IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

A panel in celebration of the work of Professor Roger Silverstone - Morality and Media in the 21st Century - was held at the London School of Economics on 16 October 2006.

The moral implications of the increasing globalisation of the media and our increasing dependence on those media for our understanding of the other in the world in which we live, the subject of Professor Roger Silverstone's book, Media and Morality: on the rise of the mediapolis (Polity, 2006), were discussed.

An mp3 recording of the event is available.

Chair:
Professor Robin Mansell

Charlie Beckett, Director is director of POLIS. Lilie Chouliaraki is Research Professor of Media & Discourse Studies, Copenhagen Business School. Stan Cohen is Martin White Professor of Sociology at LSE. Daniel Dayan is Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Richard Sambrook is director of the BBC’s global news division. Robin Mansell is Professor of New Media at LSE.

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