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3/11/2011

Image as Event

Musee de L'Elysee, Lausanne

On the occasion of the exhibition Frank Schramm, Stand-ups - Reporting Live from Ground Zero, media theorists and critics will discuss the impact that 9/11 had on images in the news and the changing image of the news. The speakers will challenge the notion that the terrorists' apocalyptic mise en scene used (or abused) the same channels that, years earlier, had spread similar images as part of popular culture. How can the media avoid being instrumentalized by terrorists, by political forces, or for commercial marketing purposes? How are news programmes participating in event like entertainment? Did the massive publication of amateur images in 2001 mark the beginning of user-generated content which has become so important since the introduction of Web2.0? What has happened since in the news world? With new media like news tickers, blogs and social networks we are witnessing a 'boutiquisation' of political information. If the news market gets too specialized and diversified, how does one spread information (or images) that the public doesn't like to hear (or see)?

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