2013 Summit Programme - The Centre for Excellence in Media ...

It is a pleasure to welcome you to the sixth
annual Media Education Summit, this year
hosted by Sheffield Hallam University.
welcome
We are delighted so many people have registered to attend, with over 60 creative
and media educators from a wide range of institutions. We are also pleased this
year to introduce poster presentations for the first time.
We begin as always with the Media Education Research Journal (MERJ) pre-conference
event, featuring Professor Sarah Pink of RMIT University in Melbourne,
Australia.
Our keynote speakers this year represent the diversity of contemporary media
practice and education: Professor Sarah Pink joins the MERJ pre-conference
event with an examination of the different research environments facing the media
educator; Professor David Buckingham is a leading figure in media education
research and here appraises the success and failure of media education; Professor
Natalie Fenton has been a presence on our TV screens, and on radio, in the
wake of the Leveson inquiry and its implications for the public sphere. Her keynote
address considers the public value of media education; Professor Susan Orr has
recently taken up an influential post at the Arts University London, and her keynote
celebrates media education as creative practice; our final speaker is Barry Ryan
of Warp films, whose Channel 4 series, Southville, met with a great deal of critical
acclaim.
The conference paper sessions cover a wide range of topics, with media literacy
emerging as a central area of interest this year. We hope that whichever sessions
you choose to attend, you are stimulated and challenged. The next issue of MERJ
will feature a selection of papers from the Summit.
All of the keynote sessions will be filmed and put online. They will be available to
download from: www.cemp.ac.uk/summit.
Finally, we would like to thank Creative Skillset and the HEA for sponsoring the
event and Sheffield Hallam University for hosting the Summit this
year. We hope you enjoy your time at Sheffield Hallam and that the
next few days will offer you some new perspectives, challenge your
thinking, reacquaint you with old friends and introduce you to some
new ones.
Next year, the Summit will be hosted by the Metropolitan University
Prague in the Czech Republic, and we welcome the team from
MUP here to this year’s Summit.
Richard Berger
Acting Director
The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice
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