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The Daily You: The Current Transformation of Advertising and Its Impact on Media Culture

Joseph Turow, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

In this invited public lecture, Joseph Turow, one of the world’s leading experts on the advertising industry and its interfaces with the media industries, will talk on topics from his recent book The Daily You published by Yale University Press in 2011. Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania; he regularly speaks to industry conferences, as well as academic audiences.

This book has been published to exceptional reviews: "An eye-opener that will startle readers, the book offers grist for policy makers and others battling to preserve a shred of privacy in America" Kirkus Reviews. "The Daily You is required reading in today's Web 3.0 age" New Scientist.

Respondents are Chris Peters, Department of Journalism, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Liz Moor, Media and Communications, Goldsmiths

Chaired by Professor Nick Couldry, Media and Communications, Goldsmiths

The lecture is open to all, and will be followed by a drinks reception.

Thursday 2 May 2013

5.30-7pm LG02 NAB (New Academic Building)

China's Information Society: A Three-Phase Trajectory – Asteroid, Bee, Coliseum

Jack Qiu is at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is the author of Working Class Network Society (MIT Press 2009) and co-author with Manuel Castells of Mobile Communication and Society (MIT Press 2006).

This talk discusses the contemporary history of China’s information society from the beginning of Internet industry in the 1990s to the widespread of Weibo nowadays. Situated in the larger contexts of industrialization and urbanization, China's information society has gone through three phases – Asteroid, Bee, Coliseum – each demonstrating a unique pattern of institutional formation, labour-capital relationship, and public opinion process. The overall trajectory is moving away from democratization, despite significant trends of citizen journalism and social movement. Why has this been the case? Could it be otherwise?

The lecture is open to all, and will be followed by a drinks reception.

Wednesday 29 May 2013

5.30-7pm LG01 NAB (New Academic Building)

The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media

Jose van Dijck, University of Amsterdam

In this invited public lecture, Jose Van Dijck, one of the world’s leading authorities on digital memory practices and social media, will talk on topics from her new book The Culture of Connectivity published by Oxford University Press in March 2013. Jose Van Dijck is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at University of Amsterdam; her previous books include Mediated Memories in a Digital Age (Stanford University Press 2007) and The Transparent Body (University of Washington Press 2005).

Respondents: Noortje Marres, CSISP, Goldsmiths, and Richard MacDonald, Storycircle Project, Goldsmiths

Chaired by Professor Nick Couldry, Media and Communications, Goldsmiths

The lecture is open to all, and will be followed by a drinks reception.

Thursday 30 May 2013

5.30-7pm LG02 NAB (New Academic Building)

The Great Iraq War Debate: Was It Worth It? Iraq, Ten Years On

Ten years on since the invasion of Iraq, the question still remains as to whether or not the war was worth it. The Huffington Post UK and Goldsmiths, University of London invite you to a debate to mark the anniversary of the biggest demonstration in British history against the Iraq War.

Confirmed speakers include, among others, former cabinet minister Clare Short, former shadow defence secretary Bernard Jenkin MP, Times columnist David Aaronovitch, Independent columnist Owen Jones and HuffPost UK’s Mehdi Hasan.

The debate will be introduced by Dr Des Freedman from the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, and will be chaired by HuffPost UK’s Editor-in-Chief, Carla Buzasi.

The lecture is open to all, but please reserve your place at www.amiando.com/iraqdebate and please print off your confirmation email and bring it to the event.

Thursday 7 February 2013

6.30-9 pm, Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building (RHB)

Goldsmiths, University of London

For further details please contact Peter Austin (p.austin@gold.ac.uk)

Beyond Facebook and Twitter: Youth and Public Deliberation in the Network Age

Ingrid Volkmer, University of Melbourne



Although today’s youth is the first generation socialized in a transnational network society, the formation of youth publics is rarely discussed as a generational specific approach to transnational public deliberation. Such a transnational approach is in particular relevant, as youth publics are increasingly emerging in various world regions. Whereas the engagement of youth in spatial public terrains is often linked in a Western debate and more generally to ‘digital’ cultures, youth publics have very recently become crucial political spaces in developing countries. It seems that youth publics emerge as a ‘reflective’ terrain within globalized networked structures: on one hand, as a quite distinct formation, embedded into societal and cultural spheres, however, on the other, engaging in generational specific transnational spaces. This presentation will propose a conceptualization of youth publics as a cosmopolitan and local public practice based on an international comparative study of the construction of subjective political spheres of 14-17 year olds in nine countries, including developing, transitional and developed regions.

The lecture is open to all, and will be followed by a drinks reception.

Wednesday 23 January 2013

5.30-7pm Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 309, Goldsmiths

Media and War: challenging the consensus

Day conference on media, war and terrorism to mark the publication of Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (Sage Publications).

Speakers include John Pilger, Peter Oborne (Telegraph), Jeremy Corbyn MP, Toby Miller (City), David Miller (Spinwatch), Michelle Stanistreet (NUJ), Gholam Khiabany (Sussex), Milly Williamson (Brunel).

Hosted by the Centre for the study of Global Media and Democracy and organised by the Stop the War Coalition with the support of Sage Publications.

17 November 2012

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12-5pm, IGLT, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths

Free to Goldsmiths staff and students

For further details please contact Des Freedman d.freedman@gold.ac.uk

Baroness Onora O’Neill Lecture on 'Regulating for Communication'

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Baroness Onora O’Neill, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University and former President of the British Academy, will deliver a lecture at Goldsmiths for the Centre for the study of Global Media and Democracy on the subject of ‘Regulating for Communication’.

The lecture will be introduced by Pat Loughrey, Warden of Goldsmiths, with responses from Angela Phillips, Goldsmiths, and Dan Sabbagh, the Guardian's head of media and technology. The event will be chaired by Nick Couldry, Director of the Centre.

This lecture marks ten years since her BBC Reith lectures in 2002 (published as A Question of Trust, Cambridge University Press) which highlighted to a wide public audience questions concerning the accountability of and trust in the media. She is one of world’s leading moral philosophers and has for two decades shown particular interest in the ethical and moral questions raised by media. She is also a member of the House of Lords and has contributed actively to debates around the UK’s recent Leveson Inquiry.

The lecture is open to all, and will be followed by a drinks reception.

Places will be limited. To ensure a place, please email Sebastian Kubitschko s.kubitschko[at]gold.ac.uk

Tuesday 13 November 2012

6.30-8pm New Academic Building (NAB) LG02, Goldsmiths, University of London

New Seminar Series: Democracy From Below

Friday 14 October 2011
Narrative, performativity and revolution in Egypt

Professor Jeffrey Alexander, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University
Professor Farhad Khosrokhavar, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Chaired by Professor Kate Nash, Sociology, Goldsmiths. Contact: k.nash@gold.ac.uk

4-6pm, Goldsmiths Richard Hoggart Building (main building) Small Hall/Cinema


Thursday 9 February 2012
Democracy and social movements

Professor Donatella Della Porta, European University Institute, Florence, with Professor Natalie Fenton, Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, and Professor Kate Nash, Sociology, Goldsmiths

Chaired by Professor Nick Couldry, Media and Communications, Goldsmiths. Contact: n.couldry@gold.ac.uk

5-7pm, Goldsmiths New Academic Building (NAB) LG02
Recording of the event (zip file)

Thursday 8 March 2012
Citizenship after Orientalism

Professor Engin Isin, Open University, with Professor Sanjay Seth, Politics, Goldsmiths, and Dr Ipek Demir, Sociology, University of Leicester

Chaired by Professor Kate Nash, Sociology, Goldsmiths. Contact: k.nash@gold.ac.uk

5-7pm, Goldsmiths New Academic Building (NAB) LG02

Mapping Digital Media

Des Freedman and Justin Schlosberg publish report with the Open Society Foundation.

With access to broadband and the internet steadily rising towards saturation levels the UK will complete the transition to digital broadcasting in 2012. While this transition will be completed under budget and without major setbacks, Des Freedman and Justin Schlosberg point out in their report ‘Mapping Digital Media’ that it is by no means clear that citizens and society at large will benefit from the digital transition.

The spread of the internet and digital media tends to undermine the media structures that have served the UK well for the past half century. Not only the newspapers are in a crisis with quality newspapers experiencing a 25 percent decline in circulation between 2005 and 2010. But also the BBC, according to the authors, ‘has found itself increasingly caught in a vice’ as it aims to achieve sufficient audience while it simultaneously has to provide the merit goods.

Due to the scale of the crisis, Freedman and Schlosberg recommend a full-scale media commission into the state of the news media, and new forms of support for public service in the media. As it appears unlikely that the market will address these severe issues, the authors suggest that it is the government who needs to ensure that the public interest is not eclipsed as the media ecology of a digital Britain beds down.

Read the full report here: http://www.mediapolicy.org/mapping-digital-media-UK