UNIVERSITETETS HJEMMESIDE

Crossing Boundaries - News, Technology, and Audiences

International 2-day Conference at Berkeley

Udviklet i samarbejde mellem Center for Journalistiske Universitetsuddannelser, SDU, RUC, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley Center for New Media, CITRIS and Innovation Center Denmark

This two‐day conference at UC Berkeley, March 17th-18th 2011, seeks to bring together a broad range of academics, journalists and industry representatives in order to focus on some of the emergent, boundary‐crossing constellations of news, technologies and audiences. The first day will consist of a series of workshops discussing papers submitted prior to the conference. The second day of the conference will feature invited speakers and panels. Both days are open to the public.

Over the two days we will discuss the immense and varied availability of news via various digital devices means that audience constellations and forms of usage known from analogue broadcasting and regionally‐bound print are in transition. News events, e.g. global issues such as climate change, extreme weather, economics and warfare, are thus no longer necessarily filtered through specific local, regional or national news outlets. One consequence is that the production and consumption contexts of news in some instances have moved much further apart, and in others moved much closer together, which raises questions of both accountability and transparency.