[IMC-bristol] help needed

[ian ballantyne]

Hi all!
I am a final year student, reading Cultural and Media Studies at Bristol 
UWE. I am
currently researching for my dissertation and am looking for some 
assistance. I intend to
research and explore the concept of infotainment in an attempt to realise 
the extent to
which our news content is ‘dumbed-down’ and standardised for ease of 
audience
consumption and the implications this has for the knowledge and 
understanding of
‘serious’ issues by the global audience.
To adequately research this, I am trying to conduct a series of interviews 
with various professionals, who maybe involved in the production of news and 
potentially infotainment, to see how they been affected by the changing 
discourses of news through the influx of infotainment.
I am hence writing to you all within indymedia in the hope of securing an 
informative and
dependable interviewee who would be willing to answer a few questions with 
regards to
this topic area. I am geographically mobile, but as with all research 
projects at this level,
time is not on my side.
Many Thanks
Ian Ballantyne

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