[ecrea] Advancing Media Production Conference - University of Leeds

**Advancing Media Production Conference**
University of Leeds - Monday, 24 June, 2013

This International Communication Association (ICA) Post-conference / International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Pre-conference 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.

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
https://www.pvac.leeds.ac.uk/productionresearch/register/

Speakers and participants include:

*   Georgina Born (Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC; etc.)
*   David Ryfe (Can Journalism Survive? An inside look at American Newsrooms)
*   Philip Schlesinger (Putting ‘Reality’ Together; etc.)
*   Tim Havens (Understanding Media Industries; Black Television Travels – Media Globalization and Contemporary Racial Discourse)
*   David Hesmondhalgh (The Cultural Industries; etc.)
*   Chris Paterson (Making Online News; International Television News Agencies)
*   Chris Anderson (Networking the News: The Struggle to Rebuild Metropolitan Journalism, 1997-2011)
*   A public lecture by ICA past president Barbie Zelizer follows the event

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 and explorations of theory and research.

This event is organised by the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds and is co-sponsored by the IAMCR Media Production Analysis Working Group, ICA Journalism Studies Section and ECREA Media Industries and Cultural Production Working Group

Dr Anamik Saha
Lecturer in Communications Studies
Institute of Communications Studies
Rm 2.24 Clothworkers' North Building
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
011334 35807

http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/people/anamik-saha/

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