From Dee Dee Halleck:
Crisis/Media:
The Uncertain States of Reportage
Sarai-Waag
Workshop
at Sarai-CSDS,
For
updates, notices, and schedules from now until the workshop, check www.sarai.net/events/crisis_media/crisis_media.htm Links to various interesting resources
and readings are also available from this webpage.
For
further details contact [log in to unmask]
"The
hottest place in hell is reserved for those
who
tried to stay neutral in times of crisis..."
The
Inferno, Dante Alighieri
Crisis/Media, is a conference that will bring together media
professionals, activists, and scholars to discuss crisis in the media, and the
crisis of the media today.
Since
September 11, crises in the media have become everyday events and have taken on
global dimensions. But what happens when crisis becomes commonplace? How can
media tell the stories behind/beneath the crisis? How are the tensions between
local/global, mainstream /alternative, event/representation unfolding? In
thinking about these and other questions, the conference will try to focus on
both the ways in which media cover/create/manage spectacular crisis events, and
on the crisis that this reportage has produced for media itself. (For a full
description See Below)
Key
Issues:
*
Are the Crises in the Media, the Crises of the Media? Where do the lines
between reporting in the mainstream and the alternative media harden, and where
do they blur?
*
Has the "broadcast" model, which was the mainstay of the big media
business, proved to be too bulky and too conservative in a world in which
things change by the minute?
*
Has the internet really made it possible for correspondents to be
co-respondents to the realties of a changing world?
Sessions:
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South
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Correspondents in the Crossfire : Reporting Situations
of Conflict
*
The Crisis of Everyday Life : Dispatches from Global
Cities
*
Stories of Earth and Water : Reporting Ecological
Crises
*
The Future of Global Independent Media Activism
Special
focuses and reports from:
Activities:
Plenaries,
Discussions, Open Sessions, Screenings
Presentations:
Apart
from previously scheduled presentations, the workshop will feature some open
sessions. If you are interested in making a presentation in one of the open
sessions, please send a brief description of what you want to do to
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Support
for Travel and Accommodation:
In
general, we will not be able to cover any transport or accommodation costs, for
coming to
Pre-Registration:
If
you are not presenting a paper but wish to attend the conference, you can
pre-register by sending an email to [log in to unmask]
Webpage:
For
updates, notices, and schedules from now until the workshop, check www.sarai.net/events/crisis_media/crisis_media.htm Links to various interesting resources
and readings are also available from this webpage.
For
further details contact [log in to unmask]
Clemencia Rodriguez
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
Norman OK 73019
405 325 1570