[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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