Comparative Journalism Studies 2008

Funding

Conference Program

Date
Time
Session
Participants
Wednesday
25 June

University Staff Club


18:00



18:30


Plenary

Registration



Welcome & Introduction

Opening Keynote:
Professor Michael Bromley, University of Queensland
19:30-20:30
Cocktail
 
Thursday
26 June
9:00-11:00
SocSci 209
Panel: "Methodology of Comparative Journalism Research"

Professor Michael Bromley (moderator), University of Queensland
Professor Daniel Hallin, University of California, San Diego (by Video Link)
Dr Thomas Hanitzsch, University of Zurich
Professor Steve Reese, University of Texas, Austin (by Video Link)
Professor David Rowe, University of Western Sydney
11:00-11:30
Morning
Tea
 
11:30-13:00

Session
1

Flexible Learning
Space

CHAIR: DR LIBBY LESTER

Dr Rhonda Breit
: "Scoping the legal and professional understanding of journalism in Australia: A case study of ABC vs O'Neill"
Dr Andrew Kenyon & Dr Tim Marjoribanks: "Journalism, Defamation Law and Public Speech"
Dr David Nolan: "Regimes of professionalism and shifting practices of journalism"
11:30-13:00
Session
2

HUM346
CHAIR: DR VERICA RUPAR

A/Prof Halliki Harro-Loit
: "Who defines journalistic norms?"
Dr Katrina Mandy Oakham: "Don't mention the war: Exploring the new battle lines in the development of journalism as a discipline"
Kaspars Ruklis: "Living in two parallel realities: Media in bi-lingual environments in the Baltics"
13:00-15:00
Lunch
15:00-16:30

Session
3

FLS

CHAIR: DR KATRINA MANDY OAKHAM

Dr Levi Obijiofor & Dr Folker Hanusch
: "Foreign news reporting in the age of new technologies"
Heather Stewart: "The internet impact..."
Bruce Montgomery: "The Future of Newspapers"

19:00

Dinner
Shipwright's Arms
Friday
27 June
9:00-10:30
Session
4

FLS
CHAIR: DR LIBBY LESTER

Dr Rachel Buchanan
: "Bare bones, speed freaks and sleaze: How online journalism is remaking newspapers from the inside out"
Janet Fulton: "Print journalism and the creative process: Traditional versus online"
9:00-10:30
Session
5

HUM346
CHAIR: DR THOMAS HANITZSCH

Dr Ebbe Grunwald & Dr Verica Rupar
: "Journalism curiosity and storytelling frame: A comparative study of Australian and Danish newspapers"
Sarah Gillman: "From Port Arthur to Beaconsfield: The consolidation of the celebrity victim and its ramifications for Australian journalism"
Mitsuru Kudo: "A comparative study of newspaper reporting of the whaling conflict in Australia and Japan"
10:30-11:00
Morning
Tea
 
11:00-12:30
Session
6

FLS
CHAIR: PROFESSOR DAVID ROWE

Dr Donald Matheson
: "Looking for journalism culture or Excuses for reading journalists memoirs"
Professor Epp Lauk: "comparing journalism cultures after the fall of Communism"
Slavko Gajevic: "Discourse of justice in media and public memory"
11:00-12:30
Session
7

HUM346
CHAIR: DR DAVID NOLAN

Dr Lawrie Zion
: "
Tracking Journalism Graduates at a time of Media Upheaval"
Jeanne Du Toit: "The invention of journalism as an object of study; an institutional history"
Diana Bossio: "Teaching journalistic practice in a covergent media age: Innovations and issues"
12:30-14:00
Lunch
 
 
14:00-15:30

Session
8

FLS

CHAIR: DR DONALD MATHESON

Dr Thomas Hanitzsch
: "The world of journalisms"
Dr Folker Hanusch: "The cultural approach: Towards a more holistic analysis of comparative journalism practice"
Lyn McGaurr & Dr Libby Lester: "Complementary problems, competing risks"
Dr Michael Meadows: "Journalism, community and democracy"
 
15:30-16:00
Plenary

FLS

Closing Keynote:
Professor Epp Lauk, University of Tartu

 
 

 

CJS2008 acknowledges
the support of the
following organisations:

 
 
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