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

Mon Nov 30 09:34:41 GMT 2020




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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