Saturday July 30, 2016 14:00 - 15:30
LT3 KEB, Ken Edwards Building
LT3 KEB, Ken Edwards Building
Pradip Thomas (University of Queensland)
Ingrid Volkmer (University of Melbourne)
Herman Wasserman (University of Cape Town)
Pradip Thomas (University of Queensland)
Aimée Vega Montiel (National Autonomous University of
Mexico)
Cees Hamelink (University of Amsterdam)
In the midst of significant global challenges, especially
associated with media transformations, how we can grasp and rethink global
media policy, governance, rights, and social justice? How do the complex
infrastructures of connection today both expand capitalism but also enable counter-movements?
From scientific and policy perspectives, as well as the standpoints of other
key actors, how can we approach media infrastructures as a specific site of
social and political struggle? What opportunities and challenges are available
to us, across the various domains of global media policy, struggling to deal
with longstanding issues in media power, as well as new issues in Internet
governance, intellectual property, social media platforms, mobile media, the
data turn, and so on?
Engaging these urgent questions, this panel introduces and
explores a major international initiative the International Panel on Social
Progress (IPSP; http://www.ipsp.org/)
involving over 300 scholars, ‘rethinking society for the 21st century’. The
IPSP includes a number of IAMCR scholars, as well as other leading figures in
the field, responsible for the pivotal chapter on media (publicly available in
draft form). Participants will include various authors from the IPSP media in
dialogue with experts in framing and intervening on global media concerns.
