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[ecrea] ICA preconference on "Applying the Capabilties Approach to Media and Communication"

Tue Apr 10 14:18:31 GMT 2018





Below are details of an ICA preconference on "Applying the Capabilties Approach to Media and Communication", organised by Amit Schejter, David Hesmondhalgh, Robin Mansell and myself.

You can register for the preconference at this site: http://www.icahdq.org/default.asp?page=2018PrePostconf

Best wishes,
Jonathan Corpus Ong

Applying the Capabilities Approach to Media and Communication
Hilton Prague, Lower Level, Madrid Room
May 24, 2018

An ICA 2018 Preconference sponsored by the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State
and the Journal of Information Policy

9.00-9.10 OPENING REMARKS - the organising committee

9.10-10.40
PANEL 1: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE
Chair: Robin Mansell, London School of Economics, UK
Max Hänska, De Montfort University, UK: Two Communicative Conceptions of Justice Dorothea Kleine, University of Sheffield, UK: Boundary Objects in Engaged Research for Global Social Justice: Applying the Capabilities Approach through the Choice Framework
and Related Tools
Andrew Kenyon, University of Melbourne, Australia: The Conditions of Freedom: Human
Capabilities and Free Speech
Kari Karpinnen, University of Helsinki, Finland: Freedom Without Idealization: The
Capabilities Approach and Freedom of Communication

10.40-11.00: COFFEE BREAK

11.00-12.30
PANEL 2: CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION
Chair: Heather Ford, University of New South Wales, Australia
Giles Moss, Stephen Coleman, Anna De Liddo, Alvaro Martinez-Perez, Louise Pears, University of Leeds/The Open University, UK: Citizen Capabilities and Real-Time Audience
Responses to Political Messages
Mary Angela Bock, The University of Texas at Austin, USA: Voice and Visibility in the
Digital Age: Visual Literacy as a Contemporary Human Capability
Simon Dawes, Université de Versailles (UVSQ), France: An Account of Oneself: Voice,
Capabilities and Cultural Citizenship
David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds, UK: Justifying Government Support for Media,
Culture and the Arts: Might Capabilities Theories Help?

12.30-1.10 LUNCH

1.10-2.00
KEYNOTE: NICK COULDRY, London School of Economics, UK
Chair: Amit Schejter, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel/Penn State University,
USA

2.00-3.15
PANEL 3: TECHNOLOGIES AND RIGHTS
Chair: Jonathan Ong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Becky Faith, Institute of Development Studies, UK: Using Affordances and Capabilities to
Explore Inequalities in Technology Use
Tom Jacobson, Temple University, USA: Sen's Capabilities Approach and the Measurement
of Communication Outcomes
Amit Schejter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel/Penn State University, USA: Human Rights as a Mechanism for the Realization of Capabilities: The Case of the Right to
Communicate

3.15 - 3.30 COFFEE BREAK

3.30-4.45
PANEL 4: EXTENDING CAPABILITIES
Chair: David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds, UK
Noam Tirosh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel: Memory as Capability Torgeir Uberg Nærland, University of Bergen, Norway: Enabled by Humor? Minority Youth,
Humor and Broadcasting Policy in Norway
Simona Bonini Baldini, Italy: Narrative Capability: Self-recognition and Mutual Recognition
in Refugees’ Storytelling

4.45-5.00 CLOSING REMARKS


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