Mark Deuze Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands

Biogram:
Mark Deuze is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Humanities, and currently serves as its Director of Graduate Studies. Before that he worked as a journalist and academic in the United States, Germany and South Africa. He is also the bass player and singer of Skinflower.

Keynote speech: Beyond Journalism: Challenging Media Power from within
The ‘Beyond Journalism’ research project and book (forthcoming late 2019 with Polity Press) examines the fragmented, networked and richly diverse field that journalism has become around the world. Through fieldwork at more than twenty media startups in 11 countries (The Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Uganda, South Africa, Italy, France, Denmark, Nepal, Iran, and Colombia) we focus on what it takes to make it work, what drives and motivates these professionals, and how all of this can be seen as transforming the definition of journalism, as well as the role journalism plays in different societies.

New journalistic ventures tend to define themselves deliberately as against traditional institutions and legacy media. However, in our research we find that their values and ideals are neither radically different nor necessarily new. Through telling stories of startups the authors aim to provide insight into the variety of actors, the multitude of forms, content and audiences that make up contemporary journalism, doing justice to both the excitement as well as challenges present in media entrepreneurship.