[Commlist] Conference "Press and Power. Democracy with Social Outbreak"

Please find below information on the next Full Day Conference "Press and 
Power: Democracy with Social Outbreak. Challenges for Journalism in 
Political Crisis"

Registration:
https://landing.cientifica.edu.pe/ii-congreso-internacional-prensa-y-poder/


Keynote Speakers:

Pablo Boczkowski (Northwestern University - US)

Edson Tandoc (Nanyang Technological University - Singapore)

Bruno Takahashi (Michigan State University - US)

Francisca Skoknic (Universidad Diego Portales - Chile)

Luis Del Valle (Filmmaker / Al Jazeera’s Correspondent for Latin America)

**All talks in Spanish

Description of the event

So far in 2020, there have been protests in the United States, France, 
Hong Kong, Indonesia, Lebanon, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. Latin 
America has witnessed massive mobilizations of citizens that have forced 
profound unprecedented political changes. In Chile, a new Constitution 
is underway after the social outbreak that took place a year ago. More 
recently in Peru, numerous protests that lasted for a week brought down 
a regime that was highly questioned and considered spurious by more than 
90% of Peruvians.

What produces this discomfort? What causes these political crises? The 
first reflections suggest that were are approaching the end of an era: 
the power of sovereign institutions —presidents and ministers, 
parliaments and political parties—yield to renewed forms of radical 
democracy that are being exercised in the streets, from digital 
platforms or through citizen groups that turn into pressure groups.

It is, therefore, the legitimacy of delegation and a representative 
democracy that is in crisis. Insofar, the aforementioned political 
establishment is being discovered in its schemes of manipulation of the 
truth, as students, diverse groups, and associations demand 
transparency. This happens, amidst an emotional state of outrage, where 
the people demand to restore morality to public management.

What is the role of the press in this scenario? How should it deal with 
its mission of public orientation, in the face of so many diverse 
voices, with so many divergent interests, and a profusion of accounts, 
intentionally and instrumentally biased, by engines of massive 
disinformation?

This congress proposes to place at the center of today's discussion the 
links between these power scenarios and the media, particularly those of 
the social media platforms. The discussion will address the post-truth 
regimes in which we are immersed, and how the emerging citizen 
mobilizations cope with them, which, from the social media, sustain, 
“now we deliver the news.”

Objective of the event

To reflect on the relationship between the press and power in society, 
in a ruling post-truth regime and, more specifically, on the challenges 
that the political crisis and the boiling of social media impose on 
media industry.


*Pablo J. Boczkowski is Professor in the Department of Communication 
Studies, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Media and 
Society in Argentina (meso.com.ar). He is author / editor of "Trump and 
The Media" (2018, with Zizzy Papacharissi), "Remaking the News. Essays 
on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age (2017, with 
C.W. Anderson) and "The News Gap. When the Information Preferences of 
the Media and the Public Diverge (2015, with Eugenia Mitchelstein), 
among others.*

*Edson C. Tandoc Jr. is Assistant Professor in the Wee Kim Wee School of 
Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, 
Singapore. He is author / editor of "Mobile News: Journalism shifte from 
Fixed to Fluid (2020), "Definitions of Digital Journalism" (2020) and 
"Analyzing Analytics: Disrupting Journalism One Click at a Time 
(2017) among others.*

*Bruno Takahashi is Research Director and Associate Professor at the 
Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Michigan State University, 
USA. He is coauthor of “Environmentla Communication Among Minority 
Populations” (2018) and “News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges 
in Latin America and the Caribbean” (2018), among others.*

*Francisca Skoknic is Master in Public Administration for Columbia 
University, and former Subdirector of the Center for Journalistic 
Research (CIPER). Member of **International Consortium of Investigative 
Journalists (ICIJ).****Coauthor of “Journalism that shakes Chile” (2018).*

*Luis del Valle is Director of Pacha Films, one of the most renowned 
production houses for documentaries and journalistic content for Latin 
America. Producer of Netflix’s docu-series “Maradona in Sinaloa” (2019) 
and winner of an Emmy for “Trafficking on Women from Tenancingo to New 
York”*

The event will take place on the 03th December, and will have the 
following program:

09:00 hs (Peru time)

Welcome

09.10 hs (Peru time)
Panel: “Press in Democracy: information and disinformation in the 
political crises of Singapur, United States and Peru”

·PhD Edson Tandoc, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang 
Technological University – Singapur
·PhD Bruno Takahashi, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, 
Michigan State University – Estados Unidos
·PhD (cand) José Dextre, Journalistic and Media Department, Universidad 
Autónoma de Barcelona / Universidad Científica del Sur – Perú


11:00 hs (Peru time)

Keynote Conference: “Present of the news and future for the audiences”

·PhD Pablo Boczkowski

Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University – US

15:00 hs (Peru time)

Keynote Conference: “Journalistic Bots in elections and political 
crises. The chatbot /LaBot/ in Chile”

·Mg Francisca Skoknic

Director of the School of Journalism, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

16.15 hs (Peru time)

Workshop: “Documenting The Social Outbreak. How we produced ‘Pinochet’s 
Legacy’ in Chile and ‘Here It Starts the Bicenntenial’ in Peru

·Luis Del Valle

Director of Pacha Films and Al Jazeera’s Correspondent for Latin America

Looking forward to having you with us.

Atentos saludos

Raúl Castro

Dean

Communication and Advertising School

Universidad Científica del Sur

(ccastroperez /at/ cientifica.edu.pe)


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