CRITICAL STUDIES IN TELEVISION CONFERENCE | 2024
In 2015, the UNITED NATIONS proposed 17 Sustainable Development Goals that are meant to guide humankind towards a more equitable future on a liveable planet. They address questions of health, society, culture and the distribution of resources while also being aware of the urgency to address climate change. As a key communicator of human aspiration, as a tool to educate and inform, but also as an industry fraught with inequality and often accused to pandering to ‘valuable’ taste communities i.e. those of economic and other advantage, television emerges as a key site where our ability to respond to those aspirations can be assessed.
How does television respond to the climate crisis? How does it aim to reduce poverty and inequalities by, for example, addressing local working conditions, offering traineeships to disadvantaged groups or address issues of outsourcing ethically? What steps does the industry take to reduce its carbon (and other polluting) footprint? How does it promote peace?
These and many other questions relating to television and the Sustainable Development Goals will be at the centre of the 'CRITICAL STUDIES IN TELEVISION CONFERENCE 2024' that will take place online with only a limited number of panels on each day to allow delegates from across the globe to catch up and take part. The CRITICAL STUDIES IN TELEVISION CONFERENCE is organized every yera by the Television Studies Research Group from Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England.
On Tuesday 2nd July starting at 1.00 pm Anna Sfardini and Paolo Carelli will present the paper: ‘Sustainable culture through unscripted TV: roles, functions and models in Italian television system' during the panel "REPRESENTATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE STORIES".