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CRITICAL: Students for Socially Responsible Communication
Study/L'ESPRIT CRITIQUE: Etudiantes et Etudiants sur l'thique en
communication independently present a symposium/presente
independamment un colloque:


WHY CRITICAL COMMUNICATION STUDY/POURQUOI L'ETUDE CRITIQUE DES
COMMUNICATIONS

October 26 - 28, 1994/26-28 octobre 1994
Alumni Auditorium/Auditorium des Anciens
University of Ottawa/Universite d'Ottawa






The purpose of this independently organized international
symposium is to encourage discussion and to create understanding
about our group's mandate, which is to increase the
representation of critical communication study in the Department
of Communication at the University of Ottawa.

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to raise your concerns
with some of the leading authors in the field of Communication. 
This symposium is about our future and is designed to encourage
interaction between guest speakers and the audience.  

CRITICAL has worked hard to ensure that this international forum
is accessible.  Although we will accept donations, the entire
event is free of charge and open to all.

La raison d'etre de ce colloque international, entirement
organise par le groupe L'ESPRIT CRITIQUE, est d'encourager les
discussions et d'emmener les gens une meilleure comprehension
de notre mandat; l'augmentation des representations en etude
critique de la communications au departement des communications 
l'Universite d'Ottawa.

Profitez donc de cette occasion unique de rencontrer des auteurs
reconnus dans le domaine des communications.  Ce colloque, dont
le sujet porte sur l'avenir, se veut avant tout d'encourager
l'interaction entre les conferenciers invits et les participants
et participantes.

L'ESPRIT CRITIQUE s'est devoue afin d'assurer que ce colloque
international soit accessible.  Bien que nous acceptions des
dons, l'evenement est entirement gratuit et ouvert tous. WHY CRITICAL
COMMUNICATION STUDY/POURQUOI L'TUDE CRITIQUE DES COMMUNICATIONS


WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 26, 1994
2pm-3:30pm
Jean Kilbourne - "Deadly Persuasion: Advertising and Addiction." 

3:45pm-5:15pm
Vincent Mosco - "Whose Super Highway?"

6:00pm-7:15pm
Carl James - "Racial Minorities and the Media"

7:30pm-8:00pm
Kosta Gouliamos - "Transforming Society - Social Change Movements
and Mass Media." 

8:15pm-9:30pm
"Training for What? The Future of Work and Communication Issues" 
"La formation pour quoi?  Les emplois de l'avenir et les
problmes relies en communication"

An interactive panel discussion on media and labour issues with
Heather Menzies, Madeleine Parent, James Winter, Laurell Ritchie
and Catherine Louli.  Moderated by Kosta Gouliamos.  

THURSDAY OCTOBER 27, 1994
1:30pm-2:30pm
Michle Martin - "Couverture ou ouverture: la culture dans le
quotidien"

2:45pm-4:00pm
James Winter - "Who Owns the Media?  Concentration of Canadian
Media Ownership and its Ramifications."

4:00pm-5:30pm
Michael Albert - "Society's Problems: The Role of Mainstream
Media and the Need for an Alternative."   
  
FRIDAY OCTOBER 28, 1994
2pm-2:30pm
Robert Babe - "Information, Economics and Ecosystem."

2:30pm-4:00pm
Herbert Schiller - "The Emerging New World Corporate Information
Order."

4:00pm-5:30pm
Sut Jhally - "Commercial Culture, Collective Values, and the
Future of the Species."Michael Albert is a long time political activist in
campus, anti-war, anti-intervention, and community projects and movements.
He is co-founder of South End Press and of Z Magazine where he is
co-editor/publisher/staffer.  He has authored and co-authored
several books including, most recently, Liberating Theory;
Looking Forward: Toward a Humane Economy for the Twenty First
Century; and Political Economy of Participatory Economics.  Just
released, Stop the Killing Train: Radical Visions for Radical
Change, which offers strategies for social change.  In his talk
on October 27, Michael Albert will provide an overview of
society's problems and their roots, and will focus on the need
for an alternative.  What are the roles of both mainstream and
alternative media?

Robert Babe teaches in the Department of Communication at the
University of Ottawa.  He is the author of numerous books and
articles on communication, including Telecommunications in
Canada: Technology, Industry, and Government (University of
Toronto Press, 1990), and he is contributing editor of
Information and Communication in Economics (Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1994).  Forthcoming from Westview Press is Babe's
Communication and the Transformation of Economics.  His topic:
Whereas mainstream economics is extremely harmful to the
ecosystem, the infusion of information and communication to
economics opens up possibilities for a sustainable future.

Kosta Gouliamos, from the Department of Communication, University
of Ottawa is a professor and researcher on politics, culture,
media, and technology.  He has taught and lectured at various
universities in Canada and Europe.  Gouliamos is active in social
change movements and cultural groups, and his essays have
appeared in reviews, journals, periodicals and newspapers.  Most
recently he co-edited (with William Anselmi) Mediating Culture:
The Politics of Representation (Guernica, 1994), and a book Media
Practices: Aestheticizing Ethnicity is to be published next year. 
He maintains a research affiliation with the Technical University
of Athens (Media Unit).

His October 26 talk, "Transforming Society: Social Change
Movements and the Mass Media" will explore the development of
social change movements through collaborative action outside the
sphere of established organizations; the issues that movements
raise in the process of shaping and transforming social change;
and mainstream media's accumulative distortion or negative bias
on social movements' issues and actions.

Carl James teaches in the Faculty of Education at York
University.  He has a Ph.D. in sociology, and his area of
interest is anti-racist work, and the representation of racial
minorities in the media.  He is the author of a number of books,
two of which are Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and
Culture (1989); and Making it: Black Youth, Racism and Career
Aspirations in a Big City (1990).  His forthcoming book is
entitled Talking about Difference: Encounters in Culture,
Language and Identities.  On October 26 he will address the
representation of racial and ethnic minorities in media.

Sut Jhally is a professor of Communication at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst and is the founder and executive director
of the Media Education Foundation.  He has written broadly on
media and popular culture, and is the producer of the video
"Dream World."   He is the author of The Codes of Advertising and
is the coauthor of Social Communication in Advertising  and co-
editor of Cultural Politics in Contemporary America all published
by Routledge.  On October 28 he will examine advertising's threat
to the future of the species.  
  
Jean Kilbourne Ed.D. is an internationally known media critic,
lecturer and writer.  Through her illustrated lectures, and her
award-winning films, "Killing Us Softly," "Calling the Shots,"
and "Pack of Lies," she has revealed to thousands of audiences
the serious cumulative impact of advertising on individual
attitudes, values, and behaviour, and on the society as a whole. 
Dr. Kilbourne is known for her ability to present provocative
topics in a way that unites rather than divides, that encourages
dialogue, and that moves and empowers people to take action in
their own and in society's interest.  Her talk, on October 26,
entitled "Deadly Persuasion: Advertising and Addiction," will
examine the selling of addictive products, such as alcohol,
tobacco, diet products, and prescription drugs.  She also exposes
advertising's assault on self-image and the marketing of a
mindset that often leads to unhealthy choices.

Catherine Louli is currently the Communication Specialist with
the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), and is a graduate of
the University of Ottawa.  She has been working in the field of
Communication since 1987 with non-profit organizations including
students' movements, women's movements and trade unions.  She has
written for "The Womanist."  She will offer her valuable insight
into work for Communication students on our panel discussion on
October 26.

Michle Martin est professeure agregee en communication a la
l-universit de l'Universite du Quebec. En plus de plusieurs
articles parus dans des revues scientifiques, elle a publie Hello
Central?: Gender, Technology and Culture in the Formation of
Telephone Systems (McGill-Queens, 1991), Communication et medias
de masse: culture, domination, opposition (PUQ, 1991), Turc
(Victor Barbeau) et la naissance d'une critique culturelle
journalistique au QW (PUL, a venir).

Le 27 octobre elle discutera: "Couverture ou ouverture: la
culture dans le quotidien".  La recherche de Michele Martin
s'interesser a l'histoire des representations projetees dans les
quotidiens, par la critique reprsentations projetes dans les
quotidiens, par la critique culturelle journalistique, de la
culture d'elite et de la culture populaire en terme de
construction d'une culture dominante et de "democratisation d'un
savoir culturel" pouvant conduire a l'mancipation des masses. Le
contexte de l'analyse fourni par ces donnees repose sur une
construction, au quotidien, d'une culture dominante, a partir de
l'enonciation du legitime et du non legitime, les droits du
premier et les torts du second; du savoir et du non savoir au
moyen d'une forme de journalisme, la critique culturelle, soumis
a des contraintes economiques et politiques particulires. 

Vincent Mosco is professor of Communication at Carleton
University and holds a research position with the Harvard
University Programme on Information Resource Policy.  He is the
author of numerous books, including Pushbutton Fantasies:
Critical Perspectives on Videotex and Information , (1982), The
Pay Per Society: Computers and Communication in the Information
Age, (1989) ,and Policy Research in Telecommunication, (1994). 
He co-edited Labour, the Working Class and Media (1983).  His
talk on October 26 is entitled "Whose Super Highway?"

Madeleine Parent was born in Montreal in 1918.  She went to a
convent and then to McGill University in 1940.  From 1942 to 1983
she worked with union movements, particularly among less
privileged workers, especially women.  She is one of the co-
founders of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women
(NAC) in 1972, and is now a member of the NAC Committee in
Support of Aboriginal Women.  Madeleine Parent is also a member
of the coordinating committee of Solidarite Populaire Quebec, a
coalition of community organizations and unions in Quebec. 
Madeleine Parent will sit on the panel discussion "Training for
What? The Future of Work and Communication Issues" on the evening
of October 26.

Laurell Ritchie is the National Representative for the Canadian
Auto Workers (CAW) and has spent over two decades in the labour
movement, working primarily with women and immigrants in the
manufacturing and service sectors.  She is a contributing editor
of This Magazine and has written a number of articles on subjects
such as the future of unemployment insurance.  Ms. Ritchie is
active in the women's movement, and is on the employment and
economy committee of the National Action Committee on the Status
of Women (NAC).  She will be part of the panel on October 26,
"Training for What?  The Future of Work and Communication
Issues".

Herbert Schiller is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the
University of California, San Diego, and is currently visiting
professor at the Department of Culture and Communication at New
York University.  He is the author of numerous books including
Information and the Crisis Economy (1986); The Mind Managers
(1973); and Culture Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public
Expression (1989); and Mass Communications and American Empire
(1992).  His presentation on October 28 will examine the emerging
new world corporate information order.

James Winter has authored several books, most recently Common
Cents: Media Portrayal of the Gulf War and Other Events.  He is
currently working on a book on concentration of ownership in
Canada's media.  He is the founding editor of the Electronic
Journal of Communication, and an associate professor in the
Communication Studies Department at the University of Windsor. 
James Winter has worked extensively with labour interests, and
will be part of the panel discussion "Training for What? The
Future of Work and Communication Issues," on October 26.  His
talk on October 27 will examine the concentration of ownership in
Canadian media, and the ramifications of this ownership
structure.

CRITICAL: Students for Socially Responsible Communication Study
would like to thank all of our guest speakers for donating their
time in support of our group's objectives.
L'ESPRIT CRITIQUE: Etudiantes et etudiants sur l'ethique en
communication aimerait remercier tous nos conferenciers invites
pour leur participation et leur support dans nos activites.

We would also like to thank all of our sponsors:
Nous aimerions egalement remercier tous nos commanditaires:
Action Canada Network; Adbusters Quarterly; Between the Lines
Publishing; CAW/CSA (Canadian Auto Workers); CHUO; CKCU;
Dpartement de Communication, Universit d'Ottawa; The East Timor
Alert Network; Greenpeace Ottawa Staff; Human Rights Internet;
Octopus Books; OPIRG/GRIPO Ottawa; Ottawa Women's Book Store;
Oxfam Canada; Peace and Environment News; Planetary Association
for Clean Energy; South End Press; This Magazine; Women's
Resource Centre, University of Ottawa; Z Magazine.

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More information may be obtained from: 

Kerry Pither  613-230-4070 
David Hosten  657134@acadvm1.uottawa.ca

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