Opening academic plenary
May 12th, 2005 | by aobaoill |I’m sitting in the opening session of the ‘academic braintrust’ session. Bob has promised to address the name at some point in the future.
Mark Cooper is up next and arguing that the window for involvement in the area (policy and media) has been open for some time. Cooper has just raised the point of telephone service, and the fact that cost excludes the poor. “This is obvious to you, but this was the height of the Reagan era.” It reminded me immediately of my meeting with Robert Pepper of the FCC who still doesn’t get it. Cooper has outlined a research project he ran in order to get evidence to support this. Obviously a telephone survey wouldn’t work, so he had grad students head to welfare offices and do interviews. Using this to explain how research should be done.
Update: Ben Scott is on now, explaining how important timely research is. Need to be able to get reports out at short notice. The corporate media already have this – we need to set up structures that facilitate this.
Update 2: Marjorie Hews is now talking about her think-tank. they ran a project on media literacy and have a report (some copies of which are available here). Her group is putting together a website that will feature abstracts of research etc.
Update 3: We’re breaking into 11 groups now. I’m scribing for media ownership, so perhaps I’ll see some of you there.
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