Media@lse Fifth Anniversary Conference

Conference Press release now online

Abstracts, final programme and full papers now online

Sunday 21st - Tuesday 23rd September 2008

In celebration of our Department’s fifth anniversary year, we invite critical thinking about how the media and communications environment is implicated in shaping our perceptions of the human condition and thus, increasingly, mediating human values, actions and social relations. We welcome proposals for papers and panels offering theoretical insight and/or empirical work on this theme, focused on the five linked areas below.

1. Communication and Difference
2. Democracy, Politics and Journalism Ethics
3. Globalisation and Comparative Studies 
4. Innovation, Governance and Policy
5. Media and New Media Literacies

Conference Papers: We are still accepting full papers from speakers, however we cannot guarantee that these will be hosted on the website before the conference.

Conference Team: Professor Sonia Livingstone, Professor Robin Mansell, Dr Bart Cammaerts, Dr Nancy Thumim, Dr Panagiota Alevizou, Ms Zoetanya Sujon.

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Confirmed speakers:

Sandra Ball-Rokeach
Annenberg School for Communication, USA
Lilie Chouliaraki
LSE, UK
Peter Dahlgren
Lund University, Sweden 
Daniel Dayan
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
John Downing
Southern Illinois University, USA
Anthony Giddens
LSE, UK
Carolyn Marvin
Annenberg School for Communication, USA
Mark Poster
University of California, Irvine, USA

Address and contacts Media@lse Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE United Kingdom Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7248 Tel: Who's Who Email: media.conference2008@lse.ac.uk Back to LSE Department of Media and Communications