Welcome to the School of Media and Film. The main aim of the School is to offer first class undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the spectrum from the more practical to the more traditionally academic. We have six undergraduate programmes, two postgraduate programmes and are currently developing exciting further practical masters programmes in various aspects of media production and journalism. We want our programmes to reflect up to the minute industry practice and to offer stimulating and challenging academic research informed learning experiences.
We have 22 staff within the School. Many have extensive experience in the broadcasting, film and news industries. Indeed, several still work for part of their time in these industries. Other staff have developed national reputations for their research and scholarship in media studies, film studies, and journalism. The School prioritises our links with industry and we have long standing relationships with local, regional, and national companies and agencies in the cultural and media sectors, from digital design companies through to regional newspapers, radio stations, television, and media production companies.
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“Past efforts at documenting the general history of television have tended to focus mainly on Western examples, often superficially aggregating the African experiences, when they are featured at all. A search for literature on the subject yields sparse results thus creating the impression of a void in this vast continent. This ebook offers invaluably detailed information on Nigerian television as an example of the industry in Africa. The focus on Nigeria is justified as the nation boasts the first TV station in Africa, and the largest TV network on the continent. Nigerian Television: Fifty Years of Television in Africa is both timely and strategic as Nigeria celebrates the golden jubilee of its television industry (1959 to 2009). Appreciating the challenges, role and prospects of the industry was at the very core of the author’s raison d’être for writing the text. The research effort informing the ebook has sought to capture factors shaping the encoding practices of Nigerian television in its five decades of operations.
The book is primarily an account collated from a range of organisational sources using ethnographic techniques. It examines the pioneering efforts, offering an insight into the use of television as a tool of governance. It shows how central television has been in this process thus revising previous views which, in their celebration of radio as the medium for social mobilisation at the grassroots, have understated the profile of television.
This is an account of a significant aspect of cultural life which should facilitate an understanding of the role of television as an important medium in the politics of a nation; especially one with such diverse identity groups and cultures as Nigeria.” Lybrary
Today we joined YouTube. We have grand plans for the channel on here. We plan to favourite videos that we think will help our students in what they learn, and eventually to upload our own videos onto the site. From small acorns…
Today Winchester School of Media and Film joined Twitter under the name @winchmfs. (Image replaced January 9th 2010). On Twitter we will be looking out for appropriate stories related to the study of media, film, digital media and journalism. We are also in the process of creating a series of lists which will allow our students access to a strong range of resources, including radio stations, print media, online, personalities, see below:
Winchester News Online (WINOL) launched today, student journalism online, involving a mix of news, opinion pieces, sport and fashion news… combined with TV studio pieces in the University’s own studio.
Kay Oliver of GMTV, Sky and ITV describes her visit to the University of Winchester journalism department. Kay was guest editor on the weekly scheduled TV bulletin produced in completely realistic circumstances and webcast on the http://www.winol.co.uk Winchester News Online website.
Associate Lecturer Dr Bex Lewis was co-editor of the new edition of Capture launched today. Capture is produced by the University’s Learning and Teaching Development Unit and showcases a selection of recent funded research projects and new courses at the University of Winchester. The following entries are contributions from staff in the School of Media and Film:
- ‘Student Feedback: A smallscale project’, Dr Steven Allen
- ‘St Petersburg, Paris, Winchester’, an interview with Professor John Pitt
- ‘Journalism’, Chris Horrie
- ‘Disabled Student Perceptions on Web Accessibility’, Dr Tansy Jessop, Sharon Edwards and Dr Bex Lewis
Capture, Volume 2, can be downloaded in PDF format.
Sally Taylor opens the new television and multimedia studio at the University of Winchester. Also present is the pro vice chancellor of the uni and the dean of the faculty. The studio is now used to produced regular live scheduled news bulletins on journalism courses at the unviersity.
Dr Bex Lewis, Associate Lecturer in Media Studies, gives a 5 minute summary (at short notice) of an hour’s conversation on “Creating Community” at the Christianity in Digital Space Conference, University of Durham, July 2009. Bex was also asked to be a ‘Dragon’ on a social media panel:
Dr Bex Lewis, Associate Lecturer in Media Studies, completed her PhD thesis entitled “The planning, design and reception of British Home Front propaganda posters in the Second World War” in 2004. In November 2008, the poster ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ started to become globally popular, and information from Bex’s PhD thesis providing historical background material on this poster.
“For example, when red posters bearing the sans-serif slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On” underneath a simple crown icon started catching on in Britain a few years back, Bex Lewis knew their provenance. Now an associate lecturer in history and media studies at the University of Winchester, Lewis wrote her Ph.D. thesis on British propaganda posters devised for the home front during World War II. The “Keep Calm” poster, meant to be distributed in the event of a German invasion, was extremely obscure for many decades. So she was interested, she recalls, to see it turning into “sort of a consumer item.” ….
By now the iterations online and off are legion: “Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake” (substituting the pastry for the crown); “Don’t Panic and Fake a British Accent ”; “Keep Spending and Carry On Shopping,” etc. Each increases the distance from the original and simultaneously underscores its importance as a reference point, albeit an abstract one. As Bex Lewis points out, even those attracted to the poster’s past may be more revisionist than they realize. “People talk about it — Americans in particular I’m afraid — being the poster that kept the British going through the war,” she says.
In fact, few saw the poster back then. Not many were distributed, and the land invasion never came. Another poster with a similar style did generate “a huge fuss” at the time, she adds, but much of it involved criticism of the condescending, authoritarian tone. Government posters that followed abandoned the stark look and the suggestion of the crown talking down to the masses and were “a lot more colorful and a lot more people-focused,” Lewis says. Nowadays, of course, nobody waits around for the authorities to adjust the meaning of their slogans and images. We just do it ourselves.”
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Andy Steggal, Guest Lecturer at the University of Winchester discusses why he loves contributing to the Journalism degree at the University of Winchester.
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