Listen to Session 2 of the Small Media Symposium 2011 below.

Chair:
John Barker, Free Expression Associates

Panelists:
Archippe Yepmou, Internet Sans Frontières
Unexpected use of small media during the post-electoral crisis in Côte d’Ivoire

Julie Owono, Global Voices
The role of small media in the rising of Central African citizens: The example of Gabon

Grace Githaiga, Media, Empowerment and Democracy in East Africa (MEDIeA)
Community radio in Kenya: Achievements, challenges and prospects

Respondent:
Iginio Gagliardone, Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge

Listen to Session 1 of the Small Media Symposium 2011 below.

Chair:
Xiao Qiang, The School of Information, University of California, Berkeley & China Digital Times

Panelists:
Muneeb Ali, Princeton University, USA
Dritte – Development through technology
(Please excuse the quality of this audio recording, Muneeb Ali joined us via Skype.)

Soe Thiha, VocalPress
Rural social media: Information ecosystem for the Base of the Pyramid via telephony voice

Pauline Cheong, Arizona State University
Understanding the cultural dialectics of small media as middle-ground resistance
(Please note: At the speaker’s request, this audio recording will not be made available. Much of Pauline Cheong’s work can however be found on her website.)

Michael Rogers, UCL
Briar, a secure news and discussion system

Katrin Verclas, MobileActive.org
Innovations and barriers to alternative news channels via mobile in repressive environments

Respondent:
Mahmood Enayat, Small Media Consultancy

Watch and listen to the introductory session of SMS2011: watch John Downing’s remote video intervention and listen to opening comments by Patrick McCurdy and Annabelle Sreberny by clicking on the links below.

John Downing, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University
From 95 Theses to a Million Tweets: nano-media on the rise?

Patrick McCurdy, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Does size really matter? Media practices and theorising small media

Annabelle Sreberny, Centre for Media & Film Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
One size doesn’t fit all: Communications and face-to-face politics beyond Western democracies

The Small Media Symposium 2011 is going online! If you missed the conference held on 8 April 2011 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, you can now listen to the audio recordings on this site.

Watch this space over the next week or so as we upload the files from individual sessions.

The Small Media Symposium 2011 is now over after two days of inspiring conference sessions and stimulating ‘unconference’ workshops. A big thank you to everyone that joined in our conversation about small media at the School of Oriental and African Studies on 8-9 April.

Missed the event? Head over to Twitter and check out the hashtag #sms2011.

Don’t forget the hashtag for tomorrow’s Small Media Symposium is #sms2011.

We will be tweeting live from the event so if you can’t make it, join us on Twitter.

Registration for both days of the Small Media Symposium 2011, which kicks off with a public conference at the Khalili Lecture Theatre at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London tomorrow morning, is now closed.

Thank you to everyone who has registered and see you tomorrow for what promises to be an exciting conversation about small media!

Last week Annabelle Sreberny was in Montreal at Media@McGill to speak about social media and social movements. You can download the MP3 file of her talk, Social Media and Social Movements: An exploration of the ‘Green Movement’ in Iran, or retrieve it from Media@McGill’s iTunes channel as a podcast.

With only one day left to the Small Media Symposium 2011, here is some food for thought about social media from Annabelle Sreberny, who will be speaking at the introductory session on Friday 8 April 2011 with John Downing and Patrick McCurdy.

In A social media revolution? over at OECD Insights, she tells us

When used creatively within a rich mix of local face-to-face politics, configured in the languages and symbols of national traditions, and in contexts where the older generation simply doesn’t want to give up power, it is evident that small media can punch way above their weight.

With less than one week to go to Small Media Symposium 2011 (SMS2011), why not prepare by reading From 95 Theses to a Million Tweets (Part 2), a review-essay of some recent nanomedia research by John Downing?

John Downing’s video intervention, From 95 Theses to a Million Tweets (Part 1), will be part of the SMS2011 introductory session with Annabelle Sreberny and Patrick McCurdy on Friday 8 April 2011.