Event Time
Friday, November 2, 2007
11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Location
NYU Sociology Department
(295 Lafayette, 4th Floor, Rm 4156 - conference room)
Contact
Name: Council
Email: council.media.culture@nyu.edu
Media Sociology Forum
Mass media have had a substantial impact on social life since their
inception. By contributing to a shift in our relationship to time, space,
others, and ourselves, media technologies and networks have played, and continue to play, important roles in the very conception of modernity and contemporary lived experience. Media sociology scholarship seeks to study media in their historical, economic, political, and social contexts. The production of media content, the effects of form on content and reception, audience studies, and organizational theory are just some of the areas that media sociologists explore.
Epistemological questions include: How does sociology, as a discipline, contribute to the study of media; to the way we conceptualize media; and to how we understand media? What is distinctive about the sociological approach in media studies? How does it differ from approaches that emphasize culture, history, economics, technology, and law, to name but a few? Is there a "separate" sociology of media? Can it stand alone?
The NYU/Columbia Media Sociology Forum is intended to push the
frontiers of this research. The Forum will feature two graduate student panels as well as a research methods discussion led by John Thompson (Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge), Herbert J. Gans (Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University), and Rodney Benson (Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication; Affiliated Faculty, Department of Sociology, New York University).
Forum Schedule:
11-11:15 Welcome
11:15-12:45 Panel 1, Foundations and Parameters of Media Sociology Research
> Charles Girard, "What Role for Normative Ideals in Media Sociology Research?"
> Ben Peters, "Media Sociology in 1960s Estonia"
> Rasmus Nielsen "The Political Public"
> Monika Krause, "Public Service and the Transformations of the Journalistic Field"
(Moderator: Aram Sinnreich)
12:45-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel 2, Media Sociology Research in Practice
> Christopher Anderson, "Inside the Exploding Newsroom: The New > Newsroom Ethnography"
> Jason Stanley, "Absence, Distortion, Annihilation: Photojournalistic Representations of Gender, 1976-2000"
> Lucas Graves, “Questions or Quotes: An Analysis of Sources and Statements on NPR’s Morning Edition and the BBC’s Newshour”
> Pnina Schmasmi, “Headphone Culture in Urban Areas”
(Moderator: William Solomon)
3:00-3:15 Coffee
3:15-4:45 Research Methods Discussion with:
> John Thompson, Herbert Gans, and Rodney Benson
(Moderator: Sarah Stonbely)
5:00-6:30 Reception
Please send questions to Sarah Stonbely at sas630@nyu.edu