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Class, nationalism and the BBC's reporting of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Salter, L. (2008, December). Class, nationalism and the BBC's reporting of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution. Paper presented at The Propaganda Model 20 Years on the Margins, University of Northumbria

This confernece paper is based on a large research project on the reporting of Venezuela on the BBC News web site. We looked at years of coverage - 304 articles - and analysed the coverage. We found a heavy bias against Chevez and the Bolivarian Revo... Read More about Class, nationalism and the BBC's reporting of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution.

The eagle document: Installation (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Oechsler, M. (2008, November). The eagle document: Installation. Paper presented at Close encounters of the animal kind, Tate Britiain, UK

This interdisciplinary conference explores the contemporary processes of subject formation through encounters with non-human 'otherness'. Though the focus of the conference will be on animals, the becoming-animal, the emphasis will be placed on art p... Read More about The eagle document: Installation.

Here's Trisha!: commercialism, sensationalism and Public Service Broadcasting (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, S. (2008, November). Here's Trisha!: commercialism, sensationalism and Public Service Broadcasting. Paper presented at Anglia TV and the History of ITV: Programming, Regionalism and the Television Economy Conference, University of East Anglia, UK

Coming to air at a particularly difficult time for TV talk shows and situated within a much-derided (though popular) genre, the paper explores the dynamics of Trisha (ITV 1998-2004) by looking at the ways in which commercialism and tabloid sensationa... Read More about Here's Trisha!: commercialism, sensationalism and Public Service Broadcasting.

A blurred photograph of Jesus is better than no photograph at all – the practicalities of using video as an oral history tool (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Partington, M. (2008, September). A blurred photograph of Jesus is better than no photograph at all – the practicalities of using video as an oral history tool. Paper presented at International Oral History Association Conference, University of Guadalajara, Mexico

This paper deals with the use of video as an oral history tool and the importance of the visual image in understanding visual artists and their work. Oral history grew out of improvements in technology in the mid-twentieth century which allowed us t... Read More about A blurred photograph of Jesus is better than no photograph at all – the practicalities of using video as an oral history tool.

Picture language as visual writing: Otto Neurath's Isotype (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2008, September). Picture language as visual writing: Otto Neurath's Isotype. Paper presented at Sublimely Visual: The Art of Text, University of Bristol, England

The Vienna Circle philosopher and sociologist Otto Neurath was a prolific writer or books, journal articles and letters and invented an international picture language known as Isotype. This paper looks in detail at the relationship between this pictu... Read More about Picture language as visual writing: Otto Neurath's Isotype.

Picture language and other things: The materiality of Isotype (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2008, September). Picture language and other things: The materiality of Isotype. Paper presented at Network of Design, Conference of the design history society, University College Falmouth

In 2005 Bruno Latour and Peter Wiebel used Isotype charts to conclude their exhibition Making Things Public at the ZKM Centre in Karlsruhe. They contrasted Isotype to their own vision of things as assemblages, disputed states of affairs, and actants.... Read More about Picture language and other things: The materiality of Isotype.

When the other speaks: Migrant voices on British television news (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Gross, B. (2008, September). When the other speaks: Migrant voices on British television news. Paper presented at Power: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences, University of Tempere, Finland

The paper addressed the power relations between journalists and subaltern voices, e.g. asylum seekers, on British television news based on discourse analytical approach to television news coverage.

The things signs do: Cultural history through the work of the Isotype Institute (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2008, August). The things signs do: Cultural history through the work of the Isotype Institute. Paper presented at Orientations: The International Society for cultural history conference, Ghent

This paper addresses how cultural history conceives of cultural forms and practices: as mediated expressions of socio-economic reality or as participants in the production of that reality. I explore this through a case study of the Isotype Institute,... Read More about The things signs do: Cultural history through the work of the Isotype Institute.

Re-Representing rural racism through the use of community media (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S., Johnson-Idan, L., Bunting, D., Rocas, V., & Watts, V. (2008, August). Re-Representing rural racism through the use of community media. Paper presented at OurMedia7 Conference, Accra, Ghana

Discussing how critical pedagogy approaches to participatory media production can enable young people co-producing the media address and negotiate complex aspects of their identities, in this instance, identities of race and culture. This paper was... Read More about Re-Representing rural racism through the use of community media.