Conference Programme

Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom

11-13 January 2017 School of Media and Communication University of

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Contents

School of Media and Communication / Acknowledgements 3

About MeCCSA 4 Location Information 5

Schedule at a Glance / Room Information 6-7

Keynotes 8-9

Roundtables & Events 10-11 Panel Information: Day 1 12-15

Panel Information: Day 2 16-21

Panel Information: Day 3 22-26

Practical Information 26-27

MeCCSA 2018 Back Cover

Welcome to Leeds!

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School of Media and Communication The School of Media and Communication is a leading centre for media and communications research. Our research is multidisciplinary, theoretically innovative and socially relevant. Researchers at the School are involved in extensive networks of collaboration with academic institutions, the public sector and media industries, both within the UK and across the globe.

The School’s research is organised internally into broad themes or research groups, which provide supportive environments in which collaborative approaches are nurtured.

These research groups currently comprise:  Media industries and cultural production  Journalism studies  Political communication  Global communication  Visual media and communication  Digital cultures

A vibrant and growing community of PhD students is an essential part of our research culture. We are also committed to research-led teaching, which is reflected in the portfolio of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

http://media.leeds.ac.uk/research/

Acknowledgements

The School of Media and Communication would like to thank MeCCSA for the opportunity to host the 2017 MeCCSA conference. We’d again like to thank the keynote speakers, the presenters in our paper sessions and film screenings, publishers and exhibitors, and all the delegates for participating in the event. Additionally, we have received support from numerous colleagues across the university and within the MeCCSA executive for every aspect of the planning and management of the conference. The co-convenors Katy Parry and Anna Zoellner would particularly like to thank the conference committee members:

Sarah-Joy Ford (research administrator) Chris Birchall (website) Nely Konstantinova (website) Julie Firmstone (postgraduate helpers Giles Moss (website) Victoria Jaynes (delegate packs) and roundtables) Simon Popple (library collections) Natasha Ranahu (conference office) Ian MacDonald (publishers and Bethany Klein (pub quiz) Dan Merrick (Music) roundtable) Samuel Smith (logo design) Stephen Coleman Steve Lax (MeCCSA liaison and roundtable) James Mason (programme design) Nancy Thumim Beth Johnson (roundtable) Anna Ozimek (publishers) Kate Nash Lee Edwards (abstract review process) Runze Ding (abstract review process) Tom Tyler Kate Oakley (abstract review process) Charlotte Elliott (abstract review Caspar Stevens process) David Hesmondhalgh (keynotes) Sally Osei-Appiah Yinyi Luo (technical support) Ian Bucknell (live blogging) And all our postgraduate helpers.

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About MeCCSA

MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE in- stitutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV stud- ies, media production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. MeCCSA is an unincorporated association, whose constitution includes the following purposes:  Supporting, developing and representing the interests of Higher Education in the field  Providing a professional forum for members to exchange information and experience  Raising public understanding of the field  Maintaining and improving the quality of provision in teaching and learning in the field  Advising research and funding councils, and other relevant national and international bodies  Promoting the interests of students  Fostering research in the field  Advising on professional qualifications in the field  Promoting policies which encourage diversity and equal opportunities in the field

The Association currently has nine Networks: Climate Change; Disability; Postgraduate; Practice; Policy; Race; Radio; Social Movements; Women’s Media Studies. The Networks will be meeting over lunch on MeCCSA 2017 Day 2 in the following locations: Climate Change Network - Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music Disability Studies Network - Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music Policy Network - Lecture Theatre 3, School of Music Postgraduate Network - School of Music Foyer Practice Network - Lecture Theatre 4, School of Music Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Network - Lecture Theatre G.12, Clothworkers’ North Radio Studies Network - Seminar Room 1.17, Clothworkers’ North Social Movements Network- Conference Room 1.18, Clothworkers’ North Women’s Media Studies Network - Philip M. Taylor Cinema, Clothworkers’ North

www.meccsa.org.uk

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Location Information

Parkinson Building Registration (Day 1) Lunch (Days 1-3) & Refreshments Publishers’ Stands Library Showcase Wine Reception Local Beer Festival Café Toilets

School of Music Panels: A, B, C, D Keynotes Book Launch Roundtables Lunch (Day 3) Toilets

Clothworkers’ North School of Media and Communication Panels: E, F, G Film Screenings ‘Cultures of Beer’ Panel Toilets

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Schedule at a glance

Day 1: Wednesday 11 January 2017 11:30 – 17:30 Registration (with brunch refreshments) 12:30 – 13:00 Conference opening and welcome 13:00 – 14:00 Keynote 1: Andrew Ross ‘High Culture/Hard Labour: Looking Beyond the Creatives’ 14:00 – 14:30 Refreshments 14:30 – 16:00 Panel sessions 1A-1G 16.00 – 16.15 Comfort break 16:15 – 17.15 Roundtable 1 Book Launch: Making Media in the North ‘News in the Mediated City’ 17:15 – 17:45 Refreshments 17:45 – 19:15 Panel sessions 2A-2F Beer Panel (Sam Goodman) 19:15 – 20:15 Wine Reception and Beer Festival (Parkinson’s Court) 21:00 – 22:30 Pub Quiz – The Victoria Hotel

Day 2: Thursday 12 January 2017 (interactive BU Innovation Booth to run today in Music foyer space) 08:30 – 17:30 Registration 09:00 – 09:50 Keynote 2: Shakuntala Banaji ‘Techno-emancipation and the youthful poor’ 09.50 – 10.00 Comfort break 10:00 – 11.30 Panel sessions 3A-3G 11:30 – 12.00 Refreshments 12:00 – 13:00 Roundtable 2.1 Roundtable 2.2 How Practice film Media and Public to get your PhD Pub- Screening: Interest lished in Journals Y Gors (WRDTC) 13:00 – 14:00 Buffet lunch and MeCCSA Network meetings 14:00 – 15:30 Panel sessions 4A-4G Screening: Colours of the Alphabet 15:30 – 16:00 Refreshments 16:00 – 17:30 MeCCSA AGM (incl. Academic Freedom debate) 17.30 – 17.35 Comfort break 17:35 – 18:25 Keynote 3: Paul Gilroy ‘The old new racism and the new old nationalism: melancholia and pro- spective nostalgia’ 19:30 onwards Conference Dinner (Sukhothai) Film Screening: The Divide

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Schedule at a glance

Day 3: Friday 13 January 2017 8:30 – 13:30 Registration 9:00 – 10:30 Panel sessions 5A-5G Repeat Screening: The Divide 10:30 – 11:00 Refreshments 11:00 – 12:00 Roundtable 3 Library collection show- Repeat Practice film Ofcom + Academic case session (on the screening: collaboration feminism and Romany Y Gors (TBC) media archives)

12.00 – 12.10 Comfort break 12:10 – 13:40 Panel sessions 6A-6F Repeat Screening: Colours of the Alphabet 13:40 – 14:30 Buffet lunch Lunchtime Session: What Media Studies Academics should know about Open Access 14:30 – 15:30 Keynote 4: Barbie Zelizer ‘Resetting Journalism in the Aftermath of Brexit and Trump’ (And closing)

Room Information

Catering and publishers’ Parkinson Court (Parkinson Building) stands (except on Friday – lunch will be split between Music foyer and Parkinson so that delegates can attend the lunchtime Open Access publishers event) Keynotes and MeCCSA AGM Clothworkers Centenary Hall, School of Music A Panels Lecture Theatre One, School of Music B Panels Lecture Theatre Two, School of Music C Panels Lecture Theatre Three, School of Music D Panels Lecture Theatre Four, School of Music E Panels Lecture Theatre G.12, Clothworkers’ North F Panels Seminar Room 1.17, Clothworkers’ North G Panels Conference Room 1.18, Clothworkers’ North Film/Practice Screenings Philip M. Taylor Cinema (2.13), Clothworkers’ North Roundtable events will also take place in the School of Music (see p.10-11 for details) Library showcase Sheppard Room, Brotherton Library, Parkinson Building

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Professor Andrew Ross (New York University) Wednesday 11 January, 13:00—14:00, Clothworkers Centenary Hall, School of Music High Culture/Hard Labour: Looking Beyond the Creatives

Recent scholarship on ‘creative labour” has established a solid understanding of how “working for exposure” has become a central economic principle of the media and knowledge sectors. But this focused attention has led to a corresponding neglect of how the “groundstaff” are employed to construct, maintain, and operationalize cultural institutions. How do we turn such institutions into communities of conscience where the rights of all workers are up- held?

Biography: Andrew Ross is a social activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Anal- ysis at New York University. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, the Nation, and Al Jazeera, he is the author of many books, including Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal, Bird On Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City, Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times, Fast Boat to China– Lessons from Shanghai, No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs, and The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town. He is also the editor of the recently published The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor (available from OR Books).

Dr Shakuntala Banaji (LSE) Thursday 12 January, 09:00—09:50, Clothworkers Centenary Hall, School of Music Techno-emancipation and the youthful poor

The consequences of narratives and their accompanying sets of representations and discourses cannot be underestimated. As adults working in development organisations, NGOs and universities in the global north study ways to improve the life conditions of the poorest children and youth in the global south, the idea that emerging digital technologies can combat a host of inequalities has taken hold. The paper considers the practical and political implications of the fact that narratives of media/technology–enabled development and civic participation are ideologically entangled with capitalism, and with the much critiqued modernization paradigm of development.

Biography: Shakuntala Banaji, PhD, is programme director for the MSc in Media, Communication and Development in the department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has participated in sev- eral large cross-European projects on young people, new technologies, schooling and democratic participation, and is currently UK project director of a multi-country Hori- zon 2020 project, CATCH-EyoU, on youth active citizenship in Europe (2015-2018) and Principal Investigator for a collaborative grant with American University Sharjah on participatory culture, the internet and creative production in the Middle East 2015- 2017). Shakuntala’s books include Reading Bollywood Palgrave 2006/2011, South Asian Media Cultures, Anthem Press 2010; The Civic Web: Young people, the Internet and civic participation with David Buckingham, MIT Press, 2013; Young People and Democratic Life with Bart Cammaerts et al. , Palgrave 2015. Her new monograph about Children, Labour and Media in India is out with Routledge in 2017.

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Professor Paul Gilroy (King’s College London) Thursday 12 January, 17:35—18:25, Clothworkers Centenary Hall, School of Music The old new racism and the new old nationalism: melancholia and prospective nostalgia

Biography: Paul Gilroy is Professor of American and English Literature at Kings Col- lege London. He joined Kings in September 2012 having previously been Giddens Pro- fessor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics (2005-2012), Charlotte Mari- an Saden Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Yale (1999-2005) and Professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology at Goldsmiths College (1995-1999). He is the author of There Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack (1987), Small Acts (1993), The Black Atlantic (1993), Between Camps (2000), and After Empire (2004; published as Postcolonial Melancholia in the United States), among other works. The Black Atlantic received an American Book Award in 1994 and has subsequently been translated into Italian, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

Professor Barbie Zelizer (University of Pennsylvania) Friday 13 January, 14:30—15:30, Clothworkers Centenary Hall, School of Music Resetting Journalism in the Aftermath of Brexit and Trump

The massive failure of the imagination that helped usher in Brexit and Trump makes a strong case for journalism's necessary and immediate reset. This presentation tracks what needs to change in both journalism’s manifest and latent dimensions, arguing that forcing a new understanding of what journalism is for may be a more familiar task than assumed.

Biography: Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. A former journalist, Zelizer is known for her work on journalism, culture, memory and images, particularly in times of crisis. She has authored or edited fourteen books, including the award- winning About To Die: How News Images Move the Public (Oxford, 2010) and Re- membering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera’s Eye (Chicago, 1998), and over a hundred articles, book chapters and essays. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Freedom Forum Center Research Fellowship, a Fellowship from Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, a Ful- bright Senior Scholar and a Fellowship from Stanford University’s Center for Ad- vanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Zelizer is also a media critic, whose work has appeared in The Nation, PBS News Hour, CNN, The Huffington Post, Newsday and other media organs. Co-editor of Jour- nalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, she is a recent President of the International Communication Association, where she is also a Fellow, and a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. Her work has been translated into French, Korean, Turkish, Romanian, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew and Portuguese. Her newest book What Journalism Could Be was recently published by Polity in late 2016.

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Roundtables and Events

Roundtable 1: Making Media in the North (Beth Johnson) Wednesday 11 January, 16:15—17:15, Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music Following the relocation of BBC and ITV, Granada to MediaCityUK in Salford Quays in 2011 - and taking into consideration the acute focus on place, region and power in the wake of recent referendums and the UK vote for BREXIT - this roundtable aims to discuss the success (or not) of the 'Northern Powerhouse' as a cultural and creative hub for cutting-edge media production and representation.

Book Launch: ‘News in the Mediated City’ (Stephen Coleman) Wednesday 11 January, 16:15—17:15, School of Music foyer Please join us for the launch of a new book, co-written by seven scholars from the School of Media and Communication at the . The Mediated City: News in a Post-Industrial Context considers how news circulates in a major post- industrial city (Leeds). Adopting a wide range of research methods - from content analysis of a range of news sources over the course of a single week to an audience survey, focus groups and interviews with news producers - the book raises im- portant questions about how media practices are changing and the kinds of local news provision that can best serve demo- cratic citizenship in a context of urban complexity. Copies of the book will be available and a panel including some of the co- authors, Danni Hewson (BBC) and Lee Hicken (The City Talking) will discuss its key themes.

Event: Cultures of Beer panel (Sam Goodman and Dan Jackson) £5 advance registration Wednesday 11 January, 15:45—17:15, Seminar Room 1.17, Clothworkers North If you think your thirst for beer might not be quenched at the beer festival, you could sign up to a panel devoted to the cul- ture of beer. Led by Dr Sam Goodman (Bournemouth), ‘Raising a Glass to Freedom’? (in)equality in Beer, Britain and Empire’ will discuss the revival of beer in the UK but also view this current popularity as loaded with social meaning; serving as a win- dow into the British imperial past, as well as our contemporary present. The panel includes some beer tasting and the £5 charge covers the beer (register at the online store in advance).

Roundtable 2.1: Media and the Public Interest (Steve Lax) Thursday 12 January, 12:00—13:00, Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music The media’s role in serving the public interest has been under intense scrutiny in the past few years. The Leveson inquiry re- vealed the complex and often close relationships between newspapers and authorities while political reporting of issues such as the EU referendum and Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the Labour Party has been called into question by some. At the same time, the Conservative government’s interventions in UK public service broadcasting – during BBC Charter renewal, its suggestion of privatising Channel 4 and the recent decision by the Culture Secretary to block a key appointment to that broadcaster’s board – raise questions about the political independence of the media and public service institutions. Panellists: Ric Bailey, Visiting Professor, Leeds and Chief Political Adviser, BBC; Pat Holland, Bournemouth and Vice Chair, Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom; Kam Sandhu, Editor, Real Media; Justin Schlosberg, Birkbeck and Chair, Media Reform Coalition chair. The panellists will contribute to debates about whether the media is working in the public interest. Or, if not, can it be re- formed or are there alternative solutions?

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Roundtables and Events

Roundtable 2.2: How to get your PhD published in journals (White Rose DTC) (Julie Firmstone) Thursday 12 January, 12:00—13:00, Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music Hosted by the Communication and Media Pathway of the ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) this roundtable session brings together a wealth of editorial experience from five of the top media, communication and cultural studies journals to answer your questions about getting your PhD research published. Editors and co-editors will discuss ac- ceptance rates, key decisions times, what they expect from good submissions, and be ready to give tips and guidance for suc- cess. The panel will then open to questions from the floor. The following journals will be represented: the European Journal of Communication; Public Relations Inquiry; Information, Communication and Society; the Journal of Applied Media and Journal- ism Studies; Media, Culture and Society; and Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture.

Roundtable 3: Ofcom and academic collaboration (Julie Firmstone) Friday 13 January, 11:00—12:00, Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music In recent years Ofcom has developed a number of ways of engaging with media academics, and is keen to do more in this ar- ea. This session will provide an overview of why academic voices matter to Ofcom, and what its policy focus is over the coming year. We will hear from academics that have worked closely with the regulator and get their perspective on what works and what can be improved. The session will discuss tangible next steps in terms of liaison opportunities.

Showcase/Tour: Brotherton Library Special Collections (Laura Wilson and Simon Popple) Friday 13 January, 11:00—12:00, Sheppard Room, Brotherton Library, Parkinson Bldg. Special collections curator Laura Wilson will showcase highlights of the University's Special Collections Media archives which will include the recently acquired South Bank Show Collection, Feminist Archive North, the Romany Collection, the Andy Lip- man Collection, the Arthur Ransome Archive and other media-related materials. Attendees will also be able to visit the University's new Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery and see highlights of the University Art Collection in the Burton Gal- lery. The tour to will be led by Simon Popple.

Lunchtime Session: What Media Studies Academics Should Know About Open Access (Ian MacDonald) Friday 13 January, 13:40—14:30, Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music Media Studies has embraced open access publishing to a greater extent than many fields with the subject prominent in the lists of new university presses’ lists and academic-led imprints. Three publishers from Goldsmiths Press, Huddersfield UP and University of Westminster Press, together with Stella Butler, the Leeds University Librarian and member of the Editorial Board of the White Rose University Press, lead an informal panel and Q&A on the benefits and some of the downsides to this messy evolution of scholarly communication. They ask:  what’s happening now and why?  what are the practicalities for the REF, ECRs and research?  who benefits from open access or from publishing as usual?  what potential downsides exist to OA?  what kind of experiments are possible, what collaborations?  why publish and where might technology lead us next? Please join us over lunch in the School of Music for a fascinating discussion!

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DAY 1: Wednesday 11 January

Registration and brunch-style refreshments from 11:30 11:30—12:30 Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building

Opening and welcome: Bethany Klein, Katy Parry and Jay G. Blumler 12:30—13:00 Clothworkers Centenary Hall, School of Music

Keynote: Andrew Ross (New York University) 13:00—14:00 ‘High Culture/Hard Labour: Looking Beyond the Creatives’ Chair: Kate Oakley Clothworkers Centenary Hall, School of Music

14:00—14:30 Refreshments Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building

14:30—16:00 Panels 1A—1G

Doomed to repeat it? Four perspectives on using history in the study of media and cultural work David O'Brien (Edinburgh University) Panel 1A Working for creative freedom: unpaid labour across the cultural and creative life course Melanie Bell (University of Leeds) Lecture Theatre 1 Writing women’s work into British film history?: gendering questions of labour and history in the cultural School of Music industries Chair: Anamik Saha Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths, University of London) 'Funky Days are Back Again': The rise and fall of brown cultural production in the mid-to-late 1990s Mark Banks (University of Leicester) Histories of cultural work: The long boom and creative opportunity

Living with data Panel 1B Btihaj Ajana (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies and King's College London) Freedom or abandonment? Reflections on the politics of digital self-tracking Lecture Theatre 2 School of Music Rosemary Lucy Hill (University of Leeds) Changing the world with data visualisation … for the worse? Assessing data visualisations in the abor- Chair: tion debate Helen Kennedy Helen Kennedy (University of Sheffield) Data Matter: a manifesto for studying living with data ‘from the bottom up’

Political communication research: methodological innovation

Stephen Coleman (University of Leeds) Lay political performance

Panel 1C Giles Moss (University of Leeds) Lecture Theatre 3 Citizen analytics: Tracking the real-time responses of citizens to media content School of Music (with Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds)

Chair: Giles Moss Heather Ford (University of Leeds) Studying social media events (with Walid Al-Saqaf (Stockholm University), Tanja Bosch (University of Cape Town), Lone Sorensen (University of Leeds)

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Testing media freedoms

Bart Cammaerts (LSE) Communication freedoms versus communication rights: Normative struggles within civil society and beyond Panel 1D Lecture Theatre 4 Aida Al-Kaisy (SOAS, University of London) School of Music When practice becomes identity: Shariqya, an Iraqi channel in opposition

Chair: John Downey Ana Suzina (Université catholique de Louvain) Asymmetric democracy: media practices and power inequalities in Brazil

Galina Miazhevich (University of Leicester) Converging media and participatory politics in the post-Soviet context: Reactions to the construction of the largest Chinese technological park in Belarus

Arts, culture and activism

Michele Aaron (University of Birmingham) Digital technology and human vulnerability: Towards an ethical film praxis

Panel 1E Caroline Mitchell (University of Sunderland) and Trish Winter (University of Sunderland) Lecture Theatre G.12, Putting Southwick on the map: Participatory Mapping in an area of ‘low cultural participation’ Clothworkers’ North Kate Oakley (University of Leeds) and Jonathan Ward (University of Leeds) Chair: Kate Oakley Communicating the good life? Arts, inequality and sustainability

Jennifer Carlberg (University of Leeds) And justice for all, even the folk devils: Popular music, religion, civic repair, and the West Memphis Three

Young people and the media

Bianca Fox (University of Wolverhampton) The freedom to remember: Young people’s memory construction of the 7/7 London bombings (with Andrew Fox, University of Huddersfield)

Panel 1F Monica Barbovschi (Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy) Seminar Room 1.17, Same sex/ other sex peer constraints in adolescents’ building and maintaining self-image on social Clothworkers’ North media: results from a qualitative investigation in Romania Chair: Kate Nash (with Bianca Balea and Anca Velicu, Institute of Sociology) Sophie Bishop (University of East London) Broadcasting yourself in the age of the vlogging ‘industry’

Michael Lovelock (Cardiff Metropolitan University) "My Coming Out Story": Lesbian and gay youth identity on YouTube

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Environmental communication

Renée Moernaut (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/ University of Antwerp) Panel 1G A comprehensive model for multimodal framing: A proposal Conference Room 1.18, (with Luc Pauwels, University of Antwerp and Jelle Mast, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Clothworkers’ North Richard Fern (University of Sheffield) Chair: Tom Tyler The newsgathering role of social media in regional print coverage of environmental protest

Eithne Quinn (University of ) Teaching film and the challenges of climate change risk communication

16:00—16:15 Comfort Break

Roundtable 1: Making Media in the North Chair: Beth Johnson Wednesday 11 January, 16:15—17:15, Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music 16:15—17:15 Book Launch: ‘News in the Mediated City’ Chair: Stephen Coleman Wednesday 11 January, 16:15—17:15, School of Music foyer

17:15—17:45 Refreshments Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building

17:45—19:15 Panels 2A—2F

Cultural production and diversity

Nessa Adams (Regent's University London/Brunel University) Analysing the inequalities of black and minority ethnic advertising practitioners and the implica- Panel 2A tions on cultural production

Lecture Theatre 1 Raymond Boyle (University of Glasgow) School of Music ‘Talent diversity’: The television Industry, cultural intermediaries and new digital pathways

Chair: David Lee Susan Berridge (University of Stirling) Gendered discourses of care in the UK screen sector

David Lee (University of Leeds) Class, ‘character’ and inequality: Towards a sociology of failure within creative work

Making Music

Sam Cleeve (Birmingham City University) Bird in the Wire: Creativity, resistance, and virtual citizenship Panel 2B David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds) and Leslie M. Meier (University of Leeds) Lecture Theatre 2 Understanding the music industries in the era of digitalisation: The importance of information School of Music technology and telecommunications

Chair: Leslie Meier Bethany Klein (University of Leeds) and Leslie M. Meier (University of Leeds) In Sync? Music supervisors, music placement practices and industrial change

Ellis Jones (University of Leeds) Creating aspirational labour? ‘DIY’ musicians and the neoliberal freedoms of Facebook Pages

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‘You know nothing yet, Jon Snow’ – researching Game of Thrones

Martin Barker (Aberystwyth University) Panel 2C “This is the most fucked-up GoT merchandise we’ve ever seen”: On collecting the doomed, and Lecture Theatre 3 dying School of Music Clarissa Smith (Sunderland University) Chair: Martin Barker Wutwut? Who counts boobs per episode? Billy Proctor (Bournemouth University) “We will no longer be promoting Game of Thrones”: Sex, violence and rape

Journalistic practice

Martina Topic (Leeds Beckett University) Panel 2D Women journalists and the debate on sugar in the British press (2010-2015) Dafina Paca (Cardiff University) Lecture Theatre 4 Porters without borders: Kosovan journalists in London School of Music Francesca Di Renzo (University of Sheffield) Chair: Jairo Lugo-Ocando Journalistic practice and cultural meanings in Italian and Spanish online news about migration

Antje Glück (University of Leeds) The emotional journalist at risk? A comparison between the UK and India

Soap Opera form, representation and audience intersections

Ahmet Atay (College of Wooster) Panel 2E Queer characters in British and the US soap operas Lecture Theatre G.12, Elke Weissmann (Edge Hill University) Clothworkers’ North Uneasy pleasure: Female audiences respond to soap opera narratives in American ‘quality’ televi- Chair: Elke Weissmann sion drama

Mita Lad (Edge Hill University) Representations of punishment and inequality in prime time Hindi serials

‘Raising a glass to freedom’? (in)equality in beer, Britain and empire

Panel 2F Sam Goodman (Bournemouth University) Seminar Room 1.17, Beer, inequality and empire Clothworkers’ North Interactive session with beer tasting – £5 advance registration required through MeCCSA website. (with Daniel Jackson, Anna Feigenbaum, Einar Thorsen (all Bournemouth University))

Wine Reception & Local Beer Festival 19:15—20:15 Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building

Pub Quiz (Hosted by Bethany Klein) 21:00—22:30 The Victoria Hotel, 28 Great George Street, LS1 3DL

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DAY 2: Thursday 12 January

BU Innovation Booth (See p.21 for details) 09:00—17:30 Clothworkers Foyer, School of Music

09:00—09:50 Keynote: Shakuntala Banaji (LSE) ‘Techno-emancipation and the youthful poor’ Chair: Lee Edwards Clothworkers Centenary Hall, School of Music

09:50—10:00 Comfort Break

10:00—11:30 Panels 3A—3G

Theorising media and social justice

Mark Banks (University of Leicester) Creative justice and cultural work

Panel 3A Giles Moss (University of Leeds) Lecture Theatre 1 Media, capabilities, and justification School of Music Amit Schejter and Noam Tirosh (both Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Chair: Social media and social justice David Hesmondhalgh Heather Ford (University of Leeds) What humans want: Defining the need for human capabilities in the face of algorithmic power

Respondent: Nick Couldry (LSE)

Journalism, objectivity and social media

Jairo Lugo-Ocando (University of Leeds) Journalism objectivity as propaganda: Revisiting the history of journalism objectivity Panel 3B Jon Silverman (University of Bedfordshire) Lecture Theatre 2 Media reporting : A 'continuation of conflict by other means' School of Music Neil Thurman (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich) and Aljosha Karim Schapals (Queensland Chair: Ian Macdonald University of Technology) Live blogs, sources and objectivity: The contradictions of real-time online reporting

Agnes Gulyas (Canterbury Christ Church University) Journalistic cultures and social media adoption

Reporting activism

Panel 3C Helena Lívia Dedecek Gertz (Aarhus and Hamburg Universities) Brazilian indigenous people freedoms: An analysis of Latin and North American newspapers Lecture Theatre 3 School of Music Bernadine Jones (University of Cape Town) The struggle narrative: censorship of media in post-democracy South Africa and the ANC’s quest for Chair: Chris Paterson a liberation narrative

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Reporting activism

Panel 3C Liu Yan (Far Eastern Federal University) Media framing of contentious politics against land acquisition in China and its ideological re- Continued from previous sources: an analysis of ‘Wukan Protest’ page Emma Heywood (Coventry University) The role of local radio in promoting the activities of women’s NGOs in the West Bank

Documentary filmmaking

Orson Nava (University of East London) Eastern promise? Race, innovation and exclusion in the Creative Industries regeneration of East Panel 3D London

Lecture Theatre 4 Alastair Cole (Newcastle University) School of Music In others’ words: The process and politics of subtitle creation in documentary film production

Chair: Simon Popple Miriam Ross (Victoria University of Wellington) Virtual reality: The state of play

Dafydd Sills-Jones (Aberystwyth University) The return of the political: Finnish art documentary and the renegotiation of the social sphere

Ethnicity, race and belonging

Peter Kilroy (King's College London) Black comedy: Race, television and indigenous Australian humour Panel 3E Lecture Theatre G.12, Sarah Anne Dunne (University College Dublin) Clothworkers’ North Black or feminist: The politics of black feminism pertaining to the Bill Cosby rape case

Chair: Melanie Bell Alejandra Bronfman (University of British Columbia) Eusebia Cosmé and the Sounded Black Atlantic

Eylem Atakav (University of East Anglia) British [Muslim] Values and the media

Gaming

Yinyi Luo (University of Leeds) Videogame piracy, freedom or theft: From the perspective of Chinese players

Panel 3F Leandro Augusto Borges Lima (King’s College London) Seminar Room 1.17, Videogames marketing and gendered configuration: An analysis of Mass Effect marketing Clothworkers’ North Anna Ozimek (University of Leeds) Chair: Tom Tyler Polish videogame practitioners’ perspectives on government support for the industry

James Blake (Edinburgh Napier University) Freedom to participate: Real or imagined? How new interactive video platforms are changing no- tions of user agency

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Ethics, education and marketing

Jonathan Hardy (University of East London) Branded content: Marketers, media and (in)equality of voice Panel 3G Conference Room 1.18, Zoetanya Sujon (Regent's University London) Clothworkers’ North Virtual Reality and the Classroom: A university wide exploration of Google Expeditions

Chair: Kate Nash Bianca Fox (University of Wolverhampton) Approaches to media pedagogy

Thomas Allmer (University of Stirling) Academic labour, digital media and capitalism

(TBC) Film Screening Philip M. Taylor Cinema (2.13), Clothworkers’ North

Refreshments 11:30—12:00 Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building

Roundtable 2.1: Media and the Public Interest Chair: Steve Lax Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music

Roundtable 2.2: How to get your PhD published in journals Chair: Julie Firmstone 12:00—13:00 Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music

Practice Film Screening: ‘Y Gors’ (Dafydd Sill-Jones (Aberystwyth University) and Anne Marie Carty (University of Westminster) Philip M. Taylor Cinema (2.13), Clothworkers’ North

Lunch Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building

MeCCSA Network Meetings Climate Change Network Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music Disability Studies Network Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music 13:00—14:00 Policy Network Lecture Theatre 3, School of Music Postgraduate Network School of Music Foyer Practice Network Lecture Theatre 4, School of Music Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Network Lecture Theatre G.12, Clothworkers’ North Radio Studies Network Seminar Room 1.17, Clothworkers’ North Social Movements Network Conference Room 1.18, Clothworkers’ North Women’s Media Studies Network Philip M. Taylor Cinema (2.13) Clothworkers’ North

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14:00—15:30 Panels 4A—4G

Media reform and social justice

Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London) Panel 4A Media and this thing called democracy Des Freedman (Goldsmiths, University of London) Lecture Theatre 1 ‘Progressive’ media strategies: Opportunity or oxymoron? School of Music Joanna Redden (Cardiff University) Chair: Des Freedman Investigating data governance: Where data activism, social justice and journalism meet

Gholam Khiabany (Goldsmiths, University of London) The Chilcot Report and the many levels of media reform

Cultural policy

Alison Preston (Ofcom) Panel 4B Smartphone by default: Liberating or limiting? Eleonora Belfiore (University of Loughborough) Lecture Theatre 2 Who is cultural policy for? The politics of cultural value School of Music Sylvia Harvey (University of Leeds) Chair: Raymond Boyle Foreign ownership in the UK independent production sector: From competition to concentration

Phil Ramsey (Ulster University) Public service media policy questions for the Conservative Government (2015–)

Participatory “freedoms” and the cultural politics of fan/consumer nostalgia

Bethan Jones (University of Huddersfield) “The official social media is lacking. I mainly participated with other fans”: Marketing The X-Files and Fannish Labour Panel 4C Cornel Sandvoss (University of Huddersfield) Lecture Theatre 3 Nostalgia, freedom and the other: ‘Us’ vs. ‘them’ in Brexit enthusiasm School of Music Richard McCulloch (University of Huddersfield) Chair: Matt Hills More or less content? Disney’s Star Wars, brand (in)consistencies, and fan responses to Hollywood franchising strategies

Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield) Participatory cultures of reviewing: ‘Hot Takes’ surrounding ‘The Force Awakens’ and ‘Stranger Things’

Mediated politics

Panel 4D Liriam Sponholz (Austrian Academy of Sciences and Alpen Adria Universität) Lecture Theatre 4 Equal contents, unequal speakers? From hate postings to hate speech School of Music Rachel Moran (University of Southern California) Chair: Giles Moss Mapping the UK political blogosphere: Ideological homophily in patterns of hyperlinking Panel continues over the page

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Marina Dekavalla (Stirling University) and Alenka Jelen-Sanchez (Stirling University) Panel 4D Women in television coverage of the Scottish and EU referendums Continued from previous Ivor Gaber (University of Sussex) page You don’t have to be balanced to be impartial: The BBC and the Euro Referendum

Disability, role models and superhumans

Carolyn Jackson-Brown (University of Leeds) Meeting the Superhumans: Channel 4's coverage of disability at the London 2012 Paralympic Panel 4E Games Lecture Theatre G.12, Clothworkers’ North Sharrona Pearl (Annenberg, University of Pennsylvania) Watching while (face) blind: prosoprognosia and Orphan Black Chair: Bethany Klein Joshua Gulam (University of Manchester) “See Batman Try To Save Gotham, Err, The Congo”: Ben Affleck, ECI, and the neglected importance of film texts in discussions of star campaigning

Challenging girlhood

Rachel Wood (Sheffield Hallam University) “Women are fighting everywhere”: Corporate mobilisation of feminism in women’s professional wrestling (with Benjamin Litherland, University of Huddersfield) Panel 4F Seminar Room 1.17, Michele Paule (Oxford Brookes University) Clothworkers’ North “I’m not bossy, I’m the Boss”: Girls’ mediated perceptions of power and leadership

Chair: Beth Johnson Kate Taylor-Jones (University of Sheffield) Girlhood, bride-kidnapping and the post-socialist moment in ‘Blind Mountain/Mángshān’ (Li, 2007) and ‘Pure Coolness/Boz Salkyn’ (Abdyjaparov, 2007)

Jaime Garcia Iglesias (University of Nottingham) A deadly female freedom: Deconstructing “freedom” in two recent North-American young-adults novels

Mobility, play and gender

Eleanor Lockley and Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat (Sheffield Hallam University) “It's easier to say things via text!” Using technology to take the private sphere back

Ruth Deller (Sheffield Hallam University) “Academics cry censorship. Students cry trauma”: Media debates about safer spaces in Higher Edu- Panel 4G cation Conference Room 1.18, Clothworkers’ North Michael Saker (Southampton Solent University) Ridesharing and restricted mobilities: Using computational social science to examine collaborative Chair: Chris Birchall mobilities and their impact on experiences of place

Cristina Miguel (Leeds Beckett University) “Men are the Hunters”: Reproducing patriarchal gender roles on Badoo

Barbara Mitra (University of Worcester) Exploring Gender Constraints using Second Life

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Practice Film Screening: ‘Colours of the Alphabet’ 14:00—15:30 Nick Higgins (University of the West of Scotland) and Alastair Cole (Newcastle University) Philip M. Taylor Cinema (2.13), Clothworkers’ North

Refreshments 15:30—16:00 Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building

MeCCSA AGM (inc. Academic Freedom debate) With Stephen Wordsworth, Executive Director of CARA (Council for At-Risk Academics) 16:00—17:30 and Prof. Mine Gencel Bek (Professor of Communications, Ankara University, Turkey) Clothworkers Centenary Hall, School of Music

17:30—17:35 Comfort Break

Keynote: Paul Gilroy (King’s College London) 17:35—18:25 ‘The old new racism and the new old nationalism: melancholia and prospective Chair: Anamik Saha nostalgia’ Clothworkers Centenary Hall, School of Music

Film Screening: ‘The Divide’ (80 mins) Philip M. Taylor Cinema (2.13), Clothworkers’ North 19:30– Conference Dinner Sukhothai, 15 South Parade, LS1 5QS

Turn your research into resources for social change. BU Innovation Booth Thursday 12 January, School of Music Foyer Book an interactive, one-on-one session with our team of communication designers, storytellers and public engagement ex- perts at MeCCSA 2017. Sign up here: http://www.civicmedia.io/events-2/events/bu-innovation-booth-at-meccsa-2017/ At the BU Innovation Booth, we will use hands-on activities for turning your research into resources for public engagement through storytelling, visualisation and communication design. Sessions will consist of short exercises that explore questions such as: * How can you use visualisations in your research? * Is there an interactive map hiding in your last project? * How can character loglines and plot devices help you to create visual narratives from your work? * How can you engage with iconography and graphic design to reach wider audiences? * What visualisation and analysis tools can help you reach new audiences? There will also be sign-up spots on the day and mini-activities for those passing through. Drop by our booth in the Clothworkers Foyer and give them a go! Facilitators: Anna Feigenbaum, Sam Goodman, Brad Gyori, Daniel Jackson, Einar Thorsen, Daniel Weissmann (Bournemouth University) w/ Minute Works communications design (Manchester, UK). For the past three years, our Civic Media team at Bournemouth University has been training researchers, journalists and NGOs in data storytelling. For MeCCSA 2017, we are taking our team on the road to bring conference participants the BU Innovation Booth.

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DAY 3: Friday 13 January

09:00—10:30 Panels 5A—5G

Political communication and the 2016 Brexit Referendum campaign

Stephen Cushion and Justin Lewis (University of Cardiff) Impartiality, statistical tit-for tats and the construction of balance: UK television news reporting of the 2016 EU referendum

Panel 5A Julie Firmstone (University of Leeds) Newspapers’ editorial opinions: Lacklustre support for Remain drowned out by tenacious promo- Lecture Theatre 1 tion of Brexit School of Music Jen Birks (University of Nottingham) Chairs: Daniel Jackson and “People in this country have had enough of experts”: Cognitive authority and popular sovereignty Einar Thorsen Dominic Wring (University of Loughborough) Leave it Out: British print and broadcast news media reporting of the Brexit Referendum (with David Deacon, John Downey (Loughborough), Emily Harmer (Liverpool) and James Stanyer (Loughborough)

Respondent: Jay G. Blumler (University of Leeds)

Sharing beyond ‘the sharing economy’

Panel 5B Zeena Feldman (King’s College London) Misunderstanding sharing Lecture Theatre 2 School of Music Jo Littler (City, University of London) Just like us: Normcore plutocrats and the mediated popularisation of ‘meritocratic’ elitism Chair: Jonathan Ward Marisol Sandoval (City, University of London) From passionate labour to compassionate work: cultural co-ops, DWYL and social change

Activism and new media

Viola C Milton (University of South Africa) and Winston Mano (University of Westminster) #Feesmustfall, #Thisflag and the forces of fear: Possibilities and Limitations of online activism in post-colonial citizenship in Southern Africa Panel 5C Elif Grant (Unıversity of Roehampton) Lecture Theatre 3 Shifting spaces of activism? A look into the practices of political resistance, public sphere and Gezi School of Music Park protests in Turkey

Chair: Heather Ford Anna Feigenbaum (Bournemouth University) and Daniel Weissmann (Bournemouth University) When news is the only data we’ve got: Reflections on visualising CATO’s police misconduct re- porting project

Burce Celik (, London) New media, new authoritarianism: A hard lesson from Turkey

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Creativity, film and photography

Sharon Harper (University of Gloucestershire) “Otherwise you’re just the button pusher”: Understanding changing structures of creativity in the Panel 5D commercial photography industry

Lecture Theatre 4 David Thompson (University of ) School of Music Stories that sizzle: Making indie films viable in a modern day cinema context

Chair: Jairo Lugo-Ocando Ian W. Macdonald (University of Leeds) Dogme 2016: screenwriting orthodoxy in the UK and USA

Anne Wales (University of Derby) Mediating modern slavery: Identities and transgressions

Women in/on the media

Rebecca Trelease (Auckland University of Technology) Global genres in the local context: A case study of 'The Real Housewives' format Panel 5E (with Rosser Johnson, Auckland University of Technology) Lecture Theatre G.12, Jilly B. Kay (University of Leicester) Clothworkers’ North Gender, television and voice: Women’s talk on British television

Chair: Jilly B. Kay Claire Sedgwick (De Montfort University) Ms Magazine, advertising and editorial freedom

Rachel Velody (University of Cambridge) Glossing it over: ‘The Fall’, sartorial elegance and the aesthetics of misogyny

Austerity, inequality and immigration

Marta Suarez (Liverpool John Moores University) “Poor little you, if only you knew better, you wouldn’t be in this trouble!” Victimising and blaming the immigrant in contemporary Spanish film

Panel 5F Steven Harkins (University of Sheffield) Seminar Room 1.17, From rags to riches: poverty and inequality in British national newspapers Clothworkers’ North Ben Lamb (Teeside University) Chair: David Lee Changing the welfare state: An investigation into the effects of alternative regional media on the realization of freedoms and the contestation of inequalities

Anna Viola Sborgi (King's College London) "There's gonna be winners and losers": Representing inequality and the housing crisis in Channel 4’s ‘How to Get a Council House’ (2013-2016)

Historical perspectives

Panel 5G Kulraj Phullar (King's College London) Conference Room 1.18, “I don’t know … I was so flustered”: Black female subjectivity in classic Hollywood film noir Clothworkers’ North Iain Logie Baird (Independent researcher) Chair: Jamie Medhurst Heart to Heart: Terence Rattigan’s Faustian warning of the power of television

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Jamie Medhurst (Aberystwyth University) Panel 5G Television and society in Wales in the 1970s Continued from previous Elena D. Hristova (University of Minnesota) page Producing difference: Race, class, gender, and the formation of women’s professionalism in 1940s communication research

Repeat Practice Screening (TBC) Film Screening Philip M. Taylor Cinema (2.13), Clothworkers’ North

Refreshments 10:30—11:00 Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building

Roundtable 3: Ofcom and Academic Collaboration Chair: Julie Firmstone Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music

Showcase/Tour: Brotherton Library Special Collections Chair: Simon Popple 11:00—12:00 Sheppard Room, Brotherton Library, Parkinson Building

Practice Film Screening: ‘Y Gors’ (Repeat Screening) (Dafydd Sill-Jones (Aberystwyth University) and Anne Marie Carty (University of Westminster) Philip M. Taylor Cinema (2.13), Clothworkers’ North

12:00—12:10 Comfort Break

12:10—13:40 Panels 6A-6F

Media celebrity, labour and value

Milly Williamson (Brunel University) The political economy of ordinary celebrity on TV Panel 6A Helen Wood (University of Leicester) Lecture Theatre 1 Reality celebrity and illegitimate cultural labour School of Music Jilly B. Kay (University of Leicester) Chair: Milly Williamson #Sponsored selves: reality celebrity and the labour of ‘worklessness’ on social media

Melanie Kennedy (University of Leicester) “People forget […] that we’re actually human beings with feelings. They see characters versus real people”: Authenticity, achieved celebrity, and young motherhood

Communication and cultures of climate change and sustainability

Panel 6B Saffron O'Neill (University of Exeter) Lecture Theatre 2 Communication and sharability of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report School of Music Jo Hamilton (University of Reading) Chair: Nathan Farrell The emotional climates of the everyday Panel continues on next page

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Communication and cultures of climate change and sustainability

Panel 6B Julie Doyle (University of Brighton), Mike Goodman (University of Reading) and Nathan Farrell (Bournemouth University) Continued from previous Acts of sunlight: Unilever and environmental communication in the post-expert age page Alexandra Sexton (King’s College London) Saving the planet Silicon Valley-style: The politics of climate change in the high-tech ecosystem

Voicing ideologyː overcoming the dichotomy between political performance and ideology

Mario Alvarez Fuentes (University of Leeds) Panel 6C Unpacking the "person-ideology dichotomy" in political communication literature

Lecture Theatre 3 Lone Sorensen (University of Leeds) School of Music Populist performance of ideology

Chair: Stephen Coleman Kate Fox (University of Leeds) ‘Humitas’: The political use of humour and gravitas

Sarah Weston (University of Leeds) Performing political voice: Young people and exploring the politics of how voice feels

Africa and international media

Ola Ogunyemi (University of Lincoln) The portrayal of conflicts by the African diasporic press in the UK: Gatekeeping practices and fram- ing devices

Panel 6D Mel Bunce (City, University of London) Lecture Theatre 4 The international news coverage of Africa: Beyond the ‘single story’ School of Music Chris Paterson (University of Leeds) Chair: Chris Paterson New Imperialisms, Old Stereotypes: Depictions of the US in Africa Winston Mano (Westminster University) Sino-Zimbabwe Relations in the news media: Decolonialism or recolonization?

Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar (City, University of London) Digital engagement: the BBC and ‘active’ audiences in Africa

Political communication and social media

Ana I. Barragán-Romero (Universidad de Sevilla) and Antonio Macarro (Universidad de Cádiz) Panel 6E Photography and propaganda during 2016's Spanish elections: A case study of Instagram Lecture Theatre G.12, Mark Margaretten (University of Bedfordshire) Clothworkers’ North Examining the evolving authentic talk and civic engagement in Lynne Featherstone’s, MP (Lib Dem) Chair: Katy Parry Twitter use between 2011 and 2012

Xin Yu (Tsinghua University) Reply or rely? Three patterns of government responsiveness in China

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Redefining media

Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat (Sheffield Hallam University) Governing (in)equalities in the communicative spaces: designing the Tramlines Festival 2016 Panel 6F (with Cornelia Brantner (T.U. Dresden), Kerry McSeveny (Sheffield Hallam University) and Oscar Seminar Room 1.17, Coromina (U.A. Barcelona) Clothworkers’ North Wallis Motta (LSE) Chair: Joan Ramon Digital currency as media: The case of Sardex (with Paolo Dini, LSE) Rodriguez-Amat Sarah Cefai (University of Surrey) Media after identity: Queer theory and media studies in late liberalism

Gregor Campbell (University of Guelph) Intermediality and Anna Deavere Smith

Lunch Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building & Music foyer, School of Music

13:40—14:30 Lunchtime Session: What Media Studies Academics Should Know About Open Access Chair: Ian Macdonald Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music

14:30—15:30 Keynote: Barbie Zelizer (University of Pennsylvania) ‘Resetting Journalism in the Aftermath of Brexit and Trump’ Chair: Bethany Klein Clothworkers Centenary Hall, School of Music

Practical Information

Information for speakers Length of presentations All rooms for the presentations are equipped with standard Please check the programme to see how many speakers AV equipment including DVD players and speakers. Practice are in your session. Each panel session is 1.5hrs. Where films will be shown in the Cinema in Clothworkers’ North. there are 3 speakers, you can time to presentation for 20 minutes; if 4 speakers, time it for 15 minutes; and where there are 5 speakers, please time the presentation for 12 Practicalities for presenting minutes. There will be panel chairs and postgraduate Our strong preference would be for you to bring your helpers in the rooms to assist you. presentation on a memory stick and use the PC already con- nected in each room. Please give yourself time to upload the presentation before your session. Connecting laptops can Social media take up precious time, but if you can only use a Mac, please We will be tweeting throughout the conference using the make sure you bring any required adaptors. As mentioned, hashtag #MeCCSA2017 and using the handle we would strongly advise you to download any presentation @MeCCSA2017. material onto a memory stick instead.

Photocopying & Printing Roundtable sessions are one hour in length. Please check the speaking format with the session organiser. A media services shop is open between 9.00am and 16.30pm, Monday to Friday, on the ground floor of the Roger Stevens building where there are photocopying fa- Keynote addresses will be recorded to be made available cilities and other audio visual services available. later.

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Practical Information

WiFi Access Parking If your institution is a member of Eduroam you will be able Where possible we suggest the use of public transport to to use that service on the University Campus. travel to the University. Parking at the University of Leeds is extremely limited, due to ongoing refurbishment pro- Delegates not using Eduroam can ask for a WiFi username & password at the registration desk. This can be used through- jects at the University, and is available on first come, first served basis, chargeable at £7.00 per day. Payment is on out the University Campus and will enable you to access the departure via card only, at either of the University pay Meet In Leeds network. Instructions are issued with the Usernames & Passwords. stations, located on the first floor of the Multi-storey car park and at the Edge sports & Exhibition centre car park. Please read the Terms of Service carefully to ensure that Failure to visit the parking stations on departure will result your browsing and internet usage complies with University in a fine. regulations. Access to the car park is available via the main University entrance on Woodhouse Lane (Postcode LS2 9JT). All other Getting to the University University vehicle entrances are limited to permit holders only. The campus is approximately half a mile from the City Centre on Woodhouse Lane, the A660. Leeds is linked to the M1 and If you park on the University campus you MUST obtain a M62 and is very easily accessible. code from the conference reception desk before de- parting. Failure to do co could result in a fine. Satellite Navigation Main Entrance Address: (street listing can appear as Cavendish Road in some navigation systems) The closest public car park is Woodhouse Moor Multi- Storey which is open 24 hours a day. For more information University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT and prices on alternative car parks in Leeds please visit Bus: There are number of excellent bus services in Leeds. www.parkopedia.co.uk The number 1 bus leaves from Infirmary Street, near Leeds railway station in City Square, to the campus every ten minutes during the day and every half hour in the evening. There are frequent buses from the central bus station includ- ing numbers 28, 56, 96, 97. You should get off the bus at the main entrance adjacent to the Parkinson Building.

Visit www.wymetro.com for timetables and general infor- mation. Rail: For rail travel details visit: www.nationalrail.co.uk

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Telephone Numbers Cash points - are located within the Student Union building situated adjacent to the Refectory on the University cam- Conference & Events:+44 (0) 113 343 6106 pus. There is a Santander bank located on the ground floor In the event of any serious problems, or for emergencies, of the Students Union. There are also several major banks please contact University of Leeds Security on 0113 343 5494 & further cash points opposite Parkinson Court at the Uni- (24-hours). The emergency number in the UK for fire, am- versity’s main entrance on Woodhouse Lane. bulance or police is 999. Post Office - is located in the St John's Centre in the City Centre. Health & First Aid Coffee Bars & Food - There are several Coffee Bars located around the university campus, which serve hot & cold If first aid is required on campus please contact a member of drinks, snacks, sandwiches & paninis. The main University staff in the building or for emergencies call Security via an Refectory serves all of the above plus freshly cooked hot internal telephone on x32222 or externally on +44(0)113 343 food. 2222 - available 24-hours. Shops - Essentials, which is a mini-supermarket selling The nearest emergency department is at the Leeds General newspapers, magazines, stationery, drinks, sandwiches, Infirmary, telephone 0113 2432799, which is situated adja- snack and confectionery items, is located in the Students cent to the University. Union.

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