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Research Seminar: 22 February 2017 – Dr Agnes Gulyas on Local Media

Reader in Digital Transformations, Dr Ágnes Gulyás, is to present a paper on local media in the digital age.

Canterbury Christ Church University
School of Media, Art and Design and Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures
Research Seminars 2016-2017

22 February 2017
1.00pm-1.55pm

Local media and local communities
Speaker: Dr Ágnes Gulyás, Canterbury Christ Church University

What are the roles and importance of local media in their community? How has the subject area been studied? How are the internet and online platforms impacting on the relationship between local communities and their local media? What is local news in the digital age? – These are the key questions for this talk, which will provide a review and (meta) analysis of the relevant literature outlining the key areas of concerns, main approaches and gaps in the field. As an important topic in the literature the talk will explore more closely how local media are changing in the digital age and the key issues regarding the impact of internet and online platforms on how local communities communicate and how information are mediated for them. Findings of an empirical study on local news and communication in the digital age carried out by the presenter and Sarah O’Hara will be presented to illustrate particular points.

Dr Ágnes Gulyás is a Reader in Digital Transformations in the School of Media, Art and Design. She is the co-director of the Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures, CCCU and teaching on the Media and Communications, Multimedia Journalism and MA by Research programmes and supervises PhD students in the School. Ágnes’ research interests include digital transformations, social media, communities, media organisations and industries and journalism.

Powell Building – Pf06
North Holmes Road Campus
Email Dr Andrew Butler – Andrew.Butler@canterbury.ac.uk – for further details

— All welcome —

Artists, Archives and A/Gender

Several of the School of Media, Art and Design’s research centres and researchers will be contributing to an event at the Sidney Cooper Gallery.

Beneath the Mask:
Artists, Archives and A/Gender — A day of events, exhibitions and spectacle.
March 16th 2017, 10am-4pm
Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury

Beneath the Mask: Artists, Archives and A/Gender will provide an exciting day of events, exhibitions and spectacle prompted by Claude Cahun‘s exploration of identities and masking.

Throughout the day and with an eclectic and playful mix of presentation and performance, Artists, Archives and A/Gender will explore concepts of identity and masquerade.
Curatorial walk/talks; authors and artists in conversations; poetry and performance will shape the day, providing a plurality of perspectives and an opportunity to enter into dynamic dialogue and discussion.

This one-day event is in partnership with UAL’s Photography and the Archive Research Centre‘s ‘Moose on the Loose’ Festival. Contributions from a number of CCCU’s centres for research will include: the Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures; the Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice (INCISE); the Centre for Practice-Based Research in the Arts and the South East Archive of Seaside (SEAS) Photography.

Note that this event will include adult content and themes.

Booking: Places are FREE but they do require booking via this link: http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture/event-details.aspx?instance=113603

Research Seminar: Alan Meades and Karen Shepherdson on Arcades, Archives and our Coastal Communities

Alan Meades and Karen Shepherdson of CCCU’s Centre for Research on Communities & Cultures will be discussing an photographic archive of seaside arcades recently acquired by SEAS Photography.

How to Build an Engaged Community through Social Media: 8th July 2016

Webinar and one-to-one surgery for small non-profit organisations

8th July 2016

You are cordially invited to a free online webinar and/or a one-to-one online (or phone) surgery about how small non-profits can use social media to build an engaged community. The sessions will be run by Kirsty Marrins, social media consultant for the third sector, from Platypus Digital. You will learn about:

  • How to plan content that engages your audience
  • How to plan social media into your day-to-day work
  • How to measure your success

    • Both the webinar and the one-to-one surgeries are free but pre registration is required. The webinar will start at 10:00 am (GMT) on the 8th July. To register please email Aurora Patera aurora.patera@gmail.com

    This workshop is organised by Dr Agnes Gulyas, Centre for Research on Communities and Culture, School of Media, Art and Design, Canterbury Christ Church University as part of a study on social media adoption in the third sector. For further information about the events or about the project, please contact: agnes.gulyas@canterbury.ac.uk

    We look forward seeing you on the call!

    Research Seminar: 20 April 2016 – Mark Aitken, Filming Community

    Filming Community
    Speaker: Mark Aitken, Goldsmiths, University of London

    Communities may share location, allegiance, language, needs, loss – all that affects collective identity and cohesion beyond the parameters of the individual.

    Understanding community dynamics for film making is a process of research, analysis and selection. Utilising four documentary films as case studies, different definitions of community are considered. Each film is analysed in terms of how research led to specific work processes and representations. The tension between community needs and responsibilities of the film maker will be highlighted. The outcomes of how and for whom the films were successful or not will be revealed.

    Communities may be fragile and vulnerable. A film may stand as the only testament of a community long after it no longer exists. The nuances of voices, faces, temporal worlds caught and preserved, offering opportunity to research why and how community informs a deep need for collective identity.

     

     

    Born in New Zealand, raised in South Africa, Mark Aitken moved to the UK to further his education at art school and ultimately learn film making. In the 1990s, Mark produced and directed numerous short films, music videos, adverts and television programmes. The advent of digital technology and its inherent accessibility brought Mark back into film education. In the 2000s he facilitated over forty short films with the non-profit polkadots on raindrops – a film education company he founded and dedicated to creative digital storytelling. In 2006, Mark joined Goldsmiths as an Associate Lecturer on the M.A. Film Making course. Since 2010, Mark has run the 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate Film Fiction courses. In 2014, he began facilitating the undergraduate Television course.

     

    School of Media Art and Design, Research Seminars 2015-2016
    20 April 2016
    4.15pm-5.30pm
    Pf06 Powell Building
    North Holmes Road Campus
    Canterbury Christ Church University
    Canterbury
    CT1 1QU

    Email Dr Andrew Butler – Andrew.Butler@canterbury.ac.uk – for further details
     
    — All welcome —

    Research Seminar: 9 March 2016 – Dr Jonathan Cable, Protest Campaigns, Media and Political Opportunities

    Canterbury Christ Church University
    School of Media Art and Design
    Research Seminars 2015-2016

    9 March 2016
    4.15pm-5.30pm

    Protest Campaigns, Media and Political Opportunities:
    An examination of the creation and exploitation of media and political opportunities by protest groups
    Speaker: Dr Jonathan Cable, University of Cardiff

    This paper is concerned with the interactions between protest groups, their political targets and the mainstream media. Paying particular attention to the tactical repertoires and media strategies protest groups, and how their messages are transmitted through protest action and into mainstream media coverage and political debates. Using three protest groups as the core case studies, this paper covers a range of different protest tactics and issues from the conventional to the confrontational. They take the form of a local community campaign to save a pub, Plane Stupid’s actions against airport expansion, and the mass protests by G20Meltdown against the G20 in London in 2009.

    This paper argues that relative success and failure of protest action in achieving a group’s goals lies in the extent to which issues and the reasons behind protest are explained in the mainstream media, and the positioning of an issue on the political agenda. Further, protest action is situated within a wider context of mainstream media and political opportunities. The more a group can create and exploit these opportunities the greater their ability to propagate their message as far as possible and achieve their goals.

    Dr Jonathan Cable is a Research Associate on the ESRC funded project “Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen Relations After the Snowden Leaks” and the Pathways to Progression Coordinator for Our Media, Our World between Continuing & Professional Education and JOMEC.

    Powell Building – Pf06
    North Holmes Road Campus
    Email Dr Andrew Butler – Andrew.Butler@canterbury.ac.uk – for further details
    — All welcome —