[ecrea] symposium: Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks

Colleagues may be interested in a symposium run by the Centre for the 
Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, University of London, 
and the Department of Sociology, University of York, on mediating 
conflict through digital networks. Apologies for cross-posting.

Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks

9.30-17.30
7th November 2014
Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG01
Goldsmiths, University of London

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?


Confirmed speakers:

·      Stuart Allan, Cardiff University

·      Kari Andén-Papadopolous, Stockholm University

·      Tamar Ashuri, Tel-Aviv University

·      Malachy Browne, Storyful

·      Lilie Chouliaraki, LSE

·      Sam Gregory, WITNESS

·      Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow

·      Sarah Maltby, University of Sussex

·      Mette Mortensen, University of Copenhagen

·      Ben O'Loughlin, Royal Holloway

·      Helen Thornham, University of Leeds

·      Einar Thorsen, Bournemouth University

·      Eugenia Siapera, Dublin City University

·      Liam Stack, New York Times

·      Katrin Voltmer, University of Leeds

·      Claire Wardle, UNHCR


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/

For more information, please contact Holly Steel at (has502 /at/ york.ac.uk)

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Holly Steel
Doctoral Researcher

Department of Sociology
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
Tel: 01904 323578

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