Dr Brian Winston, Lincoln Professor of Communications, University of Lincoln

Dr Brian Winston is the Lincoln Professor of Communications at the University of Lincoln. His book Media, Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet (Routledge, 1998) [Amazon.co.uk] won the ‘Best Book’ award from the American Association for History and Computing in 1998. His latest book Messages: Free Expression, Media and the West from Gutenberg to Google (Routledge, 2005) [Amazon.co.uk]. A second edition of his 1995 history of the documentary, Claiming the Real: The Documentary Film Revisited (BFI Publishing, 1995) [Amazon.co.uk], is in press, and he is currently writing a feature-length documentary script on Robert Flaherty. Dr Winston’s career began in 1963 on Granada’s World in Action and he subsequently worked on the BBC’s 24 Hours. In 1985, he won a US prime-time Emmy for documentary scriptwriting (for WNET, New York). He has taught at institutions including New York University Film School and the UK National Film School, and been a governor of the BFI and a Grierson Trustee.

Sessions

Presenter: Opening keynote: Unknown unknowns: assessing media futures