[ecrea] News practices and media law in Africa: Developing a research agenda Symposium

Symposium: News practices and media law in Africa: Developing a research 
agenda.


Date: 1 June 2017

Venue: University of Portsmouth

  Park Building, Room 2.07


Information:

https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public?preview=News+Practices+%26+media+law+in+Africa.pdf


Event registration:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/news-practices-media-law-in-africa-developing-a-research-agenda-tickets-34797501263


Description:

This symposium will examine the changes and tendencies of news 
practices, media freedom and media law in Africa. This meeting aims at 
further developing a research agenda to explore political and cultural 
influences and post-colonial and post-conflict legacies on the 
development of journalism practices and media law and regulation in Africa.


Elements to be discussed (but not limited to):

  *

    Empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of news practices
    in African contexts, including news values, editorial lines,
    journalism ethics and media ownership

  *

    Empirical and theoretical approaches to the examination of media law
    in African contexts, including defamation, privacy/data protection,
    contempt of court and source protection

  *

    The origin and development of media legislation, development of case
    law and news regulatory systems

  *

    Country/region-specific case studies

  *

    Media and democratisation

  *

    The relevance or irrelevance of former colonising countries and
    conflict in the development of news practices and legal/regulatory
    systems

  *

    The ‘right to know’ and the ‘right to be forgotten’

  *

    The globalisation of news and inter-jurisdictional influences

  *

    Press freedom and journalists' security in fragile contexts

  *

    New technologies and social media including digital divide, ‘fake
    news’ and online media regulation

  *

    African media image outside Africa


Organisers: Susana Sampaio-Dias, University of Portsmouth 
((susana.sampaio-dias /at/ port.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(susana.sampaio-dias /at/ port.ac.uk)>), and Judith Townend, University 
of Sussex ((judith.townend /at/ sussex.ac.uk) <mailto:(judith.townend /at/ sussex.ac.uk)>)


Guests:

  *

    Winston Mano, Director of the Africa Media Centre at the University
    of Westminster

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/mano-winston

  *

    Olivia Rutazibwa, Senior Lecturer, International Development
    Studies, University of Portsmouth

http://www.port.ac.uk/school-of-languages-and-area-studies/staff/dr-olivia-rutazibwa.html

  *

    Ivor Gaber, University of Sussex http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/49646

  *

    /Idil Osman/, SOAS University of London
    https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff114111.php


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