New Media Workshop: London 28 May 2010

[Seth Graham]

NEW MEDIA IN NEW EUROPE-ASIA

Funded by the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS)
Birmingham-London, 2010

WORKSHOP 2: University College London, 28 May 2010

Organisers: Drs Natasha Rulyova and Jeremy Morris (CREES, U. of Birmingham), 
Seth Graham (SSEES, University College London), Vlad Strukov (University of 
Leeds)

Workshop 2, like the successful first workshop at the U. of Birmingham in 
March, will explore the role and development of new media across Russia, 
Eurasia, Central and South-Eastern Europe, and will examine how these media 
are embedded in the social, political and cultural contexts of the region. 
Selected contributions will be published in special issues of the journals 
Europe and Asia Studies (EAS) and Digital Icons: Studies of Russian, 
Eurasian and Central European New Media.

Attendance is free and open to the public.  No registration required.

Programme

The workshop will take place on Friday 28 May 2010 in Christopher Ingold 
Lecture Theatre, University College London, 20 Gordon St, London WC1H 0AJ

9:30-10.00 Registration and coffee/tea

10:00-10:40 Keynote Address: Yelena Jetpyspayeva (Gazeta.kz, neweurasia, 
Global Voices, BarCamps), 'Promoting New Media and Citizen Journalism in 
Central Asia and Kazakhstan'

10:40-12:30 Session One: On- and Off-Line Identities in New Eurasia

Orlin Spassov, 'Searching for Identity: Latin vs. Cyrillic Script on the 
Bulgarian Internet'
Jeremy Morris, 'Narratives of Internet Use in the Post-Socialist Margins: 
the Strange Bedfellows of Knitting, Diesel Engines and One-Armed Bandits'
Martin Calvert, 'Identity, Strategic Essentialism and Informal Networks 
among Social Activist Livejournal Bloggers in Nizhny Novgorod; Implications 
for Information Transfer and the Individual'
Natalia Rulyova, 'The Construction of Immigrant Identity: What Are the 
Chinese Made of on the Runet?'

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:45 Session Two: New Media and/versus Old Media: Regional Insights

Claire Wilkinson, 'neweurasia: Learning to Blog in Central Asia'
Boris Gladarev and Markku Lonkila, 'The Role of the Internet in Organizing 
Environmental Protests in Russia and Finland'
Stephen Hutchings, 'Media Convergence and Russian Television: Remote 
Control, Or The Mouse and the Elephant'

14:45-15:00 Coffee

15:00-16:45 Session Three: New Media in New Eurasia: Spectacle and 
Entertainment

Natalia Sokolova, 'Online Fan Communities in a Context of Transmedia: 
Cyber-Entertainment or "Free Labour"? (The Case of Runet)'
Galina Miazhevich, 'New Media and Pop-Cul0074ure: Eurovision in 
Post-Communist Europe'
Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, 'Minimal and Incomprehensible: Political Satire on 
the Internet (The Case of Rulitiki)'
Faith Wigzell, 'Re-jigging Traditional Fortune-Telling for Internet Users in 
Russia Today'

16:45-17.00 Closing Remarks

17.30-19.00 Wine Reception at SSEES, 16 Taviton St., London

All the best,

Seth
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D r  S e t h  G r a h a m
Lecturer in Russian
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London
Gower St
London WC1E 6BT
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7679 8735
s.graham at ssees.ucl.ac.uk 

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