[ecrea] Small Media Initiative: Rethinking small media at SOAS, University of London on 6-7 October 2012

The
Centre for Media and Film Studies, School of Arts at the School of
Oriental and African Studies invites you to join the Small Media
Initiative for its second conference, Rethinking
small media,
to take place at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London on 6-7 October 2012.

Much
has been happening in the terrain of small media and political change,
from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movements and more, and much has
already been written and discussed. We want to use this event to think
with, and through, unanswered questions and perhaps pose some more.

In
the debates about the potential for digital connectivity and new media
to enhance or alter politics, the debates appear frozen around
immovable binaries, such as:

theory
versus practice
small
versus big media
space
versus place
change
versus continuity
old/new
social movements versus new/old social movements
control
versus circumvention

Given
their longevity, perhaps these binaries are significant, but we neither
expect to erase nor to resolve them. Instead we aim to explore why they
are so intractable and focus on the issues they raise, helping us to
define and perhaps better answer the important questions of the day:


­-
What are the specific affordances of face-to-face politics and of new
media politics and how/when can they complement each other?

­-
What are the characteristics of old social movements and the new; what
might each learn from the other and which are most successful at
achieving their aims?

­-
How are small media echoed and elaborated by big media, and how can
their inter-relationships be fostered?

­-
What kinds of regimes of control are currently operative and how can
and do activists and publics circumvent the circumvenors?

Each
of these four issues will be addressed by a pair of speakers who come
from different regimes of practice (academe, journalism, activism,
technology) and their papers further interrogated by a third.

Confirmed
panelists include:

Jérémie
Bédard-Wien (Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante,
Québec)
Paolo
Gerbaudo (King’s College London)
Pooneh
Ghoddoosi (BBC)
Joss
Hands (Anglia Ruskin University)
Gus
Hosein (Privacy International)
Timothy
Jordan (King’s College London)
Anastasia
Kavada (University of Westminster)
Oliver
Leistert (University Paderborn/Central European University)
Sameer
Padania (Open Society Foundation-London)
Federico
Prando (Autistici/Inventati)
Annabelle
Sreberny (SOAS, University of London)
Gillian
Youngs (University of Brighton)

Tickets:
£30 at rethinkingsmallmedia.eventbrite.co.uk
from 10 September 2012
(Tickets
include conference materials, breakfasts, lunches and a drinks
reception)


In
partnership with Index on Censorship, the International Association for
Media and Communication Research and Internet Sans Frontieres.

For
more information about the Small Media Initiative and this event,
please visit www.smallmediainitiative.com.


All
best,

Klara
Chlupata
on
behalf of the Small Media Initiative

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