Programme

The workshop will take place in Room 112, Muirhead Tower, Edgbaston Campus, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B14 6TU

9:30-10.00 Registration and coffee/tea

10:00-10:45 Keynote Address: Nadezhda Azhgikhina, ‘New Media and Discussions on Future of Journalism in the Mirror of Professional Discussion’

10:45-12:15 Session One: Activism and/or Apathy

Olessia Koltsova, ‘New Media on Social Movements in Russia’

Katie Pearce, ‘Media Convergence Through Mobile Peer-To-Peer File Sharing In The Republic Of Armenia’

Florian Toepfl, ‘Scandals on the Russian Internet: A Series of Case Studies’

Sarah  Oates, ‘Political Party Websites as Mirror or Prism: Comparing Russian Communists and British Liberal-Democrats in the Online Sphere’

12:30-13:15 Lunch

13:15-14:45 Session Two: Legacies of the Past and Challenges of the Present

Robert Saunders, ‘The Ghost in the Machine: Digital Power Structures and the Soviet Legacy in the New Eurasia’

Adi Kuntsman, ‘War, Conflict and the Politics of Location: Reading Hatred in Russian Language Blogosphere’

Olena Goroshko, ‘Political Blogging: More Gender or Culture? (Ukraine)’

Eugene Gorny,  ‘The Theme of Motherland in the Works of Russian Bloggers’

14:45-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-16:30 Session Three: Politics and Civic Society

Maria Bakardjieva, ‘Mundane Citizenship: New Media and Civic Society in Bulgaria’

Dimitri Jagodin, University of Tampere, ‘The State Presence in the Russian LiveJournal: the Blog “Medvedev community’”

Floriana Fossato, ‘Virtually Connected and Still Atomised’