SYMPOSIUM ON 'DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT OR "RIAL ASSAULT?: GLOBAL TELEVISION AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMIES AND CULTURES OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD'
Press Release
SYMPOSIUM ON 'DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT OR AERIAL ASSAULT?: GLOBAL TELEVISION AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMIES AND CULTURES OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD'
19990405 To Be Held at Headquarters from 7-8 AprilAn international symposium on the theme of "Dynamic Development or Aerial Assault?: Global Television and its Effects on the Economies and Cultures of the Developing World" will take place on 7 and 8 April in Conference Room 3.
The symposium is organized by the Center for the Study of World Television of the Brooklyn College Department of Television and Radio and co- sponsored by the International Council Foundation, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), with the support of the Department of Public Information.
The Center for the Study of World Television is dedicated to the development of a better understanding of the use of national and international policy for the constructive application of television and related media to the social, political, and economic needs of various countries and regions. In keeping with the Center's stated mission to provide points of contact between media practitioners and media scholars, participants will include major figures in international television production and distribution, academics who have published significant work on the issues, and broadcast journalists intimate with the areas of the world under scrutiny.
The symposium will open at 10 a.m., Wednesday, 7 April, with a welcoming address by Kensaku Hogen, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information of the United Nations.
The first panel, on "The Geopolitics of Globalization", will take place from 10:15 a.m. to 1 p.m., moderated by Katherine Fry, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. From 3 to 6 p.m., the second panel, on "The Cultural Dimension of Globalization", will be moderated by Hal Himmelstein, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
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The third and final panel, on "The Economic Aspects of Globalization" will take place in the morning of Thursday, 8 April, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. It will be moderated by James Day, President of Publivision, Inc.
All accredited correspondents are invited to attend the symposium.
For further information, please call Joanna Piucci at (212) 963-7346 or the Center for the Study of World Television at (718) 951-5987.
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