Monday 10th July
International communication: On the Significance of Borders in the Digital Borderless World
This panel will explore to what extent borders remain key categories for understanding the realities of transnational flows in digital times, it will address such issues as: the ways in which, in this so-called borderless world, an increasing number of governments use all the means at their disposal to protect themselves against what they regard as being harmful digital transnational flows, and build new barriers against them; how social media, but also traditional media play a key role in the building of symbolic boundaries between “us” and “them”, or are used as instruments to fuel hatred between communities; how digital technologies constitute major components of the new walls that are erected by governments or international organizations for stemming transnational migration flows…
Moderator: Tristan Mattelart
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Tristan Mattelart is professor of International Communication at the French Institute of the Press, University Paris-Panthéon-Assas, and researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Analysis and Research of the Media (CARISM). Currently, he studies the ways in which global digital platforms reconfigure the transnational circulation of news and cultural products. |
Panelists
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Yu Hong is a professor of Communication at the College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University. She studies ICT4D, internet and media policy, digital capitalism, the politics of mediation, and shifting global communication order, with a focus on China. Her recent projects include a Chinese-language monograph on states and the cybersphere. |
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Stefania Milan (stefaniamilan.net) works at the intersection of participation, technology, and governance, with emphasis on infrastructure and agency. She is Professor of Critical Data Studies at the University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University) and the School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute). |
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Daya Thussu is professor of International Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University. For many years, he was professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster in London. He is the author or editor of 20 books and founder and Managing Editor of the journal Global Media and Communication. |
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Herman Wasserman is professor and chair of the Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has published widely on media in Africa, journalism ethics, and disinformation in the Global South. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journals African Journalism Studies and the Annals of the International Communication, and Associate Editor of Communication Theory and International Communication Gazette. |
