The conference below will be hosted by the media department of the London School of Economics at its central London campus. See the conference website for more details.

Fifth Anniversary Conference: Media, Communication and Humanity

Sunday 21st - Tuesday 23rd September 2008 In celebration of our Department’s fifth anniversary year, we invite critical thinking about how the media and communications environment is implicated in shaping our perceptions of the human condition and thus, increasingly, mediating human values, actions and social relations. We welcome proposals for papers offering theoretical insight and/or empirical work on this theme, focused on the five linked areas below.

Communication and Difference Democracy, Politics and Journalism Ethics Globalisation and Comparative Studies Innovation, Governance and Policy Media and New Media Literacies Abstracts should be submitted by 1 March 2008.

See conference website <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/ Conference/Default.htm> for further details.

We very much hope you will join us in our celebrations, Robin Mansell and Sonia Livingstone.

Confirmed speakers:

Sandra Ball-Rokeach Annenberg School for Communication, USA

Lilie Chouliaraki LSE, UK

Peter Dahlgren Lund University, Sweden

Daniel Dayan Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

John Downing Southern Illinois University, USA

Anthony Giddens LSE, UK

Carolyn Marvin Annenberg School for Communication, USA

Mark Poster University of California, Irvine, USA

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