[Commlist] Eyewitness Textures Symposium: UGC & News Coverage in the 21st Century

*Symposium May 23-24, 2019*

*MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB, Canada*

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*Eyewitness Textures: User Generated Content & News Coverage in the 
21^st  Century <https://symposiumamateurvideojournalism.wordpress.com/>*

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Among the many changes introduced by new media technologies to news 
practices, the growing utilization of User Generated Content (UGC) is 
one of the most challenging. Members of the public are capturing 
dramatic events around the world and then sharing them, not only on 
social media platforms, but with professional news media organizations 
which are eagerly incorporating posts, tweets and images into 
professionally produced news stories. The presence of amateur content in 
news discourses is a growing phenomenon that is reshaping the profession 
of journalism, news coverage and public expectations.

Join us for a discussion among news journalists and scholars about the 
many issues raised by user generated content in the newsroom.

*Keynote Speakers*

The *keynote speaker on May 23 *will be *Pr. Lilie Chouliaraki*, 
Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics 
and Political Science. Her main research interest lies in the histories 
and challenges of mediated suffering. Dr. Chouliaraki’s work has focused 
on three domains in which the human body-in-need appears as a problem of 
communication: i)  disaster news, ii) humanitarian campaigns & celebrity 
advocacy, iii) war & conflict reporting. She has published extensively 
on how digital platforms and genres (twitter, mobile phone footage, 
selfies) are fundamentally changing conflict reporting and the 
witnessing of war today.

The *keynote speaker on May 24* will be *Dr. Mette Mortensen,* Associate 
Professor of media studies at the University of Copenhagen and a CARGC 
Faculty Fellow at the Annenberg School of Communication.

She is the Principal Investigator of the large, collective research 
project “Images of Conflict, Conflicting Images” (2017-2021). She is the 
author or editor of seven books, including the monograph /Eyewitness 
Images and Journalism: Digital Media, Participation, and 
Conflict/ (Routledge 2015).

*News Organizations *

The symposium will also host presentations by: Derek Thomson, 
Editor-in-Chief of the Observer Program from *France24*; Aoife 
Gallagher, News Intelligence Strategist, *Storyful*; Derek Bowler, Head 
of Social Newsgathering, *Eurovision News Exchange*; Shauna Rempel, 
National Managing Editor, Social Media Distribution, *Global* *News*; 
Paul Moore, Executive Producer of News, *CBC Edmonton*; and Natalie 
Miller, Assistant Editor, UGC HUB,*BBC. *


We are hoping to *live stream* the proceedings, please visit the 
Eyewitness Textures Symposium website 
<https://symposiumamateurvideojournalism.wordpress.com/> for updates and 
details.

*For more information, send queries to *(UGC2019Conf /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(UGC2019Conf /at/ gmail.com)>.


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