Ben O'Loughlin is one of the speakers at the symposium Streets to Screens: Mediating Conflict Through Digital Networks on 7th November 2014 at Goldsmiths, University of London. The symposium is on the topic of mediating conflict through digital networks
- What role do networked eyewitnesses, activists and citizen journalists play in conflict communication today?
- What are the challenges faced by those mediating conflict online?
- In what ways are social media content produced within the zone of conflict shaping the coverage produced by news organisations?
- What are the implications of these forms of reportage for eyewitnesses, activists, citizen journalists, perpetrators, NGOs, journalists, news media, audiences and global publics?
Speakers Include
Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow
Ben O'Loughlin, Royal Holloway
Sam Gregory, WITNESS
Liam Stack, New York Times
Claire Wardle, UNHCR
Stuart Allan, Cardiff University
Malachy Browne, Storyful
Lilie Chouliaraki, LSE
Tickets are FREE but registration is required. For more information please visit:
http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/news-and-events/department/2014/streets-to-screens/
For more information, please contact Holly Steel at has502@york.ac.uk