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The conference, in audio

Posted on 08. Mar, 2011 by csreedharan in Podcast

Presentations from the MEC 2011 conference at the Executive Business Centre, Bournemouth University. These podcasts were recorded, edited and presented by Angelica Jopson, with Stephen Johns.

Welcome address

WelcomeAddress – Einar Thorsen

Einar Thorsen, Bournemouth University

Global Issues/Local Contexts

AnnikaSjolander – Why Media Matter

Why Media Matter: The Democratic Handling of Complex Environmental Issues
Annika Egan Sjölander, Umeå University, Sweden

 

JuanCoghlan – TelevisionCoverageofCancun
Television Coverage of the Cancun Summit on Spanish TV
Juan Carlos Águila Coghlan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

 

AlexLockwood – Affecting Environments
Affecting Environments: emotional experiences between media and place in the Save Our Forests campaign
Alex Lockwood, University of Sunderland

 

PieterMaeseele – MediatingEnvironmentalChange
Mediating environmental change: choose conflict
Pieter Maeseele, University of Antwerp, Belgium

 

Global Issues – Local Contexts Q&A
Q&A: Panellists respond

 

Plenary Session

James Painter – ReportingFromCopenhagenandCancun

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

 

Rupert Read – The Language that Mediates Positive Environmental Change
The language that mediates positive environmental change – or environmental decay
Rupert Read, University of East Anglia (Norwich) and Green Party Councillor

 

Plenary Panel Q&A
Q&A: Panellists respond

 

Climate Activism/Citizen Conversations

Dan Glass – The Media is the Message
The Media is the Message
Dan Glass, Plane Stupid

 

Anita Howarth – The Whaling Wars of the Antarctic
The Whaling Wars of the Antarctic: The case of Sea Sheppard, ‘Eco-Terrorism’ and Multi-Media Activism
Anita Howarth, Kingston University

 

Annika Egan Sjolander – The Missing Public
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

 

Maxine Newlands – Where is the counter in counter-politics
Where is the ‘Counter’ in Counter-Politics? Climate Change and New Media
Maxine Newlands, University of East London

 

Larry Pryor – Not Yet A Butterfly
‘Not Yet a Butterfly’: Climate Science Blogs as Emerging Spaces of Discourse
Larry Pryor, USC/Annenberg School of Journalism & Communication, US

 

The Power of Mediation

MatHope – Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill
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

 

[Podcast for Ulrike Heine not available by request of author.]

Reconsidering Photo-Journalism in the Face of Climate Change
Ulrike Heine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

 

JennyAlexander – Advertising and Climate Change
Advertising and Climate Change
Jenny Alexander, Bournemouth University

 

Micheal Goodman – Poverty-tainment
Star/Poverty Space as Poverty-tainment
Michael Goodman and Christine Barnes, King’s College London

 

Power of Mediation Panel Q&A
Q&A: Panellists respond

 

Conservation, Media and Pedagogy

Researching the Public Pedagogy of Environmental and Conservation Media
Researching the Public Pedagogy of Environmental and Conservation Media
John Blewitt, Aston University

 

Margarida Sardo – Scientific Evidence and Environmental Policy Making
Scientific Evidence and Environmental Policy Making: A Portuguese Case Study
Margarida Sardo and Emma Weitkamp, University of the West of England, Bristol

 

Paul Stevens – Sustainable Wellbeing
Sustainable wellbeing: Linking the personal and the planetary
Paul Stevens, Bournemouth University

 

SyTafel – Media, Materiality and the Environment
Media, Materiality and the Environment: Exploring the Ethics and Sustainability of Hardware
Sy Taffel, University of Bristol

 

Julie Doyle – What’s the Environment got to do with it
‘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

Conference Closing Remark
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