Joint event organized by the BSA Media Study Group and BSA Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement (DDB) Study Group
PROGRAMME
Monday 15th November 2010, 10.30am – 4.30pm
BSA London Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf
Venue details can be found at: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/meetingroom.htm
10.00 – 10.30 Tea and coffee
10.30 – 10.40 Welcome and introductions
10.40 – 11.10 ‘A matter of life and death: the re-presentation of a musician’s suicide through the lens of the obituary’
Paula Hearsum, University of Brighton
11.10 – 11.40 ‘“Not just documented, but sold”: Jade and death on the TV (radio, magazines, news, and the web’
Daniel Ashton and Rebecca Feasey, Bath Spa University
11.40 – 12.10 ‘News media and audiences framing a celebrity suicide in Flanders: a search for the moral high ground?’
Hilde Van den Bulck and Nathalie Claessens, University of Antwerp
12.10 – 13.00 Lunch (provided)
13.00 – 13.30 ‘An exploration of media reporting of victims of murder and manslaughter in Northern Ireland’
Ruth McAlister and Claire Meehan, University of Ulster
13.30 – 14.00 ‘Behind closed doors: the perpetuation of myth after death in disaster’
Lucy Easthope, University of Bath
14.00 – 14.30 ‘Martyrdom in the Blogosphere: conjoining offline rituals with virtual commemorations’
Yasmin Ibrahim, University of London
14.30 – 15.00 Tea and coffee
15.00 – 15.30 ‘Sharing Death: online performances of grief’
Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Aarhus University
15.30 – 16.00 ‘Media technologies and the lie of remembrance’
Brian Crosbie, University of Sheffield
16.00 – 16.30 Discussion and rounding up of the day (followed
by an informal get together)
Symposium fees: Early Bird Registration for the symposium closes on
Friday 22nd October 2010.
Fees are £20 for Postgraduates, £25 BSA members, £35 for non-members.
Registrations after 23rd October incur a £5 late booking fee.
Places are limited, so sign up early!
To register cut and paste the following link into a web browser -
http://bsas.esithosting.co.uk/public/event/eventBooking.aspx?id=EVT10080 or visit the event site for registration and symposium details: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/DDB.htm#_activity
For more details about the study groups please visit: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/Media.htm and/or http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/DDB.htm
Please direct any administrative enquiries to the BSA office at [log in to unmask] and any academic enquires to [log in to unmask]
We look forward to seeing you in November,
The Convenors,
Media Study Group: Julian Matthews (University of Leicester)
and
DDB Study Group: Kate Woodthorpe (University of Bath)
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Dr Julian Matthews
Lecturer
Course Director, MSc Media and Communication Research
Department of Media and Communication
Room 913
Attenborough Tower
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
T: +44(0)116 2522582
F: +44(0)116 2525276
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W: http://www.le.ac.uk/mc/staff/JulianMatthews.html
Editor, Communication and Media Section Sociology Compass
http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/sociology/
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