Pete
12th February 2004, 16:55
The group I am active with is holding a massive media conference this March (4-6). We want anyone who can come to come. It will be amazing and informative with such people as Stephen Marshall of the GNN, Peter Phillips of Project Cesnored, John Stauber of PR Watch, and many others doing workshops, lectures, presentations, discussions, ect.
It is 20$ Canadian for the weekend (you need to find your own place to stay, and no I cannot billet anyone I live in a dingy little room with another guy and there is not enough space for the two of us, and a third will be hell). I am going to include some of the info from their site, the link, and if you want to now more IM me (don't email me please I may never get it) and I have the registrations forms, stamps, envelops, what not!
It is open to EVERYONE regardless of where you are from, considering you can get here and get a cheap place to stay.
Excellant.
-Pete
Uncensoring Media-morphisis: Reclaiming freedom, rights, privacy and dignity
In our society, much of our knowledge about the world and the values and beliefs that govern our behaviour and interactions with others are shaped directly by the mass media. Mass communication technologies, such as newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet, have the ability to connect people and unremittingly disseminate information on a global scale in real time. This capability has enormously expanded the social and political power of the media to influence peoples opinions, behaviour and perception of reality.
Rather than representing neutral and independent sources for the broadcasting of local and international news and entertainment, modern mass media have become active agents in the creation of particular meaning and the promotion of particular ways of looking at the world and understanding it. Their increasing power to influence and manipulate popular attitudes and behaviour has rendered the mass media a highly desirable target of state and private decision-makers decision-makers seeking to eliminate public interference and obtain the legitimate consent of the public to their actions.
The currently undemocratic control of the mass media and their content by private corporate and state oligarchies has become unprecedentedly evident in recent American mass propaganda. Examples include orchestrated efforts to legitimize the U.S.-led ongoing war against Iraq and the silently mounting trend towards concentration of mass media ownership.
In the light of such events, we believe it is now the time to bring people together to discuss alternative possibilities and actions. We believe it is now the time to promote a critical understanding of our mass-mediated culture and how the media interact with their audiences, and we hope to foster a critical analysis of the social, cultural, political and economic implications of media content. Resultantly, we wish to encourage innovative uses of the mass media to convey alternative practices and values that promote fundamental change and establish the foundations of a better, fully democratic and peaceful global society.
Un-censoring: MediaMorphosis is organized by a group of undergraduate and graduate university students operating under the umbrella of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) of Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. It is, with the objective of bringing people together to discuss and exchange information on the currently expanding manipulation of the mass media, that we are doing so. Our aim is to illustrate the pivotal role played by corporate-sponsored mass media in manipulating public perception about the world by controlling what we think about and how we think about it.
--| Programme |--
Un-censoring: MediaMorphosis
Program*
Thursday, March 4, 2004
6:00 p.m. Registration opens
7:00 p.m. Welcome and opening remarks
7:30-8:30 p.m. Opening session: * Public Event *
James Winter: Mediasaurus: how we got here, where we are, and the road ahead"
Friday, March 5, 2004
8:30 a.m. Registration opens
9:30-11:00 a.m. Keynote session
John Stauber (PR Watch): Weapons of mass deception: understanding and defeating corporate and government propaganda
11:00-11:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30-12:45 p.m. Workshops session 1
1.Lisa Freeman: Activism and media relations
2.David Robinson
3.MediaWatch
4.Joan A. Pierre (Harmony): The influence of the media on the political process
5.Jonathan Culp: Tactical aesthetics: beyond video activism
6.Boyce Richardson: A Reporters Reflections on Half a Century in the Media
1:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-3:00 p.m. Keynote session:
Vincent Mosco: One big union revisited: labour in the Age of Media Convergence
3:15-5:00 p.m. Workshops session 2
1.CKCU & Rise Up: Radio Activism
2.Marc Adornato: Alternatives to mainstream media
3.Audra Estrones Williams: Progressive Communication: Can the Masters Tools Destroy the Masters House?
4.Aaron Doyle & Serra Tinic: Crime and the media
5.Juana Berinstein: Communication and democracy: the impact of neo-liberal policy on radio broadcasting in Canada
6. Mike Kaulbars (remove PERC): Media, Power and Democracy: An Experiential Workshop Exploring the Dynamics of Power
5:15-6:30 p.m. Panel discussion: Science and technology: hope, dreams and perils
Pierre Levy
Vincent Mosco
Audra Williams
6:30-7:30 Dinner
7:30-9:00 Film panel: * Public Event *
Deadline Iraq: uncensored stories of the war
with Greg Kelly (CBC News: Sunday Producer)
Saturday, March 6, 2003
9:00-10.30 a.m. Keynote session:
Mohamed Elmasry (Canadian Islamic Congress): Anti-Islam in the media: why, who and what?
10:45-12:15 a.m. Panel discussion: Free press and broadcasting and public journalism forum
Shari Graydon
Russell Mills
David Robinson: "Concentration and convergence: can a free press survive?"
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:00 p.m. Workshops session 3
1. Stephen Marshall (Guerrilla News Network): The art of revolution: How GNN went from the margins to MTV
2.Yahya Abdul Rahman (Editor, Montreal Muslim News): Internet activism for dummies
3.Shari Graydon: Media education: countering the popular curriculum
4.Phillip Thurtle
5.Joan A. Pierre (Harmony): Media and diversity
3:00-4.30 p.m. Panel discussion: Independent media and war
Stephen Marshall (Guerrilla News Network)
Peter Phillips (Project Censored)
John Stauber (PR Watch)
4:45-6:15 p.m. Keynote session:
Mark Kingwell: Systems and conspiracies: getting rid of the media
6:00-8:00 Book-signing
6:30-8:00 a.m. Panel discussion: Survival strategies for independent media: what is our future?
Bob Hackett
MediaWatch
John Stauber (PR Watch)
8:00-8:30 p.m. Closing remarks and announcements
10:00 p.m. Musical event at Babylon:
Dub Trinity with Dub Poets Chet Singh & DBi Young
$10 at the door
$8 for Un-censoring: MediaMorphosis participants
* Please note, the program may be still subject to change
MediaMorphisis Website (http://opirg-carleton.org/mmcindex.html)
It is 20$ Canadian for the weekend (you need to find your own place to stay, and no I cannot billet anyone I live in a dingy little room with another guy and there is not enough space for the two of us, and a third will be hell). I am going to include some of the info from their site, the link, and if you want to now more IM me (don't email me please I may never get it) and I have the registrations forms, stamps, envelops, what not!
It is open to EVERYONE regardless of where you are from, considering you can get here and get a cheap place to stay.
Excellant.
-Pete
Uncensoring Media-morphisis: Reclaiming freedom, rights, privacy and dignity
In our society, much of our knowledge about the world and the values and beliefs that govern our behaviour and interactions with others are shaped directly by the mass media. Mass communication technologies, such as newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet, have the ability to connect people and unremittingly disseminate information on a global scale in real time. This capability has enormously expanded the social and political power of the media to influence peoples opinions, behaviour and perception of reality.
Rather than representing neutral and independent sources for the broadcasting of local and international news and entertainment, modern mass media have become active agents in the creation of particular meaning and the promotion of particular ways of looking at the world and understanding it. Their increasing power to influence and manipulate popular attitudes and behaviour has rendered the mass media a highly desirable target of state and private decision-makers decision-makers seeking to eliminate public interference and obtain the legitimate consent of the public to their actions.
The currently undemocratic control of the mass media and their content by private corporate and state oligarchies has become unprecedentedly evident in recent American mass propaganda. Examples include orchestrated efforts to legitimize the U.S.-led ongoing war against Iraq and the silently mounting trend towards concentration of mass media ownership.
In the light of such events, we believe it is now the time to bring people together to discuss alternative possibilities and actions. We believe it is now the time to promote a critical understanding of our mass-mediated culture and how the media interact with their audiences, and we hope to foster a critical analysis of the social, cultural, political and economic implications of media content. Resultantly, we wish to encourage innovative uses of the mass media to convey alternative practices and values that promote fundamental change and establish the foundations of a better, fully democratic and peaceful global society.
Un-censoring: MediaMorphosis is organized by a group of undergraduate and graduate university students operating under the umbrella of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) of Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. It is, with the objective of bringing people together to discuss and exchange information on the currently expanding manipulation of the mass media, that we are doing so. Our aim is to illustrate the pivotal role played by corporate-sponsored mass media in manipulating public perception about the world by controlling what we think about and how we think about it.
--| Programme |--
Un-censoring: MediaMorphosis
Program*
Thursday, March 4, 2004
6:00 p.m. Registration opens
7:00 p.m. Welcome and opening remarks
7:30-8:30 p.m. Opening session: * Public Event *
James Winter: Mediasaurus: how we got here, where we are, and the road ahead"
Friday, March 5, 2004
8:30 a.m. Registration opens
9:30-11:00 a.m. Keynote session
John Stauber (PR Watch): Weapons of mass deception: understanding and defeating corporate and government propaganda
11:00-11:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30-12:45 p.m. Workshops session 1
1.Lisa Freeman: Activism and media relations
2.David Robinson
3.MediaWatch
4.Joan A. Pierre (Harmony): The influence of the media on the political process
5.Jonathan Culp: Tactical aesthetics: beyond video activism
6.Boyce Richardson: A Reporters Reflections on Half a Century in the Media
1:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-3:00 p.m. Keynote session:
Vincent Mosco: One big union revisited: labour in the Age of Media Convergence
3:15-5:00 p.m. Workshops session 2
1.CKCU & Rise Up: Radio Activism
2.Marc Adornato: Alternatives to mainstream media
3.Audra Estrones Williams: Progressive Communication: Can the Masters Tools Destroy the Masters House?
4.Aaron Doyle & Serra Tinic: Crime and the media
5.Juana Berinstein: Communication and democracy: the impact of neo-liberal policy on radio broadcasting in Canada
6. Mike Kaulbars (remove PERC): Media, Power and Democracy: An Experiential Workshop Exploring the Dynamics of Power
5:15-6:30 p.m. Panel discussion: Science and technology: hope, dreams and perils
Pierre Levy
Vincent Mosco
Audra Williams
6:30-7:30 Dinner
7:30-9:00 Film panel: * Public Event *
Deadline Iraq: uncensored stories of the war
with Greg Kelly (CBC News: Sunday Producer)
Saturday, March 6, 2003
9:00-10.30 a.m. Keynote session:
Mohamed Elmasry (Canadian Islamic Congress): Anti-Islam in the media: why, who and what?
10:45-12:15 a.m. Panel discussion: Free press and broadcasting and public journalism forum
Shari Graydon
Russell Mills
David Robinson: "Concentration and convergence: can a free press survive?"
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:00 p.m. Workshops session 3
1. Stephen Marshall (Guerrilla News Network): The art of revolution: How GNN went from the margins to MTV
2.Yahya Abdul Rahman (Editor, Montreal Muslim News): Internet activism for dummies
3.Shari Graydon: Media education: countering the popular curriculum
4.Phillip Thurtle
5.Joan A. Pierre (Harmony): Media and diversity
3:00-4.30 p.m. Panel discussion: Independent media and war
Stephen Marshall (Guerrilla News Network)
Peter Phillips (Project Censored)
John Stauber (PR Watch)
4:45-6:15 p.m. Keynote session:
Mark Kingwell: Systems and conspiracies: getting rid of the media
6:00-8:00 Book-signing
6:30-8:00 a.m. Panel discussion: Survival strategies for independent media: what is our future?
Bob Hackett
MediaWatch
John Stauber (PR Watch)
8:00-8:30 p.m. Closing remarks and announcements
10:00 p.m. Musical event at Babylon:
Dub Trinity with Dub Poets Chet Singh & DBi Young
$10 at the door
$8 for Un-censoring: MediaMorphosis participants
* Please note, the program may be still subject to change
MediaMorphisis Website (http://opirg-carleton.org/mmcindex.html)