QU college launches first media forum
By Fazeena Saleem
DOHA: Qatar University’s Department of Mass Communications at the College of Arts and Science yesterday launched its first media forum with an aim to discuss issues which students need to learn beyond their curriculum. ‘The First Media Forum: Images and its Implications on Media’ discussed the historical, economical context in which media publish images.
The discussion was lead by Dr Mahmoud Galander, Head of Mass Communications Department and moderated by Dr Mohamed Kirat, Professor of Public Relations. “This (the forum) is part of the department’s work which basically aims to create extracurricular activity. There is going to be basically issues discussed that we think students need more than class room learning,” Dr Galander told The Peninsula on sidelines of the event. Referring to the discussion topic, ‘Images and its Implications on Media’, Dr Galander said: “We are talking about image and importance of image, that is basically every aspect of images.”
The forum was attended by students who follow courses such as media and society, news writing, and multi-media reporting at QU’s Mass Communications Department. Similar forums are scheduled to be held thrice within this and next semester.
Abdulaziz presented a paper on ‘Iconic Images’ which lead to making changes in the world.
He explained samples of iconic images such as the recent pictures of the small boy (Syrian refugee) lying face down in the sand on a Turkish beach taken by Nilufer Demir; ‘Guerrillero Heroico’ (Heroic Guerrilla Fighter) an iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda and photos of some of the most dramatic moments of the Vietnam War.
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