Ben O’Loughlin has been invited to speak on ‘Mediatization and Communication’ at next week’s meeting of the European Security Research and Innovation Forum (ESRIF). The purpose of the workshop is to form the basis for defining the research priorities for the EU for Human and Societal aspects of Security over the coming years. Ben will offer an overview of current research in the field of media and security and a set of research priorities.
2008-09-17: Radicalisation project to present interim findings
On September 17-18 the project team ‘Legitimising the Discourses of Violence’ will present interim findings concerning the relationship between media and ‘radicalisation’ to the Economic and Social Research Council at an ESRC Radicalisation and Violence Programme event. A report of the interim findings will be available by mid-September – please contact Ben.OLoughlin@rhul.ac.uk for details.
2008-09-25: Ben O'Loughlin to speak at ESRC Seminar on 'Ethics and the War on Terror'
On 25-26 September the University of Leicester is hosting an ESRC Research Seminar Series: Ethics and the War on Terror: Politics, Multiculturalism and Media. Ben O'Loughlin will present a new paper co-authored with Giles Moss (University of Leeds) entitled, Media, Democracy, Ethics: Al-Jazeera as a moment in the re-assembly of a democratic public? The event is organised by Gillian Youngs (University of Leicester) and will include a plenary lecture by human rights lawyer Phil Shiner entitled: ‘The UK Torture Team: British Use of Coercive Interrogation Techniques from Northern Ireland to Iraq’.
2008-07-26: Nick Anstead on BBC radio's Beyond Westminster
Nick Anstead took part in a discussion on the internet and election campaigning, alongside Joe Trippi, Andy Williamson and Tim Montgomery on BBC Radio 4's Beyond Westminster - hosted by Andrew Rawnsley.
Click here to listen via the BBC's iPlayer (expires in seven days).
2008-09-03: Ben O'Loughlin to speak at Oxford on 'precarious citizenship'
On September 3rd Ben O’Loughlin will speak at the Annual Conference of the Centre for Research on Social and Cultural Change (CRESC) at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. The conference theme is Cultural Citizenship, and Ben’s paper, written with Prof. Marie Gillespie, is entitled Precarious Citizenship: Multiculturalism, Media and Social Insecurity. This paper is based on a chapter in the forthcoming volume, Community, Citizenship and the War on Terror: Security and Insecurity, edited by Patricia Noxolo and Jeff Huysmans, and published by Palgrave later this year.
2008-09-23: Ben O'Loughlin to speak at Media@lse 5th anniversary conference
On September 23rd 2008 Ben O’Loughlin will speak on a panel International Relations Meets International Communications: Issues and Challenges for the 21st Century , at the LSE Media Department’s fifth anniversary conference. Ben’s paper will be on Media Diplomacy: Measuring Impact in the Global ‘Influence Business’.2008-11-27: Professor Frank Webster 'The Anti-War Movement and the Information Environment of War'
Professor Frank Webster of City University will be giving a presentation 'The Anti-War Movement and the Information Environment of War' based on his new book Anti-War Activism: New Media and Protest in the Information Age (Palgrave), written with Kevin Gillan and Jenny Pickerill.
More details to follow.
2008-08-27: Nick Anstead and Andrew Chadwick to present at the APSA Political Communication Preconference at Harvard
Nick Anstead and Andrew Chadwick will present their paper 'Parties, Election Campaigning and the Internet: Toward a Comparative Institutional Approach' to the American Political Science Association Political Communication Section Annual Preconference, held at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, on August 27.
Andrew Chadwick is a discussant for Panel 38-15: Political Communication Online at the main APSA Conference in Boston. Details here.
2008-06-19: Multidisciplinary Media Research Workshop at Royal Holloway - Organised by Professor John Ellis
Professor John Ellis of the Department of Media Arts (and an affiliate of the New Political Communication Unit) has organised a workshop for all Royal Holloway colleagues whose research includes study of the media. The event will take place on 19 and 20 June.
A total of 23 papers and performances will be presented by staff and research students from nine different disciplines from all three faculties. Sessions have been arranged to combine diverse disciplines around common themes.
Lunches and refreshments will be provided on both days, and there will be a drinks reception on the Thursday evening. The venue is the new Management lecture threatre which is an ideal venue for discussions.
The event is open to Royal Holloway staff, research students and close research collaborators from other institutions. The aim is to produce a greater dialogue and closer research collaboration on media issues which clearly interest a wide range of staff.
New Political Communication Unit scholars presenting at the workshop include:
- Yenn Lee 'Korean Politics: Capitalising On The Internet Metaphor'
- Chris Perkins 'Media as Trickster and the Representation of Foreignness in Japan'
- Christopher Boerl 'The Internet, Religion & US Politics'
- Andrew Chadwick 'Can We Avoid the Deliberative Assumption?: Researching Online Democracy in an Era of Informational Exuberance'
- Ben O'Loughlin, Akil N. Awan and Mina Al-Lami 'Radicalisation & Media: Legitimising Violence in the New Media Ecology'
Please register your interest ahead of time with an email to: mediaworkshop@rhul.ac.uk
2008-05-14: YouGovStone/FT/US Embassy Event: Digital Politics: Effects of the Information Age on the 2008 U.S. Election and Beyond
The Embassy of the United States of America in partnership with the FT and YouGovStone announces a series of exciting discussion events on the 2008 U.S. Election
The inaugural event:
Digital Politics – Effects of the Information Age on the 2008 U.S. Election and Beyond
will take place on Thursday 15th May
United States Embassy London
24 Grosvenor Square W1
6.30 – 8.00pm followed by drinks reception
Chair: Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times
Panel:
- Phil Noble (U.S.) Noble & Associates, Washington DC, Founder – PoliticsOnline
- Dr Andrew Chadwick (UK), Head, Department of Politics and International Relations and Director, New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Joanna Shields (U.S.) International President, Bebo
- Jimmy Leach (UK) Director of Digital Communications, Freud Communications and former Head of Digital Communications for the Prime Minister’s Office
Attendance by invitation only
A limited number of spaces are available. Express interest at rsvp@yougovstone.com
This event will be webcast live and you can email questions to the panellists in advance at the FT site here.