The Manifesto for Media Education Symposium was held on the 10th June 2011 at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The event was organised around four themes and involved presentations from a range of contributors to the manifesto. You can download and listen to the organisers introduction to the project, the eight keynote presentations and the wider discussion by downloading the four audio files below.
Part 1 – Politics, Power and Meaning
Critiquing Power and Contesting Meaning
Professor Natalie Fenton
Department of Media and Communications,
Goldsmiths, University of London
Media education after the media
Dr Julian McDougall
Newman University College, Birmingham
Part 2 – Creativity
Six principles for media education
Professor David Gauntlett
School of Media Arts and Design,
University of Westminster
Not ‘philosophy of media education’, but ‘media education as philosophy’
Dr Mark Readman
The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice,
Bournemouth University
Click here to download ‘Creativity’ as an MP3 (34 mb)
Part 3 – Literacy
New directions or losing our way?
Professor David Buckingham
The Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media,
Institute of Education, University of London
Media education – where does the rhetoric end and the reality begin?
Jenny Grahame
Editor Media Magazine, English and Media Centre
Click here to download ‘Literacy’ as an MP3 (37 mb)
Part 4 – Production, Practice and Professionalism
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice…in practice, there is
Nik Powell
National Film & Television School
Practitioner Researchers needed! – filling a hole in the knowledge base
Andrew Chitty
Managing Director, Illumina Digital
Click here to download ‘Production, Practice and Professionalism’ as an MP3 (33 mb)