2012
March
Mediatization in transcultural and transnational perspectives|
We were delighted to co-sponsor the workshop, "Mediatization in transcultural and transnational perspectives", together with Goldsmiths, University of London, on 30th and 31st March 2012. Sonia Livingstone is vice-chair of the ECREA Mediatization working group.
February
Demonstrations, Riots, and Uprisings: Mediated dissent in a changing communication environment|
6.30-8pm, Wednesday 29 February 2012
Speaker: Professor Simon Cottle, Chair: Dr Bart Cammaerts
2011
December
"Development Communication, Los Baños Style" - Professor Nora Quebral: Honorary Doctorate Celebration Seminar
Professor Nora Cruz Quebral was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by LSE on 15 December 2011 for her 'pioneering and continued contribution to the field of development communication'. The Department of Media and Communications announced that the 'doctorate is also an appreciation of the role played by the College of Development Communication, University of the Philippines [at Los Baños] (UPLB) in institutionalising development communication teaching and research'. The doctorate is also an appreciation of the role played by the College of Development Communication (University of the Philippines) in institutionalising development communication teaching and research. This event is held in conjunction with C4D, the Communication for Development Network. Further details of the event and a copy of Professor Quebral's lecture are available here|.
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November
Social Movements in the Age of the Internet-Public Lecture
Video and audio recordingsnow available |
Thursday 24 November 2011
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre
Speaker: Professor Manuel Castells
Chair: Professor Terhi Rantanen
How are Social Movements shaped by the availability of horizontal communication networks based on the Internet and wireless communication? How can indignation become collective action by the connection between neural networks, digital social networks and urban networks?
July
What next for Rupert Murdoch? The Man Who Owns The News - LSE public conversation
|Thursday 28 July 2011, 6.30-7.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Michael Wolff
Chair: Charlie Beckett
Phone- Hacking: Is it time to get tough on the press?
|POLIS Public Debate
Date: Wednesday 13 July 2011
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Charlotte Harris, Martin Moore, others TBC
June
The Media Policy Project| is holding a workshop on Monday 20 June from 14:00 - 18:00 with experts from various backgrounds, academics, policy-makers, representatives from Ofcom and from advocacy groups, as well as from industry.
Media@LSE| 3rd PhD symposium
Media and Identity: Between Repression and Emancipation
Friday, June 10th, 2011 - 09h30 : 17h30
The Graham Wallas Room, fifth floor, Old Building LSE
The Value of Journalism POLIS Conference 2011: Media and Power
|Date: Friday 10 June 2011
Time: 9:00-14:30
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Tickets are free but must be booked in advance
Media and Identity: Between Repression and EmancipationFriday, June 10th, 2011 - 09h30 : 17h30The Graham Wallas Room, fifth floor, Old Building LSE Date: Friday 10 June 2011 Time: 9:00-14:30 Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic BuildingTickets are free but must be booked in advance
May
'Media Reporting on BP, Copenhagen and Cancun: what learnings, what implications?'
|LSE Media Group
Date: Tuesday 24 May 2011, 6.30 - 8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
RSVP using the online registration form|
A Lecture by Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer at Facebook
|POLIS Public Lecture
Date: Wednesday 25 May 2011
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Sheryl Sandberg
Chair: Charlie Beckett
LSE Media Policy Project |& An Open Rights Group Seminar:
Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
Date: Wednesday 4 May 2011, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Venue: Room G108, London School of Economics, (Kingsway building)
Join us for a free, open seminar to discuss recent research on the battle between copyright and file-sharing in today's global economy.
March
Media and African Democracy: Africa Talks and POLIS public lecture
|Date: Monday 21 March 2011
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Adebayo Adedeji
21st Century Statecraft|
Public Lecture
Thursday 10 March 2011 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Alec Ross
Chair: Charlie Beckett
Research Dialogues
|Wednesday 9 March, 16:00 – 17:30, Room KSW.G108
Public space, media and control in the city
Panel: Dr Shakuntala Banaji, Dept of Media and Communications, LSE
Dr Myria Georgiou, Dept of Media and Communications, LSE
Dr John Roberts, Dept of Sociology, Brunel University
Public Service Broadcasting and Public Value: the remaining challenges for the BBC
|POLIS Public Lecture
Wednesday 9 March 2011, 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Sir Michael Lyons
Chair: Charlie Beckett
February
Department of Media and Communications Literary Festival Discussions:
Podcasts of events now online|
The Making of Bestsellers
|Date: Thursday 17 February 2011, 6.45 - 8.00pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: John Thompson
Discussant: Andrew Franklin
Chair: Liz Chapman
Adaptation in an age of Digitisation: its fans, practitioners and foes|
Date: Thursday 17 February 2011 5.00 - 6.15pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Dr Shakuntala Banaji, Professor Andrew Burn, Blake Morrison
Chair: Professor Sonia Livingstone
Diversity Work: a phenomenology of institutions
Gendering the Social Sciences: a public lecture
|Date: Wednesday 9 February 2011, 6.30pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Speaker: Professor Sara Ahmed
Chair: Professor Terhi Rantanen
Rethinking Capitalism: emotions as commodities|
Date: Monday 7 February 2011, 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Speaker: Professor Eva Illouz
"What I've learned making a clickable, swipeable magazine"|
Date: Thursday 3 February 2011, 6.30pm
Location: Senior Common Room, 5th Floor, Old Building, LSE
Speaker: David Rowan, Editor of UK WIRED Magazine
LSE Media Group Members Only
January
The Future for Media Policy - Polis Event
|Date: Wednesday 12 January 2011, 6.30pm
Location: LSE
Speaker: Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport
December 2010
Polis Panel: Media Plurality
Date: Tuesday 14 December 2010, arrive 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Please RSVP if you wish to come to polis@lse.ac.uk|
POLIS is holding a panel discussion looking at the issue of Media Plurality in the light of the News Corporation's bid to take full ownership of BSkyB.
Our panel will be chaired by Steve Hewlett, writer, broadcaster and media consultant. The panel will feature: Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the Guardian, Chris Goodall, Consultant to Enders Analysis on regulatory and competition issues, and a former member of the UK Competition Commission, Professor Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster and Damian Tambini from the LSE's Department of Media and Communications.
There will also be free drinks available.
The Visual Politics of Solidarity Symposium
Date: Friday 3 December 2010, 10.00am to 5.30pm
Location: Vera Anstey Room, Old Building, LSE
The Symposium explores the power of images to promote a politics of solidarity in the new media age, through three panel discussions:
Cosmopolitanism and the Image Pheng Cheah (University of Berkeley) and Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE)
Journalism, Image and Injustice Charlie Beckett (Polis Director), Shani Orgad (LSE) and Bolette Blaagaard (City University)
Witnessing Vulnerability Karin Wells (Birkbeck), Iain Wilkinson (University of Kent) and Karina Horsti (University of Helsinki).
Please RSVP if you wish to come to n.rayya@lse.ac.uk|
November 2010
The podcast and video for the event Television Beyond Frontiers: reflections on public service broadcasting in a digital Europe |is now available here| and you can also view the Powerpoint Slides|.
'Media in the Family'
Professor Sonia Livingstone of the LSE will launch a major new report looking at how the family uses media. Based on a major piece of trans-European research, the report highlights how behavior and relationships are changing due to advances in technology and new social conditions. It sets out the key trends and future scenarios for the family and media
Date: Wednesday 17 November 2010, 6.30pm
Location: Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Professor Sonia Livingstone
October 2010
Public event - 'Silencing the Classroom: Persecuted academics share their experiences' Tuesday 19 October 2010
Speaker: Mina al-Lami| is an Iraqi Visiting Fellow at the Department of Media and Communications, under the LSE Scholars at Risk scheme. For the last two years Mina has been doing research on Islamic extremist groups. Her research focus is the media and propaganda of jihadist groups on the Internet, online radicalisation, and online counter-extremism measures. She is currently researching the transition from online to offline jihadism. Prior to fleeing to the UK, she served as a security information analyst with the United Nations-Iraq and lecturer of English language at Baghdad University.
July 2010
Symposium on Artistic Research and Experimentation in Digital Media (LSE-MARCEL)
On 7th July 2010. In collaboration with the MARCEL Network| and the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference|. Limited seats are available. More details|
June 2010
Postgraduate Workshop 2010 and summer symposium- 7th June 2010.
Further information|
May 2010
Networking Event for alumni and current students. Speaker: BAFTA-winning alumnus, Paulina Bozek. Saturday, 8 May 2010 More information here|
Media & Citizenship in the EU - Arabic language media and life in London. Saturday, 8 May 2010. Full details on the Media & Citizenship website|
Youthful participation: what have we learned, what shall we ask next?
Prof Sonia Livingstone|'s keynote speech at the First Annual Digital Media and Learning Conference: Diversifying Participation, [ Speech|| Video|]
Diversifying Participation, [ | ]
February 2010
Safer Internet Day Tuesday, 9 February
Professor Sonia Livingstone chaired a meeting addressed by the Vice President of the European parliament. Read further information on the Implementation of the Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU|.
Tuesday, 9 February chaired a meeting addressed by the Vice President of the European parliament. Read further information on the .
Thinking Like a Social Scientist - open lecture series
Thursday, 4 February - 1.05pm - Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Professor Sonia Livingstone, "Thinking Like a Social Scientist: Online and offline risk – getting young people's experience of the internet into perspective"
More details here.|
Seminar on Comparative Transnational Research
Wednesday, 3 February 2010 - 14.30/18.30 - U8 (Tower 1)
The uses and misuses of comparative transnational research in social sciences'
Speakers:
Emeritus Professor Jean Blondel (European University Institute in Florence)
Professor Sonia Livingstone (LSE)
Professor Paolo Mancini (Universit di Perugia)
Chair: Prof. Terhi Rantanen| (LSE)
This is the first seminar organised by a joint Oxford-LSE research project on Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe funded by the European Research Council.
Queries: t.rantanen@lse.ac.uk|
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/howToGetToLSE.aspx|
January 2010
Beyond the "Berlusconi Common Sense". A New Model of Politics for the 21st Century
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Speaker: Professor Paolo Mancini
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Date: Tuesday 19 January 2010
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Time: 6.30-8pm
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Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
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Chair: Professor Terhi Rantanen
Mostly outside Italy, there is a widespread common sense about Berlusconi and his political adventure: he has been able to successfully enter the political arena because of his television empire and because of his unclear links with illegal groups and business. This interpretation is undoubtedly true but it is also a limited one as it is not able to point out all the novelties that Berlusconi may represent. Read more...| Audio|
MeCCSA 2010 Conference
Wednesday 6th - Friday 8th January 2010 - LSE
MeCCSA is the UK subject association for those teaching and researching in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies. The organisation held its conference from 6-8 January 2010, hosted by the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science and held at LSE.
More information here|.