Programme
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Pre-Conference Registration |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Media Education Research Journal (MERJ) Pre-conference event |
| Convened by Professor Sarah Pink (RMIT University) | |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Summit Registration |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Keynote - Professor David Buckingham |
| The Success and Failure of Media Education | |
| 14:00 – 14.40 | Parallel Session 1 |
| (i) | MERJ Conversations: Curating Media Learning: towards a porous expertise |
| Julian McDougall & John Potter | |
| (ii) | Participatory Learning: Learning About Film & Learning Through Film - two sides of the same coin? |
| Franzi Florack | |
| (iii) | Transmedia: Dis/continuity and Contemporary Discourses of Media Education and Literacy in the Czech Republic |
| Zdeněk Sloboda | |
| (iv) | Student Voice: Media Students as Potential Producers of Open Educational Resources |
| Geir Petter Laingen | |
| 14:45 - 15:25 | Parallel Session 2 |
| (i) | MERJ Conversations: Digital Ethnography as a Pedagogic Tool |
| Peter Westman | |
| (ii) | Participatory Learning: Gameful Pedagogy and Collaborative Play: Reflections on the NetsX Project |
| Dr. Anna Feigenbaum | |
| (iii) | Transmedia: Integrated Journalism Education in Spanish Universities: |
| how is media convergence taught? | |
| Irene Da Rocha | |
| (iv) | Student Voice: Media Students & their Intentions to Talk About Their |
| Experiences of Higher Education | |
| Fiona Cownie | |
| 15:30 - 16:10 | Parallel Session 3 |
| (i) | Participatory Learning: Ahead of the Game: Enhancing Student Engagement Through Contemporary Modes of Delivering Learning Material |
| John Twycross | |
| (ii) | Transmedia: Media Literacy – yesterday’s ‘really important idea’ |
| Richard Wallis | |
| (iii) | Learning Good Things from Bad Guys |
| Marketa Zezulkova | |
| (iv) | Student Voice: Watching (Digital) Media Learning |
| Keith Perera | |
| 16:15 - 17:15 | Keynote - Professor Susan Orr |
| Making Teaching Work in Media | |
| 18:30 - 20:15 | Creative Skillset Reception & Quiz |
| Hosted by Pete Fraser |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Parallel Session 4 | (i) | MERJ Conversations: Mediated Pedagogies |
| Mark Readman | |
| (ii) | Participatory Learning: Games and feints as pedagogy: Using game theory and reverse logic to teach conflict reporting |
| Savyasaachi Jain | |
| (iii) | Transmedia: The Virtual Empowerment of Media Education |
| Alyazia AlSuwaidi | |
| (iv) | Student Voice: Problematising ‘Voice’ & ‘Creativity’ in Visual Storytelling Projects |
| Oksana Fedotova | |
| 9:45 - 10:25 | Parallel Session 5 |
| (i) | MERJ Conversations: A Bric-a-Brac Approach to Arts & Media Education |
| Jonathan Shaw | |
| (ii) | Participatory Learning: “The Marxtastic Pub Quiz”: user games to teach media theory to undergraduate students |
| Marcus Leaning | |
| (iii) | Transmedia: The Role of the Media in Media Education: a European experience |
| Andrej Školkay & Alberto Bitonti | |
| (iv) | Student Voice: #Mediastudiesyo – Integrating Research, Practice & Theory in a |
| New Media Studies Sub Major | |
| Catriona Bonfiglioli | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Keynote - Barry Ryan |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Poster Presentation |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Keynote - Professor Natalie Fenton |
| Media Studies: Publics, Politics and Power-the public value and political threat of media education | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Parallel Session 6 |
| (i) | MERJ Conversations: Interviewing for a sensitive issue: easier said than done? |
| Ekmel Gecer | |
| (ii) | Participatory Learning: Intergenerational Media Education in Schools: teachers & pupils learning about, from & with each other |
| Claudia Kuttner | |
| (iii) | Transmedia: Mindset or Skillset? What media employers think about graduate employability |
| Christa van Raalte | |
| (iv) | Student Voice: Disrupting Familiar Roles: the informal learning experiences of undergraduate documentary filmmakers |
| Ross Adamson | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 15:00 | Close |