On-line Book of Abstracts

The book of Abstracts of the 240 conference presentations is available to download.

An anniversary conference was held in Loughborough University in March 2012 to celebrate
25 years of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG)
and 10 years of the Culture and Media Analysis Research Group (CAMARG).

We thank all the Plenary speakers, the (240) presenters and the (over 370) attenders for an excellent conference, which was enjoyed by all.

Videos of the Plenary speeches can be seen on this page.

[Note that Liz Stokoe's Inaugural address on the award of her Professorship can be seen here].

Professor Liz Stokoe's introduction to the Conference (some adjustment of volume may be necessary):

Professor Teun A. Van Dijk: "Epistemic Discourse Analysis"

Professor Paul Drew: "Self Repair in Conversation: The Unrequited Relationship between Bush and Blair"

Professor Michael Billig: "Academic Words and Academic Capitalism"

Professor Peter Golding: "Not So Much a Discipline as a Way of Life: Media Research in the UK"

Professor Michael Pickering: "The Devaluation of History - Present-centredness in Media Studies"

Professor David Deacon: "Mediatization and History"

Professor Angela McRobbie: "After Post-Feminism: Neo-liberalism and New Family Values"

Professor Leisbet van Zoonen: "From Identity to Identification:Fixating the Fragmented Self"

Professor David Buckingham: "Reading the Riot Acts: Media Discourse and Public Knowledge"

Professor Graham Murdock: "Reclaiming the Commons: Economies, Technologies and Public Cultures"

Professor Jim McGuigan: "The Saatchi Phenomenon [erased] and Cool Capitalism"

Professors Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter: "Description and Assessment"

Plenary speakers' videos on this page

Peter Golding

Michael Billig

Michael Pickering

David Deacon

Paul Drew

Teun A. Van Dijk

Angela McRobbie

Graham Murdock

Jim McGuigan

Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter