Hej, alla ni som ska till FSMK-dagen och ämneskonferensen,
FSMK-dagen börjar på eftermiddagen men ni som kan komma på morgonen är välkomna då vår Bonnier Professor Graeme Turner utmanar MKV-ämnet.
Alla är mycket välkomna. Thursday, April 23, 2015. 10:00-12:00. Bangsalen
Mvh, Kristina, kristina.riegert@ims.su.se
This paper is drawn from the concluding chapter of Professor Turner’s recently completed book, Reinventing the Media (to be published by Routledge later this year). His book argues that while the media has ‘reinvented’ itself over the last two decades, this has not been matched by a correspondingly comprehensive reinvention of media studies: that is, a version of media studies that is capable of dealing with the mass media, narrowcast media, networked media, and social media, as well as the full range of contemporary media platforms and devices from television to the smartphone. What has tended to happen instead, in many locations today, is that the curriculum for media studies has been gradually dividing itself into two, potentially exclusive, sets of interests. As programs in digital media, new media studies and multi-platform media develop, they are increasingly doing so in isolation from the histories and concerns of what we might call ‘traditional’ media studies, and indeed occasionally by defining themselves in opposition to older mass media forms such as television. While understandable in principle – those working on these fields are perfectly entitled to develop this as a discrete area of interest – Professor Turner argues that this tendency is not helping us towards the objective of developing an inclusive framework within which to place the study and analysis of the contemporary media. Not only are we dealing with a media studies that has yet to thoroughly renovate its view of the media in order to incorporate the dramatic changes that have occurred in recent years, but we are now seeing the evolution of new formations of the curriculum which threaten to institutionalise the partiality of that vision. In this paper, Professor Turner discusses what he argues are the dangers and the inadequacies of the divided curriculum at the present time, before going on to propose some key components for the curriculum of a more inclusive media studies – that is, a media studies that is interested in working with the whole of the reinvented media.
