Den världsledande, brittiske medie- och kulturforskaren Nick Couldry är utsedd till årets hedersdoktor på Södertörns högskola. Han är känd för sin forskning om medier och makt, inte minst om vad det innebär att mediebilden uppfattas som en orubblig verklighet.

Media scholars have been familiar for 20 years with analysing how media institutions construct social reality through reality programming. This remains an important topic, since the norms reproduced through such programming can be strongly embedded in everyday practice. In the era of pervasive social media platforms, critical media scholars face an additional challenge: to address a new corporate challenge of unprecedented boldness, which is to construct and manage an infrastructure for the production of the social itself. The apparently liberatory discourse around such platforms has been deconstructed (eg Van Dijck 2010, 2013), but the breadth of this ambition to appropriate the social (Mejias 2013) still needs to be fully grasped. My lecture will ask: how do we think about this ambition, and how do we begin to identify ways to think and act beyond it?

Tid och plats

När: fredag 27 november kl. 13:00-14:15

Vad: öppen föreläsning

Var: Sal MA 624, på plan 6 i Moas båge, Södertörns högskola, Campus Flemingsberg

Arrangeras av: Södertörns högskola

Evenemangsspråk: engelska