Nico Carpentier

Nico Carpentier is an Extraordinary Professor at Charles University, Czech Republic and Visiting Professor at Tallinn University, Estonia. He also serves as president of The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (2020-2024). 

His latest books are The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation (2017, Peter Lang, New York); Cyprus and its Conflicts. Representations, Materialities, and Cultures (2018, co-edited), Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change (2018, co-edited), Respublika! Experiments in the Performance of Participation and Democracy (2019, edited), Communication and Discourse Theory (2019, co-edited) and Communication as the Intersection of the Old and the New (2019, co-edited), Iconoclastic Controversies: A photographic inquiry into antagonistic nationalism (2021, Intellect).

Title and Abstracts Keynote Speaker Nico Carpentier

Democratic hybridities: A Model to Emphasize Struggles of Democracy and Media

Grounded in a discourse-theoretical approach, this presentation locates democracy and the democratic roles of media in a series of socio-political struggles, which render their meaning contingent and hybrid. The object of the presentation is to investigate the consequences of defining democracy itself, and its relationship to media, as object of socio-political struggles, which raises questions about their core characteristics, their conditions of possibilities, the areas of internal struggle and the external threats. Together, these elements, illustrated by diverse examples, will form a model that will allow to place more emphasis on the hybridities of democracy, media and their relationship.

 

Masduki

Masduki is a Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII), IAMCR Indonesia Ambassador, and founder and head of PR2Media Yogyakarta. Masduki is a lecturer at the Department of Communication UII and holds a doctoral degree from LMU Munich Germany.

His latest book includes ‘Public Service Broadcasting and Post-Authoritarian Indonesia’ (Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies, 2020). Masduki is a member of the Worlds of Journalism Study, managing the project for the Indonesian chapter (since 2014). Besides, he organises several academic research and advocacies regarding media diversity and media ownership in post-authoritarian Indonesia, the safety of women journalists, and its impact on media and journalistic freedom in Indonesia during the last decade. Before entering the academic field, he was a radio journalist and worked for the Alliance of Independent Journalists (a prominent journalist association in Indonesia) as a media sustainability consultant.