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CENTER FOR MEDIA AT RISK CCENTENTER FFOROR AUTHORITARIANISM: ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM MEDIA POWER/RESISTANCE DECEMBER 6, 2019 @R@RISKISK DECEMBER 6, 2019 10:00-10:30AM BREAKFAST 10:30-10:45AM INTRODUCTION John L. Jackson, Jr., Walter H. Annenberg Dean Barbie Zelizer, Center for Media at Risk Director CENTER FOR MEDIA AT RISK AUTHORITARIANISM: We are in uncharted waters. Political intimidation 10:45-12:15PM PANEL ONE: REPRESSION threatens media practitioners worldwide, and POWER/RESISTANCE MODERATOR: Federico Finchelstein: Populism, Fascism disinformation campaigns destabilize public trust. François and the New Media Landscape The Center for Media at Risk offers the chance How do the media operate in authoritarian Heinderyckx Maryam Al-Khawaja: Media In Times of to strategize in response to threatening political Revolution conditions. Knowing how media practitioners work states? What obstructs and constrains Cas Mudde: The Media and Populism: under authoritarian regimes and circumstances of autonomous media practice? What makes A Complex Relationship creeping authoritarianism can help free/defend/ empower/protect/save the media. resistance among media practitioners possible? 12:15-1:30PM LUNCH This symposium will address the many shapes 1:30-3:00PM PANEL TWO: COMPLICITY of global authoritarianism as it impedes the MODERATOR: Jan-Werner Mueller: On the Populist Art of ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION Natalia Governance 3620 Walnut Street media, consider forms of resistance common to Roudakova Philadelphia, PA 19104 Melissa Chan: China’s Media Strategy: media practitioners and ponder media futures Legitimate Soft Power Campaigns or Influence Operations? amidst rising authoritarian trends. With an eye to DIRECTOR: Barbie Zelizer Keith Gessen: Against “Authoritarianism”: clarifying the devices by which authoritarianism A Critique of the Concept of Being “Unfree” CENTER COORDINATOR: Emily Plowman ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Joanna Birkner leaves its stamp, this symposium aims to 3:00-3:15PM REFRESHMENTS illuminate how the media might position 3:15-4:45PM PANEL THREE: DEFIANCE EMAIL: [email protected] themselves more productively in the power/ MODERATOR: Elizabeth Jelin: Communication Strategies VISIT: www.ASCmediarisk.org Silvio of Popular Movements as Resistance and CALL: 215-746-2874 resistance nexus. Waisbord Defiance TWEET: @ASCmediarisk Farida Nabourema: Citizen Journalism: A Response to Media Coercion Under Authoritarian Regimes CCENTENTER FFOROR Maria Ressa: Fighting Back with Data MEDIA 4:45-5:00PM CLOSING @R@RISKISK 5:00-6:30PM RECEPTION AUTHORITARIANISM: AUTHORITARIANISM: POWER/RESISTANCE MARYAM AL-KHAWAJA FRANÇOIS HEINDERYCKX JAN-WERNER MUELLER NATALIA ROUDAKOVA Media in Times of Revolution Moderator, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) On the Populist Art of Governance Moderator, Center for Media at Risk Visiting Scholar Al-Khawaja is a Bahraini Woman Human Rights Defender. Heinderyckx teaches media sociology and political Jan-Werner Mueller is Professor of Political Theory at Fall 2019 She is on the Board of the International Service for Human communication and is currently visiting at Columbia University Princeton University. His publications include What is Roudakova is a cultural anthropologist working in the Rights, global civil society alliance CIVICUS and the Urgent Graduate School of Journalism. His research interests include Populism?, which has been translated into 25 languages, fields of political communication, journalism and media Action Fund. Al-Khawaja played an instrumental role in journalism and news media, political communication, Constitutional Patriotism and A Dangerous Mind: Carl studies with a broad international research and teaching the democratic protests taking place in Bahrain’s Pearl audience studies and media literacy. He was among the Schmitt in Post-War European Thought. He contributes to the profile. Her award-winning book Losing Pravda: Ethics Roundabout in February 2011, which triggered a government response founding members of the European Communication Research and London Review of Books, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs and The New York and the Press in Post-Truth Russia examines the professional unraveling of widespread extra-judicial killings, arrests and torture. She has been Education Association (ECREA) in 2005 and was the President of ECREA from Times, among other outlets. His new book is called Democracy Rules. of journalism in Russia during the 1990s and 2000s and its societal subjected to assault, threats, defamation campaigns, imprisonment its creation until 2012. He was also the 2013-2014 President of the International ramifications by illuminating the historical and cultural emergence and an unfair trial over her human rights work. Al-Khawaja has received Communication Association (ICA). He is a member of the advisory or editorial FARIDA NABOUREMA of “fake news,” disinformation (kompromat) and general distrust in numerous awards for her human rights work, including the Rafto Prize, boards of a dozen international academic journals. @FHeinderyckx Citizen Journalism: A Response to Media Coercion Under politics and public life. Roudakova’s new research is focused on the and was nominated for the Nobel Prize along with her sister Zainab and Authoritarian Regimes phenomenology of news perception in the digital age. Specifically, she imprisoned father Abdul-Hadi. @MARYAMALKHAWAJA JOHN L. JACKSON, JR. Nabourema is a political activist, blogger and writer known as is studying how young adults in Russia perceive and practice news, and Walter H. Annenberg Dean, Annenberg School for an unequivocal voice for Togo’s pro-democracy movement. how news is made meaningful in their everyday lives. @roudakova MELISSA CHAN Communication She serves as the Executive Director of the Togolese Civil China’s Media Strategy: Legitimate Soft Power Jackson is the Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg League, an NGO that promotes democracy and rule of law SILVIO WAISBORD Campaigns or Influence Operations? School for Communication and Richard Perry University in Togo. In 2011, Nabourema founded the Faure Must Go movement, which Moderator, Center for Media at Risk Visiting Scholar Chan is a national and foreign affairs reporter based Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author organized Togolese youths to stand against the dictatorial regime of the Spring 2020 between Berlin and Los Angeles. She is a collaborator with of several books and is also editor of Social Policy and Social Gnassingbe, the oldest military regime in Africa. In 2019, she was nominated Waisbord is Professor in the School of Media and Public the Global Reporting Centre and an editor and presenter Justice (2016), distributed by the University of Pennsylvania for the list of 100 Most Influential African Women. Her work for democracy Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author/ for the Asia news program of the German broadcaster Press. An urban researcher, media ethnographer, anthropologist of religion and human rights has appeared on CNN and in Time. Nabourema currently editor of 16 books, as well as journal articles, book chapters Deutsche Welle. Previously, she spent a year working with The New York and theorist of race/ethnicity, Jackson’s work also critically explores how film works as the Engagement and Collaboration Coordinator of Africans Rising, and newspaper columns on journalism, politics and social Times on projects focusing on technology, democracy and global affairs and other non-traditional or multi-modal formats can be most effectively a pan-African movement which supports citizen movements through change. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Communication and how these forces impact ordinary people. Chan served as Al Jazeera utilized in specifically scholarly research projects. @johnljacksonjr nonviolent civic action. @Farida_N and the International Journal of Press/Politics. He has lectured and English’s China correspondent for five years before her expulsion from worked in more than 30 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the country in 2012 over the channel’s coverage. She has reported from ELIZABETH JELIN MARIA RESSA Africa. A Fellow of the International Communication Association, he has around the world, including Cuba, North Korea, Mongolia and Gaza. Communication Strategies of Popular Movements as Fighting Back with Data served on the Advisory Board of the Latin American program of Open @melissakchan Resistance and Defiance Ressa has been a journalist in Asia for more than 30 years. Society Foundations. @silviowaisbord Jelin is an Argentine sociologist engaged in research in the She was CNN’s bureau chief in Manila and Jakarta, and FEDERICO FINCHELSTEIN areas of human and citizenship rights, social inequality, became CNN’s lead investigative reporter focusing on BARBIE ZELIZER Populism, Fascism and the New Media Landscape gender and the family, social movements and memories of terrorism in Southeast Asia. In 1987, Maria co-founded the Director, Center for Media at Risk Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for political repression. She is a Senior Researcher at the National independent production company Probe. In 2005, she Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, Social Research (NSSR) and Eugene Lang College. He is Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the Institute of managed ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, the largest multi-platform Director of the Center for Media at Risk and the Associate