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Redefining Journalism in the Era of the Mass Press
4-5th July 2013
This event was hosted by the research network, 'Capturing Change in Journalism: Shifting Role Perceptions at the Turn of the 20th and 21st Centuries'. This network, funded by the British AHRC and the Dutch NWO, and run by the Journalism Studies departments of the Universities of Groningen and Sheffield has already held a successful launch event in September 2012, which discussed how we can 'Conceptualize Role Perceptions and Change in Journalism'.
This conference sought to interrogate change and/or continuity in the role perceptions of journalism that occurred between 1880 and 1920 with the rise of the mass press. The way we speak of and interrogate this period continues to exert great influence in terms of how we understand contemporary journalism, and how we conceptualize the role of the journalist in terms of its historical, cultural and economic development.
Specifically, this conference aimed to discuss how we now define the journalism produced at the end of the 19th century from our contemporary and comparative perspective. It sought to contrast this with how contemporaries defined journalism during this period of transition.
A programme for this event is available to download from the menu on the right.
Representations and Social Change in Africa
A free one-day international symposium on the bicentenary of David Livingstone - 13 May 2013
This year we are celebrating 200 years of the birth of David Livingstone, one of the most popular heroes of Victorian Britain. An explorer of Africa, Livingstone's work and writings were responsible in part for shaping our ideas about that continent and defining media discourses for many years afterwards.
This event commemorates Livingstone's birth with an interdisciplinary symposium about Media Representations and Social Change in Africa. It is convened by the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History with the joint sponsorship of the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS) and the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield.
For more information please visit http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/journalism/events/livingstone200 or email j.lugo-ocando@sheffield.ac.uk
History, genre, narrative: newspapers and the construction of the twentieth century
This interdisciplinary one-day conference was held on 14th September 2012. It took up Frank Mort’s challenge (History Workshop Journal, Issue 72) for scholars to develop a firmer grasp of the ‘genres through which the press codified cultural and political change for popular consumption, within the confines of their operation as marketable commodities’. Addressing questions such as: how can historians make use of the analysis of newspaper genre and narrative to deepen our understanding of the twentieth century? How do newspapers provide a different way of reading history both in the moment and in retrospect? How can newly digitized archives improve our grasp of the role of the newspaper in the processes of history? How did newspapers allow readers to consider changing social and political realities?
The social semiotics of popular journalism: a long view
Our seminar entitled "The social semiotics of popular journalism: a long view" was held at Cardiff University on 28 March 2012. Further details of the event are available here.
The long popularization process: Anglo-American perspectives
The network's second event - 'The long popularization process: Anglo-American perspectives' - was held on 12 March 2011 in New York. Further details of the event, including programmes and abstracts are available here.
Exploring Digital Archives
The AHRC network's first event - 'Exploring Digital Archives' - was held on Friday 14th January 2011 at ICOSS, University of Sheffield. Further details of this event, including programmes and abstracts are available here.
Journalism and History: Dialogues
15 September 2010: Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield.
This interdisciplinary one-day conference, organized by the Department of Journalism Studies and the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, explored dialogues between journalism and history. It addressed questions such as: how do historians and a wide range of scholars from other disciplines engage with journalism as a source? How does journalism relate to history in its processes and editorial practices? How is the increasing availability of digital archives of journalism impacting upon academic work and upon journalism?
A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a forthcoming issue of Media History.
Cultural Imperialism and the "Tribal Drum": Public Broadcasting in the British World, c. 1922-1970
Dr. Simon Potter (University of Galway) spoke on Tuesday 8th December, 2009, 4:15pm, Jessop West room G.03, 1 Upper Hanover Street. His paper was entitled 'Cultural Imperialism and the "Tribal Drum": Public Broadcasting in the British World, c. 1922-1970'
The Sun says: this is what we need to know about the past
Dr Erin Bell (University of Lincoln) spoke on Wednesday 2 December at 3pm, in the main seminar room in the Department of Journalism Studies, Minalloy House, 18-22 Regent Street. Her paper was entitled ‘The Sun says: this is what we need to know about the past’. Dr Bell trained as an early modern historian, but is now working on an AHRC-funded project on the representation of the past on television in the UK, 1995-2010. Her paper examined the tabloid press’s coverage of history programmes on television.
The paradoxes of journalism history
Dr Martin Conboy delivered the plenary address at the 6th Biennial Conference: Australian Media Traditions in the Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney from November 23 - 25, 2009. His lecture was entitled ‘The paradoxes of journalism history’.
Kinsey and "Little Kinsey": Sex Surveys and the Press in Post-war Britain
Dr Adrian Bingham delivered a paper entitled 'Kinsey and "Little Kinsey": Sex Surveys and the Press in Post-war Britain' to the North West Network of Historians Modern British History seminar (30 October 2009)
Moral panics and food: from London poor to the burghurs of Rotherham
Dr Adrian Bingham, Dr Martin Conboy and Dr John Steel delivered a paper entitled ‘Moral panics and food: from London poor to the burghurs of Rotherham’ at the International Association of Media History conference on Social Fears and Moral Panics, Aberystwyth (9 July 2009).