September 2009: PRESS RELEASE - PROVISIONAL FINDINGS DOWNLOAD HERE

15 September 2009 Closing Symposium

Royal Holloway, Bedford Square, 2 Gower Street, London, W1CE 6DP

PROGRAMME 10.30 Arrival

11.00 – 12.45: Panel One: Project findings • Andrew Hoskins, Akil Awan, Ben O’Loughlin, Mina Al-Lami, Carole Boudeau

Lunch: 12.45 – 13.30

13.30 – 15.00: Panel Two:
Identifying terrorists on and offline • David Wills, University of Birmingham: Terrorism and Securing Identity - a discourse analysis • Maura Conway, Dublin City University: How technology and terrorism are framed [title TBC]
Chair: Ben O’Loughlin

Coffee Break: 15.00-15.30

15.30 – 17.00: Panel Three: Audience responses to global terrorism
Janroj Keles: [Title TBC]
Pierrick Bonno: French audience responses to discourses of radicalisation
Matilda Anderson, The Open University: Responses to the Mumbai attacks among BBC World Service audiences
Chair: Andrew Hoskins

17.00 – 17.15: Closing remarks and next steps

Previous Event

21-22 May 2009: Digital Media and Security Scoping Workshop/Symposium

Warwick International Security Initiative/ESRC project event:

Objectives: To establish a research theme of Digital Media and Security that will enable Warwick and external academics, practitioners, and stakeholders to debate and shape an interdisciplinary and international research agenda that will:

(1) Interrogate the role and function of new media and their associated technologies in shaping the everyday experience of ‘mediatized’ insecurity and security;

(2) Illuminate and shape the paradigmatic shift required in the fields of media, sociology, politics, communication and journalism studies, etc. to provide an adequate framework for security research in the new media ecology;

(3) Initiate and lead the generation of externally-funded grants to enable (1) and (2) above.

For details contact: Andrew Hoskins