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| Politeia Conference 2000 - Modern media & social dialogue - 26-05-2000 |
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Around that subject the European Centre for Ethics organized the biannual Politeia Conference on “Modern Media and Social Dialogue”. The conference was well attended, and its strong international focus was reflected in the presence of speakers, workshop presenters and conference participants from throughout Europe as well as from across the Atlantic.
Major speakers were: Zygmunt Bauman, Elihu Katz, Johan Galtung, Serge Moscovici, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Stephen K. White, Harry Kunneman, Gilles Lipovetsky, and Clifford Christians.
The central question dealt with by this conference was how the media can make a contribution, in the present context, to a high-quality social dialogue.
Sociologists and cultural philosophers have observed that ideas, labour, capital, role models and social appreciation in our society are all subject to rapid change, and that traditional views and ideas have lost their natural acceptance.
People are less impressed by religious arguments and believe that, compared to previously, they can follow a more autonomous path. That individual aspirations and interests are less easily translatable into ideological projects should not, however, lead us to believe that people are exclusively involved in their own personal lifeworlds. At almost every moment of the day they are informed by the media about a world which is broader than their own personal existence. In this sense, the need for contact with social reality is still very real. |
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