Scientific workshop Venice, Isle of San Servolo

17-19 April 2008

Mapping Global Media Policy: concepts, frameworks, methods

Promoted and sponsored by

University of Padova University of Trento McGill University Province of Venice IAMCR Working Group on Global Media Policy

Scientific Coordination & Organization

Claudia Padovani & Giorgia Nesti, University of Padova Elena Pavan, University of Trento

Mapping Global Media Policy: concepts, frameworks, methods is a two days scientific workshop conceived as a joint space for dialogue among two groups of scholars involved in research activities on media policy: participants in the Italian PRIN project “Communication rights between local and global:

mobilization networks and the transformations of governance”, who are implementing network approaches to the study of Internet Governance and European policies on media pluralism and digital rights;

members of the IAMCR Working Group on Global Media Policy, who are currently

developing the rational, concept and methodology for a mapping exercise of media policy and communication governance in the global context, towards the ideation of an “Atlas on Global Media and Communication Policy”

A public event, in the form of a Round Table titled The political significance of media literacy. Building citizen competence for the 21st century, will conclude the seminar offering research partners, invited experts, teachers, communication students and information professionals an opportunity to discuss the relationship between communication as a fundamental right, media literacy, and renewed forms of political participation.

PROGRAMME Day 1 – 17th April 2008

9.30 – 10.00 Welcome of participants and introduction to the seminar 10.00 – 11.30 Introduction to PRIN project Discussing Communication rights between local and global: linking mobilization and policy networks? A framework Claudia Padovani, University of Padova Mario Diani, University of Trento 11.30 – 11.45 Coffee break 11.45 – 13.00 Questions, comments and general discussion Invited discussants Wolfgang Kleinwachter, Aarhus University Ruud Koopmans, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) Maria Michalis, University of Westminster Josef Trappel, IPMZ Institut and EuroMediaResearch Group

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break (at San Servolo Mensa) 14.30 – 15.45 Preliminary findings from PRIN project Transnational networks on Internet Governance: mapping an emerging field Elena Pavan, University of Trento Analysing communication governance in the European context Giorgia Nesti, University of Padova 15.45 – 16.00 Coffee break 16.00 – 17.30 Questions, comments and general discussion Invited discussants Wolfgang Kleinwachter, Aarhus University Ruud Koopmans, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) Maria Michalis, University of Westminster Josef Trappel, IPMZ Institut and EuroMediaResearch Group

20.00 dinner at Casin dei Nobili

PROGRAMME Day 2 – 18th April 2008

9.30 – 10.00 Introduction to the Global Media Mapping project Background, rationale, proposed framework (and inputs from the pre-seminar skype session) Marc Raboy, McGill University Claudia Padovani, University of Padova Claire Roberge, McGill University 10.00 – 11.30 Comments from invited discussants, questions and general discussion Moderator : Claudia Padovani 15 minutes each for invited discussants: Saskia Sassen, Columbia University Sandra Braman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and University of Bergen Ulla Carlsson, NORDICOM Jason Nardi, Statewatch 11.30 – 11.45 Coffee break 11.45 – 13.00 Concepts, framework and methods Moderator : Marc Raboy 11-45 – 12:15

Refining terminology : Claudia Padovani on governance; Arne Hintz on civil society; Wolfgang Kleinwaechter on multistakeholderism. 12:15 – 12:45

Refining the framework: Andrew Calabrese on framework content; Kate Coyer on integrating social activist dimension: Marc Raboy on articulation of actors and issues.

12:45 – 13:00 Overall goal for the project (open discussion): Who will it address? What will be its

empirical components?

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break (at San Servolo Mensa) 14.30 – 16.15 Elluminate session General discussion with remote participation.

16.15 – 16.30 Coffee break

16.30 – 17.30 Towards an Atlas on Global Media and Communication Policy Next steps: electronic platform and tools, networking, fund raising and project elaboration

20.00 dinner at Venice Casino

PROGRAMME Day 3 – 19th April 2008

9.30 -13.00

Round Table The political significance of media literacy.

Building citizen competence for the 21st century The Universities of Padova and Trento, in cooperation with McGill University and the Province of Venice, are organizing an international seminar - titled Mapping Global Media Policy: concepts, frameworks, methods – to take place in Venice on April 17 and 18 2008. This event, of high scientific value, will bring together scholars who are experts in the fields of media, citizenship and global governance of communication. During the two days seminar on-going research projects wil be discussed, with the aim of developing an international initiative of mapping global media and communication governance, with the support of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Taking advantage of the presence of these experienced and internationally well known scholars, the Venice Laboratory on media and citizenship promotes a public event aimed at addressing the many factets of the relationship between information and communication means and citizen participation, with a special focus on how media literacy and media education should be conceived and implemented as resources to promote active citizenship. Speakers from different countries and different disciplinary backgrounds, will address the opportunities and constraints connected to (broadly understood) communicative competences and understandings that need to be fostered in order to empower citizens in communication societies. 9.30 – 9.45 Welcome from the authorities Davide Zoggia, President, Province of Venice Laura di Lucia Coletti, Laboratory on Media and Citizenship, Venice Gianni Riccamboni – University of Padova Moderator: Claudia Padovani - University of Padova 9.45 – 10.30 Session I: From artefacts to knowledge: media literacy beyond technology This first session of the roundtable will feature reflections on how technology and politics intersect with and influence each other, thus promoting an understanding of media literacy that goes beyond the awareness of how media structures function (technicalities, media logic, newsworthiness…). Speakers are invited to reflect, theoretically as well as through empirical evidence, on how technology contributes to re-shaping political spaces and agendas, thus experimenting new forms of political participations and governing. In this context, media literacy is to be understood as a tool to promote public knowledge and empowerment, enhancing citizens’ capacity to understand, intervene and effectively influence political processes. Invited speakers: Saskia Sassen - Lynd Professor of Sociology and member of the Committee on Global

Thought, Columbia University, New York, USA Ruud Koopmans – Chair in Social Conflict and Change, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,

Olanda

Mario Diani – Professor in Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy

Josef Trappel - Center for Knowledge Transfer and Applied Media Research, Institute for Mass Communication and Media Research, Università di Zurigo, Svizzera

Arne Hintz - Center for Media and Communications Studies, Department of Public Policy, Università Centrale Europea, Budapest, Ungheria

Elena Pavan - Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università di Trento 10.30 – 10.45 Break 10.45 – 11.45 Session II: Public Awareness of global media politics: new media literacy in the global context This section of the roundtable will feature reflections on media literacy conceived as a method to contribute to the general public’s awareness of and access to media and communication policy forums and processes. Anticipating a debate that will take place in Stockholm in July 2008 (as a pre-event of the IAMCR International Conference), and drawing from an ongoing research project on Global Media Policy Mapping, the session will address “The challenge of making the implications of arcane policy discourses accessible and relevant to much more widely affected populations, recognizing that highly concentrated global media companies have often little interest in serving as outlets for such information”. Invited speakers: Andrew Calabrese - School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of

Colorado, Boulder, US Sandra Braman - Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,

USA & Freedom of Expression Professor at the University of Bergen, in Norway Maria Michalis – Senior Lecturer in Communication, Westminster University, London UK Marc Raboy - Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications, Department of

Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 11.45 – 13.00 Session III: What resources and practices for a new media literacy? The final session will gather contributions based on concrete experiences in media literacy and will introduce innovative projects that are been deployed in the global context. As far as experiences in media literacy and education speakers are invited to reflect on the opportunities and shortcoming in educational practices concerning media and communication, possibly with an international perspective. Presentation of the Media Literacy project of the Alliance of Civilizations (United Nations) by Jordi Torrent, New York, USA Invited speakers: Wolfgang Kleinwachter - Department for Media and Information Sciences, University of

Aarhus, Denmark Jason Nardi - Statewatch, Florence, Italy and International Committee of the World

Social Forum Laura di Lucia Coletti – Laboratory on media and citizenship, Provincia Etica, Venice,

Italy