Charlie Beckett from the LSE's Polis think-tank has a post calling for abstracts for a forthcoming conference: Media, Communication and Humanity.
The conference is about how the media is "mediating human values, actions and social relations" and paper proposals should offer "theoretical insight and/or empirical work on this theme". In particular:
- Communication and difference
- Democracy, politics and journalism ethics
- Globalisation and comparative studies
- Innovation, governence and policy
- Media and new media literacies
Funnily enough I've been thinking about a few of these themes recently. More specifically whether democracy building/public diplomacy is being changed by citizens using social media to by-pass traditional media gate-keepers.
If so, whether these changes support greater diplomatic/democratic transparency or whether they are open to greater, more subtle (and thus more dangerous) exploitation by special interests.
And also, if the traditional media are being made obsloete, what's the role for NGOs or independent organisations that aggregate and/or curate digital news content. A good example of this may be the Berkman Center's Global Voices project.
Hopefully more of this to come.
Abstracts/papers can be submitted by going here.
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Berkman Center, Global Voices
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