Imeall I gComhrá | Peripheries in Dialogue: Governing, Contesting and Transforming Media Systems
Sunday 28 June | 17:00
This opening plenary foregrounds a number of key challenges facing society, and helps frame our discussion over the coming days. It examines, in particular, how media and communication systems are governed, contested, and transformed across various contexts. Karen Arriaza Ibarra will chair the session and contribute her insights on the comparative challenges facing media governance and public service systems.
Karen will be joined by Anita Say Chan, who interrogates technological infrastructures and epistemic inequalities across the Global North and South, and Bart Cammaerts, whose work highlights how media, activism, and civic engagement resist the rise of neo-fascist populism. The plenary traces the interplay between centres and peripheries and explores who controls media infrastructures, whose voices are amplified and silenced, and how marginalised actors can innovate and transform communication systems.
Panel chair
Karen Arriaza Ibarra
Vice President of IAMCR.
Professor in Audiovisual Communication at the Faculty of Communication of Universidad Complutense in Madrid.
A long-standing leader of IAMCR, she became elected Chair of the International Communication section in 2016-2020, re-elected for 2020-2024. Her work focuses on the structure of public and private media, European media, political communication, media economy and cultural industries. She studies media phenomena such as populism or women’s rights movements that cut across country contexts (especially Northern and Southern Europe).
Panellists
Bart Cammaerts
Professor of Politics and Communication in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a member of the Academia Europaea (MAE).
He chairs OnePeople.sg, which works to promote racial harmony in Singapore, and the Executive Committee of the People’s Action Party (PAP) Community Foundation, which provides early childhood education and eldercare services. His political roles include Chair of the Mental Health Group and Whip.
Anita Say Chan
Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign at UIUC.
She is the founding director of the Community Data Clinic at UIUC. She is a Faculty Affiliate with the Data & Society Research Institute, a Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute, is a collaborator and co-author of the Feminist Data Manifest-NO project, and was a Fulbright Specialist in Bogota, Colombia working on feminist data collectives in Latin America.
