Department of Media and Communications and POLIS Panel Discussion
Date: Monday 16 October 2006
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Panellists: Charlie Beckett, Professor Lilie Chouliaraki, Professor Stan Cohen, Daniel Dayan, Richard Sambrook
Chair: Professor Robin Mansell
This event will discuss the moral implications of the increasing globalisation of the media and our increasing dependence on those media for our understanding of the other in the world in which we live, the subject of Professor Roger Silverstone's book, Media and Morality: on the rise of the mediapolis (Polity, 2006).
Charlie Beckett, Director is director of POLIS. Lilie Chouliaraki is Research Professor of Media & Discourse Studies, Copenhagen Business School. Stan Cohen is Martin White Professor of Sociology at LSE. Daniel Dayan is Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Richard Sambrook is director of the BBC's global news division. Robin Mansell is Professor of New Media at LSE.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
Podcast
A podcast of this event is available to download from the LSE public lectures and events podcasts channel.
For further information email events@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 6043.