Panel discussion
Group of people gathered to discuss a topic in front of an audience
A panel discussion , or simply a panel , involves a group of people gathered to discuss a topic in front of an audience, typically at scientific, business, or academic conferences , fan conventions , and on television shows. Panels usually include a moderator who guides the discussion and sometimes elicits audience questions, with the goal of being informative and entertaining. [1] [2] Film panels at fan conventions have been credited with boosting box office returns by generating advance buzz .
Format
The typical format for a discussion panel includes a moderator in front of an audience. [3]
Television shows in the English-speaking world that feature a discussion panel format include Real Time with Bill Maher , Loose Women , The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore , as well as segments of the long-running Meet the Press . [4] Quiz shows featuring this format, such as QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks , are called panel games .
Fan conventions
Panels at sci-fi fan conventions , such as San Diego Comic-Con and New York Comic Con , have become increasingly popular; there are typically long lines to get access to the panels. [5] The panels often feature advance looks at upcoming films and video games . [6] Panels and the early screenings at conventions have been credited as increasing the popularity of blockbuster films in recent years. [7]
One of the earliest film panels was at the 1976 San Diego Comic-Con, when publicist Charles Lippincott hosted a slideshow—in front of a "somewhat skeptical" audience—for an upcoming film called Star Wars . Five years later, the Blade Runner panel at the 1981 San Diego Comic-Con featured a film featurette , before featurettes were popular. At the 2000 event, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring preview panel ushered in today's era of hugely popular panels. [8]
Manels
A manel is a panel whose participants are all men . The term is a portmanteau word deriving from the man and panel . The Oxford Dictionaries and Cambridge Dictionaries teams both published blog posts on the word in 2017, suggesting the term was new at that time. [9] [10] In the second decade of the twenty-first century, such panels, in academia, the private sector, the media, government, and beyond, became the object of feminist critique and of extensive media discussion, [11] [12] [13] as well as academic research. [14] [15] Commentators challenged conference organizers and speakers to refuse to present manels. Organisations responding included The Financial Times , whose board decided in August 2017 to end men-only conference panels, and encouraged its journalists not to participate in these elsewhere. [16]
See also
References
- ↑ "Panel Discussions" . Nature Education . Retrieved 16 April 2015 .
- ↑ Kirsner, Scott (30 May 2013). "How To Moderate a Panel Like a Pro" . Harvard Business Review . Retrieved 16 April 2015 .
- ↑ "Inside Our Schools: Teen-Age Congress" . Billboard . 12 April 1952 . Retrieved 17 April 2015 .
- ↑ Hruby, Patrick (28 March 2012). "Bill Maher's 'Real Time': The survival manual for conservative panelists" . Washington Times .
- ↑ Sacks, Ethan (27 September 2014). "New York Comic Con will start with 10-day 'Super Week' as convention grows in size and popularity" . New York Daily News . Retrieved 16 April 2015 .
- ↑ Lamar, Cyriaque (17 July 2013). "4 Miserable Experiences You Can't Avoid at Comic-Con" . Cracked . Retrieved 16 April 2015 .
- ↑ Burke, Liam (2015). The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre . Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 125. ISBN 9781626745155 .
- ↑ "The 10 Most Memorable Panels In Comic-Con History" . Film.com . 16 July 2013 . Retrieved 16 April 2015 .
- ↑ Jeff Sherwood, ' On the radar: manel ', OxfordWords (5 July 2017).
- ↑ Cambridge Words, ' New words – 30 October 2017 ', About Words: A Blog from Cambridge Dictionary (30 October 2017).
- ↑ Olivia Crellin, ' Only men at your event? This blog will shame you ', BBC Trending (27 May 2015).
- ↑ Brigid Schulte, ' There’s No Excuse for All-Male Panels. Here’s How to Fix Them ', Slate (6 October 2017).
- ↑ Mary Elizabeth Williams, ' The "manel" in academia: Why are no women historians coming to a big event? ', Salon (16 March 2018).
- ↑ Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas B. Pepinsky, ' Gender Representation and Strategies for Panel Diversity: Lessons from the APSA Annual Conference ', SSRN (20 December 2018), doi : 10.2139/ssrn.3297654 .
- ↑ J. Bouvy and M. Mujoomdar, ' All Male Panels and Gender Diversity of Issue Panels and Plenary Sessions at ISPOR Europe ', Preprints (2019), 2019030238.
- ↑ Michael Skapinker, ' Ending men-only panels is a spur to creativity ', Financial Times (24 April 2018).
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