INFOWARROOM | Amsterdam | Propaganda
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<b>Propaganda in the age of mass media control<br /></b><br />During the 90s the late Slobodan Milosevic appropriated Serbian mass media to voice his authoritarian, nationalist and militant regime, both through direct political propaganda as well as through acceptable entertainment formats of a 'turbo-talk' culture.<br />
<b>Snjezana Milivojevic</b> (chairman of the Center for Media Studies, University of Belgrade) will give a keynote lecture on the institutional changes (state control, editorial changes, massive firing of journalists) and the abuse of professional standards (type of news programs, strategies of exclusion and denigration of alternative views) that made the media an instrument to ethnic and nationalist propaganda. Parallel to this dynamic, Milivojevic will analyze the alternative media struggle for independence and the new forms of media literacy emerging among audiences that opposed the propaganda attack.<br /><br />Two media scholars will contextualize the keynote lecture:<br /><br /><b>Nel Ruigrok</b> (media scholar and researcher) will analyse the reaction of the Dutch media to Milosevic' regime and the war in Bosnia. Ruigrok will explain how moral indignation, the engagement of journalists, and 'compassion fatigue' all played their part in the development of Dutch media towards partiality, the notion of necessity and media bias. Relating this development with present-day reporting, she will show how 'attached journalism' could be locked into a propaganda discourse.<br /><br /><b>Eric Kluitenberg</b> (media theorist, head of the media program at De Balie) will put the very notion of propaganda into a wider perspective, taking a as point of reference the media dynamic in the construction of cultural memory and the 'imagined narratives' that bind societies. Working from the specific context of the Balkan to the institutionalised media practices of the West, Kluitenberg will show the propaganda effect at the intersections between ideology, identity and media.<br /><br /><br />Nel Ruigrok is a lecturer at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research at the Univerisity of Amsterdam; a researcher at the Dutch News Monitor (a project of the Press Institute Foundation); and a research fellow of the Institute for Media, Peace and Security of the UN University for Peace. From 1998 to 2002 she examined the Dutch news reporting on Srebrenica, as part of the NIOD Report on Srebrenica. In 2005 she has written her PhD dissertation "Journalism of Attachment - Dutch newspapers during the Bosnian war".<br /><br />Eric Kluitenberg is a theorist, writer, and organiser on culture, media and technology, with a great interest in developments in the identity politics of Eastern European cultures. He is head of the media program at De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, and is lecturer on media theory at various colleges, currently a.o. at the Institute for Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam.<br /><br /><br /><br /><i>INFOWARROOM offers media criticism and analysis of dominant visual cultures. Operating in four European countries, INFOWARROOM cross-examines and scrutinizes the production of social and cultural meaning in and by global mass media. This year The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Belgium and the United Kingdom host the INFOWARROOM. All programs can be watched live on the internet.<br /></i><br />- - -<br />
<p>In de jaren 90 eigende wijlen Slobodan Milosevic zich de Servische massamedia toe om zijn autocratische, nationalistische en militante politiek uit te dragen, zowel in de vorm van directe politieke propaganda als door middel van traditionele entertainment formats.<br /><br /><b>Snjezana Milivojevic</b> (voorzitter van het Center for Media Studies aan de Universiteit van Belgrado) houdt een lezing over de institutionele aanpassingen (staatscontrole, redactiewijzigingen, massa onslagen onder journalisten) en het misbruik van traditionele mediastrategieën (type nieuwsprogrammering, uitsluiting van afwijkende visies) die de media tot een etnisch en nationalistisch propaganda instrument maakten. Als een parallelle dynamiek zal Milivojevic de rol van de alternatieve en subversieve media analyseren in hun strijd voor een onafhankelijke stem en laat zij zien hoe nieuwe vormen van media bewustzijn en media geletterdheid ontstonden.<br /><br />Als context bij Milivojevic' lezing zal <b>Nel Ruigrok</b> (communicatiewetenschapper, Amsterdam School of Communications Research) analyseren hoe de Nederlandse media reageerden op Milosevic' regime en verslag deden van de oorlog in Bosnië. Ruigrok promoveerde in 2005 op haar dissertatie "Journalism of Attachment - Dutch newspapers during the Bosnian war".<br /><br />Vervolgens plaatst <b>Eric Kluitenberg</b> (mediatheoreticus, chef media De Balie) het propaganda begrip in een breder kader en ontrafelt hij de rol van de media in het narrativeren van cultureel geheugen. Sinds de jaren 80 publiceert Kluitenberg regelmatig over de invloed van nieuwe media op de identitietspolitiek van Oost Europa.</p><p><i><br />De INFOWARROOM biedt mediakritiek en analyse van de dominante beeldcultuur. In vier Europese landen onderzoekt en ontleedt de INFOWARROOM de culturele en sociale betekenissen die in en door de mondiale massamedia ontstaan. Dit seizoen vindt de INFOWARROOM plaats in Nederland, Bulgarije, België en Engeland. Alle programma's kunnen live via internet worden gevolgd.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Start | 20.30 hrs<br />Admission | free<br />Language | English<br /></p>
