[Air-L] Media at LSE's 5th Anniversary Conference: Media, Communication and Humanity

[David Brake]

> Fifth Anniversary Conference: Media, Communication and Humanity
>
> 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 offering  
> theoretical insight and/or empirical work on this theme, focused on  
> the five linked areas below.
>
> Communication and Difference
> Democracy, Politics and Journalism Ethics
> Globalisation and Comparative Studies
> Innovation, Governance and Policy
> Media and New Media Literacies
> Abstracts should be submitted by 1 March 2008.
>
> See conference website <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/ 
> Conference/Default.htm>  for further details.
>
> We very much hope you will join us in our celebrations,  Robin  
> Mansell and Sonia Livingstone.
>
> 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, France
>
> John Downing
> Southern Illinois University, USA
>
> Anthony Giddens
> LSE, UK
>
> Carolyn Marvin
> Annenberg School for Communication, USA
>
> Mark Poster
> University of California, Irvine, USA
>

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David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London  
School of Economics & Political Science
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