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EMC CPD Online: Gauntlett and Identity, Ideology and Representation – A Conference for A Level Media Studies Teachers

Availability
Places available
Price
£45 per place
Location
Online
Duration
2-4pm

This online conference for A Level Media Studies teachers brings together speakers from the world of media education to discuss the role the media plays in shaping identities and constructing representations of different groups. A Level set theorist David Gauntlett will be joining us from Toronto Metropolitan University to give teachers an up-to-date insight into his thoughts around media and identity. Experienced teacher and AQA examiner Steph Hendry will present various ways of supporting students to get to grips with the notion of ideology in media texts and our final speaker will be announced shortly.

Steph Hendry – Teaching Ideology

Steph will present some suggestions for classroom activities that focus on helping students understand the concept of ideology and how the media construct and communicate ideological messages. The session will cover ways of

  • Identifying ideological perspectives in media products
  • Structuring engagement with ideas from across the framework to help engage with ideology
  • Exploring ideas for activities in the classroom to develop knowledge and understanding of the way media products are inevitably ideological.

David Gauntlett – Media and Identity

David will be giving his contemporary perspective on issues of identity that connect to the A-level Media Studies curriculum which include:

  • The idea that the media provide us with ‘tools’ or resources that we use to construct our identities
  • The idea that whilst in the past the media tended to convey singular, straightforward messages about ideal types of male and female identities, the media today offer us a more diverse range of stars, icons and characters from whom we may pick and mix different ideas.

Third Speaker: TBC

  

Online, via Zoom. Details of how to join will be sent before the session.

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  • A recording of the session will be available for 7 days after the event.

  • This course will be recorded but participants will not be audible or visible.
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Claire Pollard

Claire Pollard is the advisory teacher for Media Studies at the English and Media Centre. She is the editor of MediaMagazine and the programme leader for the Goldsmiths Media and English PGCE working with trainees in schools all across London. Prior to working at the centre she taught English and Media Studies for 15 years in inner London schools, most of the time at Stepney All Saints in Tower Hamlets where she established Media as a new curriculum subject. She has been an examiner for GCSE English literature and a moderator for A Level Media Studies and has delivered CPD for OCR, the MEA and the BFI. Claire also contributed a chapter to Doing Text: Media After the Subject and she co-authored the second edition of Media Studies the Basics.
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Maitrayee Basu

Maitrayee Basu is a Lecturer in Race and Media in University of Leeds. She has published her research in digital media, feminist theory, emotions and activism in several peer-reviewed journals, and is currently working on her first book titled Feeling Left Out and Other Stories: Race, Resistance and Becoming Political on Diasporic Internet on Indian diasporas, activism, belonging and digital communities. Her current interests are in the area of Black and postcolonial feminist theory and its intersection with visual media practices in algorithmic and AI mediated ecologies.

David Gauntlett

David Gauntlett is Canada Research Chair in Creative Innovation and Leadership in The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University (since 2018). He was previously Professor of Creativity and Design, and Director of Research, at Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK. His teaching and research is about creative processes, self-initiated everyday creativity, and cultures of making and exchanging. He is the author of ten books, including Creative Explorations (2007), Making is Connecting (2011, second edition 2018), Making Media Studies (2015), and Creativity (2022). He has made a number of popular online resources, videos, music and playthings, and has pioneered creative research and workshop methods. His research has been funded by multiple awards from the UK Arts and Humanities Council (AHRC), the European Union (Horizon 2020), and other funders. He has worked with a number of the world’s leading creative organisations, including the BBC, the British Library, and Tate. For 14 years he worked with LEGO and the LEGO Foundation on innovation in creativity, play and learning.

Steph Hendry

Steph Hendry has been teaching Media Studies for 25 years, 20 of them in a large successful 6th Form college in Lancashire. She has also worked for AQA in a number of roles including examining, moderating and providing CPD. She is also a freelance writer and most recently has authored a Media Studies textbook and its accompanying revision guide.
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