will discuss her work on the concept of celebrity politicians and their impact on democracy.
An open series of seminars from Media School academics and guest speakers.
Wednesday 21 January 2009, Barry Richards Post-RAE Scenarios for Research in the Media School.
Wednesday 4 February 2009, Hugh Chignell 'Quality, The Elephant in the Room'
Wednesday 4 March 2009, Riina Yrjola will discuss her work on the concept of celebrity politicians and their impact on democracy.
8 December 2008, Dr Paul Cobley presents his recent work on Narrative and Semiotics.
24 November 2008, John Foster discusses his experience of taking The Murder Monologues to Edinburgh and the differences between the stage and television versions.
10 November 2008, Anita Biress i and Heather Nunn , the authors of Reality TV: Realism and Revelation discuss their latest work in cultural theory.
27 October 2008, Brian Winston
, the award winning author of Lies, Dammned Lies and Documentaries and founder member of the Glasgow Media Group looks at the work of John Grierson.
Trevor Hearing 1-2pm, March 10th 2008, room W240
Trevor is presenting 'Crossing Platforms'. Exploring a new reflective language of documentary.
Pat Holland 1-2pm, April 28th 2008, room W240
Pat will be updating us on the progress of 'No such thing as society' the AHRC funded project examining the media representation of Public Services during the Thatcher years.
The Computer Graphics and Visualisation Research Group
1-2pm, May 12th 2008, room W240
The CGVRG will be presenting an overview of their research into new computer animation techniques.
Prof. Barry Richards 1-2pm, February 25th 2008, room W240
Prof. Richards expanding on the potential of emotional governance as a benefit to political and social life by examining 'Media, Humiliation and Terror'.
Prof. Stuart Allan 4-5pm, January 28th 2008, room W240
Prof. Allan has written extensively on the rise of citizen journalism, media coverage of scientific breakthroughs and children and interactive content. He will present his paper ?Journalism Without Journalists? Rethinking Questions of Professionalism'.
Dr. John Oliver 1-2pm, January 28th 2008, W240
Dr. Oliver is Head of International Development in the Media School. He will be presenting his forthcoming paper 'Making the case for action learning as an effective framework for strategy making'. Competitive businesses are complex and unpredictable environments. Often this forces strategy makers to adopt a trial and error approach with little time to reflect on the success or failure. Action learning may offer a solution.
Collette Dunkley 2pm, 30th January 2008, Marconi LT
Collette is the founder of XandY Communications the only PR agency that specialises in gender communications. She will be speaking on 'Gendered Communication and Consumption'.
Prof. Graham Harman 1-2pm, 4th February 2008, W240
Prof. Harman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University Cairo. He has written on Heidegger and is currently championing the work of Latour as 'the most refreshing philosophy of the present day'. Prof. Harman is intrerested in creating an object-orientated philosophy that restores objects to a life of their own freeing them from modern philosophies reduction to a language game. He will be presenting his talk 'The Greatness of McLuhan'.
Dr. Kevin Moloney 1-2pm 15th October 2007, W240
Dr. Moloney is exploring how PR interects with the political economy and civil society in pluralist, liberal democracies. Here he discusses 'Can theories of power help us understand public relations better?' Moving beyond the traditional communication theories of Grunig to examine PR as weak propaganda.
Dr. Charlotte Crofts 1-2pm 5th November 2007, W240
Dr Crofts is a Senior Lecturer at University West of England in Culture, Media and Drama, and Practice Section Chair at MECCSA. A practicing film maker as well as a theorist she will be discussing how to contextualise practice as research.
Visual Research Group 1-2pm 26th November 2007, W240
The VRG are practicing artists engaged in digital media and computer animation. They will be presenting work past and present and discussing their relatuionship with practice-led research.
Alenka Jenlen 2-3pm 5th December 2007, PG141
Alenka is a lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of Ljubljana. She will be presenting her paper 'Creating the media image of the president: The role of official sources in framing television news'
