[ecrea] Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks, Goldsmiths 7 Nov.

The Centre for Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of 
London in partnership with the Journal of Information, Communication and 
Society and Department of SOciology, York University invites you to the 
following event - please register for a place. We look forward to seeing 
you there!

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Location: LG01, Professor Stuart Hall Building
Time: 7 November 2014, 09:30 - 17:30
Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks
This one-day symposium will explore a number of key issues in mediating 
conflicts today...

From Gaza to Ukraine, Afghanistan to Syria, social media is being used 
by people within conflict zones to organise, document and communicate 
their lives and struggles from the streets to our screens. As these 
pieces of content travel through time and space, they come into contact 
with various actors – from activists, to NGOs, news agencies, and global 
audiences – who attempt to claim purchase on the narrative of those 
events as they unfold. Over the course of the last decade, we have seen 
the emergence of forms of reportage that seek to navigate the diverse 
and fractured media ecology. These mediations are said to challenge the 
ways in which the mainstream media cover conflicts and global publics 
are invited to bear witness.

This one-day symposium will explore a number of key issues in mediating 
conflicts today, and will address some of the following questions:

- What role do networked eyewitnesses, activists and citizen journalists 
play in conflict communication today?
- What are the challenges faced by those mediating conflict online?
- In what ways are social media content produced within the zone of 
conflict shaping the coverage produced by news organisations?
- What are the implications of these forms of reportage for 
eyewitnesses, activists, citizen journalists, perpetrators, NGOs, 
journalists, news media, audiences and global publics?

A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of 
the journal Information, Communication and Society
Speakers Include:
Stuart Allan, Cardiff University
Malachy Browne, Storyful
Lilie Chouliaraki, LSE
Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow
Ben O'Loughlin, Royal Holloway
Sam Gregory, WITNESS
Liam Stack, New York Times
Claire Wardle, UNHCR
And many more!

Tickets are FREE but registration is required. For more information 
please visit:
http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/news-and-events/department/2014/streets-to-screens/ 



Natalie Fenton
Professor of Media and Communications
Joint Head,
Department of Media and Communications
Co-Director
Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre
Co-Director Centre
for the Study of Global Media and Democracy
Goldsmiths,
University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
T: +44(0)20 7919
7620
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/n-fenton/
If you are unable
to get hold of me, please contact Zehra Arabadji:

(Z.Arabadji /at/ gold.ac.uk);
+ 44(0)207 7078 5330



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