[eccr] BORDER CROSSINGS: Annual AMPE Conference: 15 - 16 November

>AMPE's Annual Conference on 15 - 16 November at the University of East 
>London is coming up at a rapid rate of knots....
>
>Last year's conference was a great success, and we expect this one to be 
>even better.   BORDER CROSSINGS - Media Practice in the Age of Convergence 
>(details attached) seeks to focus discussion around four themes:
>    * Globalisation
>    * Casualisation of the Media Industries
>    * Vocationalism/Aspirations
>    * Media Form and Content
>
>
>It would be fantastic, would it not,  to know just how many planned to 
>attend ahead of time...So the organisers are hoping you'll respond by 
>filling in that Conference Registration form (attached).
>
>Any questions about Registration/Administration,  just phone Linda John at 
>the University of East London on 020 8223 2680 or e-mail her at 
>(L.John /at/ uel.ac.uk)
>
>And there's still time to submit papers, run workshops or lead seminars....
>Call Tony Klinger on 020 8223 7427.
>
>See you there?
>
>Check our website for the latest information:  www. ampe.co.uk

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BORDER CROSSINGS
Media Practice in the Age of Convergence

Introduction


We live in an age in which the boundaries between countries, communities, 
nationalities and social identities are, on the one hand, blurring and, 
while on the other, being fiercely contested and defended. Within the 
media, the impetus is towards convergence both in technology and in 
ownership. The conference seeks to explore the implications of these trends 
for media practice educators and for their students.
The conference will examine four main aspects of the theme and other 
topical areas

Theme One
Globalisation: flows in information/representations, people, technical 
know-how, and educational practices; from elite's to citizens, from the 
powerful to the powerless; with implications for identity, community, 
nationhood and the developing world.

Theme Two
Casualisation of the Media Industries: career structures, continuing 
education; education versus training, public and private ownership, 
graduate employment, implications for teaching and the student experience, 
accreditation of courses, new blood, ossification, defining and challenging 
mythologies.

Theme Three
Vocationalism/Aspirations: relations between Higher/Further Education and 
the media industries; who designs, owns, controls programmes of study? What 
are they for? Implications for diversity of programmes and approaches, 
relationships between the student/the education provider and the industries.

Theme Four
Media Form and Content: skills old and new/ human and technological; 
convergence and its implications for diversity in form and content; the 
omission of content/creativity in debates about the media, time and space 
for alternatives and experiments, debates around research, theory and 
practice...


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