Altug Akin (Izmir University of Economics, Turkey) – Tractors, Development and Communication: Marshall Plan Films about Turkey produced by British Filmmakers This talk is based on the findings of BA-supported research collaboration between University of Westminster[...]

Are optimists or pessimist correct about the digital future? Will we have new forms of community, sensing, distributed democracy, digital activism and responsive governance? Or networked exploitation, the surveillance society, technological domination and dehumanization? What[...]

Wayne Hope (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) – Time, Global Capitalism and the Anthropocene Evidence from multiple disciplines suggests that the earth as a system has experienced a historical step-change in the relationship between the[...]

China Media Centre 2019 Spring Seminar Abstract: The first sentence of Chinese classic novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms says, “This world will separate after long time united. Also, will do the opposite after long[...]

Ferruh Yilmaz (Tulane University, USA) – How Does Populist Communication Succeed? Focusing on the rhetoric of the populist right in Denmark, Ferruh Yilmaz will discuss how elite and media responses can end up confirming the logic[...]