Dear colleagues,

Below are details of an ICA preconference on Applying the Capabilties Approach to Media and Communication, organised by Amit Schejter, Robin Mansell, Jonathan Ong and myself. You can register for the preconference at this site:

http://www.icahdq.org/default.asp?page=2018PrePostconf

Best wishes,

David Hesmondhalgh

 

Applying the Capabilities Approach to Media and Communication

Hilton Prague, Lower Level, Madrid Room

May 24, 2018

An ICA 2018 Preconference sponsored by the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State

and the Journal of Information Policy

9.00-9.10 OPENING REMARKS – the organising committee

9.10-10.40

PANEL 1: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE

Chair: Robin Mansell, London School of Economics, UK

Max Hänska, De Montfort University, UK: Two Communicative Conceptions of Justice

Dorothea Kleine, University of Sheffield, UK: Boundary Objects in Engaged Research for

Global Social Justice: Applying the Capabilities Approach through the Choice Framework

and Related Tools

Andrew Kenyon, University of Melbourne, Australia: The Conditions of Freedom: Human

Capabilities and Free Speech

Kari Karpinnen, University of Helsinki, Finland: Freedom Without Idealization: The

Capabilities Approach and Freedom of Communication

10.40-11.00: COFFEE BREAK

11.00-12.30

PANEL 2: CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Chair: Heather Ford, University of New South Wales, Australia

Giles Moss, Stephen Coleman, Anna De Liddo, Alvaro Martinez-Perez, Louise Pears,

University of Leeds/The Open University, UK: Citizen Capabilities and Real-Time Audience

Responses to Political Messages

Mary Angela Bock, The University of Texas at Austin, USA: Voice and Visibility in the

Digital Age: Visual Literacy as a Contemporary Human Capability

Simon Dawes, Université de Versailles (UVSQ), France: An Account of Oneself: Voice,

Capabilities and Cultural Citizenship

David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds, UK: Justifying Government Support for Media,

Culture and the Arts: Might Capabilities Theories Help?

12.30-1.10 LUNCH

1.10-2.00

KEYNOTE: NICK COULDRY, London School of Economics, UK

Chair: Amit Schejter, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel/Penn State University,

USA

2.00-3.15

PANEL 3: TECHNOLOGIES AND RIGHTS

Chair: Jonathan Ong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Becky Faith, Institute of Development Studies, UK: Using Affordances and Capabilities to

Explore Inequalities in Technology Use

Tom Jacobson, Temple University, USA: Sen’s Capabilities Approach and the Measurement

of Communication Outcomes

Amit Schejter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel/Penn State University, USA:

Human Rights as a Mechanism for the Realization of Capabilities: The Case of the Right to

Communicate

3.15 – 3.30 COFFEE BREAK

3.30-4.45

PANEL 4: EXTENDING CAPABILITIES

Chair: David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds, UK

Noam Tirosh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel: Memory as Capability

Torgeir Uberg Nærland, University of Bergen, Norway: Enabled by Humor? Minority Youth,

Humor and Broadcasting Policy in Norway

Simona Bonini Baldini, Italy: Narrative Capability: Self-recognition and Mutual Recognition

in Refugees' Storytelling

4.45-5.00 CLOSING REMARKS

 

David Hesmondhalgh

Professor of Media, Music and Culture

School of Media and Communication

University of Leeds