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A warm welcome to the Summer 2017 edition of our Research Newsletter, updating you on news from the academic team at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds.

PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS
CULTURAL POLICY

Specialists in cultural policy draw on many scholarly literatures and traditions, including but not limited to, media and communication studies, history, sociology, politics, arts management, geography, and cultural studies.

Now, this new four-volume collection, edited by Dr Dave O'Brien and Professor Kate Oakley, brings together materials about cultural policy that have hitherto been scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books. These key texts form the background, context, and basis for a sophisticated understanding of the topic. 
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POPULAR COMMUNICATION: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDIA AND CULTURE

Dr Nancy Thumim has guest edited Self-(Re)Presentation Now, a special issue of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture.

The issue features new work by Professor Alison Hearn, Professor Lilie Chouliaraki, Jenny Ungbha Korn, Dr Alicia Blum Ross & Professor Sonia Livingstone, Dr Son Vivienne, and Dr Katrin Tiidenberg & Dr Andrew Whelan.


The articles explore a range of objects and processes, namely, gender-diverse and gender-fluid selfies, “migrant-related selfies,” parent bloggers, “nonselfie selfies,” Chatroulette, and Twitter.

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MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY

Dr Lee Edwards has published an article entitled: 'Consistency and Inconsistency in Organizations: A Dialectical Perspective' as part of a forum section of Management Communication Quarterly. The article explores the implications of approaching inconsistency as a fundamental characteristic of organizations and communication, rather than seeing it as an obstacle or a consequence of poor or insufficient management. 

The general argument is that by embracing - rather than repudiating - inconsistency, scholars can build more accurate, relevant, and informed understandings of communication in and by organizations.
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RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
Held from 25-29 May 2017 in San Diego, USA, the 67th ICA conference featured seven presentations by staff, including Dr Jason Cabanes, Dr Todd Graham, Tom Jackson, Dr Kate Nash, Dr Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Dr Chris Paterson and Dr Nancy Thumim.  The convention also included presentations from four PhD researchers, including Jose Brambila Ramirez, Yinyi Luo, Ana Ozimek and Rui Xu.

Highlights included Dr Giorgia Aiello serving as Chair of the Visual Communication Studies Division, Dr Chris Paterson chairing a panel on development assistance and independent journalism, and Dr Nancy Thumim and Professor Susan Luckman (who is a visiting Cheney Fellow in Leeds University’s Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures) co-convening a panel on the new normality of digital identity.

Professor Katrin Voltmer was awarded the 2017 Book of the Year Award of the International Journal of Press/Politics for
 The Media in Transitional Democracies. 
Professor C.W. Anderson was awarded the inaugural Journalism Studies book award for best monograph in the past five years for 
Rebuilding the News.
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This year’s forthcoming IAMCR conference, to be held from 16-20 July in Cartagena, Colombia, will feature six contributions from staff (Professor Kate Oakley, Dr Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Dr Chris Paterson and Dr Kate Nash) and PhD researchers (Mario Álvarez Fuentes and Nely Konstantinova). 

Dr Chris Paterson, current Vice-Chair of the Media Production Analysis Working Group, is organising a panel on fixers and local journalists in the production of global news. Together with Dr Jairo Lugo-Ocando, he is co-organising a preconference on foreign aid, philanthropy and media systems.
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LIVING WITH(IN) COPYRIGHT LAW

Dr Lee Edwards, Dr Giles Moss and Kristina Karvelyte have written a project report for CREATe, which is the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy, based at the University of Glasgow. Entitled 'Living With(in) Copyright Law: What is it, how does it work, how could it change?', the report talks about the results of a deliberative exercise that brought 88 members of the Leeds public together over one weekend to discuss the nature of copyright law, its implementation and ways it might change.

The report discusses how the participants engaged enthusiastically with the event and that the deliberative process increased their knowledge of the subject, generated reflective critique and provided them with a broader basis for their understanding.
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STAFF NEWS
Dr Kate Nash, Director of Student Education and Associate Professor in Media and Communication, has been promoted to Head of School. Dr Nash will start her new role in January 2018.
Dr Katy Parry has been promoted to Associate Professor.
 
C.W. Anderson has been appointed as Professor of Media and Communication. Dr Anderson will start teaching at the University of Leeds in September 2017.
 
Professor David Hesmondhalgh has been made a Fellow of the International Communication Association.
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IN MEMORIAM
Staff and students sadly note the death of Professor Denis McQuail (12 April 1935 - 25 June 2017), one of the most influential scholars in the field of media and communication studies. Professor McQuail started his career as a researcher at the University of Leeds, where he gained his PhD and worked closely with Jay Blumler at the Centre for Television Research. In 1997, he moved to the University of Amsterdam, where he stayed for the rest of his career.

 
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PhD NEWS
We've had a number of recent PhD successes, with recent graduates taking up academic and research positions across the world.

Kristina Karvelyte has been awarded a PhD for a thesis on 'Making a Creative City with Chinese Characteristics: Perspectives from Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei'. 

Ana Stojiljkovic has been awarded a PhD for a thesis on ‘Election Campaigns and Collective Identities: The Cases of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina’.
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PhD researcher Ellis Jones has won the 2016/17 Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize for his essay on pop music and aspirational labour, entitled: ‘I do it for the love’.

Decided by a panel of four judges from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the £500 Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize was awarded to Ellis for the best postgraduate student essay in popular music research.


 

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PhD researcher James Mason has won the Edinburgh International Film Audience Conference Best Student Paper Award for his paper entitled: ‘The Disney genre and why it matters’.

The paper was first given at the School of Media and Communication PhD Spring Symposium and gives an overview of James' PhD research.

 

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EVENTS

JAY BLUMLER LECTURE 2017

On 11 October 2017, Professor Silvio Waisbord from the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University (USA), will give a lecture entitled: 'From the Ministry of Truth to post-truth politics: Populism and the new crisis of public communication'. 

The annual Jay Blumler Lecture was set up to honour the work of Professor Jay Blumler, currently Emeritus Professor in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds.

 
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