Event

A Quiet Media Revolution? Mediatisation, altered media geographies and insurgent citizen tactics

Join us for a presentation by Professor Thomas Tufte, Roskilde University, on new opportunities for civic action and participation on account of social and media geography change processes. The presentation will be centred around three analytical perspectives: firstly exploring the overall process of mediatisation of society and how new social geographies are emerging; secondly, digging deeper into the specific media trends and the changing media geographies and public spheres in particular. Finally, particular focus will be given to critically discuss what opportunities the current situation provides for citizen media to evolve and for ordinary people to engage in what I call ‘citizen tactics’. The case from Tanzania will be the empirical focus throughout the presentation.