[acc-cca-l] May 3-7: Communication & Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform

Sara Bannerman sara.bannerman.lists at gmail.com
Fri Apr 23 08:15:12 MDT 2021


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[Banner: Communication and Cultural Policy in                      the Age of the Platform, McMaster University,                      Hamilton, May 3-7, 2021]
Communication & Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform<http://comcultpolicy2021.ca/>
A conference presented by the Communication Governance Observatory (CGO)<https://ncgl.humanities.mcmaster.ca/> and the Centre for Networked Media and Performance (CNMAP) <https://cnmap.mcmaster.ca/index.html> @cnmap_mcmaster
May 3-7, 2021 on Zoom
Full schedule: http://comcultpolicy2021.ca

Conference Highlights:

Engaging in Policy Proceedings / DAY 2: Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 1:15-2:45 Eastern Daylight Time

Chair: Tamara Shepherd (University of Calgary)

This roundtable considers the process of engaging in policy proceedings from the perspectives of citizens, advocacy groups, cultural producers, and academics. Speakers will discuss their experiences interfacing with various government stakeholders as part of their public consultation strategies. The roundtable will also include a speaker from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), who will discuss the ways that the CRTC has worked to engage diverse publics in policymaking.

Surveillance in the city / DAY 3: Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 1:45-3:15 Eastern Daylight Time

Chair: Paula Gardner (McMaster University)

Paula Gardner (McMaster) will guide a panel on the topic of surveillance capitalism in the smart city context, inviting discussion of policy responses to such problems. The rise of surveillance capitalism has only recently begun to be examined by policymakers, including representatives of governments around the world as part of the International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy, and Democracy. The rise of surveillance capitalism is a problem that is compounded by the rise of smart city platforms.


Roundtable on algorithmic literacy / DAY 3: Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 2-3:15 Eastern Daylight Time

Chair: Leslie Regan Shade (University of Toronto)

This roundtable will discuss the concept and parameters of algorithmic literacy, and how it can best be integrated into a range of formal and informal educational programming, from those focusing on children and young people, to adults and seniors. The roundtable will also consider the recent development of various codes of practice and principles for algorithmic transparency and digital and data literacy, from a range of stakeholders, including government and civil society in Canada, the EU and UK. The roundtable will conclude with ideas for best practices for integrating algorithmic literacy into digital literacy education, especially from a human rights perspective.

Broadcast and Digital Media / DAY 4: Thursday, May 6, 2021, noon-1:30 Eastern Daylight Time

Chair: Ira Wagman (Carleton University)

This panel, led by Ira Wagman (Carleton University), will be focused around the various ways different actors (from traditional actors such as domestic broadcasters and film producers to recent entrants, such as powerful digital platforms like Netflix) engage with the institutions that regulate broadcasting in Canada. However, there are other interfaces with the policy apparatus that are worth considering, including those from the world of advocacy, multicultural broadcasting, and other components in the Canadian media landscape. This panel will explore top-down views of policymaking as well as bottom-up attempts to advocate for legitimacy within the policy process.

Platform Governance: Media Policy or Telecoms Regulation as Guide? / DAY 4: Thursday, May 6, 2021, noon-1:30 Eastern Daylight Time

Chair: Dwayne Winseck (Carleton University)

Dwayne Winseck (Carleton) will organize a panel that challenges the impulse amongst many observers to reach for media policy as a touchstone for platform regulation. This panel will ask, instead, whether telecoms regulation might offer a better guide; telecommunications regulation has a long legacy of bright light rules governing market dominance, data and privacy protection, and common technical standards for interfaces and interconnection that open up the blackbox of complex technical systems. Telecoms regulation can ensure that freedom of expression and other normative goals triumph over those of the owners of complex technical systems in regulating illegal content.

Music, Platforms, and the Pandemic: How do we go forward? How can policy help? / DAY 4: Thursday, May 6, 2021, noon-1:30 Eastern Daylight Time

Chair: Christina Baade (McMaster University)
This panel examines the impact of the pandemic on Canadian music making, music institutions and industries, and musical livelihoods—and how musicians and music communities are responding. The panelists will take up two key lines of inquiry:  1) What has been the role of online platforms in pandemic musical life? How have musicians used platforms to sustain communities and livelihoods? How has the turn to platforms strengthened corporate power (what corporations? what sorts of power?)? How have platforms in the pandemic reinforced and/or challenged longstanding inequalities in music cultures and industries. 2) As we look toward life after the pandemic, what do musicians and others involved in musicking need? What have been the limitations of cultural and media policy in Canada before the pandemic? What sorts of policy would help musicians, including those from marginalized communities and equity seeking groups, survive and thrive?


Transformations in arts and media policy: from 2019 to 2021 via COVID-19 / DAY 4: Thursday, May 6, 2021, 1:45-3:15 Eastern Daylight Time

Chair: MaryElizabeth Luka (University of Toronto)

Eighteen months after more than 120 cultural leaders convened at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity for the Digital Transformation Summit, this roundtable will come together to examine what has changed strategically since then in the debate over digitizing the creative industries and culture sector. Once the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, digital infrastructure priorities and processes—and related policy implications including media and arts funding programs—rapidly shifted at all the organizations represented at Banff.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and digital platforms / DAY 4: Thursday, May 6, 2021, 1:45-3:15 Eastern Daylight Time

Chair: Philip Savage (McMaster University)
Led by Philip Savage (McMaster), this panel will discuss the various relationships (of content dissemination, video and audio distribution, and advertising) between Canada’s national public broadcaster and digital platforms, including Facebook and Netflix.


Closing session / DAY 5: Friday, May 7, 2021, 3:00-4:00PM Eastern Daylight Time

Chair: Tamara Shepherd and Dana Cramer

The conference will culminate in a plenary discussion facilitated by Tamara Shepherd and Dana Cramer (University of Calgary). This discussion will result in a collection of policy recommendations, to be compiled by Shepherd and Cramer, emerging from the panels and keynote presentations.

This conference will take place on Zoom.  Free registration on Eventbrite is required.<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/communication-cultural-policy-conference-2021-registration-150210127535>  Full schedule: http://comcultpolicy2021.ca




From: Bannerman, Sara
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 11:33 PM
Cc: Tamara Shepherd <tamara.shepherd at ucalgary.ca><mailto:tamara.shepherd at ucalgary.ca>; Ogborn, David <ogbornd at mcmaster.ca><mailto:ogbornd at mcmaster.ca>
Subject: May 3-7 Communication & Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform

[Banner: Communication and Cultural Policy in                        the Age of the Platform, McMaster University,                        Hamilton, May 3-7, 2021]
A conference presented by the Communication Governance Observatory (CGO)<https://ncgl.humanities.mcmaster.ca/> and the Centre for Networked Media and Performance (CNMAP)<https://cnmap.mcmaster.ca/index.html>.
May 3-7, 2021 on Zoom

This conference draws together researchers in Canada and beyond to explore the intersections between media/communications/cultural policy and platforms. Presentations will address arts policy, broadcasting policy, communication rights, Indigenous communication and cultural policy, competition policy, cultural industries policy, heritage policy, internet policy, media policy, speech regulation, privacy, smart city regulation, and platform regulation.

The conference will consider the following key questions:

  1.  How can Canadian media systems respond simultaneously to the challenge of digital platforms and to calls for a greater diversity of on-screen and off-screen voices?
  2.  How are platforms taking on, or failing to take on, regulatory roles in the fields of communication and culture?
  3.  How does the international political economy of platforms play out in media/communications/cultural policy?
  4.  How does algorithmic governance function as regulation and policy setting in these fields?
  5.  How are regulatory bodies in the field of communication and culture reconceptualizing their work in light of platforms?
  6.  What relationships and interactions do regulators, as well as arts, media, and cultural organizations, have with platforms?
  7.  How are regulatory bodies in the field of communication and culture incorporating platforms to conduct their work?
  8.  How do advocacy, activist, and social justice initiatives intercede in the relationships between platforms and media/communications/cultural policy?
  9.  How do comparative political cultures influence national regulatory agendas? What criteria may enable new comparative research?
This conference will take place on Zoom.  Free registration on Eventbrite is required.<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/communication-cultural-policy-conference-2021-registration-150210127535>

Key events (for the full  program see comcultpolicy2021.ca<http://comcultpolicy2021.ca/>):
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Day 1 / May 3
Noon-12:15 EDT Opening remarks:
Chancellor Santee Smith
Dean Pamela Swett
[Jesse Wente photo]
Day 1 / Monday, May 3, 2021 12:15-1:15 EDT
Keynote talk: Jesse Wente (Indigenous Screen Office)

Jesse Wente is an Ojibwe broadcaster from the Serpent River First Nation in Ontario. He is the director of Canada's Indigenous Screen Office, established in 2018 with the mandate of supporting the development of Indigenous film and storytelling in Canada. A long-standing commentator on pop culture and film on CBC Radio, Wente is a board member of the Canada Council of the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council. He has served as Director of Film Programmes at TIFF Bell Lightbox where he oversaw theatrical, Cinematheque and Film Circuit programming, and on the board of the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.

[Sharon McGowan photo]



DAY 2 / Tuesday, May 4, 2021, noon-1 EDT

Keynote talk: Sharon McGowan (Women in Film and Television-Vancouver; University of British Columbia) and Susan Brinton (Women in Film and Television-Vancouver)

Sharon McGowan is a founding member and past president of Women in Film and Television Vancouver and serves on the board of directors as Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee. Her advocacy work has included decades of analysis and lobbying of Canadian film and television funding agencies, regulators, and unions to increase gender equity and diversity. Greenspon, Wente, and McGowan will participate in a keynote panel addressing the question, “How can Canadian media systems respond simultaneously to the challenge of digital platforms and to calls for a greater diversity of on-screen and off-screen voices?” She has an MFA in Film Studies and is an Associate Professor in the Film Production and Creative Writing Programs at UBC. She has written, directed and produced documentaries for the NFB and Canadian broadcasters and she has produced feature films including the internationally released hit lesbian romantic comedy Better than Chocolate (1999). McGowan's most recent film was the documentary, Bearded Ladies (2015), which premiered at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. McGowan is a founding member and past president of Women in Film and Television Vancouver and serves on the board of directors as Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee. Her advocacy work has included decades of analysis and lobbying of Canadian film and television funding agencies, regulators and unions to increase gender equity and diversity.

[Susan Brinton photo]

Susan Brinton has decades of experience in film and television policy and analysis in Canada, and is nationally respected as an expert and spokesperson in this area. Her background includes senior management roles in the Canadian private broadcasting sector and federal public funding agencies. Susan has been a policy consultant and led producer-focused international export development initiatives for the Canadian Media Producers Association and other industry organizations. As Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee for Women in Film and Television Vancouver (WIFTV), Susan has been a vital leader in many of its successful advocacy initiatives. She is a founding member of WIFT Canada and is currently the Vice President of WIFT International. Susan is also a member of the Women in Production Steering Committee for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
Susan holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree and a Master’s degree in Communications, is the author of numerous industry reports and publications and has lectured on creative industry policy for both Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia.

[Edward Greenspon]
DAY 3 / Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 12:30-1:30 Eastern Daylight Time
Keynote talk: Edward Greenspon (Public Policy Forum)

President and CEO of the Public Policy Forum, a non-profit Canadian thinktank, Edward Greenspon worked as founding editor of globeandmail.com and Editor-in-Chief of the Globe & Mail and in numerous prominent media roles, over the past 30 years from the Lloydminster Times to Bloomberg News. He is the co-author of two books on Canadian politics. In 2017, he authored The Shattered Mirror on news, democracy and trust, followed by Democracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and Hate in the Digital Public Sphere, co-authored with Taylor Owen. Democracy Divided offered policy options that respond to the policy challenges from digital platforms. Under Greenspon, the Public Policy Forum has produced a number of important studies, including its recent Commission on Democratic Expression chaired by former Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverly McLachlan and its January 2021 report, Harms Reduction: a six-step program to protect democratic expression online.

[Joan                    Jenkinson photo]

DAY 5 / Friday, May 7, 2021, 12:30-1:30PM Eastern Daylight Time

Keynote talk: Joan Jenkinson (Black Screen Office)

Joan is the inaugural Executive Director of the Black Screen Office where she works to support Black Canadians in developing talent, accessing funding, and in assuming decision-making roles in television, film and digital media. She fosters relationships with federal funding agencies, broadcasters and distributors to eliminate anti-Black racism in the screen industries. Joan is a founding Partner/Producer at Artemis Pictures which is focused on developing and producing high-end scripted content for television and the cinema, for international audiences. Joan was Vice-President of Independent Production for ZoomerMedia Limited, Television Division. She commissioned, developed and executive produced hundreds of hours of award-winning creative content in all genres for VisionTV. Joan spearheaded VisionTV’s ground-breaking DiverseTV/NSI initiative which produced award-winning comedy and drama programs and earned her a Visionary Award from the ReelWorld Film Festival. For five years, Joan served as Executive Director of Women in Film and Television - Toronto (WIFT-T), where she established professional development training and networking opportunities for women in screen-based media.

Organizers: Sara Bannerman (McMaster), David Ogborn (McMaster), Tamara Shepherd (University of Calgary)
Panel organizers: Monique Manatch (Indigenous Culture and Media Innovations & Carleton University), Tamara Shepherd, MaryElizabeth Luka (University of Toronto), Paula Gardner (McMaster), Leslie Regan Shade (University of Toronto), Dwayne Winseck (Carleton), Ira Wagman (Carleton), Christina Baade (McMaster), Philip Savage (McMaster), Faiza Hirji (McMaster)
This conference is support by the generous contributions of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (through the Connections program), McMaster University Socrates Project - funded through the generous donation of Chancellor Emeritus Lynton (Red) Wilson, McMaster University Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University Centre for New Media and Performance (CNMAP), The University of Calgary - Faculty of Arts, McMaster University Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University Indigenous Studies Program, McMaster University School of the Arts (SOTA), and McMaster University Department of Political Science.


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May 3-7, 2021  Conference : Communication and Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform,<http://comcultpolicy2021.ca/> on Zoom, presented by the Communication Governance Observatory (CGO) and the Centre for Networked Media and Performance (CNMAP).

Sara Bannerman, B.Mus., MA, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy and Governance
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia
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