Dear all, A new version including all changes requested as of today will
go live on the web tomorrow am.
We will be deciding chairs tomorrow and inviting people to respond to
our requests to chair sessions towards the end of this week.
You won't have seen the detail of the plenary sessions yet - although
you do know the speakers. Here it is for information. Best wishes,
Robin
1) Opening Plenary Day 1: 'Critical Regulatory Challenges in the Years
Ahead - Advice from Academics'
This plenary will consider the most critical regulatory challenges
facing decision-makers in the coming years. How 'future proof' was the
2003 Act? What was missed? What should be the priorities for future
regulation and what advice can academics provide?
1.45-3.15- 6 January
Chair: Professor Sonia Livingstone
Speakers:
Ed Richards (Ofcom).
Dr. Katharine Sarikakis (University of Leeds)
Professor Sylvia Harvey (University of Lincoln)
Dr. Damian Tambini (LSE)
Respondent: Charlie Beckett, POLIS, LSE
2) Plenary 2 Day 2: "The Changing Place of Critique in Media and
Communications"
Research aimed at critical reflection on the central role of media and
communications employs a variety of theories and methods to illuminate
their roles in society. What are some of the key tensions between
normative investigation and theory-building in general and in the media
and communications field of study in particular?
9.00-10.30 7 January
Chair: Dr. Bart Cammaerts (LSE)
Speakers:
Professor Karen Ross (University of Liverpool)
Professor Paul du Gay (Warwick Business School)
Professor Tony Bennett (University of Western Sydney)
3) Plenary 3 Day 2 "New Media, Mediation and Surveillance"
The implications of surveillance in our intensely mediated environments
are consistently debated in policy forums. What is the range of
contradictory views about the justification for such surveillance and on
its impact on social behaviour? How can or should new information and
communication technologies be used in this connection and what policy
measures are needed beyond those in place in the UK and elsewhere?
2.-3.30 7 January
Chair: Professor Robin Mansell
Speakers:
Dr. Kieron O'Hara (University of Southampton)
Professor Eileen Munro (LSE, Social Policy)
Professor Adam Joinson (University of Bath)
Plus to be confirmed
4) Plenary 4: Day 3 "The Challenges of the Cultural Industries"
This panel will address why the 'culture industry' label is invoked so
frequently in the UK and Europe as a key growth area within the
'knowledge economy'. Speakers will consider tensions underlying
policies and strategies that aim to promote the commodification of
culture. What are the implications for media production practice and
cultural development more generally?
12.30-2.00 8 January
Chair: Professor Nicholas Garnham (University of Westminster)
Speakers: Professor Philip Schlesinger (University of Glasgow)
Dr. Gillian Youngs (University of Leicester)
Professor Georgina Born (University of Cambridge)
Dr Jason Lee (Derby University)
Robin Mansell, Professor of New Media and the Internet and Director of
Graduate Studies, Department of Media and Communications, London School
of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE.
+44 (0)20 7955 6380; [log in to unmask],
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse
Past President, IAMCR (International Association for Media and
Communication Research), www.iamcr.org
See dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548798.001.0001 for online access
to The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies,
edited by R. Mansell et al.
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