Confirmed List of Speakers and Papers
Martin Calvert (Identity, Strategic Essentialism and Informal Networks among Social Activist Livejournal Bloggers in Nizhny Novgorod; Implications for Information Transfer and the Individual)
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)
Yelena Jetpyspayeva (Promoting New Media and Citizen Journalism in Central Asia and Kazakhstan)
Galina Miazhevich (New Media and Pop-Cul0074ure: Eurovision in Post-Communist Europe)
Jeremy Morris (Narratives of Internet Use in the Post-Socialist Margins: the Strange Bedfellows of Knitting, Diesel Engines and One-Armed Bandits)
Natalia Rulyova (The Construction of Immigrant Identity: What Are the Chinese Made of on the Runet?)
Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (Minimal and Incomprehensible: Political Satire on the Internet (The Case of Rulitiki))
Natalia Sokolova (Online Fan Communities in a Context of Transmedia: Cyber-Entertainment or ‘Free Labour’? (The Case of Runet))
Orlin Spassov (Searching for Identity: Latin vs. Cyrillic Script on the Bulgarian Internet)
Claire Wilkinson (neweurasia: Learning to Blog in Central Asia)
Faith Wigzell (Re-jigging Traditional Fortune-Telling for Internet Users in Russia Today)