ILPC Seminar Series: Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism Book Launch
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Video date:
Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
Video speaker(s):
Dr Peter Coe, Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading, Associate Research Fellow at IALS/ILPC
Description
​Journalism has changed. The internet and social media have permanently altered the media ecology and have shifted the media paradigm beyond recognition by enabling new actors to enter the media marketplace, and by changing the way that news is generated, published, and consumed.
Central to this communication revolution are citizen journalists, who's newsgathering and publication activities have made them crucial to public discourse. This book interrogates how the internet and social media have enabled citizen journalism to flourish, and what this means for the traditional institutional press, the public sphere, media freedom, and press regulation. It argues that the law's treatment of media freedom as a concept needs to be modernised, as citizen journalists are operating as media, but are not recognised as such.
Panel
- Professor David Rolph (University of Sydney)
- Professor Paul Wragg (University of Leeds)
- Rebecca Moosavian (University of Leeds)
- Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana (Head of Regulation at IMPRESS)
- Professor András Koltay (President, Hungarian Communication and Media Authority)
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