January 20, 2010
A symposium to mark the naming of the Silverstone Building at Sussex and to honour a former colleague, and international scholar and an excellent teacher.
Programme
12:30 – 12:35 Welcome - Sue Thornham, Head of Media, Film and Music
12:35 – 12:55 Introductory comments: The Work of Roger Silverstone Caroline Bassett, Sussex
13:00 – 14:00 Session 1: Media on the Move
(Chair Dolores Tierney)
Myria Georgiou, LSE: Media Migration, Citizenship
Maren Hartmann, U.of Arts Berlin: The interference of life: domestication in the digital age
10 minutes break
14:10 – 15:00 Session 2: Technology and Innovation: Policy, Use, Life… (Chair Thomas Austin)
Leslie Haddon, LSE: The development of the domestication framework
Robin Mansell, LSE: Technologies, Innovation, Power and Social Consequences
20 minutes break - tea/coffee
15:20 – 16:35 Session 3: Cultural Studies
(Chair Ben Highmore)
Matt Hills, Cardiff: Everyday life,“temporal capital” and TV studies/fandom
Irmi Karl, Brighton: On 'How to be Queer': A Story Towards Ethnographic Encounters
Andy Medhurst, Sussex: Silverstone, Sussex and Suburbia
5 minutes break
16:40 – 18:00 Session 4: Ethics and the Mediapolis
(Chair Michael Bull)
Lilie Chouliaraki, LSE: Proper Distance in the Mediation of Suffering
Nick Couldry, LSE: Ethics and Mediation
Kate Lacey, Sussex: Home, Work and Everyday Communicative Ethics
18:00 Reception: Silverstone Public Area
