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Department of Culture, Film and Media
University of Nottingham
Research Lectures 2014/15
Professor Anna Reading (King's College, London)
JOURNALISM, MOBILE WITNESSING AND GENDER
5.00pm Wednesday 25 February 2015
University of Nottingham
University Park Campus
B40 Trent Building (for directions, see below)
In 2014 as the Israeli Defence Forces moved from bombing Gaza to sending in ground troops the Twitter feed of one Gazan teenage girl, Farah Baker, aged 16, hit the headlines. One commentator in his retweet commented, ‘I often wonder will the diaries of the children of #Gaza, be read like the diary of #AnnaFrank. (Charles Edward Frith@charlesfrith, August 6t 2014)’. Drawing on research for a new book, this paper addresses the ways in which personal witnessing is being transformed in new ways into journalistic memory through mobile and social media in ways that are gendered.
While it has long been recognized that many kinds of institutions are involved in memory work, journalism has largely been missed out from such discussions. Work that has sought to examine the ways in which journalism acts to produce, disrupt and change public memories of events is still in its infancy (Zelizer and Tenenboim-Weinblatt, 2014: 1). At the same time, journalism in the first part of the 21st century has seemingly undergone profound changes with the development of user-generated content and digital production practices as well as new kinds of mobilities in news consumption. On-line journalism, especially, provides alternative spaces for witnessing events although they may be more contradictory and contingent than they first appear (Allen, 2006). The paper draws on recent examples as well as cases over ten years between 2005-2015 addressing the assembling of memory in terms of gendered trajectories, material practices and discursive formations, including the London Bombings in 2005, the shooting of the Al Queda leader Osama bin Laden in 2010 and the state shooting of Neda Agha Soltan in 2009.
The lecture takes place in B40 at the Trent Building on the University Park campus. For directions, see www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/visitorinformation/mapsanddirections/universityparkcampus.aspx
The Trent Building is marked as 11 on the campus map at www.nottingham.ac.uk/sharedresources/documents/mapuniversitypark.pdf
Please address any enquiries to:
Prof. Paul McDonald
Professor of Cinema and Media Industries
University of Nottingham
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