20 June, 2022 - The Journalism Research and Education Section is pleased to present a webinar to discuss several recently released or forthcoming books. The books scheduled for presentation were:
• McQuail’s Media and Mass Communication Theory - Denis McQuail and Mark Deuze
• Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems - Daniela V. Dimitrova (Editor)
• Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies - Bonnie S. Brennen
• Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting - Kristin Skare Orgeret (Editor)
• Public Television in Poland: Political Pressure and Public Service Media in a Post-communist Country - Agnieszka Węglińska.
• Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1: Prophets and Philosophers - Abiodun Salawu and Israel Fadipe (Editors.)
• Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 2: Social Crusades and the Future - Abiodun Salawu and Israel Fadipe (Editors)
• The Transformation of the Media System in Turkey: Citizenship, Communication, and Convergence - Eylem Yanardağoğlu
• The House that Zee Built - Surbhi Dahiya
• Indian Media Giants: Unveiling the Business Dynamics of Print Legacies - Surbhi Dahiya
7 June 2022 - This webinar centred on a book of the same name, co-authored by Francesca Musiani and Ksenia Ermoshina, that presents the first in-depth sociological inquiry in the field of secure communication.
Encryption has become one of the core battlegrounds of Internet governance: current debates around encryption have fundamental implications for our individual liberties and collective presence on the Internet. Alongside the turning of encryption into a fully-fledged political issue, the cryptography community has renewed its efforts to create next-generation secure messaging protocols and applications.
The webinar set out to explore these efforts, unveiling the experience of encryption in the variety of secure messaging protocols and tools existing today. The authors showed how these tools, with a core common objective of “concealing for freedom”, differ in their intended technical architectures, their targeted user publics and the underlying values and business models.
On 15 October 2021, the Gender and Communication Section organised a webinar event, gathering together a diverse range of top female academics working across the Humanities and Social Sciences who are making use of feminist methodologies in an innovative and creative manner.
On 7 October 2021 the Participatory Communication Research Section organised a webinar event for scholars to present the book “The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America”.
Edited by Ana Cristina Suzina and published by Palgrave in 2021, the book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy of resistance and hope for marginalised social groups.
