[Air-L] REMINDER - Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks

[Holly Steel]

Dear all,

Colleagues may be interested in a symposium run by the Centre for the Study
of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the
Department of Sociology, University of York, on mediating conflict through
digital networks. Apologies for cross-posting.

*Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks*

*9.30-17.30*
*7th November 2014*
*Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG01*
*Goldsmiths, University of London*

>From Gaza to Ukraine, Afghanistan to Syria, social media is being used by
people within conflict zones to organise, document and communicate their
lives and struggles from the streets to our screens. As these pieces of
content travel through time and space, they come into contact with various
actors – from activists, to NGOs, news agencies, and global audiences – who
attempt to claim purchase on the narrative of those events as they unfold.
Over the course of the last decade, we have seen the emergence of forms of
reportage that seek to navigate the diverse and fractured media ecology.
These mediations are said to challenge the ways in which the mainstream
media cover conflicts and global publics are invited to bear witness.

This one-day symposium will explore a number of key issues in mediating
conflicts today, and will address some of the following questions:

   - What role do networked eyewitnesses, activists and citizen journalists
   play in conflict communication today?
   - What are the challenges faced by those mediating conflict online?
   - In what ways are social media content produced within the zone of
   conflict shaping the coverage produced by news organisations?
   - What are the implications of these forms of reportage for
   eyewitnesses, activists, citizen journalists, perpetrators, NGOs,
   journalists, news media, audiences and global publics?


*Confirmed speakers:*

·      Stuart Allan, *Cardiff University*

·      Kari Andén-Papadopolous, *Stockholm University*

·      Tamar Ashuri, *Tel-Aviv University*

·      Malachy Browne, *Storyful*

·      Lilie Chouliaraki,* LSE*

·      Sam Gregory, WITNESS

·      Andrew Hoskins, *University of Glasgow*

·      Sarah Maltby, *University of Sussex*

·      Mette Mortensen, University of Copenhagen

·      Ben O'Loughlin, *Royal Holloway*

·      Helen Thornham, *University of Leeds*

·      Einar Thorsen, Bournemouth University

·      Eugenia Siapera, *Dublin City University*

·      Liam Stack, *New York Times*

·      Katrin Voltmer,* University of Leeds*

·      Claire Wardle, *UNHCR*


Tickets are FREE but registration is required. For more information please
visit:

http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/news-and-events/department/2014/streets-to-screens/

*For more information, please contact Holly Steel at has502 at york.ac.uk
<has502 at york.ac.uk>*

-- 
Holly Steel
Doctoral Researcher

Department of Sociology
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
Tel: 01904 323578