IAMCR 2015's plenary sessions can be watched online in their original languages. Click on the links below to read more about the speakers and themes and to watch the plenaries. Sessions are available in their original languages only.
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Plenary Session 1 was held on Monday 13 July from 11:00 to 12:30. Martin Becerra spoke on Concentration in the Era of Convergence and Clemencia Rodríguez spoke on Citizens’ and movements’ use and appropriation of media technologies. The session was chaired by Carmen Rico of the Université de Québec à Montréal.
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Plenary Session 2 was held on Tuesday 14 July from 11:00 to 12:30. The panel gathered David Lyon, from Queen’s University, Ontario and Carly Nyst from Privacy International, and the discussion on Surveillance and Resistance was chaired by Chris Paterson, from the University of Leeds.
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Plenary Session 3 was held on Wednesday 15 July from 11:00 to 12:30. Serge Proulx of the UQAM and Suzanne de Cheveigné from the CNRS spoke on The injunction to participate in the digital world.
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Plenary Session 4 was held on Thursday 16 July from 11:00 to 12:30. Andrew Feenberg spoke on The Internet in question and Robin Mansell spoke on Imagining the digital world: ambiguity, power and the question of agency.
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Plenary Session 5 was held on Thursday 16 July from 16:00 to 17:00. Professor Jamal Eddine Naji closed the conference with a presentation on Communication and Democracy: local contexts and cultural identity discourses. This video of this session also includes the conference's closing ceremony.