Paddy Scannell: Third
Generation (G3) Media and Communication Studies
30 October 2013, 02:00 pm
University of Westminster
Watford Road, Northwick Park (Metropolitan line, stop: Northwick
Park)
Middlesex, HA1 3TP
Room A7.03
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at latest until October 27.
Abstract: In 2007 I published the first part of a trilogy: Media and Communication (Sage UK). The second volume, Television and the Meaning of
“Live” (Polity,
2014) is due out in November/December this year. M&C is an
introduction to the history of our academic field of enquiry. In
my accounts it had two key generative, generational moments: the
establishment of a sociology of mass communication in the USA
between the mid thirties and fifties (G1), and the establishment
of media/cultural studies in the UK in the seventies and eighties
(G2). In part the book serves as a review of the existing
literature for its successor. It serves to prepare (and clear) the
ground for an introduction to a new approach (what I think of as
third generation (G3) media and communication studies) = as
outlined in TML. In my
presentation I will discuss the relationship between the two books
and offer reasons and justifications for this new way of engaging
with the study of media and communication.
Bio: Paddy Scannell joined
the Department of Communication at the University of Michigan as a
fully tenured professor in the fall of 2006. He worked for many
years at the University of Westminster (London) where he and his
colleagues established, in 1975, the first undergraduate degree
program in Media Studies in the UK. He is a founding editor of Media,
Culture and Society which began publication in 1979 and is
now issued six times yearly. He is the author of A Social
History of British Broadcasting, 1922-1939 which he wrote
with David Cardiff, editor of Broadcast Talk and author of
Radio, Television and Modern Life. He is currently working
on a trilogy. The first volume, Media and Communication,
was published in June 2007. The second volume, Television and
the Meaning of 'Live.' is about to be published. The third
volume, Love and Communication, is in preparation. His
research interests include broadcasting history and
historiography, the analysis of talk, the phenomenology of
communication and culture and communication in Africa.
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