Merton College
University of Oxford, Merton Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 4JD
UK
Lecture by Dr. Iginio Gagliardone, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
About the speaker:
Iginio Gagliardone is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. His research focuses on the role of the media in political change, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. He also studies the adaptation of international norms of freedom of expression in authoritarian regimes. His current research, developed in collaboration with the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), explores the role of emerging powers such as China in promoting alternative conceptions of the Internet in Africa. It analyses in particular whether and how the ideas of state stability, development and community that characterize the Chinese model are influencing and legitimizing the development of a different conception of the information society.