Hi everyone,
The MeCCSA 2014 conference is over and we hope everyone who attended enjoyed their time in Bournemouth!
We would like to thank everyone who attended for making this such a great conference! Special thanks to those who were involved in presenting, chairing panels, and reviewing abstracts. This was a massive undertaking and we could not have done it without you!!
You can re-live highlights (photos, videos, live blogs, keynote sessions etc) from the conference via our website:
http://meccsa2014.bournemouth.ac.uk<http://meccsa2014.bournemouth.ac.uk/>
Here's a brief video with reflections from delegates themselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joyEIiON1nQ
If you have photographs or experiences you would like to share, please post them on our Facebook event group (https://www.facebook.com/events/500155406711675/) or use the #MeCCSA Twitter hashtag.
PRIZES
This year we had four prizes, three that were awarded at the conference and one that will be awarded at a later stage. The first two awards were judged based on submission of full papers.
Best Paper Award: Media & the Margins, Awarded by the Media School, Bournemouth University
Presented to: Balázs Boross, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Journalism Research Prize, Awarded by the Centre for Journalism & Communication Research, Bournemouth University
Presented to: Lisette Johnston, City University London
Postgraduate Twitter Award, Awarded by the MeCCSA Executive Committee
Presented to: Motilola Akinfemisoye, University of Central Lancashire
The final award is the Postgraduate Conference Report Award. Any postgraduate student wishing to be considered for this award should submit a conference report for publication in the next issue of Three-D. The best report as judged by the MeCCSA Executive Committee will receive the award. To submit your report, please email the Editor, Einar Thorsen, ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by the end of February. Further details to follow.
DELEGATE NUMBERS
In terms of mere numbers this was the largest MeCCSA event to date! Some preliminary numbers from MeCCSA 2014:
Abstracts received: 324
Papers presented: 198
Registered delegates: 231
We also had 6 publishers with stands, all of whom have been very positive about the event.
SOCIAL MEDIA NUMBERS
Our student media team provided fantastic coverage of the whole conference. Full stats will be on our website soon, so just in brief:
Twitter: 3,867 conference tweets, with ~58,000 words (not bad for 140 character restriction!)
Live blog: 528 posts, with 18,988 words and 52 photographs
Video: 90 video clips, plus live streaming of keynote sessions
Podcasts: 4, with 6 hours of audio in total
Storify: 10
Live blog archive available on our website:
http://meccsa2014.bournemouth.ac.uk/index-live-blog.html
EDITED COLLECTION
Thanks to everyone who submitted their full papers to the conference. There will be an edited collection based in part on papers submitted to this conference and we are currently reviewing which to include.
Please note that the book will have a narrow focus derived from the conference theme and as such we will not be able to include all submissions. We will be in touch with all authors within a week to confirm the status of your paper submission and outline the next stages in the process.
Look forward to seeing you in Northumbria for MeCCSA 2015!
All the best,
Einar Thorsen, Dan Jackson, Shelley Thompson & Hugh Chignell
The MeCCSA 2014 Conference Committee
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The Media School, Bournemouth University
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