Formations

Currently Professor of Screen and Media Studies in the School of Arts at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Daniel Fleming was previously Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Prior to that Daniel taught at all levels in several countries, from school to technical institute, and worked as a community media activist, receiving along the way a Distinguished Teaching Award and a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship. In addition he has been a Visiting Research Fellow at a major telecommunications company and a visiting lecturer at a Brazilian university. Daniel has a PhD in Film and Media Studies from the University of Stirling in Scotland. His books focus on media education, popular culture, film, and questions of identity.

• Part 1 The field: why media studies is worthwhile; a student's guide to surviving communication scholarship; for lack of models - A field in fragments?; citizenship and the media. Part 2 Public knowledge: broadcast journalism and public knowledge; the reassessment of ideology; war reporting at the end of the 20th century; Part 3 Cultural identity: the elastic metaphor - towards a theoretical outline of cultural identity; "out there" and "in here" - towards resolving the global/indigenous debate. Part 4 Broadcasting: television and the active audience; who wants to be a millionaire? - contextual analysis and the endgame of public service television. Part 5 Film: film studies; from neo-modern to hypermodern cinema - 1960 to present; woman and the gaze; reading the American popular - suburban resentment and the representation of the inner city in contemporary film and TV. Part 6 Method: your own work - research, interviews, writing in media studies; content analysis; media and social movements - an agenda building case study; interpretation, semiology and "warriors of democracy". Part 7 Pop tech: pop tech and pedagogy (or I link, therefore I am); the Internet as public sphere; new media convergences - some research issues; an endnote on popular music's leading light.