Conference Programme Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom 11-13 January 2017 School of Media and Communication University of Leeds @meccsa2017 Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom MeCCSA 2017 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! 2 Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom MeCCSA 2017 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. 3 Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom MeCCSA 2017 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 4 Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom MeCCSA 2017 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 5 Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom MeCCSA 2017 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 6 Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom MeCCSA 2017 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 7 Culture, Media, Equality and Freedom MeCCSA 2017 Keynotes: Days 1 & 2 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