May 30, 2025
Online
Dear colleagues,
Registration is now open for the FREE Online Half-Day, Book Launch and Unconference, "Media Capture in the Global South: Power and Resistance,” Friday, 30 May 2025 (Online, 10:00-15:05 BST).
You can register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/media-capture-in-the-global-south-power-and-resistance-tickets-1347887410529?aff=oddtdtcreator
Programme:
10:00-10:15
Welcome & Introduction
10:15–11:00
Book Launch: Media Capture in Africa & Latin America: Power and Resistance (2024, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan)
Chair: Beth Pearson & Hayes Mabweazara (University of Glasgow)
Seige and resistance: Media, journalism and democracy in Colombia
Catalina Montoya Londoño & Jorge Iván Bonilla Vélez (Liverpool Hope University, UK / EAFIT University, Medellín, Columbia)
New and old captured policies, resistances and diversity in media and internet in Argentina
María Soledad Segura, Alejandro Linares, & Ana Bizberge (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina / Universidad Nacional de Formosa, Argentina / Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina)
The Nigerian press and its plutocratic relationship
Ufuoma Akpojivi & Olaniyan Akintola (University of Ghana / Centre for Social Media Research, Nigeria)
Resisting media capture: Mobilising for media freedom in Uganda
Carl-Magnus Höglund & Johan Karlsson Schaffer (Fojo Media Institute, Linnaeus University, Sweden / University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
11:00-11:10
BREAK
11:10–12:20
Unconference Panel 1: Power (Indonesia, Colombia, Mexico, The Gambia, South Africa)
Chair: Mo Hume (University of Glasgow and Glasgow Latin America Research Network)
How does media capture operate in contexts of peacebuilding? Evidence from Colombia’s 2012-2016 peace negotiations
Jose David Ortega Chávez (University of Winchester, UK)
Media capture in Indonesia as a transitional democracy
Ardhanareswari Handoko Putri (University of Glasgow, UK)
Media capture in Mexico at the intersections of sports, media, and business
Mireya Marquez-Ramirez (Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City)
Media capture and its implications for Sustainable Development Goal attainment in The Gambia
Yaya B. Baldeh (Journalist / independent researcher)
State capture and media-state relations in South Africa: Groundwork for an African media-state model
Adrian Hadland & Bernadine Jones (University of Stirling, UK)
12:20-12:35
BREAK
12:35–13:45
Unconference Panel 2: Resistance (Guinea-Bissau, India/South Asia, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Lebanon)
Chair: Lluis de Nadal Alsina (University of Glasgow and Glasgow University Media Group)
Media capture in Guinea-Bissau: State fragility, external influences, and the roles of media development actors
Johanna Mack (Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism / Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg)
What role does transnational mediascape and diaspora play in countering media capture in the Global South?
Cheshta Arora (Western Norway Research Institute, Norway)
Media capture in marginalised communities: Insights from South Africa’s post-apartheid community media sector
Franz Krüger (NLA Høgskolen, Norway & Wits University, South Africa)
Understanding media capture and journalistic resistance in Burkina Faso in a context of autocratic legalism and informational autocracy
Emma Heywood (University of Sheffield, UK)
Examining alternative media and digital activism in Lebanon during the 2019 protests, as a form of resisting algorithmic media capture
Yara El Turk (Euro-Mediterranean University, Slovenia)
13:45-13:55
BREAK
13:55–14:55
Round Table: Media Capture in the Global South: From Research to International Policymaking and Action
Camille Grenier (Forum on Information and Democracy), Sacha Meuter (Foundation Hirondelle), Churchill Otieno (The Africa Editors Forum), Mel Bunce (City St George’s, University of London)
Chair: George Ogola (University of Nottingham, UK)
14:55–15:05
Closing
Organised by members of the Sociological & Cultural Studies and the Glasgow University Media Group at the University of Glasgow in partnership with the Glasgow Latin American Research Network.
