Programme and Schedule
Posted on 14. Feb, 2011 by Einar Thorsen in News, Programme
We have revised the programme for the MEC2011 symposium on 4th March, which is presented below with accompanying schedule.
Registration
09:00 – 09:30
Tea and coffee will be served
Welcome Address
09:30 – 09:45
Einar Thorsen, Bournemouth University
Global Issues / Local Contexts
09:45 – 11:05
Panel Abstracts ~ Chair: Julie Doyle, University of Brighton
Why Media Matter: The Democratic Handling of Complex Environmental Issues
Annika Egan Sjölander, Umeå University, Sweden
Television Coverage of the Cancun Summit on Spanish TV
Juan Carlos Águila Coghlan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Affecting Environments: emotional experiences between media and place in the Save Our Forests campaign
Alex Lockwood, University of Sunderland
Mediating environmental change: choose conflict
Pieter Maeseele, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Break
11:05 – 11:20
Tea and coffee will be served
Plenary session
11:20 – 12:20
Abstracts below ~ Chair: Jenny Alexander, Bournemouth University
Reporting from Copenhagen and Cancun – issues and realities
James Painter, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford and formerly BBC World Service
The language that mediates positive environmental change – or environmental decay
Rupert Read, University of East Anglia (Norwich) and Green Party Councillor
Lunch
12:20 – 13:05
Vegetarian buffet lunch and refreshments will be served.
Climate Activism / Citizen Conversations
13:05 – 14:40
Panel Abstracts ~ Chair: Stuart Allan, Bournemouth University
The Media is the Message
Dan Glass, Plane Stupid
The Whaling Wars of the Antarctic: The case of Sea Sheppard, ‘Eco-Terrorism’ and Multi-Media Activism
Anita Howarth, Kingston University
The Missing Public – A Sought-After Ingredient and a Constrainted Entity in the News Discourse on Environmental Risks
Annika Egan Sjölander, Umeå University, Sweden, &
Anna Maria Jönsson, Södertörn University, Sweden
Where is the ‘Counter’ in Counter-Politics? Climate Change and New Media
Maxine Newlands, University of East London
‘Not Yet a Butterfly’: Climate Science Blogs as Emerging Spaces of Discourse
Larry Pryor, USC/Annenberg School of Journalism & Communication, US
Break
14:40 – 14:55
Tea and coffee will be served
The Power of Mediation
14:55 – 16:15
Panel Abstracts ~ Chair: Alex Lockwood, University of Sunderland
The New York Times and the “Beleaguered People of Louisiana”: Communicating the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill as a Social Disaster
Mat Hope, University of Bristol
Reconsidering Photo-Journalism in the Face of Climate Change
Ulrike Heine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Advertising and Climate Change
Jenny Alexander, Bournemouth University
Star/Poverty Space as Poverty-tainment
Michael Goodman and Christine Barnes, King’s College London
Break
16:15 – 16:30
Tea and coffee will be served
Conservation, Media and Pedagogy
16:30 – 18:05
Panel Abstracts ~ Chair: Michael Goodman, King’s College London
Researching the Public Pedagogy of Environmental and Conservation Media
John Blewitt, Aston University
Scientific Evidence and Environmental Policy Making: A Portuguese Case Study
Margarida Sardo and Emma Weitkamp, University of the West of England, Bristol
Sustainable wellbeing: Linking the personal and the planetary
Paul Stevens, Bournemouth University
Media, Materiality and the Environment: Exploring the Ethics and Sustainability of Hardware
Sy Taffel, University of Bristol
‘What’s the Environment got to do with Media Studies?’: Exploring the Possibilities and Challenges for Curriculum Development in HE
Julie Doyle, University of Brighton
Closing Address
18:05 – 18:30
Chair: Einar Thorsen, Bournemouth University
Adrian Newton, Bournemouth University, formerly the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). Member of the British Ecological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Julie Doyle, University of Brighton and author of the forthcoming book Mediating Climate Change (to be published in 2011 by Ashgate)
Neil Gavin, University of Liverpool and Chair of MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network
Note to speakers: Given the overwhelming interest in speaking at this event and in order to ensure some lively debate, we have to limit each paper to 12-15 minutes. Please respect the other speakers by ensuring your paper does not overrun. The schedule has been updated slightly from the earlier draft published to accommodate the extra time for speakers.
Updated: This schedule was last updated 24 February 2011.
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