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

Professor Natalie Fenton
Media Studies: Publics, Politics and
Power - the public value and political
threat of media education
Media studies opens up the production and circulation of
social meaning to critique; it allows us to trace its history,
theorize its power, calculate its destructiveness and then
seek to express our own concerns in art, film, journalism
and photography. As such, media studies encompass the
politics, the problems and the prospects of our time. Interrogating
what these are should be one of our chief educational
priorities. This keynote will consider the public value
of media studies through a focus on some of the key issues
of our times and suggest that a media studies worth having
may always be a media studies under attack.
keynote speakers
Natalie Fenton is Professor of Media and Communications at
Goldsmiths, the University of London. She Co-Directs both
the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and the
Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy. These
projects focus on news journalism and the relationship
between the media and resistance.
Natalie is particularly interested in notions of new media,
networks and new politics; notions of political hope and rethinking
our understanding of public culture, public sphere
and democracy.
Friday 20th
13.00
Cantor 9130
Her most recent books are New Media, Old News: Journalism
and Democracy in the Digital Age and Misunderstanding
the Internet (with James Curran and Des Freedman). Her
latest book, New Media and Radical Politics, is about to be
published.
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