Previous blog posts by my Adapt colleague, Professor James Bennett, on our social media research project have focused on ‘Social Media in the Television Workplace’ and social media’s impact on the production of live TV. This post shifts our focus from The Voice, as a ‘shiny floor show’ with social production by a discrete digital unit, to draw on our subsequent ethnographic observations of Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch gallery

QUEER SCREENS CONFERENCE 2017 September 2nd and 3rd 2017 The Institute of the Humanities and the Gendered Subjects Research Group at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Keynote speaker: Prof.

Organized by R+D Project “Relationship dynamics in the face of social change: contexts, content, producers, audiences, and produsers in the news programmes of TVE and YLE”. Main Researchers: M. Á. Vázquez Medel and M. Lamuedra Graván Deadline for abstracts: 15 february 2017 More info: https://mediospublicos.wordpress.com/inscripcion/ CALL FOR PAPERS Our system of representation of the

University of Winchester Faculty of Arts Research Seminar. All welcome. Wed 15 Feb, 4.30pm, FWB204 How Free is the BBC? Dr Tom Mills (Aston University) Is the BBC an authentically independent and impartial broadcaster? Or is it a mouthpiece of the government, the state and the Establishment?

Film and Screen Studies, School of Media, University of Brighton 27-28 July, 2017 Proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary 2 day conference at the University of Brighton In response to the news of the British government’s imposed changes to junior doctor contracts in 2015, actors from the BBC’s hospital drama Holby City and Channel 4’s […]

After the deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher in the last days of 2016, the release of a new documentary about their lives, Bright Lights (HBO, January 2017) feels serendipitous.

On January 13th 2017, the Greek Council of State published its decision which found that the law on which the Greek government auction for the television licenses was based contravenes Greece’s Constitution. According to the decision, the law, brought by former State Minister Nikos Pappas, was against Article 15 of the Constitution.

The perfect set for every home I love going to archives. From my first visits, I knew that this was going to be the most exciting part of my research. As a researcher of television history, I initially expected to spend my time just at the BFI and the BBC Written Archive, but as my research veered towards the material history of the television set I had to be a little more creative.

How do we write using the audiovisual? Many of us are facing this challenge, frustrated by the restrictions of prose-only analyses. One answer is the audiovisual essay, in its poetic and analytic variants. These have recently taken off in the UK, especially in film studies, as a result of the significant loosening of copyright law, which now explicitly allows quotation of audiovisual works for the purposes of critical comment and review.

Kim Akass, University of Hertfordshire, UK Stephen Lacey David Lavery Janet McCabe, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Robin Nelson Rhonda V. Wilcox, Gordon College, USA

Prof. Gary R. Edgerton Butler University, Indiana USA Prof. Michele Hilmes University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Prof. Toby Miller Prof.