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[ecrea] Obesity, eating disorders, and the media: an interdisciplinary workshop (Oxford, 9 November 2011)

Tue Nov 01 12:04:56 GMT 2011




 ** On behalf of Amy McLennan, (amy.mclennan /at/ anthro.ox.ac.uk)<mailto:(amy.mclennan /at/ anthro.ox.ac.uk)>   **


REMINDER

 OBESITY, EATING DISORDERS, AND THE MEDIA: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP
 Wednesday 9 November 2011, 9:30am – 5:30pm
 St Anne’s College, University of Oxford

 The rising global prevalence of obesity and eating disorders can be
 considered one of the top public health challenges of the 21st century.
 With the large volume of recent scientific research on these conditions,
 and the increasing number of public health policies directed at their
 prevention, significant new information concerning obesity and eating
 disorders is emerging with great frequency. Only a small selection of
 this new information, however, crosses from the science and policy
 realms into the public sphere. Here, the news media play a crucial role.
 Lay concepts regarding the prevention, causation, and management of
 obesity and eating disorders are now largely informed by news media
 sources, where health information is communicated to the public with
 ever-growing immediacy, accessibility, and ubiquity.

 Considering the news media’s potential influence on people’s health
 behaviours and lifestyle choices, the Unit for Biocultural Variation and
 Obesity is exploring the rationale and modes of representation guiding
 the media’s reporting on obesity and eating disorders. This workshop
 aims to establish the state of the science and define best practices in
 utilizing digital methods to research the news media. Bringing together
 leading experts on obesity, eating disorders, and media studies from the
 UK, the US, Israel, and Australia, this workshop is the first to offer a
 comprehensive examination of the media’s representations of obesity and
 eating disorders, as well as the first to explore the application of new
 digital humanities research methods to this field. It promises to
 engender innovative and collaborative research, and produce substantial
 new analyses of the media’s role in bridging science and the public.

 Conveners
 Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, Dr Karin Eli, Professor David Zeitlyn
 (School of Anthropology, University of Oxford)

 Speakers include
 Professor Clive Seale (Queen Mary, University of London)
 Ms Anna Lavis (Goldsmiths, University of London)
 Dr Paula Saukko (Loughborough University)
 Dr Helen Malson (University of the West of England)
 Dr Megan Warin (University of Adelaide, Australia)
 Dr Natalie Boero (San Jose State University, USA)
 Mr John McNaught (National Centre for Text Mining [NaCTeM], Manchester)
 Ms Vivienne Parry, OBE (Science writer and broadcaster)
 Dr Daphna Carmeli (University of Haifa, Israel)
 Dr James Thomas (Institute of Education, University of London)

 To register, please visit http://tinyurl.com/UBVOworkshopNOV11



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