Roger has been my one true touchstone in my academic research and writing. I had applied to the LSE thinking that he would be my supevisor, only to find out that he passed away two months before I would arrive. Nevertheless, his powerful ideas on media and morality, everyday life, the other, enabling/disabling, inclusion/exclusion, and home/globe remain at the heart of my own work,. And it's also his epic writing style, staccato sentences, and "speaking in two voices" that I try to pay homage to in my own essay writing. And of course, in my teaching, my syllabus is pretty much book-ended with Roger's works, wishing that his critical voice disturbs students enough to "take the media seriously", as Roger himself put it in 1999's Why Study the Media?
To toast Roger, here are some of other media scholars' tributes to him:
John Durham Peters: "Roger Silverstone has done us a lasting service of teaching us how to see media not only as clotted vehicles of maya and mayhem, but also as pointers to a better world. He showed us what it is to wait for the messiah while making sure not to get stung one more time."
Kate Lacey: Roger's sense of hospitality was institutional. He made the departments and centres he founded into places where people were at home.
Shani Orgad: "For me, perhaps Roger's greatest legacy and my most vivid memories of him will be what he engaged on... throughout his life: conversation with colleagues and others, both mediated and unmediated, within the UK and beyond, in academia and beyond. Crucially, he always listened as well as spoke. It is the media's responsibility, Silverstone maintained, to provide a space that lets the other speak, and in which this voice can be heard."
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