Target participants: ECREA section members (but open to all)
Affiliation: ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Section
Venue: Institute of Communications Studies, Leeds University, Leeds, UK
Date: Sep 07 - Sep 08, 2007
Contact: Myria Georgiou
Website: ics.leeds.ac.uk/ecrea-diasporamedia
The debate around cultural difference, communication, and the media is the prime focus of this workshop.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Marie Gillespie, Open University.
Charles Husband, Bradford University.
Kim Knott, Leeds University; Director of AHRC 'Diasporas, Migration and Identities' programme.
The necessity to have an ongoing debate on the 'political imaginary of heterogeneity' (Werbner, 2002: 276) is revealed in the face-to-face encounters in the streets of today's metropoles, the mediated urban, national and transnational encounters within and beyond European cultural scapes, as well as in the mediated political actions and reactions around diversity and its implications. It is this articulation of the debate around cultural difference, communication, and the media that is the prime focus of this workshop. How might we view the media role in this discussion? And what about other forms of communicative practices that may feed into the debate? Who participates in the debate and what form does this participation take? Do the (new) media lead in new forms of identities, subjectivities and solidarities? Conversely, do they lead to new forms of exclusion and conformism, and to new fundamentalisms?
The workshop will engage with, but is not restricted to, the following themes:
* Cosmopolitanism, transnationalism and diasporas: thinking about the edges of the nation-state.
* Diaspora and cultural domesticity: sustaining traditions? The conservative aspects of cultural diversity
* Diasporas and alternative media: producing political 'meaning'/ethics?
* The city and the urban politics of representation
* Cultural diversity and marginalized voices: politics of media representation and ethics
* Multicultural backlash: opposition to multiculturalism and the role of the media
* Bottom-up multiculturalism: everyday (multi)cultural encounters
* New media and multiculturalism: what does the internet add?
* Diaspora and digital narratives: loss, gain, negotiations, and interpretations
* Blogosphere and diasporas: a new public sphere?
* Media consumption: what can we learn from ethnic and diasporic media use?
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