide, leading a staff of 30,000 Product Development professionals in 15 countries. He was also the company’s Chief Technical Officer up until his retirement in 2007. He now consults a range of blue-chip clients and is involved in a number of engineering and education related projects in the UK and beyond.

This lecture covers his career from designing the brakes on the Ford Capri right up until his ventures into motorsport, including working on the Jaguar Formula One team.

The Election in Numbers - Roger Mortimer, MORI

coventryuniversity — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:33:04 +0000

Dr Roger Mortimore is Director of Political Analysis at Ipsos MORI. He was co-editor of the last two Political Communications studies of British general elections, and co-author of a number of other books on British elections.

Here he discusses statistics and polls undertaken throughout this years general election, including how the exit poll managed to predict the result so accurately. To see the slides from this presentation visit http://cutoday.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/election-results-just-about-right/

Give Peace Journalism a Chance - Professor Richard Keeble

coventryuniversity — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:22:17 +0000

Richard Keeble is a director of the Institute of Communication Ethics and co-edits their quarterly journal, Ethical Space. He is on the editorial board for a number of international journals.

Here he discusses the role of peace journalism in challenging key issues around war and contemporary culture.

The Car is Still the Star - Gavin Green

coventryuniversity — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:08:37 +0000

Gavin is one of Britain’s best-known motoring writers. He was editor of Car magazine when it was the best selling motoring magazine in Britain, and is a former motoring editor of The Independent and the International Herald Tribune.

Murray Walker talks about his career in motorsport broadcasting

coventryuniversityjon — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:17:06 +0000

In this Coventry Conversation Motorsport broadcasting legend Murray Walker talks about his long and distinguished career as a motorsport commentator.

Enterprising Staff at Coventry University

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:09:39 +0000

The Institute of Applied Entrepreneurship (IAE) is home to all enterprise and entrepreneurship activities at Coventry University. The Institute offers the region and its students, graduates and staff a broad range of entrepreneurial support and services for every level and stage of business start-up and growth. The vision of the IAE is to become an internationally recognised institute of excellence which promotes an entrepreneurial lifestyle and mindset within the University community and its stakeholders. This video looks at how the staff at the IAE embrace an entrepreneurial outlook throughout all their teaching and mentoring activities. To find out more please visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk/enterprise

Enterprising Partnerships - MIRA

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:01:38 +0000

In this video Mike Dickison (Coventry University) & Angus Lock (MIRA) talk about the work they are doing around the area of low carbon technology within the automotive industry.

To find out more please visit www.coventry.ac.uk

Getting BBC News Online - Mike Smartt

coventryuniversity — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:24:04 +0000

Mike was the founder and editor-in-chief of BBC News Online, the BBC’s Internet news service. He led the team which launched the service in 1997, and held the post of editor-in-chief of BBC News Interactive until 2004. During this time News Online won all four interactive news BAFTA awards and most of the world’s online news prizes.

Innovate Issue 7 Applied Research at Coventry University

coventryuniversityjon — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:26:24 +0000

In this issue;

Special focus - Sports
Dream Machine - The University made one man’s lifelong dream come true with a bespoke car design
Living off the land - An educational project in nigeria is training graduates to profit from organic sustainable agriculture
Recession Buster - A funding package is helping businesses realise their potential during the difficult economic climate
Niche Vehicles - The University is offering research and development support to niche vehicle manufacturers
Passion for Fashion - Encouraging small enterprises in south Africa
Happy Campus - Art and leadership management are improving life at The Camping and Caravanning Club

Fashion v Sport - Peter York

coventryuniversity — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:01:56 +0000

Cultural commentator and author Peter York discusses the recent exhibition about ‘Fashion vs Sport’ at the Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry.

The Migration Aware Project - African Studies Centre

coventryuniversity — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:18:42 +0000

Professor Bruce Baker talks about Coventry University’s involvement with the Migration Aware project.

Migration Aware is a project funded by the European Union and administered by the United nations development programme that aims to fill the information gap preventing potential irregular migrants in Ibadan, Nigeria from making an informed decision on whether to embark on the migration process based on a sound knowledge and understanding of potential threats to, and exploitation of, the migrant both in transit and in destination countries.

To find out more please visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk/africanstudies

Health at Coventry University Issue 4

coventryuniversity — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:28:09 +0000

The 4th issue of the Coventry University magazine looking at issues in health.

Coventry University London Campus meets Mike Short from O2

coventryuniversity — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:58:57 +0000

Dr Janet Hanah, Director of CULC, meets Dr Mike Short, Vice President, Research & Development at O2, to talk about Coventry University London Campus.

To find out more information about London Campus please visit www.coventry.ac.uk/londoncampus

Coventry University London Campus Visualisation

coventryuniversityjon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:33:07 +0000

A visualisation of the new Coventry University London campus in Central London.*

To find out more please visit www.coventry.ac.uk/LondonCampus

*A representation of what the Coventry University London campus will look like

Introduction to the Three Models of Community Cohesion Seminar - Prof Harris Beider

coventryuniversity — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:16:05 +0000

Harris Beider is Professor of Community Cohesion at iCoCo. Here he introduces the Three Models of Community Cohesion seminar day.

A short history of Community Cohesion in the UK - Nick Johnson, iCoCo

coventryuniversity — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:08:36 +0000

Nick is a public policy professional, with extensive experience of policy development, research and strategic leadership. He is a leading writer and commentator on issues of integration, equality and cohesion. Here he discusses the history of community cohesion in the UK: including the issues, challenges and next steps.

This talk is part of the AHRC funded series on Community Cohesion. This event was titled ‘The Three Models of Community Cohesion’.

Immigrant Integration on the Local Level in Germany - Dr Eva Dick and Dr Katrin Gliemann

coventryuniversity — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:06:27 +0000

Dr Eva Dick and Dr Katrin Gliemann are from Technische Universitat in Dortmund, Germany. Here they discuss Immigrant Integration on the Local Level in Germany, focusing on Dortmund.

This talk is part of the AHRC funded series on Community Cohesion. This event was titled ‘The Three Models of Community Cohesion’.

Public housing transformation and integration in Chicago - Dr Susan Popkin

coventryuniversity — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02:01 +0000

Susan J. Popkin is both Director of The Urban Institute’s Program on Neighborhoods and Youth Development and a Senior Fellow in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center. Here she discusses the role of public housing transformation and its role in segregation.

This talk is part of the AHRC funded series on Community Cohesion. This event was titled ‘The Three Models of Community Cohesion’.

Community Cohesion in an Era of Super Diversity - Ted Cantle, iCoCo

coventryuniversity — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:45:28 +0000

Ted Cantle is Professor of Community Cohesion at the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo).

In this Professorial Lecture he discusses how Community Cohesion emerged as a new policy framework for race and diversity issues just over 9 years ago. Since then it has been widely adopted by statutory and voluntary agencies and more latterly by businesses. The 23,000 schools in England are now under a duty to promote community cohesion and programmes to tackle prejudice and intolerance, reduce inequalities and to more positively promote belonging and the benefits of diversity, are evident in just about every neighbourhood.

As the architect of the cohesion concept Professor Cantle considers the key challenges ahead.

Afghanistan Conference - Are we embedding the truth?

coventryuniversity — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:01:38 +0000

This conference was organised by Coventry University, Journalism.co.uk and the BBC College of Journalism to discuss the role of the media in the Afghanistan conflict. Speakers included Stuart Ramsey, Vaughan Smith, Jonathan Marcus, Tim Luckhurst, Jon Williams, Brigadier Mark van der Lande, Hanan Habibzai, Richard Keeble and Fred Mudhai. Chaired by Kevin Marsh.

Investigating Organised Crime in the UK - Bob Barnes

coventryuniversity — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:08:10 +0000

Bob Barnes is a former Principle Officer in the Serious and Organised Crime Agency and Detective Sergeant in the National Crime Squad. Here he discusses organised crime in the UK.

Coventry University London Campus

coventryuniversity — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:55:11 +0000

Coventry University is serious about business. Already one of the largest providers of business-related degree courses in Europe, we are now expanding our distinctive portfolio even further.

From October 2010 we are offering MBA courses and undergraduate top-up programmes that will be delivered in one of the world’s most powerful global cities. We believe there is no better place to learn about business than to work in the heart of the world’s financial markets.

This vibrant, culturally diverse city is a fantastic setting for students to immerse themselves in both the academic and practical side of the business world.

Fighting Cancer with Control Theory - Olivier Haas, CTAC

coventryuniversity — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:07:05 +0000

The work carried out in Coventry within the MAESTRO European project on Methods and Advanced Equipment for Simulation and Treatment in Radiation Oncology (MAESTRO) has demonstrated that it is possible to reduce the amount of radiation dose delivered to healthy tissues during radiotherapy treatment by compensating for organ motion using a standard treatment couch. The Coventry team led by Dr Haas, coordinator of the Medical Technology group within CTAC (The Control Theory Applications Centre), has been working in close collaboration with the staff at the Radiotherapy Physics Department within the University Hospital in Coventry for more than 15 years.

In the last 5 years the Coventry team has been working on improving the accuracy of current closed loop control of radiotherapy treatment machines as well as developing algorithms to model and predict organ motion in the thorax and the pelvis. The work involves many branches of engineering and computing including the image processing for the localisation of the cancerous tissue and tracking of surrogate motion, signal processing for the analysis and modelling of organ motion, artificial intelligence for the prediction of the evolution of the organ motion, systems engineering for the modelling of the medical robots used and last but not least control engineering to improve the performance of the medical equipment and robots.

To find out more about the project visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk/maestro

Fighting the Mafia - Guido Copolla

coventryuniversity — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:06:14 +0000

Guido Coppolla discusses the issues involved in fighting the Mafia.

Introduction to ‘Does Faith have a role in Community Cohesion’ - Dr Adam Dinham, Goldsmiths

coventryuniversity — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:54:44 +0000

Dr Adam Dinham welcomes guests to the Institute of Community Cohesion’s ESRC Seminar Series discussing ‘Does faith have a role in community cohesion’.

Faith, representation and cohesion - Dr Rachael Chapman, Northumbria

coventryuniversity — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:52:28 +0000

Dr Rachael Chapman is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Northumbria University. Here she discusses ‘Faith, representation and cohesion’ at the iCoCo ESRC seminar series on ‘Does faith have a role in Community Cohesion?’

Multi-faith forums as structures for Community Cohesion - Martha Shaw, Goldsmiths

coventryuniversity — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:50:19 +0000

Martha Shaw, Goldsmiths. discusses Multi-faith forums as structures for Community Cohesion at the iCoCo ESRC seminar series on ‘Does faith have a role in Community Cohesion?’

Faith, conflict resolution and peace building in Community Cohesion - Richard Slade

coventryuniversity — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:42:20 +0000

Richard Slade is undertaking PhD research exploring the role of conflict resolution processes and dialogue in addressing tensions between communities in the UK. In this talk he discusses ‘Faith, conflict resolution and peace building in Community Cohesion’ at the iCoCo ESRC seminar series on ‘Does faith have a role in Community Cohesion?’

Criminology Students visit Auschwitz and Birkenau

coventryuniversityjon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:42:40 +0000

In November a group of Coventry University Criminology students went on a trip to Krakow in Poland. As part of the trip they visited the Nazi concentration camps in Auschwitz and Birkenau. In this video some of the students share their experience.

To find out more about Criminology at Coventry University please visit www.coventry.ac.uk/hls

igloo Seminar - Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martinelli

coventryuniversity — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:56:20 +0000

Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martinelli discuss their work at igloo.

Google Us for the Future - Peter Barron

coventryuniversity — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:34:23 +0000

Peter Barron’s digital incarnation might surprise those who know him best as the man who steered Newsnight for four years. His move to Google last September caused a stir.

Since his arrival he has had to deal with controversies such as privacy issues in Google Street View and more. Here he discusses his first 18 months.

Digital Dance Partners: Fusing Performance, Technology, Academy Industry- Sita Popat & Scott Palmer

coventryuniversity — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:58:49 +0000

Sita Popat is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds, developing her interests in dance performance and choreography in a variety of digital and new media contexts. She has choreographed on dancers, robots and digital sprites, and is fascinated by the interrelationships between performers, operators and computers. She is also the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.

Scott Palmer is also a lecturer at the University of Leeds and his research focuses on scenography, lighting design and the interaction between technology and performance. Scott has written several books on Stage Management, Lighting and Sound including his current work A Lighting Reader for the Palgrave Macmillan Theatre Practices series.

In this talk they discuss their exploration into the interactivity between dancers, computers and operators, bringing together the fields of dance, scenography and digital art. They also discuss the impact they have made beyond the academy by working with industry collaborators.

Why we love the Archers - Chris Arnott

coventryuniversity — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:24:10 +0000

Chris Arnot has been a national freelance journalist for nearly 20 years and is currently writing a book about The Archers. After updating the programme’s Who’s Who last summer, he was commissioned with script-writer Simon Frith to write The Archers’ Archive to mark the 60th Anniversary of the world’s longest running drama series.

Introduction to Korean Horror Cinema - Dr Colette Balmain

coventryuniversity — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:35:50 +0000

Dr Colette Balmain is a published author and specialist on East Asian Cinema. Here she gives a brief introduction to ‘South’ Korean Horror Cinema and introduces the screening of ‘Shadows in the Palace’.

This talk was organised by the Coventry University East Asian Film Society.

A Different View of News - Stephen Cole, Al Jazeera

coventryuniversity — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:55:28 +0000

For more than eighteen years Stephen Cole has fronted the worlds leading and most respected news channels including Sky News and CNN, eventually joining BBC World in 1996. He is now the senior anchor at Al Jazeera English based in London.

In this Coventry Conversation he discusses the work of the Al Jazeera channel - which is often criticised by politicians for the stance it takes on contemporary debates.

International Experience - Thomas

coventryuniversityjon — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:15:45 +0000

IEMS has a catalogue of opportunities to help Coventry University students and recent graduates acquire the skills and attributes to gain international experience and become globally-employable.

In this interview Thomas a European Engineering Business Management graduate talks about his experiences studying and working abroad in china, USA, Spain and Luxembourg.

To find out more please visit http://www.coventry.ac.uk/internationalexperience

My Vision for the BBC - Jana Bennett

coventryuniversity — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:49:44 +0000

Jana Bennett was appointed Director of BBC Vision in November 2006. Jana is in charge of one of the world’s leading multimedia content groups, commissioning, producing and broadcasting across BBC Television and the web. She heads BBC One through to BBC Four, BBC HD, CBBC and CBeebies. The Vision group also includes BBC Films – Britains second largest funder of UK film. In addition, Jana has overall responsibility for BBC Archive Content and editorial management of UKTV and BBC America.

She discusses her thoughts about the future of BBC here.

Radical Research and Video Activism - Ewa Jasiewicz

coventryuniversity — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:05:01 +0000

Ewa Jasiewicz is a writer, journalist and activist who takes a radical approach to her work.

She was in Baghdad during the US/British occupation of Iraq (including a group protest inside the press conference of the Supreme Commander of the US Occupation Forces General Sanchez where she got physically ejected) and was reporting from inside Gaza during the 2008 siege by Israel. She is currently involved in the Free Gaza floatilla taking sail this spring and is featured in the recent film ‘To Shoot an Elephant’ by Alberto Arce and Mohammad Rujailah. Ewa is also co-editor of Le Monde Diplomatique Polish Edition.

In this talk Ewa discusses a different point of view from the embedded and self-censored reporting that Sky and the BBC are so fond off.

Managing Rio Ferdinand and others - Chris Nathaniel

coventryuniversity — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:41:03 +0000

Chris Nathaniel is CEO of the NVA Entertainment Group, a leading company working across the entertainment and sports industries.

Chris has negotiated deals for John Terry and works closely with Rio Ferdinand, Micah Richards, Obafemi Martins and Ryan Babel.

How I Write - Andrew Davies

coventryuniversity — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:33:28 +0000

Andrew Davies has written screenplays for Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, Wives and Daughters and Tipping the Velvet and many more. He is considered to be British television’s adaptation master.

In this Coventry Conversations he discusses his approach to writing.

The Internet and Social Change in China - Professor Alan Hunter

coventryuniversity — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:08:01 +0000

Alan Hunter is Professor of Asian Studies at Coventry University. In this talk he discusses the social, cultural and political impact that the internet has had on China- exploring a number of interesting case studies of web-enabled activism within the People’s Republic.

To find out more about Professor Alan Hunter’s work you can visit the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University http://www.coventry.ac.uk/peacestudy

How I Write - Amanda Smyth and Mez Packer

coventryuniversity — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:31:31 +0000

Amanda Smyth and Mez Packer are both published authors. They speaking here as part of the Coventry Conversations Literary Festival.

46 years in TV and they hand you a maroon tie! - Peter Sissons

coventryuniversity — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:27:16 +0000

After many years as a journalist, Peter Sissons’ first stint as a newsreader came in 1976 when he began anchoring ITN’s News at One bulletins. In 1987 he left for the BBC and in 1989 he took over as presenter of Question Time. He continued until December 1993. He has worked for ITN, Channel 4 News and BBC News.

Here he discusses his career.

Equality and Diversity in the Media - Dhiren Katwa

coventryuniversity — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:28:12 +0000

Dhiren Katwa is with the Environment Agency as External Relations Advisor. He has been a trustee of Birmingham Rathbone (a charity for people with mild to moderate learning difficulties) since 2007. In addition, he sits on the ITV Central Diversity Panel and on the Diversity Board of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and a member of the Equality Council of the National Union of Journalists.

Here he discusses the current issues in making the media a more diverse and equal industry.

Far Right Politics - Matthew Goodwin

coventryuniversity — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:24:51 +0000

Matthew Goodwin, an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, discusses far right politics and the BNP.

Recorded at iCoCo on the 25th February 2009

The role of the media in cohesion - Nick Carter

coventryuniversity — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:22:05 +0000

Nick Carter is a former editor of the Leicester Mercury and is currently Executive Chairman of of Prospect Leicestershire- an economic development company for Leicester.

In this talk, recorded on the 21st April 2009, he discusses the role of the media in community cohesion.

My Life on the Radio - Mark Powlett

coventryuniversity — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:18:52 +0000

Mark is a graduate of Coventry University. As an actor he toured the UK and Ireland and worked overseas too. He worked on a television show in Birmingham that was filmed in and around the city. He now works at BBC Coventry and Warwickshire in the afternoon slot.

Here he discusses his life in radio.

Contemporary Japanese Cinema - Domestic Appeal vs International Prestige - Dr John Berra

coventryuniversity — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:23:35 +0000

Dr John Berra is an Independent Scholar and Author who has written extensively about American and Japanese Independent Cinema. His most recent book is The Directory of World Cinema: Japan to be released in February 2010.

This talk was organised by the Coventry University East Asian Film Society.

Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - Panel Discussion

coventryuniversity — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:00:06 +0000

Martin Davidson (Chief Executive of the British Council), Shahid Malik (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government), Mike Hardy (Director of Intercultural Dialogue British Council) and Ted Cantle (Executive Chair of iCoCo) speak at the launch of the Intercultural dialogue online resource guide.

This event took place on the 3rd February 2010.

The True Cost of Tiger Woods’ Fall - Professor Simon Chadwick

coventryuniversity — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:05:00 +0000

Professor Simon Chadwick continues the examination of Tiger Woods’ downfall with a focus on the real costs of what has happened.

The Fall of Tiger Woods - Jim White

coventryuniversity — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:02:03 +0000

Jim White is a sports columnist for the daily telegraph as well as an author and broadcaster. He was a founding member of The Independent in 1986 and worked there for a decade before moving to The Guardian. He won sports columnist of the year during his time there and established himself as one of the most well-respected sports journalists. He now writes for the Daily Telegraph as a regular columnist and arts critic.

He talks today about the fall of Tiger Woods.

My Brilliant Career - Steve Cropley

coventryuniversity — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:59:07 +0000

Steve Cropley is editor-in-chief of Haymarket’s Autocar magazine. He began working in journalism on the Adelaide Advertiser as a cadet in 1967. He was recruited by CAR in 1978, and became editor from 1981 – 1988.

He is still a day to day contributor and columnist at Autocar and still loves it. Here he discusses getting on and getting into journalism