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Canterbury 2016
Communities
6th - 8th January 2016
Canterbury Christ Church University
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Welcome
Thank you for attending MeCCSA 2016 and we hope you will enjoy the conference. We have an exciting
programme over the three days with six plenaries, 42 parallel sessions and approximately 160 presentations. We will be discussing a variety of topics from the future of the BBC to the Green Paper on Higher
Education; however, the main theme for this years Annual Conference is Communities.
The notion of Communities has a long history and been subject to various reassessments. It has also
received renewed interest in recent times. In our call for papers we invited colleagues to explore how we
might advance thinking on key topics such as communities in the digital age; communities and the commons; communities and cultures; communities on the margins; local and community media; politics and
policies of communities; community engagement and cohesion; inclusion and exclusion in communities;
communities and the past. With the explorations of these topics we aim to contribute to this important
but often fragmented area within our disciplinary studies.
MeCCSA 2016 Organising Committee
Dr Keith McLay
Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities
On behalf of the Vice Chancellor, Im delighted to welcome
all MeCCSA 2016 conference delegates to Canterbury Christ
Church University and in particular to the host School of
Media, Art & Design in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
The Faculty combines excellence in research and teaching and learning: all programmes of study are research-led,
focused on employability and student oriented.
Colleagues from across the Faculty contributed to the REF 2014 with 90% of the Facultys research
recognised as world leading or internationally significant. For the School of Media, Art & Design, these
teaching and learning and research contexts are focussed within the MeCCSA subject areas of media,
communication, cultural studies and, notably, communities and cultures through its Centre for Research
on Communities & Cultures; communities is, of course, the key theme of this years conference.
The School brings industry and academia together to teach, to learn and to research, producing graduates
who have equal facility in practice and scholarship. I wish the conference every success over the three
days as it explores the nature and understanding of communities in our 21st century digital age.
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank MeCCSA for the opportunity to host this years conference, as well as the Faculty
of Arts and Humanities and School of Media, Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University for
their financial support. There are a number of people who helped behind the scene, thank you to all of
them. Special thanks to Julia Bennett, Dr Ruth Sanz Sabido, Dr Craig Smith and Sarah OHara.
Dr Agnes Gulyas, Canterbury Christ Church University
About MeCCSA
MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK
Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions,
via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV studies, media production,
journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web, and it also
includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies.
MeCCSA is an unincorporated association, whose constitution includes the following purposes:
Supporting, developing and representing the interests of Higher Education in the field
Providing a professional forum for members to exchange information and experience
Raising public understanding of the field
Maintaining and improving the quality of provision in teaching and learning in the field
Advising research and funding councils, and other relevant national and international bodies
Promoting the interests of students
Fostering research in the field
Advising on professional qualifications in the field
Promoting policies which encourage diversity and equal opportunities in the field
The association has nine Networks: Climate Change; Disability; Postgraduate; Practice; Policy; Race;
Radio; Social Movements; Women's Media Studies
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Programme Summary
Wednesday, 6 January 2016
from 10:30
11:30 - 13:00
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:15
15:15 - 16:45
16:45 - 17:05
17:05 - 18:35
from 18:45
Registration
Plenary 1: Communities and activism
(Hilary Wainwright, Jeremy Gilbert, Phil Cohen)
Lunch
Panel Sessions 1
Comfort Break
Panel Sessions 2
Break & Refreshments
Plenary 2: Roundtable: Future of local and community media
(Adam Cantwell-Corn, Peter Lewis, Ian Carter, Andy Williams)
Social event at St Georges Centre
Registration
Plenary 3: Communities on the margins
(Leah Bassel, Helen Thornham, Claire Wallace)
Comfort Break
Panel Sessions 3
Lunch & MeCCSA Network Business Meetings
Panel Sessions 4
Break
Plenary 4: Roundtable: Communities, academic research and impact
(George McKay, Claire Wallace, Leah Bassel, Kathryn Geels)
Break & Refreshments
Plenary 5: Roundtable: Waiting for the BBC White Paper - What's Missing?
(Patrick Barwise, Sophie Chalk, Bill Thompson, Jeanette Steemers, Des Freedman)
Conference Dinner at Cathedral Lodge
Registration
Panel Sessions 5
Comfort Break
AGM with David Walker, Head of Policy, Academy of Social Sciences
Lunch
Plenary 6: Communities in the Digital Age
(Mark Deuze, Helena Sousa)
Break
Panel Sessions 6
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Plenaries
PLENARY 1: Communities and activism
Wednesday 6 January, 11:30-13:00
Hilary Wainwright, Prof Jeremy Gilbert, Phil Cohen
PLENARY 2: Roundtable: Local and community media
Wednesday 6 January, 17:05-18:35
Adam Cantwell-Corn, Dr Peter Lewis, Ian Carter, Dr Andy Williams
PLENARY 3: Communities on the margins
Thursday 7 January, 9:10-10:40
Dr Leah Bassel, Dr Helen Thornham, Prof Claire Wallace
PLENARY 4: Roundtable: Communities, academic research and impact
Thursday 7 January, 15:10-16:40
Prof George McKay, Prof Claire Wallace, Dr Leah Bassel, Kathryn Geels
PLENARY 5: Roundtable: Waiting for the BBC White Paper - What's missing?
Thursday 7 January, 17:00-18:30
Prof Patrick Barwise, Sophie Chalk, Bill Thompson, Prof Jeanette Steemers, Prof Des Freedman
AGM with David Walker, Head of Policy, Academy of Social Sciences, 'Social science
and the humanities: the way ahead'
Friday 8 January, 10:45-12:00
PLENARY 6: Communities in the digital age
Friday 8 January, 12:45-13:45
Prof Mark Deuze, Prof Helena Sousa
Poster
Political Communication in Greece: Reflections of the crisis in the electoral campaigns of the 2014
European Elections by Anastasia Veneti and Stamatis Poulakidakos (Bournemouth University)
Social Events
Wednesday 6 January, from 18:45 - St George's Centre - Taste of Kent reception and Quiz
Thursday 7 January, from 18:45 - Canterbury Cathedral Lodge Hotel - Conference Dinner
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Plenary Speakers
atrick Barwise is Emeritus Professor of Management and Marketing at London Business School, a
visiting senior fellow in media and communications at the LSE, and former chairman of Which?, the
UKs leading consumer organization and a 100m turnover media business.
eah Bassel is New Blood Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester. Her research
interests include the political sociology of gender, migration, race and citizenship and she is author of
Refugee Women: Beyond Gender versus Culture (2012).
dam Cantwell-Corn is a Co-Founder of the media co-operative the Bristol Cable. The Bristol
Cable is redefining local journalism through challenging multimedia, community action and cooperative ownership. Online, in print and on the street they create free feature and investigative based magazine, workshops and public events.
an Carter is the Editorial Director of KM Media Group responsible for overseeing content across its
print, digital, TV and radio platforms, including nine paid-for newspapers, seven FM stations, one DAB
station and the KentOnline digital network.
ophie Chalk has worked as a producer/director in television and radio since 1989. Credits as a
producer/director include TVam, GTMV, Sky News, Yorkshire Television, Jazz FM, BBC World Service
and Radio 4. She set up the independent production company, Rooftop Productions, in 1998 to specialise
in making programming about the developing world.
hil Cohen is the Research Director of LivingMaps, a network of activists, academics and artists
concerned to develop a critical and creative approach to community mapping. He is an urban ethnographer who has researched and written about the impact of structural and demographic change on the
lives, livelihoods and life stories of working class communities,
ark Deuze is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and until 2013 was Associate Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University. Publications of his work include over
fifty articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and seven books, including Media Work (2007) and Media
Life (2012), both with Polity Press.
eremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London and the current editor of the journal New Formations.His most recent book is Common Ground:Democracy and Collectivity in anAge of Individualism (Pluto 2013) and he has written widely on cultural theory,politics and music.
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athryn Geels is the Programme Manager for Destination Local at Nesta. The purpose of the programme is to understand the potential for and stimulate a diverse and sustainable UK base of hyperlocal media services that create public value. Before joining Nesta, Kathryn worked as a freelancer in
hyperlocal media and digital engagement with clients including the Guardian Media Group and Talk About
Local.
eter Lewis, a Senior Lecturer in Community Media in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, London Metropolitan University, is a member of the Community Media Association, the Radio
Research Section of ECREA, the Community Communications Section of the IAMCR and the Experts
Group of the Community Media Forum for Europe.
eorge McKay is Professor of Media Studies at the University of East Anglia, and an Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellow for its Connected Communities Programme (201218). Among Georges books are Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability (Michigan University Press,
2013), and ed. The Pop Festival: History, Media, Music, Culture (Bloomsbury, 2015). His website is www.
georgemckay.org
elena Sousa is the President of the Social Sciences School at the University of Minho. Former ViceChair and Chair (2004-2014) of the Political Economy Section of the IAMCR, she is presently Editor
of the European Journal of Communication, Vice-President of the National Science Foundatio, Scientific
Council for Social Sciences and Humanities and Member of the EuroMedia Research Group.
rofessor Jeanette Steemers is Co-Director of Research of the School of Media, Arts and Design
at the University of Westminster. A graduate in German and Russian, she completed her PhD on
public service broadcasting in West Germany in 1990.
ill Thompson is a well-known technology journalist and advisor to arts and cultural organisations
on matters related to digital technologies. He appears weekly on Click on BBC World Service radio
and writes a monthly column for Focus magazine.
elena Thornham's research centres on issues of gender and digital technology. At the moment
she is writing about the digital mundane, as well as key methodological and epistemological issues
of contemporary digital culture.
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ilary Wainwright, Journalist and Researcher, Transnational Institute. Hilary is co-editor of Red
Pepper and research director of the New Politics Project of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam.
avid Walker is the Head of Policy at the Academy of Social Sciences. A journalist and public affairs
executive by background, he was until autumn 2013 Chair of the ESRC Methods and Infrastructure
Committee, after seven years on ESRC Council.
laire Wallace is Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. She has done extensive work
on Digital Communications and rural communities as part of an EPSRC grant dot.rural and also an
EPSRC Cultures and Communities Network+ project.
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11:30 - 13:00
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Parallel Sessions 1
Sasha Scott
(Queen Mary University of London)
Leah Fusco
(University for the Creative Arts)
Caroline Molloy
(Coventry University)
Re-imagined communities: the adaptation of cultural identity as performed in London-Turkish Photography studios
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Jonathan Hickman
(Birmingham City University)
David Harte
(Birmingham City University)
Jerome Turner
(Birmingham City University)
Stolen cars, lost cats and sunsets: The role and tensions of
audiences in defining hyperlocal online media spaces.
Lizzie Jackson
(London South Bank University)
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Theresa Cronin
(Middlesex University)
'Its the most disgusting, vile thing Ive ever sat down
and watched': The Censorship of A Serbian Film in
Bournemouth
The Film that was Banned in Harrogate: Local Newspapers, Monty Pythons Life of Brian and the Expression of an Alternative Local Community.
4 Discourse
Chair: Milly Williamson (Brunel University) Room: Powell Building, Pf05
Nicola Donnelly
(Institute of Public Health in Ireland)
Comfort Break
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15:15 - 16:45
1 Practice 1
Chair: Joanna Callaghan (University of Sussex)
Tim Jones
(Canterbury Christ Church University)
Parallel Sessions 2
Room: Powell Building, Pg09
Early Amateur Filmmakers: Sydney Bligh
2 Local Media
Chair: Janey Gordon (University of Bedfordshire) Room: Powell Building, Pg07
Sarah O'Hara
(Canterbury Christ Church University)
Jamie Matthews
(Bournemouth University)
Josephine Coleman
(Birkbeck College, London)
Raising Films: the parental backlash to the media industrys community of practice
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Jonathan Hardy
(University of East London)
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5 Pedagogy 1
Chair: Ken Fox (Canterbury Christ Church University) Room: Powell Building, Pf06
Rachel Matthews (Coventry University)
6 Online Communities 1
Chair: Andrew Butler (Canterbury Christ Church University) Room: Powell Building, Pf07
Elinor Carmi
(Goldsmiths, University of London)
16:45 - 17:05
17:05 - 18:35
From 18:45
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9:10 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Parallel Sessions 3
Online Communities II
Chair: Anita Biressi (University of Roehampton) Room: Powell Building, Pg06
Olu Jenzen (University of Brighton)
Michael Saker
(Southampton Solent University)
Herminder Kaur
(Loughborough University)
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4 Political Discourse
Chair: Ruth Sanz Sabido (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Angela Gilchrist
(Canterbury Christ Church University)
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Michael O'Brien
(University of Roehampton)
12:30 - 13:30
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Parallel Sessions 4
Jane Milton
Chris Pallant
Shane Blackman
3 Broadcasting (De)Regulations
Chair: Agnes Gulyas (Canterbury Christ Church University) Room: Powell Building, Pf05
Tony Stoller (Bournemouth University)
Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu
(De Montfort University)
Emma Wray
(Southampton Solent University)
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Ting-Ying Lin
(Goldsmiths, University of London)
The Spectacular Supernatural: Rethinking the Relationship between Belief and Entertainment
7 Pedagogy II
Chair: Margaret Montgomerie (De Montfort University)
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Alison Gallagher
(Canterbury Christ Church University)
Kristy Howells
(Canterbury Christ Church University)
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15:00 - 15:10
Comfort Break
15:10 - 16:40
16:40 - 17:00
17:00 - 18:30
From 18:45
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9:00 - 10:30
Parallel Sessions 5
Diane MacLean
(Edinburgh Napier University)
Sam Vale
(Canterbury Christ Church University)
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Simeon Yates
(Institute of Cultural Capital, Liverpool)
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6 Ethnographies
Chair: Shane Blackman (Canterbury Christ Church University) Room: Erasmus Building, Eg01
Bethan Michael and Nikita Hayden
(University of Bedfordshire)
Robert McPherson
(Canterbury Christ Church University)
Kirsten MacLeod
(Edinburgh Napier University)
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10:40 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:45
12:45 - 13:45
13:45 - 14:00
Comfort Break
14:00 - 15:30
Parallel Sessions 6
1 Practice II
Chair: Andy Birtwistle (Canterbury Christ Church University) Room: Powell Building, Pg06
Allister Gall (Plymouth University/
Plymouth College of Art)
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Holly-Gale Millette
(University of Southampton)
The Ambiguity of an Environmental Intentional Community: Estrangement and Evangelism at The Centre
for Alternative Technology
Maria Urbina
(University of Wolverhampton)
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4 News II
Chair: Karen Boyle (University of Stirling) Room: Powell Building, Pf06
Zoetanya Sujon and Elif Toker-Turnalar
(Regent's University London)
Patrick Readshaw
(Canterbury Christ Church University)
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