
Fifth Anniversary Conference: Media, Communication, and Humanity
Sunday 21st - Tuesday 23rd September 2008
In celebration of our Department’s fifth anniversary year, we invite critical thinking about how the media and communications environment is implicated in shaping our perceptions of the human condition and thus, increasingly, mediating human values, actions and social relations. We welcome proposals for papers offering theoretical insight and/or empirical work on this theme, focused on the five linked areas below.
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Communication and Difference
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Democracy, Politics, and Journalism Ethics
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Globalisation and Comparative Studies
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Innovation, Governance, and Policy
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Media and New Media Literacies
Abstracts should be submitted by 1 March 2008. See
conference website for further details.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Sandra Ball-Rokeach
Annenberg School for Communication, USA
Lilie Chouliaraki
LSE, UK
Peter Dahlgren
Lund University, Sweden
Daniel Dayan
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
John Downing
Southern Illinois University, USA
Anthony Giddens
LSE, UK
Carolyn Marvin
Annenberg School for Communication, USA
Mark Poster
University of California-Irvine, USA
We very much hope you will join us in our celebrations.
Robin Mansell and Sonia Livingstone.