Tuesday 7 April, 5:30 pm in Arts W215
James Love, Director of Knowledge Ecology International, will speak at a Media@McGill event co-sponsored with the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, and the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy.
NGO efforts to reform the World Intellectual Property Organization
http://media.mcgill.ca/en/node/1399
Wednesday 8 April, 9:00-4:00 pm in Arts W220 – Student Symposium
McGill/Concordia Graduate Student Joint Symposium On Global Media Policy, Transnational Activism and International Communication
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Convenors:
Profs. Marc Raboy and Becky Lentz, McGill, and Leslie Shade, Concordia
Guest and Respondent:
James Love, Knowledge Ecology International
Agenda
9.00-9.15: Welcome and opening
9.15-10.15: PANEL 1 – International Communication: Culture, Critique and Activism
Mobilization and the Role of Celebrities in the Live 8 Campaign: Citizens consuming or Consuming Citizenship?
Valerie Khayat, Concordia University
Punk as “Glocal” Cultural Product: Wrench in the Gears or Neo-liberal Quisling?
Cyrus Lewis, Concordia University
Fluxtuation, Globalization, and the Spaces and Places of Public Screens
Zach Melzer, Concordia University
10.15-11.15: PANEL 2 – Media and Democracy
All Politics is Personal: Ethos and identity in Barack Obama’s Direct Messaging Strategies
David Godsall, Concordia University
Radio France International: Serving French Soft Power in Western Africa?
Jeanne Dorelli, Concordia University
The Measure of Democratic Potential – Imagining A Global Method for Evaluating News Media Performance
Christine Crowther, McGill University
11.15-11.30: Health break
11.30-12.30: PANEL 3 – Canadian Policy: Opportunities, Challenges, Responses
Creating the Ideal: Diminishing Notions of Citizenship within Canadian Telecommunciations Policy
Roddy Doucet, Concordia University
Art at the Edges: Advocating for the Avant-garde in Canada
Patti Schmidt, McGill University
When Saying “Local” isn’t Enough: Local Television Regulation as a Discursive Formation in American and Canadian Broadcasting Policy
Christopher Ali, Concordia University
12.30-1.30: Lunch
(Provided by the Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications)
1.30-2.30: PANEL 4 – The Impact of Global Policy Institutions
The Post-WSIS Challenge: Global Civil Society and Communication Reform in the Face of Technocentrism and Corporate Steering
Svetla Turnin, Concordia University
Listening Locally? UNESCO Cultural Diversity and Canadian Campus Radio
Brian Fauteux, McGill/Concordia University
How Globalized Communications are Challenging Cultural Expressions
Marie-Eve Gagnon, McGill University
2.30-2.45: Health Break
2.45-3.45: PANEL 5 – Rethinking Intellectual Property Policy Issues
Fixing Sound: Phonograms, IP, and the Political Economy of Sound
Daniel Moody-Grigsby, McGill University
Opening the Vault: Copyright Ownership of Digitized Art Images in the Museum
Valerie Doucette, McGill University
Copyright or Copycat? Impacts of Globalization on ‘Made-in-Canada’ IP Policy
Stephanie Dixon, McGill University
3.45-4.00: Wrap-up
