Ravensbourne

Faculty Member, Production Courses

Academic Development Manager: Applied Research

About

Research Interests: Participatory Media, Social Media, New Forms of Public Service Media, Collaborative Innovation.

Lizzie was named 'One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade' by NOP World and e-consultancy.com in October, 2004. She is currently one of eight experts advising the Council of Europe on the governance of public service media. Lizzie is a member of the Art, Design and Media Reference Group for the HEA and an external examiner for the MA in Creative Media Practice at the University of Sussex. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in 2007.

After a long career in radio production and radio training at the BBC (1982-1991) and seven years as Managing Director of Soundbite Productions Limited (1991-1997), Lizzie returned to the Corporation to launch and manage the BBC's social media on www.bbc.co.uk (1997-2002). She worked with the BBC's Editorial Policy unit and with BBC Training to create the overall management and training systems for 'non-news' social media across the BBC. Lizzie then co-ordinated the BBC’s internet safety initiatives for children, parents and schools (2003-2007). She was also a member of the Home Office Taskforce for Internet Safety. Lizzie was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Westminster (2007-2009), working with Professor David Gauntlett on a BBC/AHRC funded project exploring virtual worlds for children. She was Deputy Head of the Faculty of Communication Media at Ravensbourne 2009-2010 before taking over the development of online and blended learning as Head of Learning Innovation (2010-2011). Lizzie is now responsible for the BA Production Courses and for applied research at Ravensbourne.

Doctoral Thesis
'Participatory Public Service Media: Presenters and Hosts in BBC New Media', 2009, University of Westminster.

The study produced significant evidence to show engagers want facilitation in social media from this public service media outlet, and furthermore a variety of levels and types of facilitation. A framework is therefore suggested which distributes these mediation activities between BBC staff, automated means, and participating audiences.

Publications

(Forthcoming) Jackson, Lizzie,(2012), 'Participating Publics: Implications for Leadership, Management, and Production Practices at the BBC' in 'Media, Public and the Management:
Maintaining Interaction, Creativity and Innovation', Głowacki, M (Ed.).

(Forthcoming) Jackson, Lizzie, (2012), 'Learning From Adventure Rock' in 'Virtual Literacies: interactive spaces for children and young people', Merchant, G, Gillen, J, Marsh, J, and Davies, J (eds.), London: Taylor and Francis.

Jackson, Lizzie, (2010), ‘Facilitating Participatory Audiences: Sociable Media Theory and Public Service Media’, in The Public in Public Service Media, Lowe, G and Daschmann, G, (eds.), Gothenberg: Nordicom.

Jackson, Lizzie, (2009), Participatory Public Service Media: Presenters and Hosts in BBC New Media, University of Westminster, Unpublished Thesis.

Jackson, Lizzie; Gauntlett, David, & Steemers, Jeanette (2009), Children in Virtual Worlds - Adventure Rock users and producers study, London: BBC & University of Westminster. Available from http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/knowledgeexchange/westminsterone.pdf
 
Jackson, Lizzie; Gauntlett, David, & Steemers, Jeanette (2009), Virtual Worlds - An Overview and Study of BBC Children’s Adventure Rock, London: BBC & University of Westminster. Available from http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/knowledgeexchange/westminstertwo.pdf

Jackson, Lizzie, (2008), Book Review: ‘Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age’ in Particip@tions, 5, Issue 1, [Online] Available from http://www.participations.org/Volume%205/Issue%201%20-%20special/5_01_jackson_review.htm [Accessed 15 March, 2009].

Jackson, Lizzie, (2005), ‘Production Dreaming’ in Digital Utopia in the Media: from Discourses to Facts. A Balance, Masip and Rom (eds.), Barcelona: University of Barcelona Press. 

Jackson, Lizzie, (2005), ‘Digital Utopia in the Media Conference: Production Dreaming’, 111 International Conference, Communication and Reality, Barcelona, 20-21 May, 2005, Journalism and Communication Review, Qianfang, X (ed.), 211, 207-213.

Jackson, Lizzie, (2005) Overview of the Implications for the BBC of Participatory Media: Management, Awareness, Literacy and Safety on Interactive Media Platforms, unpublished report for the BBC.

Research Awards

2011    The Paul Hamlyn Foundation: 'From VLE to CLE: Modelling Reciprocity and Online Skills-building'. Dr Lizzie Jackson (Ravensbourne) and Phil Hall (www.elzware.com). £134,000.

2009 EPSRC: ‘Building Collaboration and Engagement for Media Professionals and Academic Researchers’, Professor D Gauntlett and Dr Peter Goodwin (University of Westminster, School of Media, Arts and Design), and Dr Lizzie Jackson, (Ravensbourne College of Design and Communications). £47,670

2008 AHRC/BBC: ‘Knowledge Infusion Funding: Audience and Producer Engagement with Immersive Worlds’. Professor David Gauntlett, Dr Lizzie Jackson, and Professor Jeanette Steemers (University of Westminster. School of Media, Arts and Design). £17,034.

2007 AHRC/BBC: ‘Audience and Producer Engagement with Immersive Worlds’. Professor David Gauntlett, Dr Lizzie Jackson, and Professor Jeanette Steemers (University of Westminster, School of Media, Arts and Design). £74,243.

2004 European Union, Cost Action 20: Visiting Researcher, The Catholic University of Milan. Dr Lizzie Jackson (University of Westminster, School of Media, Arts and Design). £3,000.

Participation in other research programmes

2009-2010 Core Participant in the ESRC seminar series, Children's and Young People's Digital Literacies in Virtual Online Spaces organised by Lancaster University, Sheffield Hallam University, and the University of Sheffield.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/digital-literacies/index.htm

Links:

Council of Europe Ad hoc Advisory Group on Public Service Media Governance (MC-S-PG):
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/media/MC-S-PG/default_en.asp

The Royal Society of Arts and Manufacturing:
http://www.thersa.org/

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