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*REGISTER NOW FOR LANGUAGE IN THE MEDIA WORKSHOPS, FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER
2013, LONDON*
* 10am-3.30pm -- *WORKSHOP 1: Making Media in Your Language*
* 3.30-5pm -- *WORKSHOP 2: News Values and News Discourse*
* 5-6pm -- *WORKSHOP 3: Understanding Specialty Journalism/Social Media*
* 6.30pm onwards: A chance for other conference attendees arriving in
London as well as the day's workshop participants to meet informally at
a nearby pub. Details closer to the date.
*Workshop 1 -- Making Media in Your Language* ~~ Convenor: Philippa Law
(The Guardian and QMUL)
The aim of this workshop is to bring together producers, presenters,
journalists and academics who work in different languages and across
different media platforms (radio, TV, print and web) to discuss experiences
of multilingual media production. Although the issues can be
very similar, there is currently little dialogue between the indigenous
(e.g. Welsh, BSL) and non-indigenous (e.g. Gujarati, French) media in
the UK. Participants are encouraged to come with examples of problems or
successes to discuss. Speakers include Beth Angell, TV producer, Rondo
Media; Alpa Pandya, Presenter, BBC Asian Network; Pascal Grierson, CEO,
French Radio London. Workshop organizer Philippa Law, whose PhD research
investigates audience participation in minority-language media, brings her
professional expertise as a media producer, currently as community
coordinator for The Guardian.
*Workshop 2 -- News Values and News Discourse* ~~ Convenors: Colleen Cotter
(QMUL), Monika Bednarek (The University of Sydney), Helen Caple (University
of New South Wales)
With their backgrounds in news and academia (in the US, Australia, and the
UK), Cotter, Bednarek and Caple bring complementary
practioner/linguist perspectives to a discussion of news values -- the
qualities that make a news item "newsworthy". From a practitioner
perspective, we discuss what motivates the selection of news or the angle
of a story? How does local culture and context come into play?
What linguistic tools can aid our understanding? From a linguistic
perspective, we explore how news values are constructed through and
embedded in language and images. We ask participants to bring copies of
local, regional, and/or national papers from where they live -- or from
the airport or train station they're traveling from -- for workshopping and
discussion.
*Workshop 3 -- Understanding Specialty Journalism/Social Media* ~~
Convenors: from London print and online news organizations
This practioner-focused workshop involves journalists (from The Times and
from an online business journal) talking about their workplace
routines, reporting and production goals, professional justifications, and
the changes to story form and journalistic practice that technology
and new media bring to bear. The focus on practice in newer domains
(online) ties in with larger questions -- linguistic and historical --
about changes in journalism, coverage norms, news discourse, visual
/multi-modal communication, ethics, and public responsibility.
Participants are invited to raise these questions and others in
conversation with the journalists.
*Register now:*
http://eshop.qmul.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=1&prodid=390
Workshop 1: £20
Workshops 2 and 3: £20
*Locations:* Workshops 2 & 3 are at the same place (137A Grays Inn Rd
[upstairs], London WC1X 8TU), a two-minute walk away from Workshop 1
(London Welsh Centre, 157-163 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8UE). It is
possible to attend all three workshops; we will allow sufficient time
for the short walk between the two locales. Please note: There is no
step-free access.
These workshops are part of the 5th International Language in the Media
Conference, organised by Queen Mary, University of London. For details
of the academic conference, see:
http://linguistics.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/langmedia2013
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