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Minorities & the media: participatory paradigms. 1 st MRN Conference Erasmus University Rotterdam 29 October 2010. Dr. Tarlach McGonagle Institute for Information Law (IViR) Faculty of Law University of Amsterdam Website: http://www.ivir.nl/staff/mcgonagle.html
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Minorities & the media: participatory paradigms 1st MRN Conference Erasmus University Rotterdam 29 October 2010 Dr. Tarlach McGonagle Institute for Information Law (IViR) Faculty of Law University of Amsterdam Website: http://www.ivir.nl/staff/mcgonagle.html E-mail: T.McGonagle@uva.nl
a deviant definition • A specific right to participate? • A cluster of rights? • Public affairs and debate? • Role of media?
Dove-tailing of rights Freedom of expression Right to participate Media
(Traditional) (mass) media • Point-to-multipoint • Accessibility versus mediation • Distinctions along lines of geographical reach and purpose • Media types: public service, local, community, commercial, transnational
Different media types & functionality • Public service • Local • Community • Commercial • Transnational
New & newish media • Point-to-point • Increasingly immediate, interactive, international • Abundance, accessibility, amplification • Individualisation and fragmentation • Social action and communities of interest
Participatory paradigms 2.0 Source: http://www.toaster.org/museum.html
New media tides and boats • All media are new-media-to-be • Forms of media created by new actors • Media or media-like activities performed by non-media actors Source: Karol Jakubowicz, A new notion of media? (2009)
Cliffhanger! Picture courtesy of Anouschka Boswijk