Professor Yvonne Spielmann inaugural lecture (12 Dec, CCA, Glasgow)

Please find below details of Professor Yvonne Spielmann’s inaugural lecture at the University of the West of Scotland.

Inaugural lecture
“Intermediality: Perspectives on Convergent Media”.
Professor Yvonne Spielmann,
Professor of New Media, University of the West of Scotland
Wednesday 12 December, 7.30-8:30pm, refreshments to follow.
CCA (CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS) 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

In her lecture, Professor Spielmann will introduce relevant aspects of the histories and concepts of how interrelationships between different media can function. This will involve the discussion of examples from literature, photography, film and in particular electronic film in order to better understand the larger picture of contemporary fusion that seemingly embraces all media. The lecture identifies a variety of strategies in the media arts where we can see how the separation and the borders between film, video and computer generated images are challenged. These processes are relevant to creative practices that combine and converge elements of the analogue and the digital. Thereby, the lecture will also raise the question how innovation and creativity express technologically and/or aesthetically in the increasingly complex and convergent media practices.

Yvonne joins the University from the Braunschweig School of Art where she was Professor of Visual Media, prior to that Yvonne was Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Siegen, both Germany. She is author of the German language monographs “Eine Pfütze in bezug aufs Mehr. Avantgarde” (1991), “Intermedialität. Das System Peter Greenaway” (1998), and “Video. Das reflexive Medium” (2005).

The Lecture will commence at 7.30 pm and last for around one hour.  A buffet reception will take place immediately after the lecture.

The lecture is free and open to all, but requires confirmation of attendance, as numbers are limited.

For more information and to register your interest call 01292 886260 or email

Margaret Gibb at margaret.gibb@uws.ac.uk
http:///www.uws.ac.uk

John W Robertson (Ayr, 12-2, 24 Oct, 2007)

John W. Robertson: ‘Quality and Quantity’: The value of online seminars for Media and Cultural Studies undergraduates

Much previous research into the effectiveness of Computer-mediated Communications (CMC) has suffered from a lack of clarity or of consistency in the adoption and explication of coding typologies or taxonomies. This has reduced opportunities for comparison between studies and for the accumulation of evidence to guide pedagogy. In addition, most studies of CMC have used post graduate students from the sciences, mathematics and engineering as their subjects. There is a notable dearth of studies with undergraduate students and, in particular, with students in the arts, social sciences and humanities. In this study, 104 undergraduate students on media-related programmes undertook a three-week online (BlackboardTM) discussion on the nature of cultural globalisation. The quality of the discussion was evaluated using an enhanced taxonomy rooted in Bloom and other more recent writers. The pattern of dialogue was also mapped and represented graphically. The results suggest that CMC as a method for enhancing peer-led discussion of theoretical concepts, with media arts undergraduates, can be very effective.

The session will offer suggestions for maximising the quality for the learner of such experiences.
The full research report appears in Learning, Media and Technology, 32 (4) 2007

Dr Myra McDonald (8 May, 2006)

Time and Location: 3pm, J129.

Performing memory on television: documentary and the 1960s

Myra MacDonald

University of Stirling

Department of Film and Media Studies

Myra Macdonald has degrees in English literature from the Universities of Aberdeen and Cambridge. Before joining the Department at Stirling in February 2005, she taught Communication and Media at Glasgow Caledonian University and Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland. Her research interests include the representation of ordinary people's voices and memories in non-fictional media; representations of Muslim women; and media discourses of risk. She is the author of 'Representing Women' (Arnold, 1995) and 'Exploring Media Discourse' (Arnold, 2003).