National Student Media Conference 2000 Preliminary Programme >

This year's programme is structured to be 'unstructured'. The conference aims to provide a forum within which student media producers can discuss the issues more relevant to them and their audience/readership. Thus Sessions are designed to be as informal as possible. To facilitate the experience sharing process, 'workshops' may be lead by a facilitator or group directed. The issues may centre around, and do not have to be limited to, the issue presented by that Session's title. Audience participation is the focus of this year's conference. >

Wednesday
Night > Registration (venue to be announced) >

Thursday
Venue :The Palais :

10:00 am > Registration

Session I
11:00 am > "Lets Get Started"
* Introductions: the who's who of student media - meeting your fellow editors and media producers

12:00 noon > Lunch

Session II
1:00 pm > "Zen and the Art of Desktop Publishing / Student media offices and feng shui"
* Photoshop Workshop [Hilary Kincaid- Macquarie University]

Session III
3:00 pm > "I Think, Therefore My Student Paper Don't Exist Anymore"
* Advertising: Is there a place for Nestle, Shell and McDonalds in Student media?
* Reflexivity with students - knowing what they want, and giving it to them
* Techniques for getting contributors and keep them coming.

4:00pm > "Introduction to Zines"
National Young Writers Festival
Nesca House First Floor Tutorial Room 2

Friday
Venue : The Palais :

Session IV
10:00 am > "Challenging that Dominant Paradigm"
* Queer Student Media as autonomous or as part of mainstream Student Media
* Women Student Media as autonomous or as part of mainstream Student Media
* Indigenous Student Media as autonomous or as part of mainstream Student Media
* Student media and Environmentalism

11:00 am > "Tokenism"
National Young Writers Festival
Nesca House First Floor > Tutorial Room 2

11:00 am > "Introduction to Journalism"
National Young Writers Festival >Festival Club Upstairs #2

12:00 noon > "Zine as a City"
National Young Writers Festival
Nesca House First Floor Tutorial Room 2.

12:00 noon > Lunch

Session V
1:00 pm > "To Satirise, or not to Satirise"
* Provocation in the age of libel - where to now for student papers?
* Do student newspapers take themselves seriously - can / should student newspapers enter the realm of attempting to be academic journals?

2.00 pm > "Design and Text"
National Young Writers Festival
Wheeler Place Tent #2.

Session VI
3:00 pm > "So I finish my degree this year - what do I do with all this extracurricular experience?"
* How to run a student newspaper and not totally fail your degree

7:00pm > "Is the media killing Politics"
National Young Writers Festival
City Hall Cummings Room

Saturday
Venue : The Palais :

Session VII
10:00 am > "Dip me in Hypertext and Throw me to the Students"
* How will New Millennium Technologies influencing student media?

12:00 noon > Lunch

Session VIII
1:00 pm > "Student Media - The Next Generation"
* Assisting the transition of next year's editors and media producers.

2:00 pm > "Preaching to the Perverted"
National Young Writers Festival
Nesca House First Floor - Rehearsal Room

Session IX > 3:00 pm - "So now what?"
* Summing up the conference, chatting about resolutions, filling in feedback forms.