Dear Meccsa Members
You are invited to the first MDG seminar of the Autumn Term - please circulate to your colleagues and/or fellow postgraduate/PhD students: the venue is the Clephan Building on Bonners Lane, LE1 9BH. Tea,
coffee, and biscuits available.
Media Discourse Group
(Leicester Media School)
Seminar Series
Wednesday 14th October 4pm
Room: Clephan 1.19
Dr Max Hanska
From reporting protests through social media to the European twitter-sphere.
Eyewitness media has grown in importance for news organisations: the first time it was employed systematically was in reporting protests throughout the Arab world. How was it used and why was this a turning
point? In this seminar Dr Hanska presents past work on the use of social media in protests, and current work on social media and the European Public Sphere.
Best wishes
Stuart
Stuart Price
Professor of Media and Political Discourse