MASS MEDIA AND GLOBALIZATION

 

MAY 28-29, 2003

Athens, Greece

 

 

CONFERENCE VENUE:

Athens University of Economics and Business, 76 Patision Street, Antoniadou Wing, 5th Floor (Entrance from Antoniadou Street)

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, May 28, 2003

9:00-9:30 Registration


9:30-9:35 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Vasilios Patsouratis, Associate Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business.
Gregory Papanikos, Director, ATINER.
 

 

9:35-11:30 SESSION I: Global Issues

Chairperson:  Papanikos, G.T., Director, ATINER

1.      Medeubekova, G., PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, Canada. Mass Media and Women-Journalists’s Problems  in Post–War Tajikistan.

2.      Augherton, A., President, Washington, D.C. Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists Managing Editor, The Arlington Catholic HERALD, USA. The Struggle for Balance: Globalization and Specialized Media.

3.      Alleyne, M.D., D.Phil. (Oxon) & Bunche, R.J., Center for African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. The Global Promotion of Gender Equality: A Propaganda Approach.

4.      Sarikakis, K., Senior Lecturer in International Communications and Media Policy, Coventry University, UK. European Media Policy: Gendered Research Processes?

 


 
11:30 – 13:30 SESSION II: New Technologies in Mass Media
Chairperson: Yiannakis, Professor, University of Connecticut, USA.
 

 

  1. Zavoleas, Y., Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. New Technologies and Identity: New Modes of Representation in the Cyberspace.
  2. Koulouvari, P., Research Associate, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. Trends in Media and the Magazine Publishing Industry.
  3. Iosifidis, P. Lecturer and Director of the MA in Communications Policy Studies, City University, London, U.K. Public Broadcasting in Small EU States: Technological Challenges and New Strategies.
  4. Garcia, C., Fulbright Fellow, MIT Comparative Media Studies, USA. Political Edutainment on American Television: The Case of the Daily Show.

13:30-15:30 LUNCH BREAK

 

15:30-17:30 SESSION III: Mass Media and European Enlargement 

Chairperson:  Iosifidis, P. Lecturer, City University, London, U.K.

1.        Chlebo, J., Ambassador of Slovakia in Greece. Integration Process and Masmedia Scene in Slovakia.

2.        Bauramoglou, N.M., Press Counselor, Turkish Embassy, Turkey. Mass Media and Turkey Handling of E.U. Enlargement.

3.        Vuorenpea, M.L., Counsellor, Finland Embassy, Finland. The EU in the Finish Media.

 

20:00 DINNER (Tavern Rozalia, 58 Valtetsiou str., Exarcheia Square)