PANEL CYCLE “THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDIA”

The panel cycle “The Philosophy of Media”, organized by Dom omladine Belgrade (November 29th - December 20th, 2011, every Tuesday in the Panel Hall on the first floor), will offer review and critical evaluation of scientific, theoretical and even artistic research in the media field, thus reviewing various dimensions of the philosophy of media.

29.11.2011.
Media Globalization and the Culture of Resistance
Speakers: dr Sead Alic, dr Divna Vuksanovic, dr Vlatko Ilic, mr Biljana DJorovic, Dragan Ambrozic
This panel should, in the context of researching the philosophy of media, cover the relation between globalization in the media field, and possible resistance to this phenomenon. It’s an attempt to, through alternative, guerilla, pirate and other media, question “the global media formation”, which is mostly represented by the so-called global mainstream and commercial media, and by newer media and social networks. Here, the culture of resistance is treated as an attempt of subversion of the ruling prejudices, opinions and discourses of domination.


06.12.2011.
Media - Science – Religion- Criticism of the New Age Ideology
Speakers: dr Milanka Todic, dr Zoran Jevtovic, dr Dragan Calovic, dr Bogdana Koljevic, dr Vladislav Scepanovic
The problem of how science and religion are presented, and their relationship to fashionable ideologies in the media, such as New Age, presents a thematic framework for this discussion within the panel about the philosophy of media. How present or absent are science and religion in the current media culture, and how their content is syncretically mixed into the New Age ideology, and presented to the public, is by all means subject to discussion and critical thought, which is the basic approach to this philosophic and media problem.


13.12.2011.
Moving from Consumerism: Media and Education  
Speakers: dr Miroljub Radojkovic, mr Katarina Smakic, mr Marko DJordjevic, mr Vuk Vukovic, Biljana Jokic
In the sense of reviewing previous topics from the philosophy of media, on this panel we’ll cover uncritical (media) consumerism on one side, and current concepts and practice of media education, on the other. The basic idea is to review the possibilities of connecting their problems and defining the framework of media education in the spirit of analytical interpretation and critical review of contemporary media culture.  


20.12.2011.
The philosophy of media and the creative industry
Speakers: dr Predrag Terzic, dr Ljubomir Masirevic, dr Olivera Eric, mr Danijela Pantic, Ana Stevanovic
The cultural industry, mass entertainment and the so-called creative potentials of mass media and new communications, present the thematic core of this panel of the philosophy of media. Here we will talk about the attempts of demystification of the role marketing and mass communication media have in regard to structuring consumer leisure time, and the critical approach to this media-marketing paradigm as realistic, in the sense of being “best of both worlds”.


27.12.2011.
Media - dance - freedom?
Speakers: dr Milena Dragicevic Sesic, dr Ratko Bozovic, Nenad Dakovic, mr Miroslav Vicentijevic, Nina Vicentic; dance performance: Nemanja Dragojlovic Sonero
This panel suggests thinking about the relationship between contemporary dance and the world of media, i.e. the theory of dance and the philosophy of media, in the context of conquering ideas, terms and practices of freedoms of today. Opening the question of freedom is in any case necessary, both for the world of dance and media, as well as for personal and social life. The discussion will be supported by a dance performance that will actualize this topic.