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'''David Gauntlett''' (born 15 March 1971) is a British [[sociology|sociologist]] and [[media theory|media theorist]], and the author of several books including ''Making is Connecting''. |
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}}</ref> He completed an MA in Women's Studies at Lancaster University, then took his PhD. Afterwards, he taught at the [[University of Leeds]] from 1993 to 2002. Subsequently, he was appointed Professor of Media and Audiences at [[Bournemouth University]]. In 2006 he joined the School of Media, Arts and Design at [[University of Westminster]] as Professor of Media and Communications, becoming Co-Director of the Communications and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), from 2010 to 2015. From 2015 to 2017 he was Professor of Creativity and Design, and the Director of Research for Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design. |
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In 2018, he took up a role as a [[Canada Research Chair]] in the Faculty of Communication and Design at [[Toronto Metropolitan University|Ryerson University]], Toronto. |
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He is Co-Director of the Communications and Media Research Institute, ranked #1 for Media and Communications research in the [[Research Assessment Exercise]] held most recently in 2008. |
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Gauntlett's critique of media 'effects' studies sparked controversy in 1995,<ref name="dg3">David Gauntlett (1995), [http://www.theory.org.uk/david/book1.htm Moving Experiences: Understanding Television's Influences and Effects], London: John Libbey</ref><ref name="dg4">David Gauntlett (2005), [http://www.theory.org.uk/david/book7.htm Moving Experiences, second edition: Media Effects and Beyond], London: John Libbey</ref> and since then he has published a number of books and research on the role of popular media in people's lives.<ref name="Guardian">Will Woodward (1999), [ |
Gauntlett's critique of media 'effects' studies sparked controversy in 1995,<ref name="dg3">David Gauntlett (1995), [http://www.theory.org.uk/david/book1.htm Moving Experiences: Understanding Television's Influences and Effects], London: John Libbey</ref><ref name="dg4">David Gauntlett (2005), [http://www.theory.org.uk/david/book7.htm Moving Experiences, second edition: Media Effects and Beyond], London: John Libbey</ref> and since then he has published a number of books and research on the role of popular media in people's lives.<ref name="Guardian">Will Woodward (1999), [https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/apr/30/willwoodward 'Viewers admit their guilt at watching too much TV'], ''The Guardian'' newspaper, Friday 30 April 1999</ref><ref name="dg7">David Gauntlett and Annette Hill (1999), [http://www.theory.org.uk/david/book3.htm TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life], London: Routledge</ref><ref name="Hero">Charlie Peverett (2002), [http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/studying/archives/2002/we_are_pop_pix2906.cfm Review of 'Media, Gender and Identity'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080812095050/http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/studying/archives/2002/we_are_pop_pix2906.cfm |date=12 August 2008 }}, HERO: The official online gateway to Higher Education, 2002</ref><ref name="Ahrc-case">[http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/awards/casestudies/online_immersive_worlds.asp AHRC Case Studies: Young People's Engagement with Online Immersive Worlds] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609235229/http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/awards/casestudies/online_immersive_worlds.asp |date=9 June 2008 }}, Arts and Humanities Research Council, May 2008</ref><ref name="Times">Dan Sabbagh (2008), [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article3980584.ece 'Viewers Boys and girls stay in to play on BBC's virtual island Adventure Rock'], ''The Times'' newspaper, 22 May 2008</ref> In particular he has focused on the way in which digital media is changing the experience of media in general.<ref name="JMD">Julian McDougall (2007), 'Creative Transformations: What to do with "Media 2.0"?', [http://www.itpmag.demon.co.uk/Magazinepages/itp58.html In The Picture – The Media Education Magazine]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Issue 58, November 2007</ref><ref name="THE4">David Gauntlett (2000), [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=195164 'A double dose of digital drivel'], ''The Times Higher Education Supplement'', 22 September 2000</ref><ref name="dg1">David Gauntlett, ed (2000), [http://www.newmediastudies.com Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies For The Digital Age], London: Arnold</ref><ref name="dg2">David Gauntlett and Ross Horsley, eds (2004), [http://www.newmediastudies.com Web.Studies: Second edition], London: Arnold</ref> |
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In 2007, he was shortlisted for the 'Young Academic Author of the Year' award in the Times Higher awards.<ref name="TH">Times Higher Education Supplement, [http://www.thes.co.uk/Awards/2007/ Awards Shortlist] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105234303/http://www.thes.co.uk/Awards/2007/ |date=5 November 2007 }}, September 2007.</ref> |
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In ''Reading Media Theory'', Barlow & Mills state: "David Gauntlett is a prominent, public academic, who has spent his career engaging in research activities which have deliberately involved the public, and have crossed the traditional divide between the academic community and the outside world."<ref name="barlow">David M. Barlow and Brett Mills (2008), ''Reading Media Theory: Thinkers, Approaches, Contexts'', London: Pearson Education, p.422.</ref> |
In the 2008 book, ''Reading Media Theory'', Barlow & Mills state: "David Gauntlett is a prominent, public academic, who has spent his career engaging in research activities which have deliberately involved the public, and have crossed the traditional divide between the academic community and the outside world."<ref name="barlow">David M. Barlow and Brett Mills (2008), ''Reading Media Theory: Thinkers, Approaches, Contexts'', London: Pearson Education, p.422.</ref> |
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In 2007, he was shortlisted for the 'Young Academic Author of the Year' award in the [http://www.thes.co.uk/Awards/2007/ Times Higher awards].<ref name="TH">Times Higher Educational Supplement, [http://www.thes.co.uk/Awards/2007/ Awards Shortlist], September 2007.</ref> Richard Toye, of Exeter University, won the award. |
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==New creative research methods== |
==New creative research methods== |
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This approach asks participants to ''make'' something as part of the research process.<ref name="Oslo">University of Oslo (2007), [http://www.intermedia.uio.no/home/projects/research-projects-1/mdiatize/creative Creative Production, Self-expression and Identity], Intermedia, University of Oslo</ref> Gauntlett's work of this kind began with ''Video Critical'' (1997),<ref name="dg6">David Gauntlett (1997), [http://www.theory.org.uk/david/book2.htm Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media Power], London: John Libbey</ref> in which children were asked to make videos about the environment, and then in a number of projects which are discussed in ''Creative Explorations'' (2007).<ref name="dg5">David Gauntlett (2007), [http://www.theory.org.uk/david/book8.htm Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and audiences], London: Routledge</ref> As well as studies in which participants have been invited to make |
This approach asks participants to ''make'' something as part of the research process.<ref name="Oslo">University of Oslo (2007), [http://www.intermedia.uio.no/home/projects/research-projects-1/mdiatize/creative Creative Production, Self-expression and Identity] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531150604/http://www.intermedia.uio.no/home/projects/research-projects-1/mdiatize/creative |date=31 May 2008 }}, Intermedia, University of Oslo</ref> Gauntlett's work of this kind began with ''Video Critical'' (1997),<ref name="dg6">David Gauntlett (1997), [http://www.theory.org.uk/david/book2.htm Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media Power], London: John Libbey</ref> in which children were asked to make videos about the environment, and then in a number of projects which are discussed in ''Creative Explorations'' (2007).<ref name="dg5">David Gauntlett (2007), [http://www.theory.org.uk/david/book8.htm Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and audiences], London: Routledge</ref> As well as studies in which participants have been invited to make video, [[diary|diaries]], [[collage]], and [[drawings]], Gauntlett has explored the use of [[Lego Serious Play]] as a tool in sociology and [[social research]].<ref name="THE1">Anthea Lipsett (2005), [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=195164 'Lego and professor click over research'], ''The Times Higher Education Supplement'', 8 April 2005</ref> This approach makes use of [[metaphor]] and invites participants to build metaphorical models of their identities. The process of [[creativity|making]] something, and then [[introspection|reflecting]] upon it, aims to give a more nuanced insight into participants' feelings or experiences.<ref name="dg5"/> |
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This work has been supported by awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.<ref name="AHRC">Arts and Humanities Research Council, [http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/awards/ list of research awards]</ref><ref name="THE2">''Times Higher Education'' (2008), [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=400468 'Grant winners'], 7 February 2008</ref> |
This work has been supported by awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.<ref name="AHRC">Arts and Humanities Research Council, [http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/awards/ list of research awards]</ref><ref name="THE2">''Times Higher Education'' (2008), [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=400468 'Grant winners'], 7 February 2008</ref> |
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==Media Studies 2.0== |
==Media Studies 2.0== |
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In 2007, Gauntlett published online the article |
In 2007, Gauntlett published online the article Media Studies 2.0, which created some discussion amongst [[media studies]] educators.<ref name="BFI">British Film Institute, [http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/conferences/mediastudies2007/ Media Studies Conference 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107113722/http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/conferences/mediastudies2007/ |date=7 November 2007 }}, 4–6 July 2007</ref><ref name="TA">[http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk Transforming Audiences International Conference], 6–7 September 2007</ref><ref name="AR2">Andy Ruddock (2008), [https://www.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00040.x 'Media Studies 2.0? Binge Drinking and Why Audiences Still Matter'], ''Sociology Compass'', Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 1-15, January 2008.</ref><ref name="GL">[http://www.rickinstrell.co.uk/GeoffLealand.ppt 'Towards a Brave New World? The Media Studies 2.0 Debate'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003185242/http://www.rickinstrell.co.uk/GeoffLealand.ppt |date=3 October 2011 }}, presentation by Geoff Lealand, University of Waikato, at AMES conference, May 2007</ref> The article argues that the traditional form of [[media studies]] teaching and research fails to recognise the changing media landscape in which the categories of 'audiences' and 'producers' blur together, and in which new research methods and approaches are needed. [[Andy Ruddock]] has written that Gauntlett's "ironic polemic" includes "much to value", and acknowledges that the argument "is more strategy than creed", but argues that audiences still exist, and experience mass media specifically ''as'' audience, and so it would be premature to dispose of the notion of 'audience' altogether.<ref name="AR2"/> In other areas there has been less acceptance: Andy Medhurst at Sussex University wrote of Media Studies 2.0, 'Isn't it odd that whenever someone purportedly identifies a new paradigm, they see themselves as already a leading practitioner of it?' |
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==Making is Connecting== |
==Making is Connecting== |
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In 2008 Gauntlett proposed 'the Make and Connect Agenda', an attempt to rethink audience studies in the context of media users as producers as well as consumers of media material. |
In 2008 Gauntlett proposed 'the Make and Connect Agenda', an attempt to rethink audience studies in the context of media users as producers as well as consumers of media material. This argues that there is a shift from a 'sit-back-and-be-told culture' to a 'making-and-doing culture', and that harnessing creativity in both [[Web 2.0]] and in other everyday creative activities will play a role in tackling [[climate change|environmental problems]]. |
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These ideas are developed further in 'Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0' |
These ideas are developed further in his best-known book 'Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0'.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gauntlett, David.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/682281412|title=Making is connecting : the social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0|date=2011|publisher=Polity Press|isbn=978-0-7456-5002-9|location=Cambridge, UK|oclc=682281412}}</ref> |
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The Second Edition of 'Making is Connecting' was published in 2018, and included additional sections on the creative process.<ref name="polity2017">Polity Press, [http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509513475 'Making is Connecting: Second Expanded Edition']</ref> |
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==Books== |
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* ''Making is Connecting: Second Expanded Edition'' (Polity, 2018). |
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* ''Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies'' (Peter Lang, 2015). |
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* ''Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0'' (Polity, 2011). |
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* ''Media Studies 2.0, and Other Battles around the Future of Media Research'' (Kindle, 2011). |
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* ''Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and audiences'' (London: Routledge, 2007). |
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* ''Media, Gender and Identity'' (Routledge, 2002; second edition, 2008). |
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* ''Web.Studies'' (edited collection, Arnold & Oxford Univ Press, 2000; second edition, co-edited with Ross Horsley, 2004). |
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* ''TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life'' (Routledge, 1999). Written with Annette Hill. |
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* ''Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media Power'' (John Libbey, 1997). |
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* ''Moving Experiences'' (John Libbey, 1995; second edition, 2005). |
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==References== |
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* [http://www.davidgauntlett.com |
* [http://www.davidgauntlett.com Official Website] |
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* [http://www.makingisconnecting.org Making is Connecting] |
* [http://www.makingisconnecting.org Making is Connecting] – site about Making is Connecting project, with extracts, video, etc. |
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* [http://www.theory.org.uk/david/interview2009.htm Interview with David Gauntlett] |
* [http://www.theory.org.uk/david/interview2009.htm Interview with David Gauntlett] – Interview from 2010 book ''Mashup Cultures'' |
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Latest revision as of 17:05, 10 December 2023
David Gauntlett (born 15 March 1971) is a British sociologist and media theorist, and the author of several books including Making is Connecting.
His earlier work concerned contemporary media audiences, and has moved towards a focus on the everyday making and sharing of digital media and social media and the role of these activities in self-identity and building creative cultures.
Career
[edit]Gauntlett graduated from the University of York in Sociology in 1992.[1] He completed an MA in Women's Studies at Lancaster University, then took his PhD. Afterwards, he taught at the University of Leeds from 1993 to 2002. Subsequently, he was appointed Professor of Media and Audiences at Bournemouth University. In 2006 he joined the School of Media, Arts and Design at University of Westminster as Professor of Media and Communications, becoming Co-Director of the Communications and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), from 2010 to 2015. From 2015 to 2017 he was Professor of Creativity and Design, and the Director of Research for Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design.
In 2018, he took up a role as a Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University, Toronto.
Gauntlett's critique of media 'effects' studies sparked controversy in 1995,[2][3] and since then he has published a number of books and research on the role of popular media in people's lives.[4][5][6][7][8] In particular he has focused on the way in which digital media is changing the experience of media in general.[9][10][11][12]
In 2007, he was shortlisted for the 'Young Academic Author of the Year' award in the Times Higher awards.[13]
In the 2008 book, Reading Media Theory, Barlow & Mills state: "David Gauntlett is a prominent, public academic, who has spent his career engaging in research activities which have deliberately involved the public, and have crossed the traditional divide between the academic community and the outside world."[14]
New creative research methods
[edit]This approach asks participants to make something as part of the research process.[15] Gauntlett's work of this kind began with Video Critical (1997),[16] in which children were asked to make videos about the environment, and then in a number of projects which are discussed in Creative Explorations (2007).[17] As well as studies in which participants have been invited to make video, diaries, collage, and drawings, Gauntlett has explored the use of Lego Serious Play as a tool in sociology and social research.[18] This approach makes use of metaphor and invites participants to build metaphorical models of their identities. The process of making something, and then reflecting upon it, aims to give a more nuanced insight into participants' feelings or experiences.[17]
This work has been supported by awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.[19][20]
Media Studies 2.0
[edit]In 2007, Gauntlett published online the article Media Studies 2.0, which created some discussion amongst media studies educators.[21][22][23][24] The article argues that the traditional form of media studies teaching and research fails to recognise the changing media landscape in which the categories of 'audiences' and 'producers' blur together, and in which new research methods and approaches are needed. Andy Ruddock has written that Gauntlett's "ironic polemic" includes "much to value", and acknowledges that the argument "is more strategy than creed", but argues that audiences still exist, and experience mass media specifically as audience, and so it would be premature to dispose of the notion of 'audience' altogether.[23] In other areas there has been less acceptance: Andy Medhurst at Sussex University wrote of Media Studies 2.0, 'Isn't it odd that whenever someone purportedly identifies a new paradigm, they see themselves as already a leading practitioner of it?'
Making is Connecting
[edit]In 2008 Gauntlett proposed 'the Make and Connect Agenda', an attempt to rethink audience studies in the context of media users as producers as well as consumers of media material. This argues that there is a shift from a 'sit-back-and-be-told culture' to a 'making-and-doing culture', and that harnessing creativity in both Web 2.0 and in other everyday creative activities will play a role in tackling environmental problems.
These ideas are developed further in his best-known book 'Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0'.[25]
The Second Edition of 'Making is Connecting' was published in 2018, and included additional sections on the creative process.[26]
Books
[edit]- Making is Connecting: Second Expanded Edition (Polity, 2018).
- Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies (Peter Lang, 2015).
- Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0 (Polity, 2011).
- Media Studies 2.0, and Other Battles around the Future of Media Research (Kindle, 2011).
- Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and audiences (London: Routledge, 2007).
- Media, Gender and Identity (Routledge, 2002; second edition, 2008).
- Web.Studies (edited collection, Arnold & Oxford Univ Press, 2000; second edition, co-edited with Ross Horsley, 2004).
- TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life (Routledge, 1999). Written with Annette Hill.
- Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media Power (John Libbey, 1997).
- Moving Experiences (John Libbey, 1995; second edition, 2005).
References
[edit]- ^ "Recent Publications". Grapevine (Autumn/Winter 1997). Alumni Office, University of York: 23.
- ^ David Gauntlett (1995), Moving Experiences: Understanding Television's Influences and Effects, London: John Libbey
- ^ David Gauntlett (2005), Moving Experiences, second edition: Media Effects and Beyond, London: John Libbey
- ^ Will Woodward (1999), 'Viewers admit their guilt at watching too much TV', The Guardian newspaper, Friday 30 April 1999
- ^ David Gauntlett and Annette Hill (1999), TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life, London: Routledge
- ^ Charlie Peverett (2002), Review of 'Media, Gender and Identity' Archived 12 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, HERO: The official online gateway to Higher Education, 2002
- ^ AHRC Case Studies: Young People's Engagement with Online Immersive Worlds Archived 9 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Arts and Humanities Research Council, May 2008
- ^ Dan Sabbagh (2008), 'Viewers Boys and girls stay in to play on BBC's virtual island Adventure Rock', The Times newspaper, 22 May 2008
- ^ Julian McDougall (2007), 'Creative Transformations: What to do with "Media 2.0"?', In The Picture – The Media Education Magazine[permanent dead link], Issue 58, November 2007
- ^ David Gauntlett (2000), 'A double dose of digital drivel', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 22 September 2000
- ^ David Gauntlett, ed (2000), Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies For The Digital Age, London: Arnold
- ^ David Gauntlett and Ross Horsley, eds (2004), Web.Studies: Second edition, London: Arnold
- ^ Times Higher Education Supplement, Awards Shortlist Archived 5 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine, September 2007.
- ^ David M. Barlow and Brett Mills (2008), Reading Media Theory: Thinkers, Approaches, Contexts, London: Pearson Education, p.422.
- ^ University of Oslo (2007), Creative Production, Self-expression and Identity Archived 31 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Intermedia, University of Oslo
- ^ David Gauntlett (1997), Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media Power, London: John Libbey
- ^ a b David Gauntlett (2007), Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and audiences, London: Routledge
- ^ Anthea Lipsett (2005), 'Lego and professor click over research', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 8 April 2005
- ^ Arts and Humanities Research Council, list of research awards
- ^ Times Higher Education (2008), 'Grant winners', 7 February 2008
- ^ British Film Institute, Media Studies Conference 2007 Archived 7 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine, 4–6 July 2007
- ^ Transforming Audiences International Conference, 6–7 September 2007
- ^ a b Andy Ruddock (2008), 'Media Studies 2.0? Binge Drinking and Why Audiences Still Matter', Sociology Compass, Volume 2 Issue 1 Page 1-15, January 2008.
- ^ 'Towards a Brave New World? The Media Studies 2.0 Debate' Archived 3 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine, presentation by Geoff Lealand, University of Waikato, at AMES conference, May 2007
- ^ Gauntlett, David. (2011). Making is connecting : the social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456-5002-9. OCLC 682281412.
- ^ Polity Press, 'Making is Connecting: Second Expanded Edition'
External links
[edit]- Official Website
- Making is Connecting – site about Making is Connecting project, with extracts, video, etc.
- Interview with David Gauntlett – Interview from 2010 book Mashup Cultures