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Communication and Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform: Keynote panel
Free Conference
Overview
Algorithms and digital platforms play increasingly important roles in governing how we communicate and how we discover and engage with media and culture. The ‘platform turn’ in dominant media systems has significant implications for life opportunities, employment, participation in the digital economy (whose content is distributed and prioritized?), the star system (who is promoted and how? what counts as success?), politics (which and whose perspective is dominant? how has political deliberation and debate been re-mediatized?), international relations (whose view of the world is dominant?) and social relations (how are inequities in representation reproduced and transformed?).
This conference will draw together researchers in Canada and beyond to explore the intersections between media/communications/cultural policy and platforms. Presentations will address arts policy, broadcasting policy, communication rights, Indigenous communication and cultural policy, competition policy, cultural industries policy, heritage policy, internet policy, media policy, speech regulation, privacy, smart city regulation, and platform regulation.
Speakers
Keynote panel: Joan Jenkinson (Black Screen Office), Sharon McGowan (Women in Film and Television-Vancouver, University of British Columbia), Susan Brinton (Women in Film and Television-Vancouver), Edward Greenspon (Public Policy Forum), Jesse Wente (Indigenous Screen Office)
Chair: Faiza Hirji (McMaster University)
Recent critiques have made it clear that media systems require change and transformation that go beyond responding to the challenges posed by digital platforms. Digital platforms have created opportunities for diverse voices, while also constructing potential filter bubbles, echo chambers, and new forms of digital oppression. For women and Indigenous peoples, digital platforms, like media systems more broadly, represent both opportunities and threats. Policy responses to digital platforms’ role in media ecosystems could have significant and differing effects on both mainstream and alternative media, including Indigenous and women’s media and platforms. The keynote panel will bring a depth of discussion to these issues, and will be followed by a question and answer period.
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Date(s) & Time(s)
Friday, May 7, 2021
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm EST
Location
This is an online event.
Related Tags
- Topics
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- Culture and Society
- Science and Technology
- Academics
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- Communication Studies & Media Arts
- Humanities
- Research Institutes
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- Centre for Networked Media & Performance