[ecrea] ISIS Summit Vienna June 2015 - Panel Discussion: “The Governance of Information Freedom in Crisis: Democracy, Resistance and Control"

*ISIS Summit Vienna 2015*

*THE INFORMATION SOCIETY AT THE CROSSROADS*

*Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information*

*Vienna University of Technology, June 3-7, 2015.***

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*_Panel Discussion_*

*“The Governance of Information Freedom in Crisis: Democracy, Resistance
and Control”*

The International Society for Information Studies (ISIS) organises the
first ISIS Summit that will be staged in Vienna, under the presidency of
Ao. Univ. Prof. Wolfgang Hofkirchner. The conference is scheduled for
June 3-7 2015 and it is hosted by the Faculty of Informatics at the
Vienna University of Technology.

As part of the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015, Univ.-Prof. Katharine Sarikakis
is organising a panel entitled /The Governance of Information Freedom in
Crisis: Democracy, Resistance and Control/.

This panel is debating the nexus of Information freedom and multifaceted
crisis through the prism of governance processes. Crisis is many,
involving not merely a financial malfunctioning of the European
economies but ultimately a breakdown of the contract between State and
citizens, a multiple crisis of a political as well as social dimension.
Not necessarily always intertwined, economic-driven crisis has given
rise to an exacerbation of distrust and crisis in the legitimacy of
political architectures within national boundaries, i.e. distrust in
national parliaments for example, but also other core institutions, such
as the media, as well as in supranational institutions, in particular
the EU polity. The panel aims to discuss on an empirical and theoretical
level, the ways in which these dynamics have led to a complex reality of
the governance of information freedom, whereby important struggles for
control over 'communicative spaces' are taking place. These struggles
involve civil society actors, in the form of social movements,
collectivities and other forms of associative politics that aim to
construct, protect and sustain spaces for free information flow amidst
severe restrictions of an economic and political nature. The panel
explores specific national contexts (Turkey, Greece, Spain, Romania,
Hungary) to argue that these not only do not constitute isolated,
'bizarre' or 'exceptional' cases but actually pivotal cases in the
current governance of freedom of expression.

*Panelists*

·Asli Tunc, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey/Circumventing and
Succumbing to Media Control in Turkey: Social Media as A Sphere of Struggle/

·Katharine Sarikakis and Patricia Smolean, University of Vienna
/Critical Media in times of crisis: a case study of news media in
Greece, Romania and Spain/

·Ferenc Hammer, Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies Eötvös Loránd
University, Budapest, Hungary/Democratic performance of the media –
Hungarian lessons/

·Juliet Lodge, University of Leeds, UK /Democratic Deficit revisited.
Europe in Crisis/

*Moderator*

·Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna

Further information can be found here:

http://summit.is4is.org/programme/tracks/the-governance-of-information-freedom-in-crisis



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