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Senior Lecturer Vice-Chair Learning & Teaching Advisory Group (LTAG)

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3357
Email : A.Esser@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Media, Culture and Language
Office location : Queen's Building 025

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Qualifications

London South Bank University (UK)
Department of Education, Politics and Social Sciences
PhD (Apr 2001)
Dissertation thesis: The Transnationalisation of Television in Europe 1985-1997
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Richard Rooke, Prof. Raymond Kuhn, Dr. Anna Reading

Cologne University (Germany)
MA in English and Slavic Literature and Linguistics, and Economics (Jan 1995)
Dissertation thesis: Frauenbilder im Wandel: Literatur als Indikator einer sozio-kulturellen Umbruchsituation im Spätviktorianismus [Images of Women Undergoing Transformation: Literature as an Indicator of a Socio-cultural Change in the Late Victorian Era]

About

After a period in media consulting, publishing and lecturing in London (Goldsmiths, UEL, LSBU) Dr Esser joined the media team at Roehampton University in September 2005. She teaches on the Media and Cultural Studies BA and MA programmes. Her research interests evolve around the economics and the sociology of television, and the transnationalisation of the media. Her recent work has explored both the continuity of the market and the dynamics of change: socio-political, economic, technological and historic frameworks alongside changes in consumption. She is a member of the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures (CRFAC).

Role and Responsibilities

- Chair of the Learning and Teaching Advisory Group (LTAG), Department for Media, Culture and Language
- Programme Convener, MA Media, Culture & Identity
- Module development and delivery
- Supervision of dissertations at BA, MA & PhD level
- Conference Organiser (Television Futures, CRFAC, 2007)

Research Interests

- Sociology of the European audiovisual market: production, distribution, consumption
- Contemporary media industry trends: commercialisation, market fragmentation, formatting, digitalisation and interactivity, internationalisation of production and distribution
- Transnationalization of the media
- Media economics

Membership of Professional Bodies

- Member of the British Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
- Member of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
- Associate Member of the Higher Education Association (HEA)

Consultancy Experience

- TV Format Business
- Internationalization strategies for media companies

Consultancies Undertaken

- Consulting British reference publisher A&C Black on their Dictionary of Media Studies (2005)
- Research and recommendations on Digital, Interactive Material for Teaching in Higher Education for LSBU (2004)
- Research, reports and recommendations on the German publishing market for Bloomsbury plc (2001-2002)
- Research, reports and recommendations on the German audiovisual production market for various German and international media companies (1999-2001)
- Liaising with German media consultancy HMR’s British and French consultancy partners, DGA and IMCA, on a tender for EU research project (2000)
- Conceptualisation and organisation of Germany's first international programme market, the Cologne Screenings (1999)

Teaching Interests

- Encountering Television (UG Y1)- Introduction to TV and ideology, identity, representations, effects
- Introduction to British Media (UG Y1) - British media history (press, film, broadcasting, Internet)
- Research Project (UG y1) - Study Skills module, including researching and analysing original material
- Media, Culture & Society (UG Y1) - Introduction to media and ideology, identity, representations, effects
- Television as Industry (UG Y2) - Political economy approach with European and international focus, covering production, distribution, legislation; Career Preparation element and industry guest speakers
- Television & The Public Sphere (UG Y2) - Theories about public spheres; public service broadcasting, public opinion, alternative and new media
- Cultural Policy (UG Y2) - British and EU media policy, national heritage & identity, multiculturalism
- Television Futures (UG Y2) - Contemporary and future developments in production, distribution and consumption; possible effects on society
- Media Culture (MA) - Broad-ranging module in which I cover media policy and media globalization
- New Media & New Technologies (MA) - Internet and democracy, cybercultures, surveillance
- Supervising MA and BA dissertations and independent study projects

Examining Experience

- External Examiner for the Media Production Undergraduate Framework at Bournemouth Media School, Bournemouth University, 2011-2014

Publications

(2011) Review of Stylianos Papathanassopoulos & Ralph Negrine (2011) European Media. Structures, Policies and Identity. Polity Press, in European Journal of Communication, 26:4 .
(2010) 'Format'iertes Fernsehen - Die Bedeutung von Formaten für Fernsehsender und Produktionsmärkte, Media Perspektiven, 11, 502-14.
(2010) Television formats: primetime staple, global market, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 8:4, 273-292.
(2007) Audiovisual Content in Europe: Transnationalization and Approximation, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol.15, No.2, 163-184.
(2007) Review of Mark Lacy & Peter Wilkin (2005) (eds) Global Politics in the Information Age, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol.15, No.2, 262-264.
(2002) The Transnationalization of European Television, Journal of European Area Studies, Vol 10, No. 1, 13-29.
(1997) Review of Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay (1996), Questions of Cultural Identity, Media, Culture & Society, October 1997, Nr. 4, 481-484.
(1996) Review of Michael Billig (1995), Banal Nationalism , Media, Culture & Society, October 1996 , Nr.4, 691-693.
(2012) The glocalisation of television programming: TV Formats - a case study, in Robertson, R. (ed.) Glocalization: Advances and Applications. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
(2011) Interviews with TV Executives involved in the German Adaptation, Verliebt in Berlin, in McCabe, J. and Akass, K. (eds) Betty Goes Global. London: I.B.Tauris.
(2009) Audio-visual content in the EU: production and scheduling, in Rooke, R. European Media in the Digital Age. Pearson Education.
(2009) The Commercialisation of European Television, in Charles, A. (ed.) Media in the Enlarged Europe. Intellect.
(1998) "Regarding interpretation: An example from literary criticism", Culture, Policy and Politics: A Question of Evidence, Occasional Papers in Public Policy, South Bank University, May 1998, 31-47.
 04/11 British formats to the world: Ratings hits and primetime staple, Invited speaker for symposium, Transnational media and audiences in the UK, City University, London. Other speakers: Daya Thussu, Christina Slade, Jean Chalaby.
04/11 Format is King, 20 Years of Private Television conference, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels.
10/10 The rise of glocal television: Scope and flows of TV formats, ECREA, 3rd European Communication Conference, Hamburg.

09/09 Television formats: visualizing the glocal, Glocal Imaginaries: Writing, Migration, Place conference, Lancaster University.

01/09 Conceptualising television formats, MeCCSA conference, Bradford.
06/08 The economics of television formats, Television Without Borders conference, Reading University.
05/07 TV Programming in Europe: Commercialisation, Transnationalisation Approximation, TV Futures symposium, Roehampton University.
05/06 Audio-Visual Content in Europe: Transnationalisation and approximation, Media in the Enlarged Europe conference, Luton University.
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