[ecrea] Symposium: Troubled Democracy: Media, Power and Control

*LSE Symposium: *

*Troubled Democracy: Media, Power and Control*

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*Friday, 19 May 2017*

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*LSE School of Media and Communications & Collegium Civitas*

*Tower Three, Silverstone Room, TW3.7.01A***

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Recent years have brought about new challenges to media landscapes 
around the world. On the one hand, media inform us less than they used 
to do, post-fact news and infotainment misrepresent the complex world we 
live in, and public sphere becomes void of meaning and informed debate. 
On the other, there is widespread involvement of governments in the 
deterioration of conditions in which media organizations function. 
Violations of liberal values, including the encroachment on freedom of 
expression, media freedom and pluralism, have been reported in many 
countries.

The symposium will engage with issues of political, cultural and 
economic pressures that continue to challenge the development of 
democratic media cultures in Europe and beyond. It will discuss the 
following questions:

  * How do media monitor and control the power holders on behalf the
    citizens?
  * How do media negotiate their relationships with governments and
    other political forces that determine the life of others?
  * How do media provide space for critical and reasoned public debate?
  * How do media give voice to citizens*, *create public opinion and
    guide decision-makers and power holders in their actions?

*The event is FREE. To register:*

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/media-in-troubled-democracies-tickets-33698022693?aff=es2



*/PROGRAMME/*

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*9:30-10:00 Coffee & Registration*

*10:00-10:05 Welcome*

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*10:05-11:30 Round Table: Journalists in Troubled Democracies*

*Chair: Charlie Beckett, Polis/LSE *

 1. Sonia Delesalle-Stolper,UK and Ireland correspondent, /Libération/,
    London
 2. Arkady Ostrovsky, Russia Editor, /The Economist/, London
 3. Jacek Żakowski, /Gazeta Wyborcza/, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw
 4. Martin Šimečka, /Respekt/, Praque

*11:30-11.45 Coffee Break *

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*11:45-13:15 Panel 1: Media, Power and Control in Troubled Democracies I*

*Chair: Stanisław Mocek, Collegium Civitas*

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 1. Thomas Hanitzsch, LMUMunich – Worlds of Journalism: Global
    Imaginaries of Journalistic Roles and Influences on the News
 2. Miklos Haraszti, Central European University – Hungary's media
    governance: a near-perfect model of illiberal state censorship
 3. Natalia Ryabinska, Collegium Civitas**– New obstacles to media
    democratization in post-communist countries: the case of Ukraine

*13:15-13:45 Lunch *

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*13:45-15:15 Panel 2: Media, Power and Control in Troubled Democracies II*

*Chair: Eva Połońska, LSE*

 1. Daphne Skillen, UK – Media and Politics in Russia: From Gorbachev to
    Putin
 2. Katrin Voltmer, Leeds University & Nebojsa Vladisavljevic, Belgrade
    University –  Interpretations of Democracy in Egypt, Serbia and
    South Africa
 3. Emre Caliskan, Oxford University & Simon Waldman, King’s College
    London –The erosion of media freedom in Turkey's post-military era

*15:15-15:30 Coffee Break*

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*15:30-17:00**Panel 3: Standards, Laws and Regulations for Media in 
Democracy*

*Chair: Jacek Żakowski, Collegium Civitas*

 1. Pierre François Docquir, Article 19– International standards in
    media freedoms and independence
 2. Alison Harcourt, Exeter University – Government accountability &
    transparency in digital world
 3. Eva Połońska, LSE – Disciplining Democracy: the EU and the media in
    Hungary, Poland and Turkey **

*17:00 Drinks*

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*The Symposium is supported by POLIS, Media Policy Project and the Noble 
Foundation’s Programme on Modern Poland*







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