[ecrea] Call for Papers: Advancing Media Production Research

*Call for Papers:  Advancing Media Production Research *



This one-day event will be an International Communication Association (ICA)

Post-conference&  International Association for Media and Communication

Research (IAMCR) Pre-conference



University of Leeds - Monday, 24 June, 2013



IAMCR Co-sponsor: Media Production Analysis Working Group



ICA Co-sponsor: Journalism Studies Section



ECREA Co-sponsor: Media Industries and Cultural Production Working Group



As the internal workings of media institutions change beyond the

recognition of early researchers, and as the challenges to understand

those internal functions become ever greater, there is a need to review

what new knowledge is emerging from production research, what gaps

remain, what challenges to production research persist, and discuss how

those might be overcome.  Researchers in the UK might question if, in

the post-Levenson Report age, media institutions will become more

transparent and open to scrutiny, or less?



This conference is intended to address the issues raised in the process

of researching within media, journalistic, and cultural organisations,

primarily from the anthropological and sociological traditions of

long-term exposure to production cultures through ethnographic

observation or participant observation.  Scholars like Tuchman and Born

have provided insights into production cultures which have shaped

contemporary understandings, but can such research keep pace with the

rate of change in media production environments?  And is the classic

research setting of the newsroom or studio now too limiting; should our

focus shift, for news, at least, to the journalistic “ecosystem,” as

Anderson has argued?



In addition to panel sessions, the conference will feature discussions

with prominent researchers of media production addressing:



-   how theories of journalism and cultural production have been

advanced and challenged by recent media production ethnography



-   the ongoing challenge of access to media and cultural institutions

for in-depth, critical research



-   pressing questions for production research in the coming decade



The conference will also feature presentation of new production research

in concurrent panels – a call for papers follows.



Expected speakers and participants include:



     * Georgina Born (Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention

of the BBC)

     * David Ryfe (Can Journalism Survive? An inside look at American

Newsrooms)

     * Philip Schlesinger (Putting 'Reality' Together)

     * David Hesmondhalgh (The Cultural Industries)



Additional confirmed speakers and a preliminary programme will be posted

to the conference website.



There is further the opportunity to attend a guest lecture by ICA

past-president Professor Barbie Zelizer, organised separately, which

takes place immediately after the event.



Call for Papers



We seek papers from researchers who have confronted the contemporary

challenges of long term research within production environments.  Papers

should highlight the manner in which such research provided insights and

contributions to theory which other methodologies could not; as well as

highlight challenges such as access limitations or efforts to influence

findings by the organisation involved.  Papers should be distinct from

any presented at ICA, IAMCR, or other venues.  300 word abstracts may be

submitted via the conference website, below, by 28 January, 2013.

Accepted authors will be notified by 28 February.



The event will be held on the campus of the University of Leeds, which

is easily accessible by train, road or air from London; and air/sea from

Dublin.  Leeds provides an ideal base from which to explore the north of

England between conferences.  Details of the venue and cost, and advice

on travel, are available at the conference website:



https://www.pvac.leeds.ac.uk/productionresearch



Organised by



Chris Paterson and the University of Leeds Institute of Communications

Studies

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