IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

Cancelled due to lack of sufficient interest; only 9 abstracts received.

'Civil Rights in Mediatized Societies: Which data privacy against whom and how?' is the title of an IAMCR pre-conference to be held 19 & 20 July 2008 at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

More and more institutions have begun to collect all the data they can get – in whatever way: the government, the police, the industry, enterprises, the health and the security system, banks, political parties, retail shop chains, the media themselves. It is not new that they do this.