Protection of children - 2003 workshop
Protection of Minors and Human Dignity
Workshop of scientific experts in the field of the Protection of Minors on Media Violence, Self-regulation and Media Literacy, 10 September 2003 in Brussels
Agenda
Welcome and introduction by the Chairman: Mr. Jean-Eric de Cockborne, Head of the Audiovisual Policy Unit, European Commission.
"Minors and media, towards a more effective protection" - Keynote speech by Mrs. Viviane REDING, Member of the European Commission, Commissioner for Education and Culture.
Round Table on issues concerning Media Violence:
- "Medienverwahrlosung" (Media Degeneracy)
- "Les goûts des jeunes: décalages entre perception et régulation" (Youth taste: discrepancy between perception and regulation)- Short introduction by Mrs. Divina Frau-Meigs, Professeur a l’université d’Orléans, sociologue des médias, France.
- "Análisis de la Violencia y los Medios de Comunicación en España : Efectos y Recomendaciones" (Analysis of Media Violence in Spain: Effects and Recommendations) - Short introduction by Mrs. Teresa Farnós de los Santos, Scientific Coordinator of the Queen Sofia Center for the Study of Violence, Spain.
- "How children interpret on-screen violence" - Short introduction to subject by Mrs. Andrea Millwood-Hargrave, Research Director of the Broadcasting Standards Commission/Independent Television Commission, United Kingdom.
- Short
introduction by Prof. Christian Pfeiffer,
Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen e.V.,
Germany.
Round Table on issues concerning Self- and co-regulation:
- "The NICAM model and does it work?" – Short introduction by Drs. Wim Bekkers, Director Nederlands Instituut voor de Classificatie van Audiovisuele Media (NICAM), The Netherlands.
- "Regulierung und Aufsicht im Wandel" (Regulation and control in change) - Short introduction by Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Ring, President, Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien, München, Germany.
Round Table on issues concerning Media Literacy:
- "Media Education in Malta" – Short introduction by Fr. Joseph Borg, Lecturer in Communications Studies at the Centre for Communications Technology and the Faculty of Theology, University of Malta, Malta.
- "I linguaggi dei media nell'educazione" (The languages of media in education) – Short introduction by Prof.ssa Gianna Marrone, Professore Associato di ruolo di Storia della letteratura per l'infanzia e di Storia della letteratura dell'infanzia e dell'editoria giovanile, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy.
Contributions from other participants:
- "Media Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Global Study on Children´s Media Behaviour and Some Educational Implications" – Article by Prof. Dr. Jo Groebel, Director-General, The European Institute for the Media, Düsseldorf/Paris.
- “Visuality, Vulnerability and Visual Harassment” - Article by Mrs. Sari Näre, Doctor of Political Sciences Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki.
- “Regulierte Selbstregulierung als Form modernen Regierens” (Regulated Self-Regulation as a Form of Modern Government) - Article by Dr Wolfgang Schulz / Thorsten Held, Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung.
