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[Commlist] Conference Communication & Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform
Tue Apr 20 21:25:24 GMT 2021
Communication and Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform, McMaster
University, Hamilton, May 3-7, 2021
A conference presented by the Communication Governance Observatory
(CGO)<https://ncgl.humanities.mcmaster.ca/>and the Centre for Networked
Media and Performance (CNMAP)<https://cnmap.mcmaster.ca/index.html>.
May 3-7, 2021 on Zoom
This conference draws together researchers in Canada and beyond to
explore the intersections between media/communications/cultural policy
and platforms. Presentations will address arts policy, broadcasting
policy, communication rights, Indigenous communication and cultural
policy, competition policy, cultural industries policy, heritage policy,
internet policy, media policy, speech regulation, privacy, smart city
regulation, and platform regulation.
The conference will consider the following key questions:
1. How can Canadian media systems respond simultaneously to the
challenge of digital platforms and to calls for a greater diversity
of on-screen and off-screen voices?
2. How are platforms taking on, or failing to take on, regulatory roles
in the fields of communication and culture?
3. How does the international political economy of platforms play out
in media/communications/cultural policy?
4. How does algorithmic governance function as regulation and policy
setting in these fields?
5. How are regulatory bodies in the field of communication and culture
reconceptualizing their work in light of platforms?
6. What relationships and interactions do regulators, as well as arts,
media, and cultural organizations, have with platforms?
7. How are regulatory bodies in the field of communication and culture
incorporating platforms to conduct their work?
8. How do advocacy, activist, and social justice initiatives intercede
in the relationships between platforms and
media/communications/cultural policy?
9. How do comparative political cultures influence national regulatory
agendas? What criteria may enable new comparative research?
This conference will take place on Zoom.Free registration on Eventbrite
is
required.<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/communication-cultural-policy-conference-2021-registration-150210127535>
*Key events (for the full program see
**comcultpolicy2021.ca*<http://comcultpolicy2021.ca/>*):*
*Day 1 / Monday, May 3, 2021 12:15-1:15 EDT**
Keynote talk:* *Jesse Wente (Indigenous Screen Office)*
Jesse Wente is an Ojibwe broadcaster from the Serpent River First Nation
in Ontario. He is the director of Canada's Indigenous Screen Office,
established in 2018 with the mandate of supporting the development of
Indigenous film and storytelling in Canada. A long-standing commentator
on pop culture and film on CBC Radio, Wente is a board member of the
Canada Council of the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council. He has served
as Director of Film Programmes at TIFF Bell Lightbox where he oversaw
theatrical, Cinematheque and Film Circuit programming, and on the board
of the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.
*DAY 2 / Tuesday, May 4, 2021, noon-1 EDT
Keynote talk: Sharon McGowan (Women in Film and Television-Vancouver;
University of British Columbia) and Susan Brinton (Women in Film and
Television-Vancouver)*
Sharon McGowan is a founding member and past president of Women in Film
and Television Vancouver and serves on the board of directors as
Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee. Her advocacy work has included
decades of analysis and lobbying of Canadian film and television funding
agencies, regulators, and unions to increase gender equity and
diversity. Greenspon, Wente, and McGowan will participate in a keynote
panel addressing the question, “How can Canadian media systems respond
simultaneously to the challenge of digital platforms and to calls for a
greater diversity of on-screen and off-screen voices?” She has an MFA in
Film Studies and is an Associate Professor in the Film Production and
Creative Writing Programs at UBC. She has written, directed and produced
documentaries for the NFB and Canadian broadcasters and she has produced
feature films including the internationally released hit lesbian
romantic comedy Better than Chocolate (1999). McGowan's most recent film
was the documentary, Bearded Ladies (2015), which premiered at the
Vancouver Queer Film Festival. McGowan is a founding member and past
president of Women in Film and Television Vancouver and serves on the
board of directors as Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee. Her advocacy
work has included decades of analysis and lobbying of Canadian film and
television funding agencies, regulators and unions to increase gender
equity and diversity.
Susan Brinton has decades of experience in film and television policy
and analysis in Canada, and is nationally respected as an expert and
spokesperson in this area. Her background includes senior management
roles in the Canadian private broadcasting sector and federal public
funding agencies. Susan has been a policy consultant and led
producer-focused international export development initiatives for the
Canadian Media Producers Association and other industry organizations.
As Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee for Women in Film and Television
Vancouver (WIFTV), Susan has been a vital leader in many of its
successful advocacy initiatives. She is a founding member of WIFT Canada
and is currently the Vice President of WIFT International. Susan is also
a member of the Women in Production Steering Committee for the Canadian
Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
Susan holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree and a Master’s
degree in Communications, is the author of numerous industry reports and
publications and has lectured on creative industry policy for both Simon
Fraser University and the University of British Columbia.
*DAY 3 / Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 12:30-1:30 EDT
Keynote talk: Edward Greenspon (Public Policy Forum)*
President and CEO of the Public Policy Forum, a non-profit Canadian
thinktank, Edward Greenspon worked as founding editor of
globeandmail.com and Editor-in-Chief of the Globe & Mail and in numerous
prominent media roles, over the past 30 years from the Lloydminster
Times to Bloomberg News. He is the co-author of two books on Canadian
politics. In 2017, he authored The Shattered Mirror on news, democracy
and trust, followed by Democracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and
Hate in the Digital Public Sphere, co-authored with Taylor Owen.
Democracy Divided offered policy options that respond to the policy
challenges from digital platforms. Under Greenspon, the Public Policy
Forum has produced a number of important studies, including its recent
Commission on Democratic Expression chaired by former Supreme Court of
Canada Chief Justice Beverly McLachlan and its January 2021 report,
Harms Reduction: a six-step program to protect democratic expression online.
*DAY 5 / Friday, May 7, 2021, 12:30-1:30PM EDT*
*Keynote talk: Joan Jenkinson (Black Screen Office)*
Joan is the inaugural Executive Director of the Black Screen Office
where she works to support Black Canadians in developing talent,
accessing funding, and in assuming decision-making roles in television,
film and digital media. She fosters relationships with federal funding
agencies, broadcasters and distributors to eliminate anti-Black racism
in the screen industries. Joan is a founding Partner/Producer at Artemis
Pictures which is focused on developing and producing high-end scripted
content for television and the cinema, for international audiences. Joan
was Vice-President of Independent Production for ZoomerMedia Limited,
Television Division. She commissioned, developed and executive produced
hundreds of hours of award-winning creative content in all genres for
VisionTV. Joan spearheaded VisionTV’s ground-breaking DiverseTV/NSI
initiative which produced award-winning comedy and drama programs and
earned her a Visionary Award from the ReelWorld Film Festival. For five
years, Joan served as Executive Director of Women in Film and Television
- Toronto (WIFT-T), where she established professional development
training and networking opportunities for women in screen-based media.
**
Organizers: Sara Bannerman (McMaster), David Ogborn (McMaster), Tamara
Shepherd (University of Calgary)
Panel organizers: Monique Manatch (Indigenous Culture and Media
Innovations & Carleton University), Tamara Shepherd, MaryElizabeth Luka
(University of Toronto), Paula Gardner (McMaster), Leslie Regan Shade
(University of Toronto), Dwayne Winseck (Carleton), Ira Wagman
(Carleton), Christina Baade (McMaster), Philip Savage (McMaster), Faiza
Hirji (McMaster)
This conference is support by the generous contributions of the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council (through the Connections
program), McMaster University Socrates Project - funded through the
generous donation of Chancellor Emeritus Lynton (Red) Wilson, McMaster
University Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University Centre for New
Media and Performance (CNMAP), The University of Calgary - Faculty of
Arts, McMaster University Department of Communication Studies and
Multimedia, McMaster University Indigenous Studies Program, McMaster
University School of the Arts (SOTA), and McMaster University Department
of Political Science.
**
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