{"id":11477,"date":"2021-04-07T14:09:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T12:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/?p=11477"},"modified":"2021-04-07T14:09:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T12:09:05","slug":"media-education-diversity-and-voice-food-for-thought-at-mes21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/type\/featured-articles\/media-education-diversity-and-voice-food-for-thought-at-mes21\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Education, Diversity and Voice – food for thought at MES21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Media Education Summit (MES) took place on Zoom, on 31\u00a0March and 1 April 2021, around the theme of\u00a0Media Education, Diversity and Voice<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0MES is convened each year by the UK\u2019s\u00a0Centre for Excellence in Media Practice<\/a> (CEMP) co-hosted with a partner, who this year was the\u00a0School of Media & Communication at the University of Leeds<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MES brings together a global network of media educators, scholars and researchers to share research, pedagogy and innovation on all aspects of media education, media literacy and media in education. The first event was at CEMP\u2019s host institution, Bournemouth University, and from there, the conference was co-hosted with UK partners in Birmingham, London, Liverpool and Sheffield and then taken overseas, first to Prague and then to Boston, MA; Rome, Segovia and Hong Kong, before returning to the UK for the Leeds event.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MES team learned a lot about the process of moving an event planned as face-to-face with registered delegates and accepted abstracts onto Zoom, as a free event. Checking the waiting room against the registration list when zoom usernames don\u2019t match, some delegates\u2019 accounts enabled manual movement between breakouts, whilst others didn\u2019t; trying to cater for time zones and the inevitable \u2018dipping in and out\u2019 which a virtual event allows, offering the affordances of more engagement but on different terms. All good experiences to take forward, and we are happy to share with others setting up such activities in the coming months. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 Summit opened with evening keynotes from\u00a0Ivan Siga<\/a>l \u2013\u00a0Decoding Information Networks with Narrative Analysis<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Eszter Hargittai<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Covid-19 Knowledge Gap<\/em>, before the full day began with a critical discussion on the conference theme between Mita Lad, Summit discussant and chair of the Meccsa Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Network<\/a>, Ahmet Atay and Brian Copper; a screening and discussion of\u00a0Industry Voices<\/a><\/em>\u00a0with Beth Johnson, keynotes from\u00a0Sam F<\/a>r<\/a>ay<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Diversity and Voice in Practice<\/em>;\u00a0Kate Pahl<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Steven Pool<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Empowering Youth Co-Production<\/em>\u00a0and the event concluded with Stephen Coleman and Bethany Hillan on\u00a0voice as ubiquitous communication media<\/em>. Mita closed proceedings with a critical response to the event. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MES breakout panels enabled over 100 members of the global media education community to share research and practice and Yonty Friesem<\/a> hosted the Media Education Futures strand, featuring panels on Media Education and Race; Remote Engagement in Higher Education; News, Media and Information Literacy and Educational Media. The work shared in the MEF strand will be published in a collection by Routledge Research in Media Literacy & Education.<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the keynotes, the Meccsa panel and recordings from the MEF strand are accessible via the CEMP site<\/a> and live responses were at #MESLeeds21<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next MES will be a partnership between CEMP,\u00a0Simon Fraser University<\/a>\u00a0in Vancouver and the\u00a0Marshall McLuhan Foundation<\/a>. It is way too early to predict whether that will be face-to-face, hybrid or fully virtual, so watch this space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julian McDougall <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head of the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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