Do You Feel 'European'?- The Media's Influence

dublin | eu | event notice Wednesday February 01, 2006 18:29 by Eoraip - Fóram Náisiúnta um an Eoraip

Is there a 'European' journalistic culture? Are there values and practices that reflect a specifically European sense of identity or common purpose? Is there a pattern to the way in which 'European' issues are dealt with in the media? To what extent have questions of ownership and technology had an influence? Just some of the questions to be raised at a plenary session of the National Forum On Europe in Farmleigh

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Is there a 'European' journalistic culture? Are there values and practices that reflect a specifically European sense of identity or common purpose? Is there a pattern to the way in which 'European' issues are dealt with in the media? To what extent have questions of ownership and technology had an influence? Just some of the questions to be raised at a plenary session of the National Forum On Europe in Farmleigh , Phoenix Park in Dublin on Wednesday 8th February 2006 at 11 a.m until 1 p.m.

The event provides an ideal opportunity to bring together a cross section of national and international journalists, academics and members of the Forum to discuss issues of significant interest in Europe today. It is being held in partnership with 'Emediate', an EU-commissioned research project on the influence of the media in the European public sphere. The project explores values in journalism and questions of European identity. It is being developed by an international consortium of academics from eight European universities who have been engaging with leading journalists from across Europe. Professors John Horgan and Paschal Preston of Dublin City University are the Irish partners in the project.

Prior to the plenary session, which is open to the public, there will be a preliminary roundtable discussion between Forum politicians, the multinational group of academics and invited journalists - Irish-based and from across Europe. The key issues arising will be reported to the plenary session at 11 am when the wider Forum membership will have an opportunity to contribute to the debate.

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