This is a brief list of some of the subjects in the area of the media on which Tony Watkins can speak or write. There are some suggestions of possible titles or more specific aspects of the subject for talks/events. This is far from being an exhaustive list. If you would like Tony to speak on something that is not listed here, please contact him. For other subject areas, see the main Speaking page.
General
- The Media and the Meaning of Life
- Men and Media
- Listening to the World: What the Media Tell Us About Life, the Universe and Everything
- Christian Perspectives on the Media
- What have the media ever done for us?
- Like This: Responding to Social Media
- Techno-Torrent: Living in a Social Media Stream/Life in a Fast-Changing World
- Culture Currents: The Changing Media World
- Alien Nation: Connection and Disconnection in an Online World
- The Medium is the Message – But What Does it Mean?
- Digital Outreach
Films
- Focus on Film Workshops [more details]
- Media Awareness: A Forgotten Dimension in Mission
- How to Watch a Film: learning to recognise worldviews in films
- Framing Questions: exploring ways in which film-making techniques communicate worldviews
- Why we need to think seriously about films
- How films reveal the longings of the human heart
- Movies and the meaning of life
- Sex and the Cynics: changing ideas of love in film romances
- Once Upon a Time in the Western: changing representations of the Old West
- A Christian Perspective on Films
- Films and Faith
- What Films Do to Us
- Film Analysis for Christian Communicators
- Leading film discussion groups
- see www.culturewatch.org for a list of films we’ve covered
Literature
- Philip Pullman
- Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling
- A Christian Perspective on Contemporary Fiction
- Douglas Coupland
- The Da Vinci Code
- Internal Affairs: a look at the work of Ian McEwan
- see www.culturewatch.org for a list of books we’ve covered
Television
- How to Watch Television
- Living Outside the Box: A Christian Perspective on TV
- TV Living
- Doctor Who
- Stephen Poliakoff
- see www.culturewatch.org for a list of television programmes we’ve covered
See also subjects listed under culture and worldviews
