Mr Benjamin Warburton
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Lecturer
Biography
Ben is a Lecturer in Film Studies and Film Production at the University of Salford, whose recently-completed PhD investigated the relationship between fake news, ancient myth, and modern perceptions of truth, via research-by-practice. With near ten years of experience working within the television and online media sectors, they have a wide variety of projects under their belt: ranging from production assistant on Ian Brown music videos, to short form producer for BBC Music Day, and APC on high-end television dramas Endeavour and Victoria.
Their completed PhD candidature revolves around their thesis, informally referred to as Alethic. Alethic is a practice-as-research PhD thesis, primarily focused on consumer behavioural manipulation via social media, interrogating the mechanisms utilised through the lens of ancient myth, and its relationship to modern fake news.
Moving from the TV industry back into academia has been incredibly rewarding for them, and they now lecture in Film Studies, Film Production, and Creative Arts. Their research interests include linguistics, ideology, queer theory, and structuralism.
Areas of Research
Ben's research output specialises in semiotic deconstruction of representations, particularly within queer theory and media discourse. At present, alongside their PhD candidature, Ben is conducting research into misinformation propagation surrounding queer representations in and on social media.
They are further interested in ideologies, mythologies, misinformation, propaganda, psychoanalysis in cinema, transmedia, LGBTQ+ media, symbolism, and structuralism.
Areas of Supervision
Ideologies, LGBTQIA+ media, misinformation, mythologies, practice-as-research, propaganda, psychoanalysis in cinema, transmedia storytelling, semiotics, structuralism, and symbolism.
L4:
•Critical Approaches I
•Critical Approaches II
•Introduction to Filmmaking
L6:
•Film and Theory
•Final Film Project: Preparation
•Final Film Project
•Dissertation
L7:
•Practice Research Project
•Dissertation
Qualifications
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PhD Media and Communications
2019 - 2024 -
MA Media Production
2017 - 2018