Date: Thursday, 26 November 2009 17:00 – 18:30. A reception will follow.
Speakers:
Michael Starks, Editor, International Journal of Digital Television
David Levy, Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Damian Tambini, Associate Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), at the Oxford Internet Institute, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Politics
Richard Collins, Professor of Media Studies, Open University
Location: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS. If you would like to attend please email your name and affiliation, if any, to: events@oii.ox.ac.uk
This event marks the launch of the International Journal of Digital Television.
The speakers will debate:
After digital switchover
- will we still have television as such?
- will it still need special regulation?
- will we have gained or lost, socially and culturally?
The event will be introduced by Michael Starks.
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1 response so far ↓
1 David Sutcliffe // Oct 2, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Bill Dutton has blogged a similar event (ie on digital TV) to be held at the OII on 16 October 2009: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/2009/09/14/the-internet-and-the-future-of-broadcasting/
At the end of a long discussion about the event, he writes:
“The primary aim of the workshop will be to influence the research strategy of the OII, helping its faculty and staff to determine the kinds of research that should be fostered in the near-future.”
He continues: “In addition, this blog [ie his one ... or this one!] is designed to enable a larger community to inform this meeting. Please post your own views on these issues, and your advice regarding directions for the OII’s research in this area. I am hoping also that many of the participants in the forum will post position papers as comments to this blog.”
There are currently two big responses from Yorick Wilks [ ..."I suggest there are two key issues both touched on in Bill Dutton’s blog above, first what can the revenue stream be for internet television, and the second is the loss of all central control specifically for TV."] and Tony Wales [..."Within the European Union the emergence of Web TV has already caught the attention of regulators, who seem to be trying to force the issues raised by the new phenomenon into the same box as traditional TV broadcasting"].
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