Contemporary media and the production of inequality
Talk by Hannu Nieminen, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Helsinki
Mon 27 November 2017, 18:00 – 19:30 GMT
University of Westminster
117 Boardroom
London, W1B 2HW
In this talk, Hannu Nieminen will interrogate how the contemporary media
landscape is marked by social inequality. He puts forth that there is
little public trust in the mainstream media, as it has increasingly
become an outlet for social and political elites pushing their
particular agendas.
The talk will present how social and economic policies of the last 20
years have resulted in increasing inequality and polarisation,
alienating growing parts of the population in both Europe and the US,
ultimately sparking a crisis for liberal democracy. Nieminen will look
at how the crisis may be resolved – could a solution be reforms in the
power-related structures that actively produce inequality and polarisation?
Hannu Nieminen is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor
of Media and Communications Policy at University of Helsinki, Finland.
He serves as an Expert in Public Service for the Administrative Council
of YLE (Finland's national public service broadcasting company). He is a
member of the EuroMedia Research Group. His recent publications include
‘Media and Democracy From A European Perspective’ (Oxford Research
Encyclopedia of Communication, 2016), ‘Digital divide and beyond: What
do we know of ICT's long-term social effects? Some uncomfortable
questions’ (European Journal of Communication, 2016), and ‘A radical
democratic reform of media regulation in response to three levels of
crisis’ (Javnost/The Public, 2016).
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