First (2018) Annual Symposium of The Institute for Global Media, Democracy & Culture
Theme: New Media & Politics in the Arab World Today: A Symposium
The National School of Commerce and Management, El Jadida, Morocco
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
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Featured Speakers: Click HERE for speakers’ bios and details.
The Institute for Global Media, Democracy and Culture (Chicago, USA), in collaboration with the National School of Commerce and Management (El Jadida, Morocco) will be hosting its first annual symposium on new media, politics and democracy in Morocco and the Arab world today. The symposium brings together several media studies and cultural studies scholars, including Dr. Jaafar Aksikas (Keynote Speaker), Renee Tadros, and Dr. Mohamed Mifdal, to discuss issues of emergent media (industries) and politics in the Arab world and in Morocco more specifically. The speakers will engage varied issues, including the roles and places of global media and digital technologies in political participation and political activism today. Unlike most contemporary celebratory, technology-determined accounts of the political roles of the media, which assign rather magical powers to new media and digital technologies, the symposium seeks to offer more nuanced, more robust, more contextual, and more historical accounts of new media formation in the region. It seeks to offer original insights, as well as propose new theoretical and methodological perspectives, on the complex interactions and hidden interactions between media, politics, and society at what is undoubtedly a critical conjuncture in Arab societies and cultures. The symposium participants will share very short observations that are meant to generate discussion and conversation amongst all attendees.
Event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.
