[Air-L] Side-event at IAMCR 2021

[Preeti Raghunath]

INSTITUTIONS, INTERVENTIONS, TRANSGRESSIONS: GLOCAL MEDIA POLICIES AND
PRAXIS FROM SOUTH ASIA
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An IAMCR 2021 Side event
Sponsored by the Global Media Policy Working Group
July 10, 2021 --- 10h30 to 17h00 Indian Standard Time  (05h00 to 11h30 UTC)

This side event organised by the Global Media Policy Working Group presents
a day-long engagement on media policies and practices from the South Asian
region. The region itself has been under-studied in media policy research,
and is underrepresented in studies on the interfacing of the global with
the local. This side event seeks to not only contextualize recent work on
media policies from the region within larger historical debates on media
ownership and communication flows, but also seeks to open up possible
conversations on research in global media policies from the South(s) and
their amenability for comparative purposes.

Conveners:

   - Dr. Preeti Raghunath, Co-Vice Chair, Global Media Policy Working Group
   - Susan Koshy, PhD Candidate, Hong Kong Baptist University

Programme (all times are in Indian Standard Time | UTC +5:30)

OPENING SESSION – Introduction to the GMP Working Group (10.30 am to 10.45
am Indian Standard Time (IST))

SESSION 1: An Invitation to Understand Media Policies in South Asia (10.45
am to 11.15 am IST)

This (recorded) session will feature Dr. Paula Chakravartty (NYU, US) in a
keynote dialogue.

SESSION 2: (Geo) Politics and Power in South Asia (11.15 am to 12.45 pm IST)

Chair: Dr. Claudia Padovani, Co-Chair, Global Media Policy Working Group

This session will uncover the different power structures that exist within
the region both internally and across borders that are either reflected
within media structures while also playing an important role determining
these very structures.


   - Anis Rahman (Bangladesh) --- South Asian Media in Flux: Power,
   Politics, and Policies
   - Murali Shanmugavelan (South Asia) --- Casting Off Caste-Hate Speech:
   An Appraisal for Digital Media Policies
   - Varun Ramdas (India)- An Analysis of State Media Policy from a
   Geo-political perspective

SESSION 3: Policy and Practice (1 pm to 3 pm IST)

Chaired by: Dr. Veronique Wavre, Co-Vice Chair, Global Media Policy Working
Group

This session will carry forward the ideas set up in the previous session,
with a focus on institutions, politics and the practice of policymaking.
The session would feature four papers that would allow for rumination on
this theme:


   - Vibodh Parthasarathi (India) --- Institutions Constraints and
   Accordant Interests
   - Harsha Man Maharjan (Nepal) --- "No Policy without Us": Dominant
   Stakeholders and Making of Media Policy Drafts in Nepal
   - Sachini Perera (Sri Lanka) --- South-based feminist visions for
   digital media policy
   - Muhammad Shajjad Ahsan (Bangladesh) --- Selecting Technology for
   Digital Television Switchover in Bangladesh

SESSION 4: Transgressions, Censorship and Surveillance (3.15 pm to 4.45 pm
IST)

Chair: Dr. Arne Hintz, Co-Chair, Global Media Policy Working Group

This session will further deliberate on censorship and the surveillance
state, in light of occurrences in South Asia. The session would pull
together this line of thought as seen in three presentations:


   - Azmat Rasul (Pakistan) --- “The politics of entertainment regulation:
   Evaluating the policy and regulatory role of government in Pakistan”
   - Syed Irfan Ashraf, Azmat Khan (Pakistan-Afghanistan) --- Digital
   black-hole: Pakistan’s State undeclared Internet policy in the Pashtun
   periphery
   - Lisa Brooten (Myanmar) --- Populism, power plays and a pandemic: media
   policy and practice in Myanmar

CLOSING SESSION: Vote of Thanks; Overview of the WG’s conference sessions
and Closing Note (4.45 pm to 5.00 pm IST)

REGISTRATION (open to first 100 participants to register)

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/up0lfumprD0jGtAoWK0w7Y7W3I_65bda3J4w

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the meeting.

-- 
Preeti Raghunath, PhD
Assistant Professor
Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (SIMC)
Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India

My Book: Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy
Ecology Approach <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-5629-6>
 (2020)

Email: preeti.raghunath at simc.edu
Website: www.preetiraghunath.com
Twitter: @preetiraghunath
Phone: +919160518081