Programme

Access All Areas is a symposium being held at the Watershed Media Centre on 21st May 2010 between 09:30 and 17:00.

Provisional Programme

Session 1: 09:30-11:00
Jon Dovey, DCRC
An Archaeology of User-Generated Content
Tony Dowmunt, Goldsmiths College
“A true reflection of who I was at the time”: Authenticity and Artifice in video diary confessions
Andrew Clay De Montfort University
No Laughing Matter: The Downfall Of The Downfall Parody
Coffee
Session 2: 11:30-12:30
Mandy Rose UWE Creative Arts Fellow
Convivial Media
Sandra Gaudenzi, London College of Communcation
User-generated interactive documentaries: an emerging genre
Lunch
Session 3: 13:00-15:00
Janet Jones, UWE
The BBC and UGC – turning the news chain upside down
Jessica Crombie
Voices from the field? The democratisation of communication and challenging NGO evidence
Amandine Degand/Christine Hambersin, University Catholique Louvain (Belgium)
Journalists who Boycott User-Generated Content
Coffee
Session 4: 15:30-17:00
Emma Agusita, UWE/Knowle West Media Centre
Platform futures
Daniel Ashton, Bath Spa University
Positioning participatory production: user-generated content and professional production futures
Martyn Thayne, University of Lincoln
Network Economics of Personal Content