Polis Media Leadership Dialogues
Polis has a new series of talks by top media practitioners in dialogue with LSE academics and experts. If you want to join us you must email us at polis@lse.ac.uk to reserve a place at these special sessions. This year we will be in dialogue with:
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Summer School Starts
The Polis Summer School has started with a group of about 30 students from around the world. They will be studying the global news media for the next three weeks and will be posting their views on the Polis Director's blogs.
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2gether08
Polis director Charlie Beckett speaks at 2gether08, a festival of digital creativity sponsored by Channel 4. The idea is that it will generate ideas and clients for the new 4IP digital production fund created by Channel 4 to boost its public service role.
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POLIS Humanitarian and Development Communication Project
Polis announces details of the first stage of its Humanitarian and Development Communications project. This autumn there will be a series of high-powered seminars. In 2009 there will be events for NGOs, journalists, policy-makers and researchers. There will be major research projects and visiting research fellows. A photojournalism strand will be led by the London College of Communication.
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Democracy and new media
Read about how networked journalism can transform international politics from Africa to America. Polis Director Charlie Beckett has written a special article for Opendemocracy.net.
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Ofcom: the last PSB debate?
You have until June 19th to give your opinion about the future of the UK's public service broadcasting system. The Polis debate on Tuesday could be your last chance to put your questions and views to Ofcom's top executives. Get in touch at polis@lse.ac.uk to reserve a space at what will be a very popular and important event.
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Join us to talk about Media for Development
In an era of increasing commercialization of the media worldwide and rise of cynicism in politics, can the press still have a role in strengthening democracy and can it contribute to wider political change? The seminar on June 26, 2008 held at The Embassy of Brazil will compare media systems from different countries and the impact on the democratic process.
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LSE Summer School
POLIS will once again be participating in the LSE's forthcoming Summer School in July. To find out more about the Summer programme and International Journalism and Society – The Role of the Media in the Modern World taught by POLIS Director Charlie Beckett in partnership with Media and Communications staff.
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McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers
Chaired by LSE Professor. Mary Kaldor. Award–winning international journalist Misha Glenny will talk about his intrepid investigations into the world of transnational organised crime in his new book, McMafia: Crime without frontiers. It reveals how conventional policing cannot cope with globalised crime corrupting governments and how it is fuelling human rights abuses. Glenny offers an insight into the pitfalls of a globalisation where the rules dividing the legal from the illegal are often far from clear.
To reserve a seat, please email polis@lse.ac.uk
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Fifth Anniversary Conference: Media Communication & Humanity
POLIS is a partner with the LSE Department of Media and Communication’s who are celebrating their 5th year with a special conference. They are inviting critical thinking about how the media and communications environment is implicated in shaping our perceptions of the human condition. How is it mediating human values, actions and social relations? They welcome proposals for papers and panels offering theoretical insight and/or empirical work on this theme.
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Women and the Media
POLIS, in partnership with the LSE Gender Institute, recently held a debate Chaired by Samira Ahmed of Channel Four News looking into why, despite the increased number of women in the profession, many still accuse the media of not getting the gender balance right.
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Prelude to a Theory of Obscenity, Prof. John Durham Peters
In the light of the recent revival of the cartoons controversy in Denmark and Western Europe, this talk will be addressing issues of free speech and the public-private divide through the question of images. The aim is to philosophize the twin and perhaps irreconcilable problems of free expression and moral degradation.
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