2023 seminar

‘Commentary – commentating – commenting’

Thursday 31 August

9.30 – 10.15 – Martin Montgomery – The news interview in an age of conflict: Controversy, balance and neutralism

10.15 – 11.00 –Göran Eriksson – Discussing female beauty ideals through TikTok videos on #beautyfilters

11.15 – 12.00 – Zohar Kampf – The performance of good relations in presidential interviews

12.00 – 12.45 – Joanna Thornborrow – Commentator comments: Gary Lineker and the boats

13.45 – 14.30 – Lilly Boxman – “Leading through leadership”: Strategic ambiguity, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the broadcast interview

14.30 – 15.15 – Maxwell Modell – The Specter of Impartiality: meta-commentary on the role of impartiality in UK news podcasts.

15.45 – 16.30 – Andrea McDonnell – A Position of Outrageousness: Weaponized Belligerence and Discursive Self-Cleaving in R Kelly’s 2019 CBS Interview [via Zoom]

Friday 1 September

9.30 – 10.15 – Wu Xiaoping and Richard Fitzgerald– Audience affiliation in social media engagement with reposted broadcast interviews [via Zoom]

10.15 – 11.00 – Yarong Xie and Kevin Durrheim – ‘This is my country’: how a presenter responds to abuse on air [via Zoom]

11.15 – 12.00 Angela Smith and Michael Higgins – From synthetic argument to synthetic sincerity:  Not playing the game in a post-populist age

12.00 – 12.45 – Jan Chovanec – Commenting as a ‘live’ performance in YouTube reaction videos