[ecrea] Analysing Media Industries and Media Production - ICA preconference

>Below are details of a 'preconference', due to 
>take place immediately before the International 
>Communication Association conference in Montreal 
>in May. The preconference ends just in time for 
>the reception that begins the main conference, 
>and takes place in the same hotel. Registration 
>for the conference and preconferences is now 
>open at 
>http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2008/2008confinfo.asp 
><http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2008/2008confinfo.asp>
>
>Please note that numbers are limited.
>
>David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Media and Music 
>Industries, University of Leeds
>
>
>
>This preconference is cosponsored by the Popular 
>Communication and Feminist Scholarship Divisions.
>
>Title:  Analysing Media Industries and Media 
>Production: an Emerging Key Area for Communication Research
>
>Date: May 22, 2008
>
>Time: 8.30 - 17:00
>
>Place: Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Canada
>
>Limit: 50
>
>Cost: $80.00 ICA Members (includes morning and afternoon coffee/tea breaks)
>           $50.00 Student Members
>
>This preconference brings together established 
>and up-and-coming scholars who are examining the 
>fundamental question of how popular 
>communication artefacts come to take the form 
>they do. This question involves re-examining 
>questions of cultural production, the status of 
>cultural industries, and their organization in 
>light of new approaches drawn from cultural 
>studies, feminist and critical race studies, and 
>global studies. This is a vibrant and 
>interdisciplinary area, drawing on sociology, 
>cultural studies, organisational and management 
>studies, political economy, economics, social 
>history, cultural geography, and social theory, 
>to name just a few. Which theories and methods 
>are most likely to consolidate the recent 
>success of this field of analysis? What tensions 
>exist between the various disciplines 
>contributing to the field and how might they best be addressed?
>
>The preconference addresses these questions in 
>four panels, consisting of leading speakers that 
>represent disciplinary and geographic diversity. 
>Each group of presentations will be followed by 
>open roundtable discussion from all 
>participants. The preconference is meant as an 
>inclusive dialogue, a chance to search for 
>points of agreement as well as clarify 
>differences. Position papers will be posted to 
>all participants before the conference and we 
>will establish a blog for participants to post 
>questions and challenges that we may address 
>during the course of the day. Following the 
>preconference, we expect to look to participants 
>for next steps in considering production or 
>industrial studies as part of the communication discipline.
>
>Preconference convenors:
>David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds
>Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
>Vicki Mayer, Tulane University
>
>Panel 1: Traditions of Theory and Research, 8:30-10 a.m.
>
>This panel brings together three traditions, 
>each with their own theoretical orientations. 
>John Caldwell (Professor and Chair of Critical 
>Studies at UCLA) addresses the contribution of 
>film and television studies to a long history of 
>mass communication research. Graham Murdock 
>(Reader in the Sociology of Culture at 
>Loughborough University) has been a key theorist 
>of the political economy of culture. Joseph 
>Turow (Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of 
>Communication at Penn's Annenberg School for 
>Communication) has been a longtime proponent of 
>organizational approaches in the study of media industries.
>
>Moderator: Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
>John Caldwell, UCLA
>Graham Murdock, University of Loughborough
>Joseph Turow, University of Pennsylvania
>
>
>Panel 2: Methods, 10:30-noon
>
>This panel brings us to our diverse 
>groundings-that is, the actual methods we use in 
>building our theories about production and 
>industries. Widely influenced by feminist 
>theories and ethnographic approaches, these 
>panels present complementary, yet distinct 
>approaches to the study of challenging spaces 
>and their human subjects. Georgina Born (Fellow 
>and Director of Studies in Social and Political 
>Sciences, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge) brings 
>an anthropological perspective based in her 
>esteemed work on musicians and BBC employees. 
>Laura Grindstaff (Associate Professor of 
>Sociology at University of California, Davis) 
>adds the perspective of the participant-observer 
>in a sociological tradition. Lisa McLaughlin 
>(Associate Professor of Mass Communication and 
>Women's Studies) adds a third voice straight 
>from the field, with a discussion of feminist 
>methods in the context of global electronics industries.
>
>Moderator: Vicki Mayer, Tulane University
>Georgina Born, University of Cambridge
>Laura Grindstaff, UC-Davis
>Lisa McLaughlin, Miami University
>
>Lunch 12:30 - 2 p.m.
>
>Panel 3: Transnational Industries and Production, 2-3:30 p.m.
>
>Theories surrounding the globalization of media 
>industries and their ancillary products 
>frequently overlook the local dimensions to 
>production, distribution, and exhibition 
>circuits. This panel seeks to overcome these 
>dichotomies with a discussion of the global 
>dimensions of their located research. Michael 
>Curtin (Professor of Media and Cultural Studies 
>and Director of Global Studies at the University 
>of Wisconsin, Madison), Jyotsna Kapur (Associate 
>Professor of Cinema at Southern Illinois 
>University at Carbondale), and Serra Tinic 
>(Associate Professor of Sociology at the 
>University of Alberta) are each working on 
>geographies (respectively, China, India, and 
>Canada) that are crucially important to our 
>understanding of global production, from the 
>roles of states and transnational industries, to 
>the perspectives of workers and laborers in those fields.
>
>Moderator: David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds
>Michael Curtin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
>Jyotsna Kapur, SIU-Carbondale
>Serra Tinic, U. of Alberta
>
>Panel 4: Directions, 4-5:30 p.m.
>
>This final panel raises future directions for a 
>study of cultural industries and production by 
>capturing some issues that have frequently fall 
>outside of the purviews of our respective 
>disciplines. Jonathan Burston (Assistant 
>Professor of Information Studies at the 
>University of Western Ontario) investigates the 
>role of the military in media production. David 
>Hesmondhalgh (Professor of Media and Music 
>Industries at the University of Leeds) raises 
>the role of affect in symbolic production sites. 
>Vicki Mayer (Associate Professor and Chair of 
>Communication at Tulane University) works with 
>invisible labor communities in the new 
>television economy. Timothy Havens (Associate 
>Professor of Communication at the University of 
>Iowa) pushes us to look at cultural negotiations 
>in standard business practices.
>
>Moderator: Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
>Jonathan Burston, University of Western Ontario
>David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds
>Vicki Mayer, Tulane University
>Tim Havens, University of Iowa
>
>
>
>

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