TV Futures : Third Annual Symposium (reconvened)
Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures, School of Arts,
Roehampton University
Venue: Chapman Hall, Southlands College, Roehampton University, Roehampton
Lane, London SW15 5PH, UK
Date and time: Saturday, 2nd June 2007, from 9.30 – 4.30pm
Fee: £12 or £5 for students (includes teas, lunch and book launch event)
To register and for further information about the day please email the
symposium organiser Andrea Esser at: [log in to unmask]
TV Futures presents challenging and timely presentations on various aspects
of the future development of the medium of television. The symposium will
debate new developments in TV programming and scheduling, issues of
textuality including textual convergence, technological convergence, the
rise of interactive TV, the provision of TV material online, issues of
marketing, strategy and business and changes in the cultural economy of
television.
Schedule
9.30-10am Registration
10.00-10.15 Introduction - Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn
10.15-11.00 Keynote Speaker
Professor Jeannette Steemers (University of Westminster)
‘The changing production ecology of pre-school television in Britain’
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1pm Panel 1
Panel Chair (tbc)
James Bennett (London Metropolitan University)
'Interfacing the UK: The BBC, the digital immigrant and the future of
public service broadcasting'
Dr Andrea Esser (Roehampton University)
‘Television Content: Commercialisation and Transnationalisation’
Professor Paul McDonald (University of Portsmouth)
‘Fighting the “avalanche of piracy”: technological and legislative measures
to combat illegal DVD production’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Panel 2
Panel Chair Dr Stacey Abbott (Roehampton University)
Dr Paul Rixon (Roehampton University)
‘British Television: The Next Generation’
Kim Akass (Freelance writer and editor) and Dr Janet McCabe (Manchester
Metropolitan University)
‘It’s not TV. It was HBO.’
Professor David Lavery (Brunel University)
‘Life on Mars, Lost, Heroes, and the Future of Television Narrative’
3.30pm I.B. Tauris book launch
Investigating Alias: Secrets and Spies (2007) edited by Stacey Abbott and
Simon Brown.
Crime Watching: Investigating Real Crime TV (2007) by Deborah Jermyn
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