BCI conference on broadcasting coming up

October 10th, 2006 | by aobaoill |

The BCI have just announced a conference on Irish Broadcasting – themed around identity and relationships – for 7 and 8 November, in the Conrad Hotel in Dublin. There are some interesting speakers promised, but I’m somewhat disappointed by the fact that it seems completely composed of plenary sessions and keynote speakers.
Obviously, I won’t be able to attend, but were I there I’d prefer to see a mix between speakers and workshops. So, for instance, they have three parallel plenary sessions (which seems somehow paradoxical, but whatever), one on international trends in community radio (with the speaker yet to be confirmed), one on digital broadcasting, and on titled “Don’t predict the future – change it” with a speaker from Denmark. There’s a session earlier that day with William Dutton of the Oxford Internet Institute, and various panels later in the day on the Sound and Vision funding schme and the new Broadcasting Bill.
One of the problems, of course, with a conference such as this is that it’s trying to accommodate such a range of attendees, though it is always reassuring to see community broadcasting given such prominance in the Irish context – so refreshing to see debates the types of debate (even if ‘identity’ is also linked in the programme with ‘branding’) as opposed to the frustrations of the US debate on localism (which is, after all, in large part a stand-in for the issues people are really concerned with.

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