First day in the LSE "Media, Communication and Humanity" conference

First day of the conference, I have already presented my paper on the Romanian political blogging phenomenon, I'm switching between parallel sessions, hopefully I'll be able to catch some interesting talks.

Blog notes:
Sara Thornton - Interpellations in the 19th century and present day media (Digital texts in context)
-problems of subjectivity in/through media - creation of self through media (in France and England); representations of the self
-body and mind in the media
-participatory structure emerging
-Lecercle, interpretation as pragmatics
-Butler, The psychic life of power

-the problem of forms of consumption - form of constrain
-eyes forced open for media consumption


Switch 1: to the Public service media reviewed
I entered in the middle of a presentation about Foucault's notion of power applied to governmentality (Frank Boddin - Public service broadcasting and the governmentality of the new public management)
-processes of self-regulation -for media professionals
-discoursive practices: PSB values
-perspective of uses and gratifications of programming

Carolina Oliveira Matos - Between Crisis and Cultural Emancipation: reevaluating the role of public media in the digital age
-the decline of PSB in Europe
-Keane: PS is obsolete- ideal Habermasian public sphere versus
Scamell: significant role of PSB to quality debate and information
-BBC versus ITV

Broadcasting history and tensions with the state
PSB in Latin America: a state or public media?
-why should we continue to discuss PSB? - it is still recognize by the public

Journalism and political democracy in Brazil
Role of public media in LA and Brazil
Problematic-complex media systems
future role for PSB

End of session